The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Ten Years Ago September 13, 2001

Saying, "The show must go on!," organizers of the Waitsburg Commercial Club Salmon Barbecue and the Waitsburg Historical Society's Fall Festival, in light of Tuesdays terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., put the finishing touches on plans for the events.

Buffalo for the Fall Festival didn't always come as rolled roasts. Lion's members once made the trek to Montana to bring home the animals. The plan worked well until one decided he didn't like Whoop em Up Hollow and went over the hill to a nice corn patch. Since then the meat is delivered to Waitsburg ready to roast.

Twenty-Five Years Ago September 11, 1986

The Waitsburg Lions Club invites the community to a special mortgage-burning party this week. Publicity Chairman Cecil Webber said it was designed to express appreciation to those members of the community who helped in any way to build the new softball complex in the racetrack infield.

Orville Branson reported to Lions members that a tent purchased as a joint venture with the Historical Society, has arrived in time for the Fall Festival. Cost was $752.50.

Fifty Years Ago September 15, 1961

The prize-winning champion sale steer owned and shown at the Frontier Days Fair was the steer given away at the race meet this spring. The steer was furnished to the Junior Livestock Association by Dave Thomas, local Aberdeen Angus breeder.

Residents in the 300 block of West Fifth Street were "shook up" Tuesday morning when a large locust tree between Fifth and Sixth Streets fell across convertibles parked on the street.

Seventy-Five Years Ago September 18, 1936

The packing house of Moore Brothers opened Monday morning for the packing of pears and from now on the next two months or more, that place will be a beehive of industry.

C.N. Eaton and son, Merle, in company with two men from Walla Walla, spent Sunday at Celilo Falls fishing for Chinook salmon, which are running in large numbers in the Columbia River the past few days.

Members of the Waitsburg Commercial Club with their wives or lady friends, enjoyed a weenie supper at the State Park, Tuesday evening at 6:30.

One Hundred Years Ago September 15, 1911

The handsome new hardware store of the John Smith Hardware Company, which replaces the one destroyed by fire last year, has been completed and the stock was moved from their temporary location in the Fender Building.

Mrs. Lila Neilson and Mrs. Chester Babcock, two well-known Waitsburg young people, were quietly married in Dayton by Justice Holman, Monday Sept.11.

Property owners along Preston Avenue are planning to construct a cement walk from the corner of Coppei Avenue east on Preston Avenue to Rose Glen, owned by Hon. Gustav Vollmer.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago September 10, 1886

On the first day of October, the special delivery system will go into effect in all the post offices in the United States.

Last Saturday's westbound freight train ran over and killed three Indian ponies on a bridge one and onehalf miles this side of Dayton.

Membership in the W.C.T.U. now totals 34. Members are asked to meet with their president, Mrs. Rev. Waltz, Sept. 10 in the Presbyterian Church.

Wheat is slowly rising. The last quota we have of the local market is 47 ½ cents per bushel. Good feed barley is worth 60 cents per cental, cash, at the mill.

Mr. D.E. Martin has rented the B.F. Winkler store building on the west side of Main Street and proposed to open a first class boot and shoe shop.