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December 23, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
Anti-Saloon
league in town
as Prohibition
edges closer
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
100 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1915
• A case involving the
handling of last year’s
grain crop is on trial in
Circuit court today. It is
the trial of J. F. Head, for-
merly in charge of the Jo-
seph Milling Company’s
business, who was indicted
on a charge of disposing
of 1,925 bushels of wheat
left in storage and not ac-
counting for the proceeds.
Charles McClain is the
complainant.
• R.P. Hutton of the An-
ti-Saloon league has been
in the county this week
looking over the field with
regard to the enforcement
of the prohibition law
which goes into effect the
first of January. He counted
483.5 gallons of whiskey in
the railroad freight house
in Joseph, all consigned to
one saloon proprietor, from
which he concluded there
will be plenty of liquor on
hand here after the state
goes dry.
• Henry Fletcher has
sold his fine Lower Prairie
creek ranch of 490 acres to
C. W. Peters and his son L.
C. Peters of the Willamette
valley. In payment he re-
ceived a farm of 244 acres
a mile and three quarters
from Monmouth, two hous-
es in Salem and the remain-
der in cash.
TOYS
FOR
TOTS
Nov 16th
through
Dec 17th.
Collecting
for boys
& girls
ages 1-12
Les Schwab will be participating with Enterprise Christian Church
in the toy drive this year. Toy collection will begin November 16 th
through December 17 th . Toys will be picked up December 20 th
along with enough Les Schwab bags for each family.
ECC will wrap and deliver gifts to the families.
For questions contact Joanne McBride at 541-426-0463.
www.LesSchwab.com
802 NW 1st • Enterprise • 541-426-3139
Chieftain archives
A Wallowa County diner, time and location unknown.
70 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1945
• Danny Russell, Edna
Roundy and Margaret Cro-
nin had a few exciting mo-
ments Sunday afternoon
when a plane in which they
were returning from Clark-
ston developed engine trou-
ble at about 7000 feet over
the Grande Ronde canyon.
The engine pounded, threw
oil over the plane and fal-
tered to a point where the
plane began to lose alti-
tude quite rapidly … The
only practical place to land
was in a roadway where the
plane was brought down
with scarcely a bump.
• It took just 55 minutes
Monday after the liquor
store in Enterprise opened
to completely sell out the
day’s quota of liquor to 186
thirsty customers seeking
to lay in a supply of grog
for Christmas.
• Mrs. A. W. Courtney
Season’s Greetings
of 615 Chestnut St., Milton,
sends in a renewal subscrip-
tion to The Chieftain with
this comment: “We have been
readers of The Chieftain since
1884.” This record would just
about establish Mrs. Courtney
as the oldest subscriber to The
Chieftain as this paper was
established in 1884, 62 years
ago next May.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1965
• An election has been
tentatively set for Friday,
Dec. 31 to vote on the for-
mation of an administrative
school district which will
in effect consolidate Joseph
School District N. 6 and Im-
naha School District No. 11.
• Photo caption: This
tremendous bull, owned by
the Wolfe Hereford Ranch,
Wallowa, won the Champion
Bull award at the 1965 Na-
tional Polled Hereford Asso-
ciation Show & Sale held in
Springfield, Illinois.
• Barbara Ann Nance,
18, and Barney Nance, 19,
daughter and son of Mr. &
Mrs. Wayne Nance, escaped
with minor injuries when a
truck owned by Jack’s Tire
Service went off the Lick
Creek Road at the junction
with the Joseph-Imnaha
highway on Little Sheep
creek Saturday afternoon.
The truck went over a 15
foot embankment and land-
ed upside down in the creek
where the cab quickly filled
with about 4 feet of water.
Barbara was able to pull her
brother out from under the
water and open a door so
they could get out.
25 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1990
• Photo caption: A cold
front that sent tempera-
tures plummeting to 24-be-
low-zero in the Wallowa
Valley last week had a dra-
matic effect on Wallowa
Lake, which created its
own cloud cover as seen
from Upper Prairie Creek.
• Oregon’s minimum
wage will increase from
$4.25 an hour to $4.75 an
hour on January 1.
• A family of four last
week escaped an early
morning fire that destroyed
their 1972 doublewide mo-
bile home on the outskirts
of Wallowa. Eight members
of the Wallowa Fire De-
partment found the home
of Mike and Bobbie Waters
fully engulfed in flames
when they responded to the
call at 1:05 am Friday. The
couple was able to escape
unharmed with their two
children, Robbie, 5, and Ni-
cole, 2. All of the contents
of the structure, including
Christmas presents, were
destroyed. Waters said he
is “overwhelmed” by com-
munity response to the in-
cident, which has included
gifts for the children, mon-
ey, clothing, furniture and
dishes.
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