The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Ten Years Ago

March 25, 2004

Local students selected from Waitsburg High School Students recently named to the 37th Annual Edition of Who's Who Among American High School Students, 2002-2003 are Emily Hogan, Amy Huwe, Haly Ingle, Ashley Katsel, Genny Menino, and Kristyn Scott.

Included from Dayton are Katie Deboard, Marianne Kas­ten, Molly Klippert, Daniel Meloy, Cesar Meraz, Lacey Miller and Melissa Shumake. Paul Counts and other Prescott students Becky Curtis, Joseph Erwin, Bertha Hernandez, Joshua May­berry, Lacey Mayberry, Kristopher Oliver, Sonja Ray, and Anthony Spencer are on the roster.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 23, 1989

Lacey Cole, former Waitsburg area rancher who is no retired and living in Walla Walla, was selected by the Days of Real Sport to be the Marshal of the 1989 Parade. Cole is a long- time racing enthusiast, having been involved in thoroughbred racing for a number of years. He ran his horses in Waitsburg, Dayton, Walla Walla and Colfax, as well as many other tracks across the country.

Leadership Camp for Rainbow Girls was held at Camp Kiwanis in Kennewick March 10-12. Girls attending from Waitsburg Rainbow Assembly were Micki McCoy, Suzanna Scudder and Kelly Suger, Suzanna was selected as "Most En­thusiastic" at the camp.

Don Thomas of Waitsburg is the mover and shaker for Old Time Harvesting Days in Waitsburg set for Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6. Sponsored by the Washington State Draft Horse and Mule Association, these special days have been set aside to depict some of the early methods used in wheat ranching in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Fifty Years Ago

March 20, 1964

Donna Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris of Waitsburg was selected as "Fairest Farmerette" for the South­eastern Washington Fair and Frontier Days to be held in Walla Walla on September 3-6, 1964.

Waitsburg stores will close at 2:15 on Friday, March 27, for Good Friday Services. They will reopen following the services.

City Council granted permission to Odako Club to pres­ent the City with three sets of new picnic benches to be used at Preston Park. They are in the process of construction, and will be ready for this summer's use.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 24, 1969

Last Friday, John R. Kanz, State Game Protector, put out 60 Hungarian partridge - 30 pair - that had been shipped direct from Germany.

Thursday afternoon the home of Mrs. Orville Fullerton in Huntsville was the scene of a miscellaneous shower honoring Mrs. Henry Krause, a recent bride. Hostesses were Mrs. Clif­ford Leid, Mrs. G. H. Denney, Mrs. E. H. Kenney and Mrs. O. A. Kendall.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Hamby have given up their lease on the Coppei farm they have been operating for a number of years. They have moved for the present onto the Ora Babcock acreage in the eastern part of the city.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 27, 1914

Harry Conover and family arrived home Friday from Knox City, Missouri, where they have resided for the past year. Harry says that this is the only country for him anyway and he expects to remain in this valley.

The annual high school Declamation Contest will be held March 27 at the Christian Church. As a result of consider­able interest in the contest eight students have entered as con­testants. They are Elsie Hooker, Wayne Harper, Mary Swear­ingen, Levira Southard, Glenn Conover, Marian McAninch, Galla Summers and Maude Baim.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 29, 1889

W. H. Babcock's new residence in Small's Addition will be the first brick residence in the city, yet when the man stepped out of the City Hall three years ago he was poorer than Job's turkey ever was or ever hoped to be. It pleases us to observe his improved condition for he has a heart bigger than a govern­ment mule.

F. T. Keiser last season raised 30 bushels of fine carrots from one-tenth of an acre of ground. Nothing beats carrots for cow feed, and they require little attention.

Salmon fishing is splendid and in a few days trout fishing will be ditto and the same.

The W.C.T.U. supper and entertainment at the Op­era House last Friday evening was a very pleasant affair. The supper was good, the singing ditto and the same while the art gallery was decidedly amusing. The ladies netted about $30.