Are you interested in throwing your friend in the slammer?

Published 8:04 am Thursday, October 15, 2015

100 years ago – Oct. 14, 1915

About 35 men are now employed at the East Oregon logging camp which is in charge of Eugene Brown & Brother, contractors. A considerable town has sprung up, as several families have moved to the timber. J. K. Marlin has established his celebrated camp boarding house there to feed the hungry. In addition to the cutting of timber, a logging spur of the railroad is under construction. Five carloads of steel rails were taken out Monday morning for this line.

Several business buildings will be erected in Enterprise in the spring and there is a prospect that some more work will be started yet this fall. Ross Falconer has had preliminary sketches made of his proposed brick structure for his grain storage and fuel business, on the corner of south of Main St. and east of the flour mill. S. L. Burnaugh Jr hopes to erect his new stone store building in the spring. A block south of this, on River St. opposite the front entrance of the courthouse, Lawson Beecher has been planning to erect a good brick building on the ground where his pool hall now stands. S. D. Keltner has about made up his mind that he will erect a building for his hardware business on his corner on Main St. opposite the Wallowa National Bank. Fraternal hall, across the street on another corner, is of stone, and the Record Chieftain building, half a block to the north, is also to be of that material.

Showing at the People’s Theatre: “Blighted Lives” with the celebrated actress, Marie Hesperia. Admission 10 and 20 cents.

70 years ago – Oct. 11, 1945

At the Dorrance sale of registered Herefords held Oct. 1, W. C. Dorrance and son presented a fine registered heifer to the Enterprise FFA chapter, and to the boy selected by them and the executive committee of the chapter to be its owner. Of the eight boys making application, Mack Birkmaier was chosen as the boy who had shown the greatest interest in beef cattle last year, and who had the best facilities for caring for the calf.

Steven Terry, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Terry of Joseph, was found about 10:00 am Wednesday after an all night search in the woods out in the Elk mountain district. He had been missing since 4:30 Tuesday evening and searching parties had been hunting for him continuously. Oscar Davis, who had come up on horseback from his home on Crow creek, found Steven three miles from camp down Elk creek, sitting on a log, waiting with his dog, Bobbie.

Playing tonight at the Vista Theatre in Enterprise: “The Cowboy and the Lady” starring Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon and Walter Brennan.

Max Gorsline has received his discharge from the navy after a long period of service aboard a sub chaser out of San Pedro, Calif. Ivan Curtis Carper of Wallowa has been given his discharge at the Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, Wash. Jay Clyde Hockett has also received his discharge at Bremerton.

50 years ago – Oct. 14, 1965

Tempers flared slightly above normal Monday evening when the Rural School Board (Boundary Board) met at the courthouse in Enterprise to hear plans for consolidation measure of county schools. Two general orders of business, progress on reorganization and the tabled petition, were heard by the board before they reached a decision to allow the petition presented a few months ago by the Imnaha district. The Imnaha petition asked that they be allowed to hold an election for the purpose of forming an Administrative District with the Joseph district.

With hundreds of entries in the P.I. (Pacific Institute) wool show, the youth from Wallowa County are making youths from other areas really get in and work for their awards. At least four first place awards have been won by local 4-H and FFA members in the show, Those winning or placing in the 4-H wool show from this area were Jim Allen of Lostine (first place Crossbred fleece); Dick Beaudoin of Enterprise (first place Targhee fleece) and Dennis Engledorf of Wallowa (first place Suffolk fleece). Other 4-H placings went to Peter Beaudoin, Enterprise and Douglas McFetridge, Lostine. In the FFA wool show, one local entry, that of Tom Zollman of Enterprise won a first place (Corriedale fleece). Kent Lozier of Enterprise took seventh place (Suffolk fleece).

25 years ago – Oct. 11, 1990

Candidates for local office did their best to upstage the opposition during the candidates fair at Enterprise High School Tuesday. A near full-house audience expecting a donnybrook between candidate for district attorney Bill Reynolds and Mary Grote got what they were looking for as the two candidates seized every opportunity to land criticism on the other.

After a 35-7 loss to Vale the previous week, the Enterprise Savages redeemed themselves last Friday with a 32-13 Wapiti League football win over Imbler. Enterprise running back Lance Homan had it all his way, scoring three touchdowns against a turn-over plagued Imbler team, followed by a 20 yard touchdown pass from Brant Corak to Brent Eddy, and a 19 yard touchdown pass from Corak to Tim Martin.

Would you like to have someone you know arrested? The chance of a lifetime is coming up to see your favorite person thrown in the slammer. The jail, expected to be full of prominent county residents will be set up at Wallowa Valley Mall in the American Cancer Society’s annual Jail and Bail project on Thursday, Oct, 18. Willing participants will be picked up at their home or office by an officer and hauled away. The prisoners will be phoning friends and relatives to raise bail for the fight against cancer. KWVR radio is sponsoring Jail and Bail locally and will be broadcasting from the mall jail on the day of the mass arrests.