<p>Chieftain archives        This Wallowa County store from out of the past looks like a fun place to go Christmas shopping, and we bet the prices are good too. Can anyone identify the store and the employees?</p>

100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 5, 1912

J. Ross Leslie has come out for the last time before winter sets in from the elk pasture in the Chesnimnus. He will take supplies back to last until spring. The last of 10 tons of hay (at $19.75 per ton, paid for by the BPOE lodge in Portland) for the winter was hauled to the pasture Sunday.

FLORA Our school, consisting of two rooms under the management of C.R. Eddlemon and Mrs. Andrus, is progressing as well as could be expected considering the crowded conditions. This is the first year the district has had to refuse outside pupils admission into the school for lack of accommodations.

A dance in which about 80 young people participated was held Friday night in the new house, which will soon be completed. Two of the boys, Harold Edgmand and John Fine, lost their saddle horses and had to patronize the stage to get to the dance and back.

The minstrel company that gave a performance in Enterprise just before Thanksgiving made a trip to Imnaha and showed there to a good house Monday night. There are eight negro men and women in their company and they came back shivering after the long drive, but much pleased with their unusual experience.

70 YEARS AGO

Dec. 3, 1942

Farmers of the county are becoming highly indignant over the manner in which the Office of Defense Transportation is handling the applications for Certificates of Necessity for trucks and pickups. Many farmers are convinced they cannot possibly operate on the scheduled gas allotted.

LOSTINE The Crow store is being decorated for Christmas and the interior presents an attractive appearance. The city has not yet decided whether it will again have a large tree on Main Street. Joe Fisher is delivering slab wood in large quantity to the townspeople, as the last consignment of coal has not arrived.

JOSEPH Monday, Dec. 1, the gasoline deadline saw cars lined up for last minute fill-up before rationing starts. Contrary to the usual rationing edicts of no supplies hoarded, there seemed to be a general invitation to fill her up.

EDITORIAL Local citizens have every reason to be exasperated with the action of the ODT with reference to Certificates of Necessity for the operation of farm trucks and commercial vehicles. The idea of a bunch of waffle-seated political office holders in a Detroit office passing on the trucking problems and needs of a farmer in Zumwalt, Wallowa County, Oregon, would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 6, 1962

The Wallowa County Jaycees have been meeting at Cloverleaf Hall every Monday night to work on Christmas toys which have been for Christmas baskets for needy families. Toys, new and old, have been contributed from many sources to the cause and the Junior Chamber members sort, clean and repair them. On hand this week were chairman Larry McFetridge, Fred Mitchell, Roy Lederstram, Fred Mitchell, Bob Ray, Rev. Dick Burdon, Ray Wilson and Irving Nuss Jr.

John and Dick Lyman, publisher of the Elgin Recorder and the Wallowa Record, announced this week that the Record will suspend publication with the issue of today Thursday. A short time later (after the Wallowa Sun and the Chieftain merged in 1942) the Wallowa Record was established, and it was taken over by John Lyman in 1948.

WALLOWA At the donkey ball game Saturday night Allan Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Johnson, received a badly injured knee and leg. He was taken to Wallowa Memorial Hospital and his parents brought him home Saturday night. He now has a full length cast from hip to toes.

All day long Sunday the snow came down steadily over the Wallowa Valley and residents of Enterprise awoke Monday morning to find three inches of glistening fluffiness spread over the landscape, giving a Christmas card appearance to the city.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 2, 1987

A Canby man and his German shorthair hunting dog were reunited in Enterprise Friday 12 days after the dog ran away with a coyote in the Sheep Creek Divide area east of Joseph on the last day of the bull elk season. Hes a little skinny, said Leo Thatcher of his 5-year-old dog Blitzen.

Enterprises quest for a State A football championship ended with a 22-18 loss to Salem Academy Saturday in the semi-final game.

The Wallowa County Library, which closed its doors as a circulating library this past May, will open once more for a big four-day sale this month. County librarian Denine Conrad has been sorting through books, carefully paring the countys collection to the point it will fit into one room, instead of the entire basement of the Enterprise City Library.

IMNAHA A hard wind swept up Camp Creek last week, knocking over an old cottonwood tree and leaving several woodpeckers homeless. Mrs. Woodpecker reported a severe headache from in her home as the tree hit the ground. Relief efforts are ongoing, with an ongoing search for another cottonwood and a new home.