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Ten Years Ago

October 15, 2009

Photo caption: Former Waitsburg resident Kathy Rose, of Griffin, Ga, carried a copy of The Times when she attended the 9/12 Taxpayers March on Washington D. C. Her she is on the West Lawn of the U. S. Capitol building among the estimated 1.5 million people who attended the rally. Rose is the daughter of the late Bill and Hazel Rose, long-time Waitsburg residents.

About a dozen people met September 29 to discuss possible directions for the site of Waits Mill, now a charred pile of blackened beams and heat warped metal after it was destroyed in a fire on September 6. Two predominant ideas were a smaller -scale museum with an area for an amphitheater. Another common idea was commissioning an artist to create a sculpture from the wheels, pulleys, shafts, etc, that litter what was once the mill’s ground floor.

Roland Schirman of Dayton was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of Walla Walla Community College, to fill the seat occupied by Jon McFarland whose term ended in June.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 6, 1994

HOLY BOOK RIGHTS, BATMAN—A celebrity from the local area has written a “tell-most-of-it” book and few local people know about it. “there hasn’t been any publicity here, unless I missed it,” said Carol Anderson of Walla Walla, sister-in-law of TV “Batman” Adam West whose “Back in the Batcave” was released in September.

The two school construction projects in Waitsburg will generate as many as six high-paying local jobs, the general contractor for the work said last week. In addition, officials have scheduled a groundbreaking for the projects on Wednesday, Oct 12.

A Waitsburg couple competed in a Dutch oven cookoff last month and walked away with two of the four prices. Lynn Mantz-Powers won first place in the cookoff sponsored by the Northwest Dutch Oven Society held Sept. 17 in Tacoma. Her recipe, “western pork chops” won the first award. Her husband, Paul Mantz-Powers, a veteran of 17 years of cooking with Dutch ovens, took third place with his recipe, “five cheese chicken breasts”.

Fifty Years Ago

October 9, 1969

Waitsburg TV viewers will be pleased to know that our local cable now carries educational TV. Channel 7 (KDPO) can be dialed in on your receiver at the channel 3 spot.

Photo caption: Jim Rodgers of Dayton watches while Ben Bloor gives Bob Hulce a heaping helping of coleslaw. Ben had 220 lbs of cabbages to give away, and that’s a lot of cabbage.

The Waitsburg Jayvees copped their first win of the season over the DeSales second team by a 14-8 tally in a game played there last Monday afternoon. With only seconds left in the game, Roy Berg rolled out and pitched a halfback pass to quarterback Guy McCaw in the end zone to give the visitors a 14-8 victory.

Albert J. “Red” Golden, a well-known attorney from Walla Walla, has joined with Arden Archer, Jr. of Dayton to form a new law firm in this area. The name of the new firm is Golden and Archer, and offices will be at 228 E. Main in Dayton and 429 Drumheller Building in Walla Walla.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Oct 13, 1944

Among the hunters who bagged a deer in the Blue Mountains this week were Earl Smith, Roy Leid, Emil Hermanson and Bruce Wilson.

Successful growth of the Bozeman Canning Company will be reflected Saturday morning when the Achievement ‘A” award was given to the company at an impressive ceremony at the local Bozeman Plant

Of interest to the many friends of Miss Margaret Marion Bailey, is her marriage to Phillip Isaac Kaufman, chief petty officer, U.S. Coast Guard of Spokane.

Seven little girls were guests of Miss Serita Ann Patton at a birthday supper Tuesday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Patton, honoring her eighth birthday.

One Hundred Years Ago

Oct 17, 1919

From the talks and from the enthusiasm manifest at the regular meeting of the Commercial Club Tuesday night, Waitsburg will observe Armistice Day-November 11, In some appropriate manner.

Waitsburg is without a dairy at the present time and there is much speculation as to what people are going to do for milk and cream.

Marriage license was granted Tuesday to J. Brown and Miss Maude J. Balm, both of this city. Mrs. Brown is one of the proprietors of the Allen-Brown grocery.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

Oct 12, 1894

F. J. Aldrich, one of the thorough going rustlers in this neck of the woods, made us a pleasant call on Tuesday.

Some miscreant walked into friend Vining’s stable on Saturday night or Sunday night and walked off with a half set of harness, and neither thief nor harness has been heard of.

Miss Mabel Horner will conduct the student’s prayer meeting next Monday evening at the academy.