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Ten Years Ago

March 1, 2012

For the first time in 17 years, the Dayton Bulldogs are going to Spokane for the Hardwood Classic state basketball championship tournament starting Thursday. After resoundingly beating the Riverdale Christian Crusaders from Yakima, 59-41, in front of a predominantly hometown crowd Friday night at Walla Walla High School, the Dogs are now in the Final 8 of there 2B division. "We've worked hard since fifth grade and this was our goal," senior Joey Schlachter said when he emerged from the locker room after the hard physical match against the Crusaders. The 2012 Bulldogs, the best team to represent their high school since the 1995 crew, face Toutle Lake High School Thursday in Spokane.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 6, 1997

[Photo Caption] The first-place team from the Waitsburg FFA Chapter, which won the Commodity Marketing Activity for the state of Washington includes Elizabeth Abbey, Amanda McKinley, Anne Bickelhaupt, and Jane Conover, with advisor Scott Branson.

Fifty Years Ago

March 2, 1972

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Maxwell of Preston Avenue will be the honored guests at a reception Saturday afternoon, March 11, in observance of their golden wedding anniversary. The affair will be held in the Parish Hall in Waitsburg, between the hours of 2 and 5 p.m. Hosts for the affair will be the couples three children and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Ira (Willa) Short of Maple Valley, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Maxwell of Dayton, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Maxwell of Edmonds. William Maxwell and Myrtle Silvers were married in Burley, Idaho on March 13, 1922. They moved to Waitsburg in 1953 to make their home. In addition to their three children, they have eleven grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 7, 1947

The City of Waitsburg is now in the process of having a new well dug adjacent to the cannery with work being done by O. A. Durand and Son of Walla Walla.

Six Patrol leaders and assistants of the Waitsburg Green Bar Patrol of Troop 36 enjoyed a hike to Coppei Falls Sunday with Scoutmaster Ernest Kison. The boys included Bill and Fritz Zuger, Neil Alexander, Freddie Rankin, Dave Dilts, and Jack Roberts.

J. W. Carson announces he has started a farm shop course including machinery repair and welding on Monday and Thursday evenings.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 3, 1922

Wednesday afternoon in the directors room of the Walla Walla Commercial Club, representatives of county fair and racing interests in Waitsburg, Dayton, Ritzville, Davenport and Plummer, convened for the purpose of forming the Inland Empire Fair and Racing Association whose charter membership comprised the above named cities.

Peter Ganguet, well-known sheepman, who with his family live at the fork of the Coppei, is just completing extensive remodeling and improving of the farm home. A new kitchen has been added as has also a new bathroom and front and back porches.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 5, 1897

A very pleasant party was given at Armory Hall on last Saturday evening in honor of Miss Emma McKinney who left on Tuesday night of this week for Portland where she will spend several weeks visiting friends and relatives.

A Kansas man has discovered that brandy can be made of wet elm sawdust, and a discouraged prohibitionist asks what chance a good cause will have when a man can go forth with a ripsaw and get drunk on a fence rail.

Miss Lizzie Wisdom will commence her second term of school north of Prescott a week from Monday. Being chosen the second time to teach in the same district is proof enough of Miss Lizzie's ability as an instructor.

 

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