100 YEARS AGO

June 19, 1913

The special election which is to be the next step toward putting in a sewer system in Enterprise will be held July 22. This spring the sewer agitation started at the time of the melting of the winter snow, when the streets were underwater and cesspools and closets were overflowing and caving in.

A baby show strictly up to date will be one of the features of the county fair this fall. D.W. Sheahan will be in charge as usual and will give cash prizes to the best baby boy and the best baby girl. Awards will be made on the basis of physical excellence, somewhat after the manner of making awards for the best animals in the stock classes. Pretty faces and dainty dresses will count for little.

TROY Dr. King of Flora is here trying to clean up the river of its surplus fish.

GROUSE The road supervisor was looking over the roads Tuesday and he remarked that they were in bad condition but that he had no tools to work them out with. That was no encouragement to the general public. It was supposed the county is either broke or has forgotten the boundary extends so far north.

70 YEARS AGO

June 17, 1943

George Cleaver, receiver for the Wallowa Lake resort, announced in La Grande last week, that the State Highway Commission, was seriously considering the establishment of a state park at Wallowa Lake. The area which would be placed in the park would probably be that area in the highway loop and extending from the front of the lodge to the lake shore on the north. While this would be a modest beginning, it would nevertheless pave the way for future development.

Dr. Hockett passed away about four oclock last Friday afternoon, succumbing to what was apparently a heart attack. (He was 65).

The county budget meeting the past week disposed of the hospital issue by recommending the setting up of an $1,800 hospital fund for the county court to use as it sees fit in the maintenance of a local hospital. The immediate problem has been complicated somewhat by the passing of Dr. Hockett.

The sheepmens request for a bounty on coyotes was acceded to by the county budget committee, which set up a fund of $6,000, of which half was contributed by the sheepmen, to be matched by another $6,000 from the state for coyote bounties.

50 YEARS AGO

June 20, 1963

Negotiations are pending for the sale by Lawton McDaniel of the McDaniel Motor Co. to Ray Milligan, who has been associated with the company for 27 years, most of the time in a managerial capacity.

Seven local youths were injured, none seriously, when their car overturned on the Joseph-Imnaha highway about two miles east of Joseph Monday afternoon around 4:35. The car, a 1960 Ford Falcon, was driven by Orla Mae Teel, queen of the 1963 Chief Joseph Days show. She and her friends were en route to the Earl Waters home from Wallowa Lake where they had been swimming.

A public auction of the former Myron Fleser buildings at Minam has been scheduled for July 10 by the property manager of the State Highway Department at Salem. The new highway construction in this area necessitates the removal of the buildings as part of the program to eliminate the narrow railroad underpass and make other improvements in this section of Highway 82.

Two films, sponsored by the Wallowa Chamber of Commerce, will be shown to the general public this weekend. The first, filmed by Dale and Alva Victor of Wallowa, will show sturgeon and steelhead fishing on the Snake River. Some fine white water boating will be shown.

25 YEARS AGO

June 16, 1988

Finally, after what seemed like months of persistent rain, Wallowa County and other parts of the Northwest got a break in the weather last week. Temperatures rose to 85 degrees in Wallowa Tuesday and were reported at 81 degrees in Enterprise. Since April 1, Enterprise has received over 6 ½ inches rain (10.35 inches since Jan. 1), and Wallowa more than 4 inches (9.9 inches since Jan. 1).

The wet spring has affected two Wallowa County sawmills, which have been quiet for the past several months because of a lack of logs. Rogge mill at Wallowa, which has been operating off and on the past two months, shut down two weeks ago, while Sequoia Forest Industries at Joseph shut down at the end of April.

North End ranchers Bob and Marge Hawkins were recently named as Wallowa County Conservation Farmer of the Year, and are in contention for the state conservation award offered by the Oregon Wheat League.