PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

January 27, 2011

Army Pfc. Jeffery M. Hofer has graduated from the Fire Support Specialist Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma. Hofer graduated from Waitsburg High School in 2009. He is the son of Waitsburg residents Jeffrey T. Hofer and Lynda C. Stokes. The field artillery specialists serve in intelligence activities, including target processing in field artillery, cannon battalions, division artillery, artillery and maneuver brigade, and headquarters and fire support elements. The course is designed to train students to establish, maintain, and operate radio and wire communications and speech security equipment, including encoding and decoding messages.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 25, 2001

[photo caption] The gentleman pictured on the right will be a familiar figure to many Waitsburgites. It is Roy Allen, a local businessman who had a grocery store and sold real estate. He died in 1970. The other man is his uncle, Achilles Allen. -Historical Society photo

Fifty Years Ago

January 22, 1976

County Commissioner Jim Stonecipher gave a short report on the legislative situation in Olympia. Reports indicate that the confusion over House leadership has thrown the legislature into chaos, and Jeannette Hayner had indicated that the minority leadership will not act to resolve the issue for the majority. Some 300 bills have been proposed since early January, with over 2000 bills still in the mill from last session. The current legislative problem for this area is a proposed bill that would limit working hours for farm employees to eight hours per day. This would be disastrous to harvest crews and cannery work. The bill has the full support of coastal organized labor, and poses a real threat to the local economy, Stonecipher said. He made a motion that the Commercial Club oppose the measure and inform the area legislators. The motion passed the club. The measure, HB1265, allows any employee in the State of Washington to refuse to work more than 8 hours in one day, and prohibits the employer from taking any action because of the refusal. Individuals may write to their legislative representatives to express their thoughts on the proposed bill.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 26, 1951

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[Photo caption] Higher-compression F-head HURRICANE Engine squeezes more miles from a gallon, give you big fuel savings!

One Hundred Years Ago

January 29, 1926

School District No. 25-100 comprising the Waitsburg school district is now ready to build a modern new high school plant, if public sentiment justifies.

Dean Wilson of Dayton, this week purchased the Walla Walla-Waitsburg Truck Line from William Wardrip.

Those who attended the dance in McKay Hollow Saturday night had a splendid time. The Foster orchestra furnished the music.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 1, 1901

A very pleasant "At Home" was given by Miss Edith Vincent last Thursday afternoon to a number of her lady friends. There were about 15 guests present, the majority being 'newly married people". Refreshments were served.

The Preston Parton Milling Co. placed extra teams on the road from the mill to the W. & C.R. depot on Monday so as to get a China order of 100 tons on the cars in a hurry.