100 YEARS AGO

Aug. 7, 1913

Violent rain storms passed through the district around Enterprise Sunday and Monday of this week, doing much damage to crops. The downpour was so heavy that it was termed nothing short of a waterspout. E.R. Bowlbys son on Swamp Creek had a close call during the storm.

The most interesting of all buckaroo contests will be seen in Enterprise Saturday, Aug. 16. Charles Spains bucking cow will be there and $10 will be given to the man who rides her straight up. This is the cow that tossed Cal Tucker so artistically at Joseph during the stock show.

The six horses that were in the Enterprise pound, having been picked up as strays, disappeared Friday night. Marshal S.K. Clark believes someone stole them.

Circus day has come and gone, with clouds of dust hanging over every country road, with the town filled with people, with the big red and gold wagons drawn by sleek horse, with the blare of the band, the roar of the lion, the feverish activity of anxious small boys, not without the snake charmer and the street faker.

70 YEARS AGO

Aug. 5, 1943

One of the reporters for the Portland Oregonian, interviewing Walter Brennan, gives the following report on the Wallowa County rancher-actor: No Hollywood glamor boy is movie star Walter Brennan, who stopped briefly in Portland Monday en route back to his Enterprise ranch, Lightning Creek, which he refers to vigorously as the best dam ranch in Wallowa County.

PROMISE The warm weather has started the rattlesnakes moving. Harvey McDonald has killed several, the largest measuring 42 inches in length, and Tex Williams boys killed some. The largest one measured 52 inches and had 12 rattlers.

LOSTINE The sale of 20 head of purebred Jersey cows and a bull attracted much attention last week when Tom Willett of Wallowa bought the herd of Mr. Moffit and paid $125 a head.

Last Thursday Sheriff A.B. Miller received word from his son, Major Victor Miller, that he and four other army officers, one of them being Captain James Miller, brother of Bill Wergen of Enterprise, would arrive the next day on a short vacation trip. Leaving Kingman, Ariz., after lunch on Friday, the trainer bomber landed on the local field about 6 oclock and the crew were taken to the homes of Miller and Wergen, who live next to each other, for supper.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 8, 1963

Fifteen fires on the Wallowa side of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest were reported during the past week, ranging from spot fires to 120 acres. Largest of the lightning-caused fires was on Magpie Ridge, between Horse Creek and the Imnaha River.

Hundreds of 4-H club members and others are busy this week preparing for the Wallowa County Fair, which will be held at the fairgrounds next Monday through Thursday. Among them (pictured) are Kathleen Kooch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kooch, shown with a Southdown fat lamb; and Elaine Makin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kelsie Makin, showing one of the large cabbage heads from her garden.

After serving for nearly 15 years on the Enterprise Volunteer Fire Department, Robert J. Tex Miller announced his resignation to the city council Monday night.

WALLOWA The house owned by Fred Josi and occupied by the Everett Parrott family caught fire Saturday. The fire department responded promptly. Defective wiring upstairs was believed responsible. The inside was badly burned and the contents of the home water soaked.

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 4, 1988

The rowdiest Chief Joseph Days in recent memory kept law enforcement officers on the run during the weekend, which say an estimated 20,000 visitors invade the town for the annual celebration. A total of 14 persons were arrested for drunk driving, Friday through Sunday, including one charged with a hit and run after plowing into two pedestrians early Sunday morning.

A classy downtown park (Warde Park) that was created as a legacy of one businessmans (Charles Jack Ward) start in Enterprise was formally dedicated Sunday before a receptive crowd of about 50 people.

After a year of promoting 4-H activities in Wallowa County, the 1988 4-H Court of Leah Salmon, Samantha Roberts and Vixen Radford will be succeeded by a new court at the end of the Wallowa County Fair, which starts a full seven-day run today (Thursday).

Lee and Carol-Lee Perkins will hold a grand opening this week for their Eagle Mountain Gallery and Centennial House on Main Street in Joseph in the refurbished old First National Bank and Barnard Drugs building.