<p>This photograph was on the front of a postcard invitation which read as follows: "Undoubtedly: Excellent entertainment, an instructive programme and good roads will induce you to attend the 9th Annual Convention of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' Association of Oregon at Enterprise, Oregon, May 24th and 25th, 1922. The photo is part of the extensive collection of old Wallowa County photograph postcards.</p>

100 YEARS AGO

Aug. 14, 1913

The new through telephone line from Enterprise to Flora has been finished. The poles were set a short time ago and the wires are strung. Through service will be given now at any time. The new work consists of a line strung with number 9 wire from Enterprise to Sled Springs.

A new playhouse for moving picturing and vaudeville shows will be built in Enterprise at once. It will be of the most modern city style with sloping floor and ornamental front. The new venture means a revolution in entertainment facilities in the town.

The plans of the new Carnegie library have been approved by the Carnegie Foundation in New York, and Enterprise is thus brought one step near to the new building. In passing on the plans the Carnegie intersts wrote to Dr. C.T. Hockett, chairman of the local library board, stating that they wished proof that the building could be built for $5,000, the amount allowed for it.

One barrier put by the former administration in the way of purchasing isolated tracts of public land, has been removed by the men now in power in Washington. It is no longer necessary for the applicant to deposit with the land office $1.25 an acre for the land he seeks.

70 YEARS AGO

Aug. 19, 1943

The Wallowa Roller mills, a flour mill at Wallowa which was acquired a few years ago by the county through tax-free closure, has been sold by the county to Neal F. Knighten of Hardman. The purchaser, who manufactures whole wheat flour and breakfast cereal and has a plant at Hardman, expects to put the Wallowa mill in shape for operations as soon as possible.

Ed Grandahl purchased the Eben building while Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eben were in Joseph last week and will make it over into a cold storage plant as soon as possible. Of late the building has been occupied by only a small grocery, The R & M store now owned by Mr. Kenneth Blevens, who will continue doing business in the same place.

An order received at the Murrey mill this week calls for the delivery of 115,000 board feet of lumber to a housing project for steel mill workers in Orem, Utah. No orders can be filled at the mill except upon application by the war production board, and the board is turning down practically all applications not related directly to the war effort.

WALLOWA Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Oveson left Monday for a weeks camping trip in the high mountains. Mrs. Herschel Scott is caring for little Evelyn in her mothers absence.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 15, 1963

Emmett Weatherman, Flora, Saturday became one of the very few persons who have been struck by lightning and lived to tell about it. He was standing near the front door of his home when the lightning struck four pine trees on which the telephone line was strung and the bolt traveled down the line to the house hurling Weatherman out into the yard some 20 feet.

Photo caption These stockmen and their wives were honored at the annual meeting of the Wallowa County Stockgrowers. Doug Tippett was named president of the association; Don Wallace was named vice president and also Grassman of the Year; and Wayne Wolfe was selected as the Wallowa County Cattleman of the Year.

Wallowa County experienced a series of rain and lightning storms over the weekend, which were about as severe as anything seen in this county. Heavy rains over most of the Wallowa-Whitman area prevented numerous spot fires from getting out of control.

Mrs. Zelta Varney opened her beauty shop, Zels Beauty Bar, this week in the Medical-Dental building. Mrs. Varney has been a beauty operator at Charleens Beauty Shop for the past three years.