PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

October 21, 2010

[Photo Caption] Jan Cronkhite has retired after 32 Years as director at the Weller Public Library on Main Street in downtown Waitsburg. She will continue to be a part of the little community library where she has lovingly kept house and introduced a whole generation of children to a passion for books and reading. In fact, she'll return in just a week or so to do something special for young readers during Halloween.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 19, 2000

Long-time Dayton Chamber of Commerce member Dingle's of Dayton will be celebrating 80 years of business on Thursday, October 26, 2000. Dingle's has been a family-run establishment since it opened in 1920 as a hardware and implement store. In its early years, Dingle's served as the first John Deere and Caterpillar dealer in Dayton, selling and servicing the implements in its basement. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of their affiliation with True Value Hardware.

Fifty Years Ago

October 23, 1975

Alton Filan of Waitsburg has developed a new two-way plow with ten bottoms. The equipment will turn over earth in a 16-foot swath and weighs more than nine and one-half tons. Glen Watts of McMinnville, Oregon, has worked on the project with Filan. The plow will cover about ten acres per hour, according to the inventor. Each bottom is equipped with an automatic reset. Filan has now developed both a 6 and 8-bottom plow in addition to this ten. Since the equipment has a rollover feature, a field may be plowed back and forth instead of in a circular pattern.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 27, 1950

Miss Joan Burres and Wayne Hinchliffe were married at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, October 22, in the Methodist Church with Rev. R. E. Roach performing the ceremony.

Clem Bergevin of Lowden has been chosen "Cattleman of the Year" by a fellow member of the County Cattlemen's Association.

Hi-Lo Club met with Mrs. Pierre Ganguet, Mrs. Margaret Witt won the traveling prize; Mrs. Eugene Myers, high; Mrs. Ava Fast, second; Mrs. Ruth Timpy, Low.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 30, 1925

The biggest moonshine still in this vicinity since Walla Walla and Umatilla County officers captured the mammoth Frazer still in the Blue Mountains last August was taken by Sheriff Springer's force on the north fork of Dry Creek Friday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Smith arrived home Monday from a couple of months spent visiting relatives and old friends in Missouri. H.P. has a rather gloomy story to tell of the damage to crops by rains in that district.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 2, 1900

John Hawks and family of Huntsville, and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Leid of Hoover Hollow, were in Spring Valley visiting Sunday.

The music pupils of Mesdames Purrington and Abbott have resumed the study of the old composers, which was commenced two years ago.

A.W. Philips has evaporated 78 tons of green prunes this season in his new fruit evaporator.