Five Years Ago
May 5, 2004
The White River High School baseball team had a solid finish to its regular season, winning three games last week. The Hornets earned second place in the Seamount League Pierce Division, clearing the way for a postseason appearance. The Hornets finished the season 9-3 in league and 13-7 overall.
Work, Sports & Outdoors Enumclaw’s sporting goods store will be getting a new look and new location. The store currently housed at the junction of Cole Street and state Route 410, is moving down the highway just a bit; the new store will be built adjacent to The Summit Church, on property that most recently was home to an auto dealership.
Ten Years Ago
May 12, 1999
Extra! Extra! The Hornet, Enumclaw High School’s twice monthly newspaper, has been recognized as one of the best newspapers in its category in a nationwide contest. At the national Scholastic Press Association conference last month in Albuquerque, N.M. The Hornet took ninth place in the category for newspapers of 13 to 16 pages.
Records are made to be broken, but this year’s White River track and field team is getting a little carried away. The 1999 Hornet squad has four athletes who hold a total of nine all-time White River records in 30 of the individual events. Seniors Sarah Eddy, Ty Weingard and Erin Johnson and sophomore Melissa Matton have been eclipsing school records at a record pace.
Twenty-five Years Ago
May 3, 1984
The 300 head of livestock entered in the Northwest Junior Livestock Show at the King County Fairgrounds sold for more than $80,000 Saturday in spite of a storm that brought the auction to a complete halt about noon. Hail on the metal roof of the sale ring drowned out the amplified voices of the auctioneers.
For most of us survival is not something we spend a lot of time thinking about. Most of our lives are lived out in the 9 to 5 jungle or as homemakers busy with children and household chores. But now people can get away from all that and take part in the newest craze to hit this area, the Pacific Northwest Survival Game.
Fifty Years Ago
May 7, 1959
Mountains are stern and unyielding to the stranger, but they show a quality of friendliness to those who know their moods. Henry Koss, and his brothers, Ed and Leo, have refused to leave the homestead on the Green River northwest of Enumclaw where they were born, although progress in the form of the Howard A. Hanson Dam has forced them to flee to a higher level.
A host of young sharpshooters matched their skills at the annual V.F.W. Marble tournament held last Saturday. The winner for the second consecutive year was Roger Whitehouse. The second place winner was Jimmy Henkleman and third place went to Ivan Raymer. Whitehouse will represent Enumclaw in the District Meet to be held in Issaquah.
Seventy-five Years Ago
May 18, 1934
At caucuses held Wednesday evening for the two local wards, five delegates and alternates were selected: Charles Sigrist, W.W. Toman, Archie McKinnon, delegates; P.O. Koidal, T.A. Garrett and Tom Smith, alternates; Otis Inglis, A.A. Lafromboise, delegates, Adoll Englund and R.T. Montgomery, alternates.
Construction work on a $100,000 winery located on the property of the Fleischmann Yeast company at Sumner will begin within the nest few weeks.
Big things are planned for Straw Hat Day May 20 under the sponsorship of the American Legion.
The Young Men’s Business Club entertained the mothers of the members Monday evening at Stewart’s Cafe. Ben Johansen, president, Walter Jensen, and Pat Bruhn gave the main talks for the evening. Music was by Alic McIntosh and REv. Walter Peterson.
Officers were elected for the coming year at the meeting of the Progressive Club at the home of Mrs. Russell Thomson last Tuesday. Election results are as follows: Mrs. Fred Bannister; president, Mrs. Stanley Smith, vice president; Miss Loran Melsness, secretary, and Mrs. Carl Geersten, treasurer.
