1937 elk season, state police Rodman

100 years ago

March 29 1917

• Motorcar service will be inaugurated between La Grande and Elgin next Tuesday, April 2. Wm. McMurry, general passenger agent of the O-W railroad, announced that the new service probably would consist of two round trips daily except Sunday, about 50 minutes being required to go over the road.

• Perhaps the long and anxiously awaited spring break up is here. Higher temperatures, with occasional periods of warm sun and wind, have prevailed since the cold of Sunday, and the snow has disappeared rapidly in town.

• More men are wanted in all branches of the United States army, and mayors of all cities in Oregon have received letters during the week asking their assistance in stimulating recruiting.

• John Edgmand killed a large cougar a few days ago a short distance above the Chico post office on the Chesnimnus. It measured seven feet from tip to tip and looked like a young lion.

• Ben Johnson has kept tab on his thermometer, every morning since late fall, on the Imnaha. He finds that for 140 days without a break, there was freezing temperatures every morning. Recalling that farmers usually have the spring plowing well done before this, and some often start early in February, with green grass and flowers already up, it will be seen how severe the winter has been.

70 years ago

April 3 1947

• The Enterprise chamber of commerce will receive delivery of a 1947 5-passenger Ford coupe April 20. This car will be given away on the last day of the county fair, July 6, to the holder of a lucky ticket.

• The annual drive to raise funds to carry on the fight against cancer is now under way in Wallowa County and will continue throughout the month of April. The county’s quota is $400.

• On March 29, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Reams and baby daughter, and Wallace Pushee started for John Day by car, with a trailer in which were suitcases, the baby’s buggy and other things, as Mrs. Reams and baby had planned to stay in John Day with her mother for a month. When they got to La Grande they found the trailer was missing.

• Joseph High’s play day and volleyball championship series was captured by a fast-clicking Wallowa volleyball team. In addition to volleyball, the girls competed in sack races, basketball relay races and wheelbarrow races.

• A beer bottle was thrown through one of the windows of the Chieftain office Saturday night.

• CLASSIFIEDS: FOR SALE: 7 room house and four lots, chicken house and cow barn, garden, berry patch, fruit trees, price $325, Joseph OR.

50 years ago

March 30 1967

• A snipers bullet was responsible for a power failure, which affected most of Wallowa County on Sunday afternoon. Power was discontinued for a period of three and one-half hours when a high-powered rifle bullet cut one of the wires of the 69,000 volt lines between Elgin and Wallowa.

• Photo caption: Top scores on a test on current events of the nation and the world were attained by these two Enterprise high school freshman, Lorin Ricker, and Jim Wilcox. The test was sponsored by “Time” magazine in a survey to determine how will students keep abreast of the times.

• Photo caption: At a reunion of the Baird family, which was held last weekend, a photo was taken showing five generations. Standing were: Mrs. Harold Free (3); Mrs. Don McAnulty (4); seated: Mrs. D.D. Baird (2); and Mrs. Ethyl Zollman (1); holding 18-month- old Tina McAnulty (5).

• Mrs. Grace Bartlett, who has gathered a vast amount of historical data on Wallowa County over a period of many years, has written a brief history of Wallowa Lake, which will be published in two or more installments.

• CLASSIFIEDS: FOR SALE: Alfalfa hay, feeder or dairy. Delivered $30 ton. Elgin. FOR RENT: House at foot of Wallowa Lake, $90. FOR SALE: 1957 Chev. ¾-ton pickup, good mechanically, good rubber, $600; power winch with 1500 feet cable to fit, $150. Contact Marie at Moffit’s Café.

25 years ago

April 2 1992

• Joseph residents have been learning to cope with the lack of a home-town grocery store since the fire that destroyed Jerry’s Main St. Market on March 21, and everyone is keeping a careful eye on the activity at the ruined store.

• Starting out as a down-home spring celebration of local art, music and dancing by the newly formed Wallowa Valley Arts Council in 1983, the Wallowa Valley Festival of Art’s is observing it’s 10th birthday April 24-26.

• Members of the Wallowa Valley Racing Association are gearing up for what promises to be another exciting season of stock car racing at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds.

• A number of Wallowa County students will be competing in the state Future Business Leaders of America convention this week after placing in the district FBLA contest in La Grande last month.

• Construction off the Hells Canyon Creek Visitor Information Center, to be located at the mouth of the Hells Canyon in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, is scheduled to begin in April of this year. “Hells Canyon is a magnificent landmark,” said Bob Richmond. “The Visitors Center is being built in a effort to improve information services and convenience to canyon visitors.”