Days of Yore for November 14, 2024
10 years ago—
After working with the wood that some call an anomaly since 2006, Kendall Derby wants his In the Sticks juniper sawmill at Fossil to be the market leader for producing quality juniper lumber.
Just a year ago on November 12, the Arlington Church of the Nazarene was destroyed by an arson fire. This weekend they will have a ground breaking ceremony for their new church. After the devastating fire, the congregation was determined to rebuild in our fair city.
Arlington councilors heard a letter from AHS senior Muris Mustafic, who, as a senior project, has proposed making the letter ‘A’ on the east hill bigger and better and use solar powered lighting. Mustafic will raise funds for the project.
25 years ago—
A visitor to Fossil, Richard Warner of Corona, California, was digging fossils behind the high school and found a perfect Dawn Redwood fossil with both sides intact. Mr. Warner donated the find to the Fossil Museum.
Fire consumed nearly 600 tons of hay at the John Burns cattle ranch east of Condon on Halloween morning, keeping firefighters busy into the evening. The fire, thought to have started from a feed truck parked nearby, claimed the feed truck, a John Deere tractor and a hay chopper.
50 years ago—
Not since the boom years of the early 1920’s have there been so many people in the small community of Olex as there were Sunday when more than 250 people were present for the observance of the 100th birthday of the Olex Post Office, the first in Gilliam County. A highlight of the day was when students now enrolled in the Olex School played an active part in the celebration. As the audience faced the rolling hills, they could clearly see children on horseback stationed on various hills. At the sound of a signal, the horsemen emulated the Pony Express riders delivering the mail, with young Marion Weatherford racing down a long hill right up to the edge of the crowd with a mail sack.
Student musicians from all over the state are members of the 160-piece marching band at Oregon State University. This year the band will go to Palo Alto, California for the Stanford-OSU football game and will present the half-time show for the San Francisco-Los Angeles professional football game the following day. Members of the band include Janet Griener of Condon, who is a freshman at OSU.
75 years ago—
That Condon is in the midst of a building boom was further emphasized this week when excavation started for a new garage building on the east side of Main Street between John & Ethel’s Café and the Union Service Sation operated by Sherrell Motor Co. The building is being built by James D. Burns.
H.J.’s Cash Grocery store has undergone a remodeling process and customers have been confronted with “where the heck is…” for the past week. All new and modern shelving and counters have been installed.
From Kinzua News: Four houses in Searcy Canyon that have been unoccupied for a long time are being repaired and will be occupied by families as soon as ready.
100 years ago—
A good wife is one who knows more than her husband but doesn’t allow him to suspect it.
Wasco won the football game on Saturday from the Arlington High School team, 79 to 0. The game was the first in the upper Columbia league.
Mr. Winters, principal of the county high school, received word that the Moro high school team will not be in Condon tomorrow for the game advertised. The parents of some of the students on the Moro team refused to allow them to come.
From the Condon Times 1910—
The Times called attention some time ago to the significance of thumb and finger marks. Now it transpires that a man who committed a murder left the print of his fingers on a fresh painted balustrade. The evidence of the finger prints may be enough to convict him. You read it first in The Condon Times.
Governor Bowerman arrived home on Saturday and ever since has been busy in his office cleaning up the large amount of business which accumulated during his absence. Mr. Bowerman takes his defeat for Governor easily and is attending to his law practice as if nothing had occurred to mar the even tenor of his way.
H. Grebe lost a fountain pen somewhere round town on Tuesday last. Anyone bringing the pen to the Times office will be paid a dollar reward. If an honest party found the article we expect to get it, if a rogue, goodbye pen.
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