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Ten Years Ago

May 14, 2009

Morgan Baker, a senior at Waitsburg High School, has been named one of four finalists of Male Athlete of the Year at the 33rd Annual Blue Mountain Youth Awards, which will be presented at 7:00 tonight, Thursday, May 14,at the Walla Walla Elks Club. Another W, H, S. senior, Matt Leid, will be recognized with a Special Student Award.

Rebecca Brown and Wyatt Withers, both juniors at Waitsburg high school, were honored by the Masonic Lodges of Eastern Washington as recipients of the Masonic Junior Achievement Award.

Photo caption: Genesis Pearson gave a discus a toss good enough for first place in the preliminaries at the Sub District Meet in Colfax last Monday. Pearson’s best throw of 100-2 won the prelims and got her second in the finals.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 5, 1994

A dispute over ownership of a one-acre park on Eckler Mountain has been settled out of court, one of the litigants reports.” I’ve got title to it and its going to stay that way” Vernon Marll of Dayton said, of Pioneer Memorial Park, 10 miles east of Dayton, a park he developed. Markll said he and Broughton Land Co had settled a civil lawsuit filed in Columbia County Superior last year. From the park’s 3500-feet elevation, a person can see Steptoe Butte, the coastal ranges and bridges in Tri Cities. The land is in the middle of deer and elk country and hunters use the park as a base camp.

Photo Caption: Members of the Waitsburg High School baseball team are front row, from left, Brandon Clarke, Mike Zaharevich, Daniel Stanley and Josh Largent: and back row, from left, coach Mel McWhorter, Andy Samson, Ryan Jacoy, Robert Hinchliffe, Jeremy Leroue, John McCaw, George VanHorn, Bryan Schollenberger, Jonathan Abbey, Billy Clarke, and Gabe Hofer

Fifty Years Ago

May 8, 1969

A new well to serve the community of Dixie was finished last week, and its very inception is a tribute to that small town who took part. Up to this time, all home owners in the town had their own wells. Beside the obvious problems of sanitation and water purity, many of the shallow individual wells went dry in the summer.

A tour of the ranch and cattle facilities of the Don Thomas family will be held on Friday, May 9, beginning at 9:00 am. The tour and dinner is open to the public and all friends of the Thomas family are cordially invited to be there. The Walla Walla Cattlemen’s Association recently names the Thomases as Cattlemen of the year for this county,

Ancient human remains discovered at the Marmes Rock shelter archaeological site in south-eastern Washington date from the waning stages of the ice Age 10,000 years ago, new scientific data reveals. The Marmes site has attracted international attention since its discovery of the great age of its early human skeletal remains, but also because of its unique sequence of human skeletal remains, artifacts, fossil animal bones, and geological record-all of which extend from the earliest levels of the site up to modern time.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 12, 1944

Six boys entered stock at the show in Spokane this week under the direction of J. W. Carson. They were James Archer, James Cresswell, Ellsworth Conover, Wayne Hinchliffe, and Wallace Winnett.

Dale Ford was elected president of the student body: Robert Estes vice president, Velma Mock Secretary, Elizabeth Danielson and Ruth Perry tied for treasurer: Carrol Smith, Cardinal editor, Jacqueline Alexander, yell queen, Elizabeth Bishop and Rosell Collins, yell princesses.

Waitsburg people desiring canning sugar, may sign up for it at the city hall each afternoon between 2 and 4.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 16, 1919

Clarence Smith lost a valuable team of work mares and a perfectly good team last Thursday evening when the team ran away and over a 70-foot cliff on the ranch

Miss Kathleen Corbett accidentally ran a crochet hook in her right hand, but it was removed without much trouble and she is getting along nicely.

The G. A. R. has nearly completed arrangements for celebration of Decoration Day on Friday, May 30. Next week the program and order of parade will appear in the Times.

Mrs. Lola Frazier of Los Angeles and Mrs. Byron Lutcher and children of Walla Walla spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wiseman on Coppei Avenue

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 11, 1894

Uncle Henry Ingalls was in the city from Spring Valley Thursday. He was wearing a Cleveland hat, but had taken half its crown off-says half of Cleveland is all he can stand now

There are plenty of fishes in the creeks, but owing to muddy water, it is difficult to catch them

On May 30th members of the M. E. Church will serve dinner at Bruce’s Hall. Proceeds to apply to minister’s salary Bill of Fare later. All favors shown for the above occasion will be highly appreciated.