Wallowa County Chieftain
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May 4, 2016
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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.
A big Rotary thank you
to our partner sponsors
of our Letter Bee
community
spelling bee:
Bank of Eastern Oregon
1917 Lumber
Ed & Marky Pitts
Wheatland Insurance
Building Healthy Families
The Nature Conservancy
Moonlight Graphics
Viridian Management
Community Bank
Winding Waters Medical Clinic
Thompson Auto Supply
Winding Waters River Expeditions
U.S. Forest Service
Wallowa Mountain Office
Employees Organization
The Bronze Antler B&B
Eide Bailly LLP
Bob & Shirley Crawford
Vali’s Alpine Restaurant
Wallowa County Grain Grow-
ers
Wallowa Mountain Properties
Wallowa Title Co.
Wallowa County AAUW
John & Pepper McColgan
Chuckwagon Sisters Catering
and Concessions
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