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Pioneer Portraits - March 12, 2015

 


Ten Years Ago

March 17, 2005

Commercial Club’s Community Service Award recipients for 2004 have books, education and a love for the community of Waitsburg in common. Two deserving recipients were honored by Commercial Club and they are Weller Public Library librarian Jan Cronkhite and retired teacher, newspaper co-publisher and volunteer Anita Baker.

Incumbent Mayor Marty Dunn will face a challenger in the City of Waitsburg’s City Elections on April 4, and a contest is brewing for the five council seats. Vance Price was nominated at a second caucus to face Dunn in the city election.

Waitsburg High School Track practices are underway in preparation for the first meet of the season on Tuesday, March 22 in Clarkston. Among the 27 athletes turning out for the 2005 season are these returning letter winners. Travis Williams, Jessica Mason, Jeremy Nichols, Richard Pounds, Wade Bennett, Kyle Weston, Gabe Kiefel, Brad Huffman, Matt Baker Natasha Montgomery, Brittany Zuger and Marci Jo Lanning. On the team are seven who competed at the stte meet last year and who are good bets to make return appearances. They are Baker, Huffman, Keifel, Bennett, Montgomery, Lanning and Zuger. The squad will be coached by Head Coach Ron Huntington, assisted by Jeff Bartlow and Joanna Lanning.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 15, 1990

Jim Pearson, Waitsburg, topped all seventh graders in the Bi-State and Expro-sponsored written spelling bee in Dayton last Saturday. Stacy Thomas got a third in the Sixth grade competition.

Lois Stephenson and Leslie Uselman of Waitsburg are set up to manufacture Western clothing in the Don Thomas building. The plant is taking shape, and production on a number of items will give the Waitsburg economy a boost.

Area Republicans met Tuesday nigh to caucus and name people to attend the county convention in April. In Waitsburg precinct, J. W. “Buffalo Bill” Thompson is the precinct committeeman, and as such, goes automatically. Delegates named were Barbara Hubbard, Joyce Saxon and Tiny Jorgensen.

Fifty Years Ago

March 11, 1965

The Waitsburg PTA meeting on March 17 will feature a program on Youth Activities, according to the program chairman, Mrs. Bill Peterson. Representing the 4-H groups will be Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nordheim; Campfire, Mr. and Mrs. Walt Harris; Cub Scouts, MR. and MRs. Pat Miller; Boy Scouts, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leid.

Bad news, as the saying goes, travels fast. But this weekend – thankfully – it didn’t. Two young men drowned in a rubber raft on the Palouse River. When they recovered a body of one boy, he had on a pair of trousers with the name “Charles Zuger.” Before the authorities could locate Fred Zuger of Waitsburg, his son Charles Zuger turned up safe and sound. Charles had been hiking on the Snake River, and had loaned a pair of his pants to a friend.

The Queen Candidates for the Waitsburg Days of Real Sport are Charie McCown, Joan Land, and Ruth Ann Goe. The girls will sell tickets to the Queen’s Ball which will be held on Saturday, April 24.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 15, 1940

The Waitsburg Grange entertained the FFA boys and their friends along with the instructor, Mr. Wills, Friday night with a dinner after which they were sent to a show. After the show, they again joined the Grange for games and dancing.

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Langdon of Eureka are parents of a son born at the Brining Hospital in Dayton on March 9. He has been named Robert Spencer.

Dolph Egelston has just completed a very unique basketball trophy. The base of the little trophy is of gumwood, the cup is a gold plated thimble set on a collar button and the handles on the sides of the cup are made of safety pins, the whole thing is encased in a small glass light globe.

Pat Hirsch and Jimmie Abbey received “highest honors” (all grades “A” including citizenship) in the past six weeks.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 12, 1915

Mrs. P. C. Perkins has purchased the business of the Waitsburg Dairy from E. R. Ramseur, together with ten of his calves and has also leased the J. H. Fudge place of 90 acres near Huntsville, together with twenty of the Fudge milk cows, and will conduct a dairy on a rather large scale for this community.

E. J. Hepburn announces this week that he has just purchased a complete line of furniture and floor coverings which he will stock in the K. of P. Building.

Dr. Harvey Loundagin, a well-known dentist of Walla Walla, died at the home of his father, W. J. Loundagin at Dayton, Friday evening, March 5th, from diabetes, aged 37 years.

Edgar Purdy, formerly well-known in this city where he attended school for several years, is visiting friends in this city for a few days.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley A. Lloyd, Friday, March 12th, at the farm house home, a son and heir.

 

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