PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

October 14, 2010

[Photo Caption] Mike and Kelly Stephenson of Kennewick and their group of silent investors have signed an agreement to purchase Ski Bluewood from Stan and Nancy Goodell. They will use the business office on Main Street in Dayton.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 12, 2000

Dozens of local children participated in National Children's Day last Sunday at Waitsburg Elementary. Kenny Hull, Lillian Banie, Gracie Eastwood, Nicole Eastwood, Mariah Hill, and Paige Lutz were all enjoying having their faces painted by Linda Kehr, an exchange student at W.H.S. this year.

Fifty Years Ago

October 16, 1975

Don Thomas was one of five owners who exhibited their mules at the Washington Draft Horse Extravaganza held in Monroe, Washington, on Sept. 26 and 27. The Thomas team took second place in the four-hitch tandem class. His mule, "Mable," was named Reserve Champion. "Kate" and "Kit" placed second and third in the females, 3 years and older class. "Mable" was first, "Doc" second, and "Molly" third in the 2-year-old, either sex class.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 20, 1950

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Denney, Mrs. Harold Denney, Mrs. Oakley Kendall and son Billlie, and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Fullerton attended the family reunion at Thornton Sunday.

Don Roff, R.R. Rinehart, Byron Busse, and Ted Nelson returned Sunday from a week's hunting trip at Twin Buttes. They brought back two deer.

4-H Livestock Club members met at the Pete Hermanns home. Ted Collins was elected president; George Wood, vice-president; Penny Jones, secretary-treasurer; Sereta Patton, song leader; Marilyn Collingwood, reporter; Dessie Witt, recreation; Bob Collins, parliamentarian.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 23, 1925

The old wooden flume at the Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. has been replaced with a new and larger flume. The flume is about 300 feet in length, and it took a number of cars of lumber to construct it.

The packing house force at the John Schiltz packing house was treated to a very pleasant surprise on Monday of last week, when Mrs. Gertie Pollard served a most delicious fried pheasant dinner to the whole force.

On Tuesday of this week, fifty "apple knockers" in the J. D. Taggard orchards picked five carloads of Rome Beauty apples, according to the checkers.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 26, 1900

Sing, our Chinese gardener, leaves tomorrow for China to visit his family. His brother arrived in this City a few days ago and will take charge of the garden during Sings' absence.

Married – In Columbia County, Saturday, Oct. 20, 1900, Wm. Hinchliffe and Olive C. May.

Clemins Keve brought two monster turnips to this office Thursday morning, which he raised on his place on the mountains. Seven pounds and five ounces was the larger, and the other was not far behind.