90 YEARS AGO

Aug. 25, 1921

Fire which started about 11 oclock last Wednesday night destroyed the home of John Young in the Lewis district. Sparks fell on the barn and it also burned to the ground. The house was the newest and best in the district, a modern frame structure of five rooms, and was built last year. The buildings were insured for $1,500, a small part of their value.

Thrown from a horse she was riding, Mrs. Oscar L. Berland was seriously injured Monday morning on the Berland farm in Paradise. The bones of her right leg were broken just above the ankle. She was brought to Enterprise that evening and is at the Taylor hospital.

FLORA Will Curry is erecting a new barn on his farm one half mile south of town. Some of the neighbors have been helping him with getting it as near completed as possible before the harvest time takes everyones attention.

The Red Cross Shop, started timidly by members of the society a few weeks ago, has proved its worth so promptly that something like a call for help has gone out. . The shop will accept anything but tin cans. Everything must be an outright gift.

70 YEARS AGO

Aug. 28, 1941

Walter A. Brennan, prominent moving picture actor, completed the purchase of J. Poagues ranch and stock Friday, and took immediate possession. Mrs. Brennan and children are on the ranch, which they call home, but Brennan is making a picture in Hollywood and may not be able to come until fall. The mother will return next week with the two younger children to Hollywood, but Arthur W. (Mike) will remain on the ranch.

Word has been received that nine selectees inducted into service Aug. 19 have been discharged and have re-enlisted into the regular army for three years. Ishmael Harrison Locke has been placed with the coast artillery and will be stationed in the Hawaiian department, and T.H. and Ernest Wingfeld, Glenn Bryon McElroy, Gayle Stockdale and Raymond Christy placed with the regular army unassigned.

The effort of the war is being felt more and more on the lumber industry, J. Howard told the Lions Club Tuesday evening. Production has been increased very largely but cannot keep up with the demand.

Howard L. Whittier, former Wallowa County cowboy, thrilled a crowd of spectators Sunday evening when he appeared in the role of a parachute jumper at the Enterprise airport, under the direction of Bert Zimmerly, Lewiston air pilot.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 24, 1961

Lightning struck the east side of the Wallowa Lake moraine about noon Tuesday, starting a grass fire which quickly spread to the top of the hill and ate its way down to the lake highway. Volunteer fighters waged a near hopeless battle with wet sacks to beat out the flames.  As of Wednesday, the moraine fire had burned both sides of the hill, eventually reaching the Wallowa Lake road.

The emergency deer hunt on lower Big Sheep Creek and the lower Imnaha ended Monday with a check-out tally showing 54 deer killed, out of 75 tags authorized. Bob Stein, Game Commission agent, reports that the extremely dry weather in the canyons brought deer down into the green fields, gardens and orchards, resulting in considerable damage.

The Enterprise High School band, under the direction of Robert Clegg, plans to attend the Shrine football game in Pendleton this Saturday. Mr. Clegg stated that there will be 11 bands and several drum corps competing at the game.

IMNAHA Truman Poulson and son, Bill, and Maurice Weaver were fishing on the Imnaha Sunday. Truman says we will have some rain around the 24th of this month. We hope he knows.

 

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 28, 1986

After burning over 89,000 acres of forest and rangeland in Wallowa County the past two weeks, the Forest Service on Monday was demobilizing thousands of firefighters and calling the worst fire situation in at least 30 years under control.

Theyre calling it an $11 million fire. Thats what we spent on the whole bit the caterers, labor, equipment, said Ralph Stewart, acting fire information officer for the Forest Service, as an army of over 5,400 firefighters was being demobilized. In a seven-day period, we poured $1 million into the local economy.

Mike McCulloch, principal at Wallowa High School for the past five years, was hired last week by the Joseph School Board as Josephs new school superintendent.

After 18 years, Bill Noland announced that he has sold his Bills Economy Drug Store in Enterprise to Jon and Sherrill Swisher, formerly of Cedarville, Calif.