Reward offered for missing $5 bill

Published 11:30 am Tuesday, February 2, 2016

100 years ago

Feb. 3., 1916

• The heaviest snowfall in years in Wallowa county came Tuesday and yesterday. Wagon roads are almost impassible and the railroad is blocked by two large slides between this county and La Grande. In the afternoon yesterday the fall measured a full eighteen inches in Enterprise. Lostine reported twenty inches and Wallowa the same.

• The effort of the city to prevent “ragging” and other objectionable dances meets with the hearty endorsement of the Enterprise local of the Farmers Union. The publicity given to the matter has had the effect of bringing about a marked improvement in the conduct of patrons of the public dances.

• The dance given at the Swamp creek opera house (?) Friday was a great success, there being eighty people present and a three-piece orchestra from Enterprise furnishing the music.

• The Literary Saturday night was a great success. The question of “woman’s suffrage” was debated, the “women” winning. The question for Saturday is: Resolved that the present preparedness which Congress purposes is unnecessary at present.

70 years ago

Feb. 7, 1946

• A fire at the Enterprise Motor Co. (Chevrolet garage) in Enterprise Monday burned five or six cars and heavily damaged the interior of the shop.

• The January issue of Movie magazine states: “Walter Brennan who looks like the type who would want to stick close to terra firma, is seriously thinking of getting a helicopter – to help the cowboys locate the cattle, come round up time – on his 12,000 acre Oregon ranch.”

• Classified ad: For sale – Model T truck, good condition, no tires. $30. Dan Goertzen, Enterprise.

• Classified ad: Lost – a five-dollar bill in Enterprise Thursday, 24th. Please notify Agnes Murphy at Wallowa. Small reward.

• Joseph news of the week: Lou Knapper took Max Sprague to La Grande Thursday to meet Mrs. Sprague and two little daughters, who arrived from San Diego. They experienced several mishaps on the trip and did not arrive back in Joseph until very early Friday morning. On the way to La Grande the car skidded in the ditch, and on the return trip Max cut his hand on a fender while changing tires. It necessitated their stopping in Enterprise, where a doctor took several stitches to close the wound.

50 years ago

Feb. 3, 1966

• Joseph High School’s 1966 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow is Cassie R. Manes. She scored highest in a written knowledge and attitude examination taken by senior girls and is now eligible for state and national scholarship awards.

• A new Texaco service station has been completed at the corner of West 2nd and North streets on the site of the old Majestic hotel across from Safeway. Berle Stonebrink is the operator.

• Roller skating, sponsored by the Joseph PTA, will continue thru Feb. on Sunday afternoons at the Joseph Civic Center.

• Photo caption: Ken Witty and Malcolm Neil of the Oregon Game Commission are shown here planting some of the 200,000 silver salmon (Coho) eggs which were brought to Wallowa County from the Bonneville hatchery on Monday.

• Steve Fordice was named “Outstanding EHS Wrestler of the Week” for his sparkling efforts in the Lewiston and Vale matches held last weekend.

• The Bill Young home on the Hurricane creek road a mile and a half south of Enterprise was destroyed by fire about midnight on Wednesday night of last week.

25 years ago

Feb. 7, 1991

• Photo caption: Volunteer PTA school crossing guard Kathy Jenkins prepares to help Valerie McIntyre, 7, Katie Morgan, 7, and Brianna Railey, 6, cross River Street safely Monday afternoon.

• After 36 years of service to Pacific Power customers throughout eastern Oregon and the Willamette Valley, Don Rynearson has retired to pursue his “other career” – woodworking.

• The list of U.S. military personnel from Wallowa County (or those with strong local ties) serving in the Middle East as part of Operation Desert Storm continues to grow, and the total now stands at 46.

• Photo caption: the 1991 Chief Joseph Days court – Teah Jones, Jill Yost and Dawnette Waters – served up sausage and smiles to a Ground Hog Dinner crowd at the Joseph Community Center during their traditional first official appearance.

• Novelist Jean M. Auel, author of “Clan of the Cave Bear,” “Valley of Horses,” and “Plains of Passage,” was in town recently and even purchased a life-size bronze wolf by Joseph artist Shelley Curtiss.