PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

October 9, 2014

[Photo Caption] Ashleigh Hubbard and Devon Harshman will represent Waitsburg as Waitsburg Celebration Days 2015 royalty. Beka Adams will serve as court advisor.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1999

A lot of Walla Walla and Columbia County people and places are featured in a revised edition of the Tour Guide of the SE Washington Heritage Corridor, Richland to Clarkston. In a cover letter with my copy of the new edition is a letter of thanks to some county historians for help in the revision: Walt Gary, Barbara Kubik, Steve Plucker, and Gary Lentz, from project director Willie Smyth. Research and writing was by Jens Lund, and the book (with accompanying cassette tape) is published by Northwest Heritage Resources in Olympia. The book and tape are coordinated so that one may start from Richland and journey easterly, following guide numbers on the map as one listens to the tape tell of points along the way. In addition to pointing out natural sites, the book-tape introduces people of the area and their hobbies and other contributions to the local culture

Fifty Years Ago

October 10, 1974

Waitsburg Lions Club will visit the new Walla Walla Community College campus on Tuesday night, October 22. Club members plan to make the presentation of a new flagpole to Don Parker, WWCC administrator. The Annual light bulb sale, with chairman Gus Lybecker, will be held on Tuesday, November 12. A visit from Touchet Lions Club is set for the same evening. Club guests were the newest members Scott Branson and John Knapp, Green Giant Company. Frank Bramlet spoke to the Club about the gun club projects and requested some assistance on locating the new club house. Frank said that a house, purchased from the State Highway Department, is still on site with beams underneath. Frank has completed his 17th year of firearm safety training in Waitsburg. He has been busy the past two weekends helping hunters to sight in rifles before the season begins. The gun club leader has sighted in 125 rifles during the past two weeks, 36 last Sunday with 13 of them bore-sighted.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 14, 1949

Miss Bernadine Smith visited Wednesday with Mrs. Emma Harris and friends in Waitsburg enroute to Berkeley, Cal. Where she plans to attend school. Miss Smith returned home Sept. 20 from a summer bicycle tour of Europe with three graduate students.

Lewis Patton has received Columbia County's quota of 30 bushels of a new type short strawed winter white wheat developed at Washington State College in their anti-smut campaign.

At 56 days, the ten pigs of Janulu Waitsburg Sally, owned by Howard Smith, has a total weight of 333 pounds and all were eligible for registry.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 17, 1924

The Schiltz orchard east of Huntsville, owned by Charles and John Schiltz, has about a full crop of apples this season, the late frost last spring doing but little damage. They started their crew Monday morning. John's new packing house above Huntsville, and Charles at Bolles Junction. They expect about five weeks run.

F. O. Cox now has about the last word in automobiles, having just traded in his Rickenbacker six on one of the 1925 model Rickenbacker eight sedans.

J. D. Taggard this week received a fine blue ribbon Spotted Poland China boar to head his herd. The animal is seven months old, and J. D. says he looks to be the finest hog he has ever owned.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 13, 1899

James and Lewis Fudge of Huntsville returned from their extended visit to their mining properties in the Buffalo Hamp Country on Wednesday of last week.

Moses Arnold returned from near Oakesdale, where he has been harvesting, on last Sunday morning.

We neglected to mention last week that William Tucker had gone to Walla Walla to accept a position as bookkeeper to John Smith, the implement man.