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Ten Years Ago
June 12, 2012
The premier car show of the Northwest will impress entrants and public alike and it gets underway Friday, June 14 as vendors setting on the Courthouse lawn and along Main Street.
Chuck James is to “Show and shine” his 70th birthday present from his wife Peggy. Chuck was presented a restored 1916 Model T Roadster originally belonging to the stepfather of his friend’s wife.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 11, 1997
Sarah Stearns is among 81 recipients of $600 agricultural studies scholarships from the Cenex Foundation. Stearns is an Agricultural major at Walla Walla Community College.
Henry Wayne Lipps, son-in-law of Dennis and Karen Laib, received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the University of Health Sciences (UHS) College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Cynda Daugherty, daughter-in-law to Bill and Cheri Daugherty, will graduate from Eastern Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a minor in Japanese, with honors Magma Cum Laude, University department Honors Pi Sigma Ilpha
Effective April 25, 1997, the Washington State Board of Accountancy revoked Jeffrey K. Mittelman’s Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certificate and licenses to practice public accounting.
Fifty Years Ago
June 15, 1972
Mary Sue Evers was named state winner of the Future Farmers of America record book contest during the state convention underway on the WSU campus in Pullman. Mary Sue Evers, Becky Hatfield, and Lois Dickinson are official delegates from the Dayton chapter to the convention.
Gene Warren, Kelly Donohue and Ron Ashley received coveted State Farmer Degrees during the annual state convention June 14 at Pullman.
Twenty cases of mumps, two cases of rubella, three cases of chicken pox, with fifty-three cases of respiratory ailments recorded in Columbia County during the month of April.
Miss Mary Kathryn Richter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Richter, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in arts and sciences June 10, during commencement exercises held at Central Washington State College in Ellensburg.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
June 12, 1947
A brief resume of the vocational agriculture department in the city schools shows approximately $4,600 realized by students from stock sold at the Spokane Junior Livestock show.
At the recent annual meeting of the Washington Tuberculosis association, Mrs. W. B Dingle, executive secretary of the local Tuberculosis league, was elected secretary for the coming year.
A. D. Radebaugh attended a purebred Shorthorn sale at the Edmonton, Alberta, and bought the top bull of the sale. The sale is internationally famous for the outstanding offerings by Killearn Farms, Claude Gallinger, owner. C.J. Broughton bought the top bull of the Killearn Farms last year.
Claude Brodhead Jr., has been notified that he is fourth-place winner in the National Essay contest sponsored by Swift & Co. Brodhead’s topic was “The Economies Made Possible by Large Meat Packing Concerns.” This was his first attempt at competitive writing.
One Hundred Years Ago
June 14, 1922
Shelly Swinehart hauled three thousand shakes he made out of white fir to Cora Loundagin’s place at Star, where Newt Davis is shingling her summer house, situated in her little park by the Touchet where she entertains summer visitors.
Frank Bernard has been kept busy exterminating rattlesnakes this spring. He found 17 in a den on the hillside and was kept busy jumping out of their way while shooting them with his six gun. He heard another one sing under his boots and leaped five feet in the air landing in the brush, before returning to dispatch it. The rattles amounting to 2,000 points in the Game Club.
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago
June12, 1897
By the decisive vote of 42 to 17, the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill placing raw cotton, the great product of the South, on the dutiable list at 20 per cent ad valorem. It is the first time in the history of tariff legislation that cotton has been incorporated in a bill.