Ten Years Ago

April 6, 2011

The 2011 Columbia County Fair Court will represented by Hosts Christopher McHaffie and Micah Yeater, and Hostesses Ashley Myrick and Lexus Ward.

The Dayton City Council approved a new parade route.

Columbia County Transfer Station has reached an agreement for 2011 to haul the collected refuse to a transfer station in Pasco owned by Basin Disposal Inc. instead of hauling it to the City of Walla Walla Sudbury Landfill. Increased prices per ton brought about the change.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 3, 1996

CRP Takeout: Contracts on more than 500,000 acres of Washington cropland (1.2 million acres in the Pacific Northwest) will expire this year if growers don’t sign-up for one-year extensions. Help for farmers who must develop management strategies for returning Conservation Reserve Program acreage to crop production is available.

Karen Horlacher and Blain Fletcher have been elected Columbia County’s delegate and alternate in the Washington state GOP convention to be held in Bellevue in May.

Fifty Years Ago

April 8, 1971

Daniel Culley, formerly of Pendleton, Ore., is the newest member of the mechanical staff at Harvester Supply Co. Culley, a specialist in Gleaner combines and crawler tractors, was formerly employed by Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. and by Mountain Machinery Co. in Pendleton.

Winters Sports Awards to the Bulldog athletes, receiving trophies were Howard Boggs, Greg Lewis, Phil Renfrow, Mike Bruce, Jerry Moyer and Tim Delp.

Two Dayton girls, ages 14 and 17 who had been reported as runaways April 1, were arrested by Sheriff Ed Britton and Special Deputy Bill Gibson, for auto theft after taking a 1967 Mercury owned by C. J. Broughton Jr.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 4, 1946

Miss Priscilla Bauers, serving in the WACs for two years, returned from 15 months overseas duty, arriving in Walla Walla on the early train and was met by her father Berl Bauers.

Kite Flying Contest for the Cubs, sponsored by the Cub committee of the Kiwanis Club, will be held next Sunday, at the circus grounds east of the viaduct.

Famine Relief Organizing. Feeding the starving peoples of Europe. It was brought out at the meeting in the courthouse that those people were going to be fed and that our part of the program was to see that we all ate like civilized people through self-imposed rationing instead of going along unmindful of the world’s needs.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 2, 1921

An Old Timer on Robinett. Last Wednesday Harry Johnston and Dick Clinton drove up on Robinett Mountain, Dick made the remark it had been just forty years since he worked at the saw mill on Robinett which is long gone, but he remembered all the mill crew. Robinett, head sawyer; Frank Finkel, edgerman; Charley Grupe, engineer; Dick Clinton and Del Coleson set screws: big John Harris carried all the lumber and slabs out of the mill; John Rainwater, yardman, Chris Stadfeld and John Waugler, piled lumber. Dick is 72 years old and is going to cut wood for Harry Johnson on Robinett Mountain this summer.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 4, 1896

J. W. McIntosh, of Starbuck, says the people of Starbuck are not alarmed about the railroad taking the division headquarters away from Starbuck. It is certain the shops will remain in Starbuck unless the people of Walla Walla put up the sum of $100,000 to have them removed.