100 YEARS AGO

May 22, 1913

The Commercial Hotel burned to the ground early Tuesday morning in a gorgeous fire that lighted up Enterprise and vicinity. Some 20 persons in the three-story building got out safely, one or two jumping from the second story windows.

An investigation of the sale of liquor on physicians prescriptions in Enterprise was made by the grand jury. The jurors reported they found that in the last 10 months 1,070 prescriptions for intoxicating liquor had been presented to druggists, and that a very small percentage of the same was used or intended to be used for medicinal purposes.

BUTTES The farmers are beginning to wonder if it is ever going to stop raining. It has rained nearly every day for two weeks and it is far too wet to do seeding of any kind.

A party of nine Enterprise people made the first attempt of the year to reach Aneroid Lake on Tuesday. They reported that they got within a mile of it, but could go no further on account of snow and slides. Those who went were Mirsses Margaret Dobbin, Charlotte B. Huff, Eva Falconer, Mabel and Lyle Murray, Prof. H.K. Shirk, Dr. E.E. Tredway, J.M. Scholl and J. Hunter Howard.

70 YEARS AGO

May 20, 1943

Bailey Maxwell, well known sheep rancher of Imnaha, passed away May 13, 1943, in a Portland hospital, where he had been for several weeks. He was a native of Wallowa County, having been born at Wallowa Sept. 4, 1889. At the time of his marriage to Carmen Clark in 1915 he was running the Imnaha store and post office.

BARTLETT We are still having cold and stormy weather. It has snowed and rained every day last week and was down to 26 above zero part of the time. Quite cold for this time of year.

Walter Stein and Jack Hays arrived home on furlough from the army in time to take in the junior-senior prom at the Enterprise High School last Friday. Charles Thornburg of the navy was also present, and the army and navy uniforms gave a patriotic touch to the occasion.

Forty-four were round trip passengers on the river packet Idaho, which returned yesterday afternoon from its regular weekend trip to Johnson Bar 100 miles south on Snake River. Kyle McGrady, skipper, plans to leave today for Cache Creek to pack up a crew of sheep shearers who will be taken upriver to Temperance Creek.

50 YEARS AGO

May 23, 1963

Plans for the construction of a nursing home in Wallowa County collapsed Tuesday when the budget committee chairman George Thompson, Roy Daggett and Melvin Crow opposed the minimum bid for the project. The bid was $46,000 more than the amount of money available.

Larry Bacon, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Bacon, Flora, was selected valedictorian of the Anatone High School senior class of 1963 with a GPA of 3.2. Larry has several hobbies horseback riding and he is now completing his second electric guitar which he made in shop at school.

Walter Brennan arrived at the Joseph airport Tuesday from Pendleton with Ted Grote. Brennan was accompanied by his son, Andy, and by Charles Isaacs, producer of the television show The Real McCoys in which Brennan stars. They play to stay until Friday, visiting Brennans son, Mike, and family, and numerous friends.

25 YEARS AGO

May 19, 1988

While the myriad of problems threatening the practice of rural medicine may not have been solved at the unique Rural Health Care Symposium last Friday and Saturday in Joseph, the impressive gathering itself may prove to be the first step toward future solutions. Among specific proposals made by symposium participants: family practice residencies for rural medicine, funding for a rural family practice fellowship, equity of reimbursement (urban vs. rural), and a community education/marketing program.

Oregons class A volleyball coaches have chosen Enterprises Lillian Conrad as girls volleyball coach of the year. Since 1983, Conrads volleyball teams have accumulated a 125-31 seasonal win-loss record, including an amazing 57-1 combined count in district, regional and league tournament play.