<p>These children from the past, enjoying a visit to an old-fashioned Santa, are no doubt grandparents by now. Do any of them look familiar?</p>

100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 26, 1912

A Carnegie library for Enterprise is assured in the near future if men in the city work under the conditions under which these institutions are established. Councilman Hockett was instructed to open negotiations with the Carnegie Foundation.

A mid-winter mad dog scare has disturbed Enterprise during the last week. R.F. Smiths dog had been acting in a strange manner for some days, and at length developed all the symptoms of rabies. Before it died, it seems to have attacked every dog in town. Many dogs have been killed by their owners who did not want to take a chance of their developing the dread disease, and others have been tied up or muzzled.

C. Murdock had a recent experience at his farm on Day Ridge in warding off an attack from an ugly three-year-old Duroc Jersey boar that he will remember for a long time. While driving the animal he tapped him with a stick, and the animal came back at the driver in a very defiant manner. Whereupon Mr. Murdock armed himself with a pitchfork that was near at hand, the boar starting in for a prize fight.

Ben Johnson of Snake River was in Enterprise last Friday to make proof on a homestead before Commissioner Carl Roe. With him were Mike Thomason and James Wisener as witnesses.

70 YEARS AGO

Dec. 24, 1942

Local creameries have been asked to cut their sales of butter to retail stores to 50 percent of their normal amount in order to supply the armed forces of the allied nations with one of the foods that ships well, keeps a long time and gives a maximum benefit in food value. This, at the present time, is request rather than an order.

The following item was taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer (under the headline, Where Women Overrun Town): Men are beginning to feel out of place in Joseph, Oregon. Women there run two groceries, a restaurant, a pharmacy and the railroad station. Two candidates for the office of city recorder are women.

SHEEP CREEK The Thompsons and Potters butchered their hogs Saturday. Mr.Gibbs and son Clyde and Art Wilson helped and Mrs. Wilson visited with the women folk. Sheep Creek has seen the most fog the past week that has been here in the past 16 years.

WALLOWA School was closed for Christmas vacation Wednesday noon until Jan. 4. The Wallowa grade school held a program at the school gym. Musical numbers, plays and drills were featured, and most of the pupils had parts. The program was attended by a large crowd.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 27, 1962

Eighty-four Christmas baskets were delivered Sunday by volunteers to many needy families in Wallowa County. A total of 288 people were represented.

Santa Claus arrived in Joseph Saturday afternoon by special invitation of the Joseph Chamber of Commerce and Local Union 2798. About 250 youngsters were on hand to greet Santa and to receive their sack of treats at the Civic Center. Santa was a union member, Ralph Jewell, who was assisted by Clifford Kiser, Bill Mitchell and Bill DeGrofft.

WALLOWA An ordination service for Clifford Lindsey was held at the Wallowa Christian Church Sunday, Dec. 23. The program included an organ prelude by Mrs. Don Scott; invocation, Frank E. Needles; statement of purpose, Grover Johnson; ordination sermon, Prof. William T. Siefke; and act of ordination, Frank Lindsey.

IMNAHA Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warnock and mother moved into their new house Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rayburn helped them move. The plumbers came on Wednesday and Thursday to finish up their work and Clair Humphrey from Ratcliff furniture store laid the linoleum.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 24, 1987

Joseph mayor Paul Castilleja was recognized for 18 years of contributions to his adopted hometown Saturday night when he was presented with a Community Citizen Award by Liberty Grange at its annual Christmas potluck. We felt he deserved it, said Grange Master Horace Daggett of the honor.

A Monday night fire on Ski Run Road south of Joseph destroyed a large metal building as well as 200 tons of chopped hay and several pieces of equipment. Mt. Joseph Ranch manager Dave Yost, surveying the damage Tuesday morning as hay continued to burn, estimated that equipment damages alone would easily add up to $60,000.

Photo caption The Christmas wonderland appearance of the Bob and Cherryl Zacharias home at the north end of East Street earned them a first place in Josephs Christmas Lighting Contest, sponsored by the Joseph Chamber of Commerce and the Sports Corral.

The Enterprise wrestling team made it three in a row Saturday when they claimed the team title in the Wallowa Christmas Tournament. Armed with individual weight class winners Steve Strong, Tim Testerman, Lance Miller, Jason Gissel and Charles Gissel, the Savages snatched 1st place with 164 points, 64 ½ points ahead of second place Elgin.