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Wallowa County Chieftain Community wallowa.com May 4, 2016 A9 Unidentified miscreant fires courthouse cannon 100 YEARS AGO May 4, 1916 OUT OF THE PAST • With the primary elec- tion two weeks off, registra- tion igures were completed and tabulated in the ofice of County Clerk Zurcher. The total number of voters on the books is 3,105: Republicans 1860, Democrats 1090, Pro- gressive 11, Prohibitionists 46, Socialists 100, Indepen- dents 21. • Notice: Boys riding bicy- cles are warned not to ride on the sidewalks, as this endan- gers pedestrians, particularly small children. • Advertisement: En- terprise Opera House. One night only, May 10, 1916. The DeVeres in a spectacular production of the romantic melodrama “A Lion’s Heart”. Complete special scenery and electrical effects. Prices 50-cents, 35-cents, 25-cents. • This week Mrs. Lulu Bowlby received a teachers’ life certiicate from State Su- perintendent Churchill. She also holds a teachers’ life cer- tiicate from the state of Mis- souri. • The county track meet which is to be held at the fair- grounds, promises to be very good. Forty athletes from the high schools of the coun- ty will compete for honors. The merchants of town will close their stores from 2 to 4 Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins o’clock. The Enterprise band will be there to add “pep” to the meet. The admission will be 25-cents. 70 YEARS AGO May 9, 1946 • The Arnold Cornwell family wondered what was happening Sunday morning when their neighbors on up- per Prairie Creek started driv- ing in with tractors, plows, discs and harrows. Twelve tractors pulled in and went to work plowing a 50-acre ield. It seems that Mr. Cornwell’s neighbors, thinking about the fact that he had been laid up in the hospital in Portland for a month and that he hadn’t been able to get his farm work done, decided that something should be done about it. If anyone wants to know what kind of people live on upper Prairie Creek, just ask the Cornwells. • A list of available rooms to house delegates and guests of the state Cattlemen’s As- sociation here on May 23-25 is needed. Anyone having a room or rooms to rent is asked to register this fact either at the Enterprise or Caton hotel. The committee in charge of Chieftain archives Date and location unknown. housing suggests a uniform charge of $2.50 for a single bed and $3.50 for a double bed. • Advertisement: “If you want more soap, keep turning in more used fats!” • In a Safeway advertise- ment: FAMINE emergency! The food you save can feed a starving child. 50 YEARS AGO May 5, 1966 • A tremendous blast in downtown Enterprise about 1 a.m. Sunday tumbled anx- ious residents out of their beds and sent police oficers on a quick search for the source of the explosion. It was not until Monday that the police dis- covered the site and nature of the explosion, On the court- house lawn they discovered bits of burned paper which led them to the old cannon which has stood guard over the seat of the county government for many years. It appeared that someone had muzzle-loaded the cannon. • Final registration igures show 1236 Republicans in Wallowa County qualiied to vote and 1983 Democrats. Also listed are 18 Independents. • The 1966 Chief Joseph Days court was narrowed from a ield of seven candidates to a court of three girls at a dance held in Joseph last Saturday evening. Winning spots on the court through their efforts in selling tickets, riding abili- ty and popularity votes were Janine Freels of Enterprise and Susan Grandy and Karen Quinn of Joseph. • Photo caption: Things are really beginning to look up at the Enterprise Little League ball park. Last Saturday this group of boys, plus a number of other people who were too busy to pause for a picture, turned out at the ield with ev- ery type of garden tool imag- inable. 25 YEARS AGO May 9, 1991 • Photo caption: Jill Kins- ley, EHS’s Outstanding Art Student of the Year, stands in front of the oil painting that won her the People’s Choice Award at the recent EHS arts program. • Wallowa County’s Desert Shield roll call servicemen are now returning home from the Persian Gulf in large numbers. Out of the 53 on the roll call list at the end of the war, only 12 remain in the gulf accord- ing to the latest news. • Showing at the OK The- atre: Dances With Wolves • Photo caption: 3-year old Thane Shetler, son of Michael and Diane Shetler, gamely gives it his all, but inishes out of the money, in the Pee Wee goat tail tying event at last weekend’s Joseph Junior Ro- deo. • Because of recent cast changes, the second season of the melodrama “The Drunk- ard” will open with the irst performance on June 20. Curtains will rise on the pro- duction at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday this summer on the outdoor stage in Joseph. 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