PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

June 10, 2010

[Photo caption] PSE Wind Farm Permit Appealed. Petersons not happy with hearing process and turbine setbacks.

Fifty Years Ago

June 19, 1975

Connie Smith, 1974 Waitsburg High School graduate, has been hired through the Educational Training Institution to work as Assistant Librarian in the Weller Library here for the summer. The Weller Library will be open all day five days per week, Saturday afternoons and Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

Swimming lessons will start Monday, June 23 at 10:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. Swim team will start practice Monday night, June 23 at 6:00 p.m. till 7:00 p.m. Pool hours are 1:00 p.m. till 5:00 p.m. Night hours: 7:00 till 9:00 p.m. Family tickets, $15.00; child under 15 years, $4.50; adult over 15 years, $17.50.

Cindy Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Carpenter, Prescott, has qualified for participation in the Junior Olympics meet which will be held on Saturday, June 21 at Spokane Community College in Spokane. Cindy was first in the baseball throw and second in the 50-yard dash in competition held earlier in Walla Walla.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Friday, June 16, 1950

Kappa Delta alumni entertained their husbands at a pot-luck supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Butler in Walla Walla. Attending from Waitsburg were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stonecipher, and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Broom.

The Waitsburg plant of Blue Mountain Canneries division of the Green Giant company expects to begin canning peas on Monday, June 19th. Variations in the weather between now and then could advance or retard the date one or two days. First operations will be on Alaska peas from the Beard field above Dayton, with Alaskas from the Glen Smith & Son-Stonecipher field to follow about a day later.

The Garden Club contest committee announce that competent and disinterested judges will be on the job Tuesday, June 20th, for the purpose of judging Waitsburg home grounds and gardens. Prizes will be awarded for the best showing in the following classes: CLASS ONE: Three prizes for best all around home grounds and gardens, awards to be based on usual basis of scoring. CLASS TWO: Three prizes for those places showing the greatest improvement during the year. CLASS THREE: Three prizes for the best vegetable garden. In addition to prizes which this year will be some piece of garden equipment or choice plants or bulbs, the Judges may in their discretion award Honorable Mention but not for any of the prizes.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 8, 1925

Porter Shaffer, lineman of the Farmers Rural Telegraph Co. has replaced his Dodge with a new Ford roadster with slip-on body. Platt Preston, elder son of Fred B. Preston, arrived on Wednesday from Los Angeles, and is visiting at the home of his cousins, A. M. McCoy and family. Platt is now a student at the University of Southern California

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 5, 1900

The Waitsburg Academy commencement exercises were held on June 5, 1900. There were four graduates, Miss Bird L. Davies, Miss Luella S. Macomber, Mr. Clement B. Witt, and Mr. Samuel E. Robinson from the Academic Department, and two, Miss Retta Long and Mrs. Marcus Zuger, from the business department.

Miss Anna Arnold went to Walla Walla this week to accept a position in the telephone office in that city. Work on the new W C.R. Ry. depot will commence in a few days as the lumber for the contract has arrived. A. M. Jobson has resigned his position as salesman at the Davies-Bateman Co. Miss Mary Denny arrived from Endicott last Sunday after a month's visit with her sister, Mrs. Lewis Neace, Jr.