Days of Yore: October 17, 2024

Days of Yore for October 17, 2024

10 years ago—

Carol McKenzie, tournament coordinator, reported a perfect day for the 8th annual Wasco Salmon/Steelhead Tournament with 50 entrants and 17 salmon and one steelhead brought to Wasco for the weigh-in. The overall winning Chinook was 16 pounds, 15 ounces, and was caught by Natalie Schaefer of Oregon City.

Rodeo athletes of the Northwest Professional Rodeo Association, which sponsors some 30 rodeos a year, have just selected the Spray Rodeo as the Rodeo of the Year.

For those who are counting with us, someone with low self-esteem has now taken four light bulbs that illuminate the American flag at the Times-Journal office on Main Street.

25 years ago—

Bob Devine spent several days in Condon last week putting the final touches on an airplane project he has been working on the past nine years. He has been working on a 1964 Mooney four-seater, with his father-in-law Dude Edwards, and finally got it in the air last week. His wife Heather joined him, briefly.

Long time residents of Mitchell will be happy to learn that Pat Bohannon recently received a lung transplant while in the hospital in Seattle.

The entire student body of Wheeler High School will attend two plays at Ashland next week at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. They will attend a performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ and the contemporary play ‘The Good Person of Szechaun’.

50 years ago—

Mrs. Anne Coiner is the nurse practitioner who has been placed at the Wheeler County Medical Center in Fossil. Rural eastern Oregon doesn’t seem remote as the National Health Service Corps placed her in Unalaska, Alaska, where she was 500 miles away from the nearest physician or hospital.

Debbie Marshall has been visiting with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Marshall. Debbie’s family recently moved from Arlington. Her father, Jim Marshall, owned the Franz Bread route until last June.

Thomas Childers, employee of the Big Sky Ranch near Blalock, reported that his 1960 Ford pickup was stolen and later recovered two miles north of the ranch. Later the same evening, 200 pounds of beef was stolen from Childers’ residence on Big Sky Ranch.

75 years ago—

Mike, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Wick Parrish, has long been an admirer of “Bambi” and never tires of hearing the story of the deer. Not so long ago, while returning to Condon from a week at the Frank Anderson ranch in Ajax, Mike, his parents, and sister Patsy saw two “Bambis” cross the road and bound out into the stubble. It was indeed a thrill for the Bambi admirer and when someone said “it should be in the paper” that’s where Mike put it.

In a deal closed recently, the Arlington-Roosevelt ferry, owned by Ben Flipin was sold to the Umatilla Ferry Co., at Umatilla. The ferry will be put into operation at once to help with extra traffic caused by the fire at the Pasco bridge.

Little Miss Mary Gross, who is now a member of the fourth grade, points out the fact that in printing the roll of grade school students, her name was omitted.

100 years ago—

Seven-room house for rent – newly painted, with chicken house, barn ad block of land; city water. All for $10 a month. See J.H. Knox.

Sherman County is very short on chickens this year, only 100 being listed on the 1924 assessment roll. It is, however, long on dogs, having 230 on the roll, valued at $3000, while all the chickens in the county are assessed at $50.

A bear story of unusual interest surrounds the killing of a cub last week by the two sons of Ezra Snabel of Spray. First, because very few bears are ever seen in Wheeler County, and second, because the boys displayed rare nerve in tracking the animal which they found in a clump of choke cherries up a canyon near their home. But the bear’s hide is stretched up at the Snabel home as a result of the encounter.

From the Condon Times 1910—

The C.E. Society are to give a Halloween social at the parsonage on Monday night, October 31st. Everybody is invited to come and dress in ghostly apparel. Everyone not wearing a sheet will be fined 3 cents. Everyone speaking above a whisper for the first half hour will be fined 2 cents. Each person shall be measured and shall pay 2 cents for each foot in height. Any person who fails to drink the witches broth will be fined 5 cents. A good time is expected. Ghost stories will be told while they roast marshmallows over the candles.

George Jamieson left for Bonnie Scotland on Saturday last in search of a wife. George will be gone a month and ordered the Times sent after him to Paisley.

The Round Up at Pendleton sent Walter Seale a present of a silver mounted pair of spurs this week, in appreciation of his horsemanship. Walter would have won first prize but the three blamed horses he drew refused to buck knowing probably that any attempts to throw Walter would be a waste of bronchial energy.