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Ten Years Ago - April 3, 2008

Morgan, Naylor win for the Bluewood Blazers. The Bluewood Blazers ski team was spread all over the Pacific Northwest the weekend of March 22-23. Four athletes were at the Lookout Pass for the Emerald Empire Youth Ski League Finals, a pair at Mission Ridge for the Hampton Cup USSA race and ten were at Anthony Lakes for the Broadway Blast. At Anthony Lakes in a Super G, J3 racers Breanna Morgan and Alex Naylor each won in their events.

Waitsburg-Prescott boys scored in every event and notched seven firsts and seven seconds on its way to another tract meet team win at Clarkston, March 26.

The 54th annual Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show is boasting several new things this year, including an extra day of showing, a contest for Top Farmland, and FFA tractor driving competition, and a schedule 5to permit local folks the opportunity by Tumac Machinery of Walla Walla, in a times event, stirring the tractor and a 10 foot trailer through an obstacle course, then backing through the course.

Twenty Five Years Ago - March 25, 1993

It may be April fool’s day next Thursday, but the fourth and fifth grades at Waitsburg Elementary School will be doing some serious work at Lewis Clark Trail State Park. Gary Lentz, the park manager, said a reforestation group has donated 300 ponderosa pines for planting in the park’s day-use area, on the south side of Highway 12.

Photo caption: One of new wind socks put by last week along Main Street in Waitsburg by city’s unofficial “wind sock committee”, made up of Bette Chase, (who made the socks) Bill Thompson and Sam Wills. Times photo by George Gagnon

Eight city residents have been appointed to a special Waitsburg Planning Committee to assist the city in updating its planning and zoning code. The work is part of the Walla Walla County Regional Planning department’s effort to complete a growth management plan. The City Council approved the following people for membership on the local committee: Bill Bloor, Ginny Butler, Rose Engelbrite, Don Helgeson, Laura Jean Hevel, Bill Hinchliffe, Ann McCambridge and Joe McCown Jr.

Fifty Years Ago, March 29, 1968

To help you meet your candidates for Days of Real Sport Queen of 1968, we introduce to you Miss Peggy Barger. This pert blond lass is 16 and a junior at Prescott High School. Her parents, Bob and Lois Barger, farm 0 miles north of Prescott. Peggy has been riding since she was 8 years old, a member of the Waitsburg Riding Club since she was 13. The other two queen candidates, Vicki Pennell and Rita Thomas will be featured in the next two issues of The Times.

31 Landowners petition for withdrawal for Eureka Flats irrigation district. (Headlines)

The bulk of the lands originally included in the Eureka Flats Irrigation District are included in a petition for withdrawal, which was filed last week in Walla Walla. If the 31 owners do pull out of the nine-month old district, there will be only 3 parcels remaining, making up less than 6000 acres, of the original 42000 acres, which made up the original district.

Seventy Five Years Ago, April 2, 1943

Weather permitting the local softball enthusiasts will hold an initial turnout Friday eveningof this week on the school field

The Walter Price home on West Seventh Street has been sold to Mr. and Mrs Walter Johnson of Seattle.

The coming of warm weather with its attendant increase in the opening of farmwork, has stimulated requests for labor in agricultural employment, it is reported.

A family dinner honoring Mr. and Mrs. Mount Shaffer and family who are soon to make their home in Spokane was given Sunday by Mrs. Shaffers mother, Mrs. Gene Harsh.

One Hundred Years Ago - April 5, 1918

Dr. R. E. butler, who for so many years has been a practicing physician and surgeon in this city, has announced that he is discontinuing his regular work for a time at least because of ill health.

A man by the name of Schuyler was picked up on the F. T. Keiser ranch in Spring Valley Monday by the Immigration Agent of Walla Walla, charged with being a slacker. D. E. Howell,who farms this ranch, hired the man in Walla Walla two weeks ago. He is said to have come from Montana and to be an I. W. W. organizer. Anyway he was unable to show his registration card, although of draft age.

The City Council-elect is as follows, Mayor E. L. Wheeler, Councilmen, A. J. Woodworth, W. D. Wallace, E. J. Call, A. C. Spafford, A. C. Macomber, treasurer, J. E. Butler

One Hundred Twenty Five Years Ago

April 7, 1893

C. J. Witt and his sons, Kind and Mark, left on Tuesday morning for their ranch near St. John, to put in a crop. They will be gone six weeks to two months

Dr. N. G. Blalock left for Pasco yesterday afternoon to meet Percy Rochester and accompany him on his way to Chicago as far as Spokane. The doctor is expected back today.

Mrs. Carrie Payne leaves today for Athena Ore where she will spend a few weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. Ella Holt. From there she will go to her old home in New York state to remain permanently.