Ten Years Ago

August 3, 2011

Michaela Nordheim of Waitsburg excels at designing the pattern and making the garment. While participating at the 2010 4-H State Fair in Puyallup last September, Nordheim was approached by the coordinator of the ProAM Sewing Exhibition, who asked if she would be interested in applying to participate.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 31, 1996

A fire damaged the home, located at 5th and Guernsey, of Sal and Sheri Benavides on Saturday.

It is! It is! It is Hot. The weather turned hot and it has stayed hot as the area harvest is underway! The local bank signs have both been hitting 105° to 110° for several days.

Fifty Years Ago

August 5, 1971

One of the most destructive grain and range fires in the history of Columbia County destroyed over 600 acres of standing wheat and more than 1,500 acres of rangeland, August 1, on the Jackson Ranch, operated by Ben Dickinson, 18 miles north of Dayton in the Pataha District of the county. Volunteer rural fire units from Dayton, Starbuck and Pomeroy battled the blaze for eight hours, which was ignited by lightning.

CS/3 Randy Tewalt, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tewalt and grandson of Mr. Rex Davis, has been stationed at Adak, Alaska and is home on leave.

S/5 Stephen Huwe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Duane Huwe, is home on leave, before reporting to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for assignment overseas in Germany.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 1, 1946

The C. C. Anderson store announced that as soon as arrangements can be made they will have a permanent display of Fur Garments.

New Industry of Columbia Co. Getting Into Production. Five or six years ago Jim Cottrel built himself a shingle mill back in the brush. Going out Eckler Mountain Road, turn right at the Homer Hamilton place before you reach the timber line, follow side road to its end. Mr. Cottrel, who does all the work by himself, built the mill and can produce between 25,000 and 35,000 shingles a day.

Dr. Peter D. Brink, Pomeroy, addressed the Kiwanis Club on the seriousness of rheumatic fever, causing ten times as much damage as does infantile paralysis.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 27, 1921

The NEW BURBANK WHEAT. Numerous inquiries about this wheat, which I successfully have grown for three years, Mr. Burbank said, about it when he first offered it to the public.

The Liberty Theatre, the building of which has been watched with interest all summer, will open tomorrow night under the auspices of the K.P. Lodge.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 11, 1896

A Pleasant Party. Mrs. M. M. Godman invited her many lady friends in to assist her in picking a hundred pounds of wool. Nearly everyone responded and at ten o’clock many fingers were busily plying the wool and the tangled mats were transformed as by fairies into heaps of fluffy clouds.

The combined header and thresher belonging to Messrs. Long and VanPatten started up this week on. VanPatten’s wheat averaging 35 bushels per acre.