<p>This historic photograph – as the label indicates - shows the city of Enterprise as it looked in 1887, just three years after it was founded and three years after Wallowa County was separated from Union County in February 1884.</p>

100 YEARS AGO

Feb. 5, 1914

W.H. Miller, in charge of the Minam hatchery on the Wallowa river, last week made a trip to Troy to make arrangements for gathering salmon eggs there this spring for shipment to Bonneville. It has been ordered by the state game commission that the dam or fishway at the Minam hatchery be removed and the river opened to allow fish to go up the stream. The Minam hatchery will be used for trout propagation only.

Women will take a much larger part in political affairs of the county this year. In the list of judges and clerks of election boards selected by the county court are the names of 30 women. The county court rejected all the bids for wood for the courthouse, as the lowest was $5 a cord. Last year wood was bought at below $4.50.

Miss Edith Makin, daughter of E.O. Makin, died this morning at the home of her father on Lower Prairie creek. She had been very ill for two weeks of tubercular meningitis. She was 16 years old and a girl of great promise.

J.D. Kline, accompanied by his son, was down from Sled Springs the first of the week. They brought three dozen chickens and half a cord of wood to sell to help pay the expenses of the trip. Mr. Kline reported the snow about 3 feet deep in the timber around the springs.

70 YEARS AGO

Feb. 3, 1944

Wallowa County citizens have been rallying behind the Fourth War Loan drive in a manner almost unheard of up to the present campaign, according to figures turned in to the Chieftain office yesterday by M.J. Rutherford. Sales at the end of the second week of the drive have reached $231,447 or approximately 85 percent of the countys quota of $271,400.

JOSEPH Ice became thick enough on the lake Monday for skating and pupils of the Joseph school were dismissed to go, providing they had their parents permission. Many youngsters went skating for of late years skating has not lasted long. Usually wind or snow soon puts an end to it and the fun is shortlived.

WALLOWA Donald and Mae Silver celebrated their fifth birthday Feb. 1 with a party given by their mother and aunt, Mrs. Norman Werst, at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Silver. Those present were Patsy and Beth McBath, Judy Hawkins, Dickie Davis, Charles and Ann Couch, Dean Werst, Janice Womack, Tommy Sannar, Johnny and Jimmy Burns, who are also twins, Belle Trump, Tipton Halloway and Dalles Rhodes.

ALDER SLOPE Mr. and Mrs. Omar Hayes have received some Japanese money from their son, Pfc. Robert K. Hayes, which he got as a souvenir at the battle of Tarawa. He is believed to be somewhere in the Hawaiian Islands now and mentions seeing Cpl. Jimmy Zahm quite often.

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 4, 1964

A license for the construction of the High Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake River below the mouth of the Imnaha was granted yesterday (Wednesday) by the Federal Power Commission. A competing application by the Washington Public Power Supply System for a license to construct a dam at the Nez Perce site below the mouth of the Snake River was denied.

The local political pot may not be boiling yet but it has reached the simmering stage. Two additional candidates have filed on the Republican tickets, William DeGrofft for county commissioner and Stan Farris for county judge.

The Enterprise Chamber of Commerce voted Monday night to back the plans of the Wallowa County Fair Board to construct a large building at the fairgrounds for indoor shows and community promotions.

Darrel Temple and Madalyn Whitaker were selected to represent Wallowa County at the State 4-H Conference at Salem. These two 4-H club members will be guests of the Sears and Roebuck Foundation during their stay in Salem.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 2, 1989

Wallowa County residents were bracing this week for approaching frigid arctic air after a blast of warm air buffeted the valley Monday night and Tuesday morning. Temperatures rose to 55 degrees in Enterprise Monday night and winds estimated up to 40 mph caused minor, isolated outages. The front is expected to bring subzero temperatures in the minus 15 to 20 range.

An outbreak of head lice among students in kindergarten through sixth grades in Enterprise last week appears to be under control, with no new cases discovered in daily head checks at the school this week. Enterprise Elementary principal Bob Eddy said Tuesday that approximately 15 confirmed cases of the pest were found last week.

Joe Stangels first steelhead turned out to be a monster of a fish when he caught and landed a 41-inch, 22-pound behemoth above the mouth of the Grande Ronde on the Snake River Sunday.

When Leon Werdinger decided to settle here last fall, one of the first things he looked for was a recycling center. He didnt find one. With previous experience of initiating recycling centers in Olympia, Wash., and Crested Butte, he decided to do something to change that.