DAYS OF YORE: June 20, 2024

Days of Yore for June 20, 2024

10 years ago –

School Superintendent at Mitchell reported at the June board meeting that there will be ten exchange students enrolled at the school for 2014-2015 school year from Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Thailand, Mexico and Hong Kong.

Fern Wilcox will offer swim lessons at her pool at 59126 Stark Road near Grass Valley. The group lessons will be offered for persons age 5 and up.

25 years ago –

Marge Killingsworth has retired after 18 years on the Asher Clinic Board. Since moving to Fossil in 1969, Marge has been an integral part of the community as a volunteer, and also as a volleyball coach and Home Economics teacher at Wheeler High. She fondly recalls the day Susan Humphrey brought her 6-week old baby Laura (now Mrs. Kelly Sager) to the Home Ec. class to demonstrate the lesson on bathing a baby.

The East-West Oregon 8-Man Football Association’s all-star game was played at Linfield College and the East fell short in the 10th year of this game. Among the players for the East were Jared Lathrop, Scott Nelson, Rex Lantis, Jody Smith, Andrew Stinchfield and Cameron Stinchfield. Unfortunately, Cameron injured his knee during practice and didn’t see any game action, though he was team captain during the opening coin toss. Others on the team from the Big Sky Conference were Jackson Ball of Arlington, Matt Krepps of South Wasco, and Derek Anthony of Dufur.

50 years ago –

Otho Caldera has been appointed Assistant Brand Inspector by the State Department of Agriculture. His area covers all of Wheeler County north of the John Day River. His appointment is in conjunction with the application of a new state law that states that any herds over five head must have heir brands inspected.

From Kinzua: Word was received that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spivey’s granddaughter, Jill Wood had been bitten by a dog and is in the hospital in isolation where she will be for the next two weeks. She is improving.

Crocket Sprouls was the lucky winner of a Toro Guardian lawn mower, given away at a drawing, when Jerry Schreiner Chevron held a garage sale to clean out his old stock and to give customers an opportunity to see his new lawnmower display room. About 65 persons visited the garage during the day and J.O. Burns drew the lucky ticket. Congratulations, Crocket!

75 years ago –

About $2700 worth of stolen property consisting of electric drills, skill saws and other tools which had been taken from the L.G. Isaacson Co. at Aberdeen, Washington were recovered in Condon by the state police and Sheriff Harold A. Stinchfield. The tools were in the home of William Nicely in Condon who stated that he had purchased them in good faith from a Mr. Wilkie and a Mr. Miller, not knowing they were stolen property.

Headline: Honkers in Portland. Three carloads of Arlington high school players attended the Oakland-Portland game at Vaughn Park. They were taken down by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin West, Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Sherrell and Claude Matlock.

Five members of the Henry Jaeger purebred Hereford cattle family were pictured on the cover of the American Hereford Journal. The picture was taken at the Jaeger ranch at Buckhorn.

100 years ago –

From Clem: Mr. and Mrs. Brose Dill have arrived from Tillamook. After one look around they may wonder why they came.

Also from Clem: Most people believe in hitting the nail on the head, but Mrs. Newell Reed believes otherwise. She hits it on the foot. As a result her gait borders on the abstract, also we hear she is making free use of the iodine and turpentine.

All the Clem ladies are going to The Dalles to have their hair marcelled. Condon is missing a big opportunity by not having an expert marcellor. Couldn’t she do a ruching business?

From Condon Times 1909 –

Billy O’Rourke has taken an important position as proof reader in The Times office. Billy is one of the best spellers in the St. Thomas Aquinas School.

James Murtha, of the firm of Murtha & Monahan, sheep raisers, left on a visit to his old home in County Longford, Ireland. His family will welcome him back into the land of his nativity. Murtha and Frank Monahan began with comparatively nothing in the sheep business in Morrow County where their flocks increased at such a rate that they found it expedient to buy thousands of acres of grazing land in Gilliam County, together with the hay ranch that controls the range. This is only one of the instances where young men of perseverance and have made a splendid success raising mutton and wool in Eastern Oregon.

A nest of ladies of doubtful reputation who had established themselves outside the city limits vamoosed the ranch and left on Wednesday’s train for greener fields and pastures new.