The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Ten Years Ago

July 20, 2006

Wheat harvest in the Touchet Valley area has started. “It’s just getting going but the pace is going to pick up here rapidly,” J.E. McCaw, local manager of the NGG branch, said Tuesday afternoon. Grain is coming into Northwest Grain Grower’s elevators in Waitsburg, Prescott and Coppei beginning sometime last weekend, said McCaw. Jackie Miller was the first to get started north of Waitsburg, with the Brown & Ford, and Sam and Bill Grant operations in the Prescott area cutting as of deadline Tuesday. Perry Dozier was also one of the first to get started, McCaw said.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 18, 1991

Principal Glynn Davis reported that Roseann Delp, former Prescott teacher who is attending WSU under the Masters Program, has applied to work in Waitsburg as an administrative intern. This would entail about one day per week during the fall semester, Davis said. He added that he feels it is important that local districts offer opportunities to train administrators. He said that from all the information he has concerning Roseann, she comes with excellent recommendations. The board voted to accept her as an intern.

A strange thing happened on the way to filling the swimming pool. Prescott’s Dan Jacobson apparently borrowed a tanker from a local spraying service, filled it with water and headed for home last Friday. While crossing the bridge over the Whetstone the structure collapsed. A crane was called in to right the rigs, but could not budge them. The tractor will have to be pulled out the front way, and the tanker from the rear.

Fifty Years Ago

July 14, 1966

Airman John E. Hazelbaker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Hazelbaker of Rt. 1, Waitsburg Wash., has been selected for technical training at Amarillo, AFB, Tex., as a U.S. Air Force aircraft structural specialist.

Photo caption: The Presbyterian Ladies again sponsored an Ice Cream Social on the church lawn, Friday evening, July 1. Dressed up in turn-of-the-Century attire to wait tables were George Bodman and Dan Bicklehaupt. As a blushing rose between two (ahem!) thorns, Mrs. Bob Danforth who “poured” for the gala event.

In the last game of the season, Waitsburg defeated the Touchet Valley Champions of Prescott, 7 – 6, in a real thriller. Brian Henze pitched and Jerry Baker caught the entire game for Waitsburg.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 18, 1941

Harvesting of wheat is probably the largest wheat crop ever raised in this state, is now getting under full swing.

Labor trouble developed in the pea fields Friday afternoon and about 60 men struck for an increase of 10 cents an hour. Warrants were sworn out against the agitators said to be transient labor, as trespassers on private property and if they contact the men further, it will have to be while they are not at work.

Miss Velma Mock entertained a group of her girl friends on her birthday anniversary Tuesday evening, at a Slumber Party. Those of the party were Reva Hansen, Verla Jeremiah, Bessie Henly, and Elizabeth Ann Danielson.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 21, 1916

The beautiful and modern country home of Mr. & Mrs. Frank Zuger located two miles northeast of this city was totally destroyed by fire early Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Esra Culp and Wade Wolfe of Huntsville and John Schiltz of this city, who composed an auto party which went to Spokane Sunday, met with an accident in the city of Ritzville, which delayed the trip a couple of hours, but fortunately was devoid of serious results.

G. W. Carpenter of the Carpenter Drug Store held a flower show of his own last Friday July 14th, when 17 competitors brought bouquets of sweet peas to the store and turned this establishment into a real bower of beauty.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 24, 1891

Under “New Today” will be found the advertisement of Harry Mills, who has opened a neat barbershop, three doors north of the Times Office. He is a good barber and has a neat shop.

The man who says we never have hot nights in this country is a liar, and we are hot enough right now – at 3 o’ clock this Friday afternoon to tell him so.

Born near this city July 22 to Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Eaton, a daughter.

The Preston-Parton Milling Co. paid 75 cents a bushel for old wheat this week.

Again the summer of our discontent has arrived. We are too fat to work and too poor to live without work. An obvious incompatibility.