<p>This old photo in the Chieftain archives has only two words "Ice cellar" written on the back, in pencil. Does anyone recognize this family standing beside the entrance of their old-days refrigerator?</p>

100 YEARS AGO

July 17, 1913

More than 16,000 lambs have been sold within the last few days to Samuel Palmer of Denver. He bought coarse wool lambs only, paying 4 ½ cents a pound. The sellers are Jay H. Dobbin and Fred W. Falconer, 12,000 lambs; L.C. Johnson, 1,400; J. Raymond Johnson, 2,100; and Ray E. Vest, 1,275.

The Flora school district will vote Monday on the question of issuing bonds to build a new schoolhouse. The amount of the proposed issue is not determined. If the bonds are voted, it is expected the school course will be expanded greatly, with an adequate high school.

A July frost visited many spots in Wallowa County Monday morning, nipping tender vegetables. The minimum recorded in Enterprise was 38 degrees, which probably continued only a short time. The whole length of the Wallowa Valley potato vines were black and drooping when the sun began to shine warm on Monday morning.

Eighty acres of the old Sullivan place, two miles south of Enterprise, have been bought by Delbert Homan for $125 an acre, the total consideration being $10,000. This is one of the best tracts of farming land in the county and the price is right at the top.

70 YEARS AGO

July 15, 1943

Farmers meeting last Thursday to consider the employment of Mexican labor signed up for 35 workers who were expected to arrive this week. These 35 Mexicans will be employed by about 15 different farmers.

Ranger Grady Miller reports that seven inches of snow fell on Hat Point Sunday night. While snow has been known in this county every month of the year, the snowfall at Hat Point is believed to be a record for July 11. While snow was falling at Hat Point and vicinity, a heavy frost settled down in Enterprise, nipping a good deal of garden produce.

WALLOWA Ward Hescock, Tad McCrae, Wilfred Royster and Joe Roush will serve as fire wardens during this season for the state department of forestry. The following lookouts took up their duties this past week: Kitty Minor, Tope Creek; Dorothy Conner, Howard Butte; and Ed Carper, Acres.

The Chief Joseph post of the American Legion has arranged for a general collection of scrap metal this Sunday, July 18. All persons who have scrap are asked to call or write Cal Long, post commander, or any other legionnaire before Sunday and a truck will be sent to pick it up.

50 YEARS AGO

July 18, 1963

The annual Elks Club Golf Tournament turned out to be a huge success, as over 70 local and out-of-town golfers participated. The two-day event was concluded last Sunday with La Grande winning the team championship and Ray Milligan of Enterprise taking the individual honors. Milligan fired a score of 144 in the 36-hole tournament to edge out Bill Hereford of La Grande by a single point.

The Enterprise airport improvement project, which was started only a few weeks ago and was thought to be ended when the excavation, grading and gravelling of the runway was completed, snowballed the last few weeks to the completion of the oiling of the strip, giving Enterprise the first oiled strip in Wallowa County.

With Chief Joseph Days now only a week away, most of the plans for the big three-day celebration are nearing completion. A special event in the rodeo this year will be the Girls Barrel Race. The purse will be $100 plus the $10 entry fee.

JOSEPH The Wallowa County CowBelles met Thursday, July 11, at the home of Jack Walker with 19 ladies present. Plans were made for the annual luncheon Aug. 10 at the Wallowa Lake Lodge. Maureen Huffman, Vaunie Warnock and Margaret Bundrant are on the menu committee. Mary DeHart and Irene Vernam are co-chairmen for favors.

25 YEARS AGO

July 14, 1988

A Corbett school teacher who served as the schools assistant principal has been named principal for the Wallowa School District. Edward Jensen was formally hired by the Wallowa School Board Monday night to replace Dale Johnson, who retired.

Photo caption In an impromptu ceremony at Warde Parke Sunday, 83-year-old Blande Conner Hung of Pendleton, a great-granddaughter of Old Chief Joseph, places her thumbprint in a life-size sculpture of Young Chief Joseph that was donated to the park in Enterprise by sculptor Dennis Burt of Joseph. Hungs grandfather was Ollokot a brother of Young Chief Joseph.

Except for one 4-year-old ram with a runny nose, the survivors of the disease which nearly wiped out the Lostine herd of Rocky Mountain bighorns two years ago appear to be bouncing back. ODFW district biologists Vic Coggins and Pat Matthews counted 37 bighorns on the Hurricane Creek Divide near Frances Lake last week.

The 1988 Chief Joseph Days Court made up of Queen Chantay Jett and Princesses Jill Bales and Tami Zollman was beaming this week after winning first place in the royalty division of the Elgin Stampede parade Sunday.