<p>Wallowa Main Street when Hotel Northern was a prominent fixture in downtown. The hotel, sited near the Bon Ton Saloon building (former pharmacy) that burned this year, was destroyed in a December 1928 fire, along with most of the rest of the block. This old photo is from the collection of Edsel White.</p>

100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 27, 1913

Thanksgiving will be quiet in Enterprise. Families will gather in their homes and devour a prodigious amount of turkey with trimmings and some boy will need the doctor before night. Special services will be held by the Federated church. In the evening, vaudeville acts and moving pictures will be put on in the opera house. That will represent about the total sum of the towns dissipation.

Jay H. Dobbin and Guy Huffman, his brother-in-law, are now partners in the sheep business on Snake River.

Now that the new public library is nearly finished in Enterprise, the beginning of the institution is of interest. In February 1900 the library plans were first formed, according to John S. Hodgin of La Grande, chairman of the first library board. The Circulating Library Association was formed for the purpose of gathering a collection of books for the use of the people of the town.

Photo caption Paradise Church: The attractive church of the Methodist congregation at Paradise was erected last year, being dedicated Aug. 12, 1912. The site of half an acre was donated by W.C. Stanley.

70 YEARS AGO

Nov. 25, 1943

An official announcement from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy states that the land plane field of the U.S. Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash., had been designated Ault Field in honor of the late Commander William B. Ault (from Enterprise) who lost his life in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

At a potluck dinner Saturday night put on by the American Legion auxiliary, Chief Joseph Post No. 18 will celebrate the retirement of its indebtedness by burning the mortgage on the Legion hall. This is the first time the local post has been out of debt in the past 25 years approximately so the occasion is one of real jubilation.

A choir of 32 voices will present a sacred choir of Thanksgiving music in the Community church Sunday morning, Nov. 28. The pastor, Haword C. Stover, will direct the chorus. Accompanying will be church organist Mrs. Edna Craig and Mrs. Jean Jacobs at the piano.

JOSEPH Even though turkeys are scarce, there is one person who could be assured of enjoying a turkey today, and that is Mrs. Goldie Kinney, manager of the Kinney Café on Main Street. She started out to raise a few turkeys this spring and had six for a time. The one lone turkey left has roamed around the lot above the café until he has grown large enough to provide a good serving for a number of people.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 28, 1963

Business in Wallowa County came to a virtual standstill from Friday noon until Monday night as thousands of people glued their eyes to television sets to follow the news of the assassination of President Kennedy and watch the drama of events leading up to and following the world-shaking tragedy. People here, as in the rest of the world, expressed feeling of mingled shock, disbelief and sorrow.

The revised plans for a nursing home addition to the Wallowa Memorial Hospital may be ready for contract letting by April, County Judge Fred Himelwright announced Tuesday.

EDITORIAL The assassination of President Kennedy has stunned many of us into an acute awareness of not only the precariousness of every human life, but also the extent to which our destinies are often controlled by a single individual. President Kennedy, not perfect, as none of us is perfect, stood for that fairness in the world which is the goal of all who believe in brotherhood. The loss of such a champion is a devastating blow.

Mrs. Bert (Helen) Marks narrowly escaped serious injury last week when a pressure canner blew up while she was canning carrots.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 24, 1988

Though stiffer federal enforcement of safe water regulations has not gone into effect yet, engineer Howard Perry told the Joseph council last week that it is 100 percent certain the city will be required to build an expensive filtration system for its water in the future. To qualify for most grants, a water metering system will also probably be required.

A tiny girl named Anna will give special meaning to Thanksgiving this year for the Pete Beaudoin family of Enterprise. She is our blessing, said Sandy Beaudoin of her third and youngest child, born one year and week ago in a car at a gas station in Elgin.

Photo caption Cub and Boy Scouts from Joseph, Enterprise and Wallowa contributed a total of 1,165 cans of food and $4 cash to the Wallowa County Food Bank Saturday as the result of their very first successful participation in the nation-wide Scouting for Food project.

The Bookloft will host a book signing party Friday in honor of the latest books published by Wallowa Countys Pika Press: Cookies and Conversation by Judy Wandschneider, and Hiking the High Wallowas and Hells Canyon by Frank Conley.