PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

June 15, 2010

[Photo caption] Whoop Em Up co-owner Leroy Cunningham with the tomato plants he and members of the nonprofit Rural Green Youth Enterprises planted on land owned by Maria and Roger Garcia for a natural vegetable garden recently.

Fifty Years Ago

June 26, 1975

Jimmy Young, Donny Abbey, Steve Sickles, Timmy Hulce, Brad Patton, and Lenny Lytle travelled to Cheney for the Inland Empire AAU track and field meet. The following week, Joanie Neal, Karen Huwe, Mary Hansen, and Cheryl Hansen, by virtue of placing first or second at the Walla Walla preliminary meet, joined with 580 athletes at Spokane Community College for the girls Junior Olympic Championship meet.

Green Giant Company said today it expects significant net sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1976, but that earnings will be substantially down in the first quarter ending June 28, 1975.

A reminder to Waitsburg Lions Club members that the annual picnic will be held on Sunday, June 29 at Lyons Ferry. It is a potluck affair, and soda pop will be furnished. If it follows the pattern of previous picnics, there should be an ample number of competitions from horse shoeing to frizbee throwing and water skiing. There might also be a sunburn or two.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 30, 1950

A pod picker has been designed by Thomas E. Kirk of Waitsburg, which is a moving type of comb seed gatherer which picks the pods off the pea vines, leaving the vines in the field. Mr. Kirk has been working on the machine for 6 ½ years, having started a model in 1943, and building a small model later. The inventor believes that the machine shows definite possibilities and performed better than he anticipated for the first run.

Fireworks are prohibited in the City of Waitsburg except on July 3, 4, and 5. The ordinance states that fireworks can neither be sold or used within the city limits except during these three days, and that skyrockets, Roman candles and Dago bombs are prohibited because of danger and fire hazards.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 22, 1925

Mr. E. H. Leonard of this city was elected president of the Preston-Shaffer Milling Company at a meeting of the stockholders here Tuesday to succeed the late W. B. Shaffer.

Earl Freeman who has been conducting a confectionary in Pomeroy for the past two or three years, recently sold his business.

Marvin Lloyd, manager of Lloyd's Market, returned home Monday from Seattle where he took a load of hogs last week.

Fred Romine and wife together with Ed Buroker and family spent the Fourth at Godman Springs above Dayton.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 22,1900

Next Sunday, July 1, the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. will put into effect a passenger rate of 3 cents per mile. Attorney T. M. Mckinney and Capt. J. B. Caldwell were in Walla Walla Wednesday. There must have been a democratic love fest from the number of democrats who visited that city from this place on that day. This office is indebted to Uncle George Savage for several boxes of delicious strawberries which were grown on his mountain farm about 12 miles from this city.

Mrs. Olive Parker returned home from Seattle Sunday where she has been engaged in teaching the public school of that city. Hiram Wickersham, of the I. X. L. Grocery, is under the weather and has gone to the mountains for a few days rest.