Ten Years Ago - May 22, 2008

The dedication of 10 additional names to the Veterans Memorial Wall and an address by David Morback of Waitsburg will high light the 2008 Memorial Day Program will be held at the Wall at 11am on Monday 26 at the Waitsburg City Cemetery. During the ceremony, recognition of the addition of the following deceased verteran’ names to the Vertern Memorial will be made: WWI-Rulon McCullock:, WW II, Dorothy E. Gilhus, Walter G. Harris, Glen D. Hofer, Charles “Bud” Phillips, Kenneth G. Smigh, Bruce W. Wilson, Vietnam: James D. Helm, Damon Magula, Peacetime: Samuel E. Thompson.

“Danger” might be Chad Lambert’s middle name and this weekend you’ll have the chance to find out. Lambert, a Waitsburg native and 2004 graduate of Waitsburg High, will be testing his strength in the bull riding event at the Dayton Days Rodeo, part of the Dayton Days this weekend.

Twenty Five Years Ago - May 13, 1993

A civic minded man who has lived in Waitsburg almost a half century will lead the Days of Real Sport parade on Saturday, May 22. Maruc Horney will head up the parade seated in a mule-drawn buckboard driven by Jay Thomas.

Photo caption: Waitsburg Ambulance Service board and crew members trained last week on the new telephone gear that will let them speak with Spanish and Russian spseaking patients while on the ambulance calls. The volunteers who trained were from left to right, Jack Otterson, Bob Stokes, Berneice Banks, Don Helgeson, Scott Branson, Bill Thompson, Mike Ferrians, Ruby Stokes, Tina Thornton, Cliff Lincoln, and Patty Horney. Crew stands near service’s newest ambulance.

Two Waitsburg Elementary School sixth-graders have won awards in the 1993 Child Abuse Prevention Poetry Contest sponsored by the Benton-Franklin Council for Children and Youth. Justina Ryckman, 13, won second place with her poem, entitled, “The Father I love”. She was awarded a $75 U. S. Savings Bond. Sarah Monfort, 11, was awarded an honorable mention for her poem, entitled, “Enemies and Friends”. She was given $10

Fifty Years Ago - May 16, 1968

Ken Jantz was named Lion of the Year at the annual Ladies night of the Waitsburg Club on Friday, May 10. Outgoing President Cecil Webber present eh the award to Ken with the remark that “He was willing to work at any time that we needed him”

Photo caption: A group of Cubs and Den Mothers visited the Times last week for a short tour. Mrs. James Roosevelt, Tim Petticord, Bill Wood, Kevin Richardson, Mrs. Gary Lucas, Front row: Jimmy Brown, Bill Miller, Lee Winnett, and Stacey Wilson

Dayton Drive In ad: May 17-18. “Blast Off” starring Troy Donahue and Burl Ives. And P. T. Barnum, Comedy, and Caprice, staring Doris Day and Richard Harris

Seventy Five Years Ago - May 21, 1943

Under a recent order, the producers of hot wheat are now permitted to sell without penalty. Heretofore, many have been unable to hold their wheat and upon selling, were forced to pay a penalty ranging from 49 cents on the 1941 crop to 57 cents on the 1942 crop.

Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Glover are the parents of an 8 pound 11 ounce son born early Thursday morning. He is the grandson of Mrs. Annie Glover of Pullman and Mrs. Georgia Kenworthy of Walla Walla.

Miss Mildred Minnick entertained the teachers at a potato fry at the home of Mrs. Eva Trichler on Wednesday evening.

The Friendly Thimble Club met at the home of Mrs. Roy Allen on Wednesday fternoon. The group made eight large sofa cushions, furnishing all the materials, for the use of patients at the Mc Caw Hospital in Walla Walla.

One Hundred Years Ago - May 24, 1918

The City’s new fire siren has arrived and will be installed and tested as soon as the electricians get around to it..

The City’s Dads have had the annual tussle this week with a tank car of heavy road oil for the city streets. The street force and the members of the council are usually out of humor for a month after their attempt to handle a car of this “dern” sticky stuff.

About 115 members of the Progressive Club and their husbands gathered at “the Catalpas” for the last meeting of the year. Saturday afternoon and evening. Lunch was served at 6:30 followed by an enjoyable evening of readings, vocal selections, music by the Monnett family and phonograph music.

One Hundred Twenty Five Years Ago

May 26, 1893

Dr. Hudgin and Col Cummings report fifteen feet of snow in the canyons back in the mountains while on the ridges it is more than thirty feet. This will insure us an abundance of water in the streams and of rain as well in all probability.

The large irrigation wheel manufactured by Gilbert Hunt & Company for the Snake River Fruit Growers Association has been placed in the river at Wawaiwai. Only one pump is being used at present which raises 350 gallons of water per minute a height of 80 feet. The wheel is capable of running two pumps with acapacity of 700 gallons per minute. The company now has 400 acres under irrigation.