By the
Lyle Newscasters
Mildred Lykens, 365-0060
Barbara Sexton, 365-5374
A work in progress -- Klickitat has invited our community, to join them, in a (two) community-wide yard sale. Watch this column for the dates to plan your personal yard sale. Maps and advertisements will be generated once the event is scheduled and we have names and address of participants. Start collecting your valuables (or junk) and let's have a fun time making money. This could possibly draw large crowds from as far away as Portland.
Once again the community is saddened by the death of a local resident. William (Bill) Pfaff passed away this past Tuesday. Alice our prayers are with you.
Monday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m. there will be a meeting in the Brick Building in Klickitat. Work on events commemorating the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial will be discussed. Lyle and Klickitat are preparing plans to join forces. Volunteers are needed, and if the history of Lewis and Clark is an interest of yours, you would be welcome to attend and get involved. Your input is greatly welcomed and urgently needed.
Find the Key and earn the prize.
Clue # 4
Once standing tall and plain
Now greets in prone
I can feel the train
In # Three zone
This is the last clue of February's contest. If the key hasn't been found, it will be hidden (in plain sight), somewhere else, and there will be new weekly clues and a new prize. At the end of February, if the key hasn't been found, you can stop at the Monitor's office and see a photo showing where it was hidden.
Just a reminder:
Pioneer Days are back: Memorial Day Weekeend 2003, the Man in the Black Hat needs princesses!
There are two churches in Lyle that welcome visitors -- the Lyle United Methodist Church, 403 W Klickitat St, and the Lyle Full Gospel Church, at 715 Washington St.
Lyle History: As published in The Enterprise, July 6 1967
Lyle Pioneer History continued, as recounted by Jessie A. Jewell: "The rolling rock has all but filled it in the rest of the way, though glimpses may still be had for more than a mile farther up the river. The road was never completed. About twenty-five years later the State had a long look at their map and found out that the Lewis and Clark Highway hadn't been finished so by golly we got us one though here."
"It wasn't uncommon to see a wagon with four to six horses pulling a load of wheat into town from the prairie, unload for shipment to market, go to the hotel, stay overnight and go back home the next day."
What a difference 100 years makes. Here are some U.S. statistics for 1902 -- the average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour.
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