Days of Yore for September 26, 2024
10 years ago—
The League of Oregon Rural-Frontier Homesteaders will sponsor its first-ever Oregon Rural-Frontier Homesteaders Festival October 11 at the Wheeler County Fairgrounds in Fossil. This one-day event will celebrate the contribution that skills and crafts, considered by many to be from a bygone era, make in the daily lives of 21st century residents of Oregon’s rural-frontier.
The 12th annual Shaniko Ragtime and Vintage Music Festival will be held October 10-12 in the historic community of Shaniko. Toe-tapping piano, instrumental and vocal music will be presented from noon, following the showing of the silent movie “The Gold Rush” at the Shaniko Schoolhouse.
25 years ago—
Last May, Nick Bettencourt received his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University of New Orleans. He is currently serving as an adjunct professor at that university, teaching five levels of sculpture classes. Nick is the son of Frank and Garnett Bettencourt.
A chance of a lifetime is happening for Bernadine Hulett. She flew into Denver to meet her cousin and the two of them are driving to Kingman, Arizona. They will pick up four Arabian horses, then take them by trailer to Alaska where her cousin has bought a lovely log building which she will make into a bed and breakfast. She will use the horses as trail horses for her guests. Bernadine thinks the whole adventure will take about three weeks.
50 years ago—
Medhi Emami has been visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Mikkalo, for the past several weeks while his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ali Emami, are packing and selling their household goods prior to leaving for Iran September 30, where they will make their home.
Veteran patrolman H.C. Davison of the Oregon State Police has resigned his position after 11 ½ years, most of which have been with the Arlington office. Present plans are to remain in Arlington and work on his small farm which he says he finds more gratifying.
An increasingly rare sight (sound?) clomped through the Main Street of Condon as Bob Seney, originally from North Dakota, continued his 7,000 mile journey from Yuma, Arizona to Port Angeles, Washington…on horseback! One of Bob’s four-legged friends, Trooper, has been with the 13-year veteran of the U.S. Army Calvary for 10,000 of the 12,000 miles he has logged on horseback.
75 years ago—
Jim Hughes of Kinzua was an overnight guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cronin. Since selling his shoe repair machinery to Cronin several years ago, he makes a yearly visit to Condon to check up on the work being done by it.
Morris Shelton, a salesman for a stock chemical firm in Washington was a business visitor in Condon. Shelton Park above Fossil, which was named for his father, was once part of the old home place.
Ventriloquist Ray Castenado and his wooden headed stooge Roy E. Baker has been engaged by Bill Eaton to appear as a special number at the Memorial Hall dance Saturday night. Mr. Castenado, a student at the University of California, is working this summer at the B.B. Smith ranch. The stooge says, “Gosh, I like the women truck drivers.”
100 years ago—
What motorists think of the John Day Highway in Gilliam County is something that is quite proper to think – but not to print.
Lloyd Parman is trailing a band of 1200 mixed lambs from Spray to Condon where they will be placed on stubble pasturage on the Parman ranch – to recover some of the heads of wheat cut down by the grasshoppers. This should prove rich pasturage for lambs.
Walter Seale, who was badly injured at the Butte Creek Round-Up at Fossil, will be well in a few days. When thrown from his horse, his shoulder was dislocated and his face, shoulders and body were severely bruised. His horse rolled over him two or three times, and his escape from death on the hard ground was a marvel to those who saw the accident.
From the Condon Times 1909—
Mike Foley is digging a long stretch of ditch to connect the Condon Steam Laundry with the sewer on Main Street at the Oregon Hotel. Mike can throw dirt out of a drain like a steam shovel.
Our waste basket is full of political matter which finished up with “please publish as this may be of interest to your readers”. We may tell our parsimonious friends that their long winded twaddle is of no interest to anybody except themselves.
The Basket Social given Friday evening at the Buckhorn school was a success. Eleven dollars were cleared which will be used to buy a blackboard and other fixtures for the school house.
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