PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

December 4, 2014

Artist Squire Broel's monument, to be placed in downtown Waitsburg in May, honors the three founding fathers of the Waitsburg community: William Bruce, William Preston, and Sylvester Wait. It is Broel's desire that the piece will also recognize the efforts of countless other individuals who quietly labored to make Waitsburg the town it is today. "Each individual makes an impact on their community," said Broel. To honor those efforts, the artist is inviting community members to make a small mark on the new monument by adding an impression of their thumb or fingerprint to the surface of the sculpture. Broel will return on Dec. 11 to visit individual classrooms and allow Waitsburg students and community members to make their impression on the sculpture.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 2, 1999

Six students from Waitsburg, seven from Prescott, and eight from Touchet are included in the 33rd Annual Edition of Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1998-1999. The 33rd Annual Edition, published in 18 regional volumes, features over 750,000 students, or just 5% of the nation's 14,000,000 high school students. They represent approximately 20,000 of the 24,000 public, private, and parochial high schools in the country. Who's Who students also compete for $200,000 in scholarship awards. The book is distributed to up to 15,000 high schools, colleges, universities, and public libraries throughout the country. Local students selected from Waitsburg: Jamie Leid, Sarah Monfort, Holly Roesler, Holly Menino, Katherine Pearson, Emily Seney. Prescott: Amanda Bissett, Bille Jo Curtis, Rebecca Harris, Angela Tiedemann, David Counts, Rosalea Froehlech, Shawn Hart. Touchet: Amanda DeRuwe, Kara Miller, Jeremiah Schwartz, Anne Town, Michelle Garcia, Christopher Plucker, Timothy Slater, Tim Wagoner.

Fifty Years Ago

December 5, 1974

[1974 prices at Eastgate Mall – Walla Walla]

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 9, 1949

A new modern motel, estimated at $18,000, is to be built in Waitsburg by John Hulce on Coppei Ave., one block south of Donnelly's Chevron station.

The stage is set for the PTA event which will present a ham and chicken dinner in the new cafeteria to be followed by the three-act comedy "Who honked that Saddle Horn?" written by Larry Broom and Ed Lawrence.

Edwin Demaris of Walla Walla has been appointed by the State Park Board as the new supervisor of the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 12, 1924

Marvin Hales, halfback at Washington State College, was voted the B. J. Bohler medal by the members of the football squad this week as being the player who was the greatest inspiration to the team.

Mayor C. E. Shaffer and D. P. Bailey have traded homes and both families are busily engaged in transferring their household furniture from one dwelling to the other. Mr. Shaffer says that his family is all grown and his house is too big. The Baileys wanted more room as they had outgrown their dwelling, hence the "swap."

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 8, 1899

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox entertained a few young people at Drive Whist on Tuesday evening in honor of some of the Co. K young men. C. R. Mason held the highest score, and Miss Bird Davies obtained the booby.

Perry Abbey, on Tuesday of this week, purchased the grocery stock of C. A. Hales and will conduct the IXL Grocery at the present stand.

Miss Oda Wright and George G. Bickelhaupt were united in marriage at the home of the bride's mother December 4 at 8 o'clock.