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Ten Years Ago

July 21, 2011

2011 Harvest Issue: Better late than never

Delayed by a cold, wet spring, growers look forward to good yields from wheat, peas, and garbanzo harvests.

[Photo caption] Fear factor: Susan Hosticka of Dayton is covered by honeybees during a beekeepers’ field day at Washington State University. This “bee beard” didn’t cause her a single sting.

Dayton’s Liberty Theater is bringing Buck, an award-winning documentary, to its screen this Friday. The film follows real life “horse whisperer” Buck Brannanman on his life journey from an abusive childhood to his extraordinary approach to horses.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 13, 1995

The death of a 52-year-old Waitsburg man, who was found last month lying on the street in Monroe, Wash. was likely accidental. His wife, Iva, said he was semi-comatose in the hospital and never recovered enough to tell her what happened to him.

Jeanetta Monfort of Waitsburg, was among several people who recently completed the master food safety and preservation program at the WSU Cooperative Extension Office in Walla Walla.

Move over Blockbuster, Waitsburg Video has a new store, too. Last week, Bert and Bitsy Baxter moved their video shop from the old pharmacy building to 114 Preston, next to the Gateway Tavern.

Dayton officials are working on a program to give mandatory drug and alcohol screening tests to holders of commercial driver’s licenses who work for the city.

Fifty Years Ago

July 16, 1970

Mr. and Mrs. DeWayne Henze are the parents of a son, born July 9, at Walla Walla General Hospital. The young man joins an older brother, Bobby, and is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Segraves of Waitsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Henze of Pasco; and the great-grandson of Mrs. Flora Hillis and Mrs. Beulah Henze.

Jake Keve reported to the Times office Monday morning that .65 inch of rain fell Sunday night and early Monday morning. Although the moisture will slow harvesting for a few days, the moisture was much appreciated by homeowners as lawns and shrubs continue to have a dusty look even after watering.

The garage attendant looked at the battered car and told the driver, “Sorry lady, we just wash cars—we don’t iron them.”

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 20, 1945

Miss Jane Nagley of Walla Walla who will become the bride of PFC Robert Butler Friday at the Episcopal church, has been honored at several pre-nuptial showers during the past week.

Marilyn Otterson is now employed at Carpenter’s Fountain. She recently moved here from Minnesota with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Otterson.

With the fate of the million-acre Columbia Basin Project in the balance, a person owning land in the proposed irrigation development will vote on Saturday to determine whether the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation will be permitted to proceed with a post-war construction program in the basin.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 23, 1920

Fred Bachmann, the well-known Wilson Hollow farmer, received this week, his new automatic wheat separator from the Inland Automatic Thresher Co. at Post Falls, Ida.—the new machine in which a number of Waitsburg people are financially interested.

Fire totally destroyed the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McCown at Coopei Station, Wednesday evening between 5 and 6 o’clock.

Saturday forenoon [sic] alone bandit held up the Bank of Starbuck and robbed it for $3,500 after locking the cashier, bookkeeper and a farmer in the vault.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 26, 1895

Emerson Wheeler closes his term of school on Coppei Mt. tomorrow. He had a five-month term, which is a pretty long term for a beginner, especially one so young, but he stayed with it like a major. That boy’s a chip off the old block.

Pendleton is to have a woolen mill that will manufacture all kinds of woolen goods. It is capitalized at $20,000.

Ample funds having been secure, Waitsburg Academy will take a stride and land in its proper position. Lack of means is a handicap so great as to overbalance a multitude of advantages, and so Waitsburg Academy has been thus hampered.