Days of Yore: Novemnet 28, 2024

Days of Yore for November 28, 2024

10 years ago—

One of Gilliam County’s largest tax payers called on the Gilliam Co. Assessor’s office last week bearing a ceremonial check for a formal presentation, representing the wind farm company’s $2,109,000 property tax payment. EDP Renewables operates the Rattlesnake and the Wheatfield wind farms on farm land just west of Arlington.

After a devastating arson fire that destroyed their historic church about a year ago, the Arlington Church of the Nazarene broke ground for their new sanctuary.

25 years ago—

Wheeler County District Attorney Tom Cutsforth survived a recall effort in a mail-in election which culminated Tuesday. The final count was 300 in favor of recalling and 375 opposing the recall effort.

Doc and Jule Donnelly were in Portland last weekend where they attended the opera. Mrs. Donnelly is planning her annual Christmas party at Service Creek in December.

Sarah Rucker and a group of kids from different sewing groups in Arlington made a trip to The Dalles to donate fleece hats the kids had made to the oncology department of Mid-Columbia Medical Center. An afghan made from crocheted and knitted squares was given to the Women’s Shelter at The Dalles.

50 years ago—

In the early morning hours of November 13, the Kinzua Mercantile was broken into and $484 was taken from an unlocked safe. Since then one juvenile has been apprehended for the actual burglary, and three other juveniles, among whom the money was distributed. Entry to the Mercantile was gained through a barred window. However, the widest space between the bars was a mere six inches. “I don’t know how, but he squeezed through there somehow!” mused Wheeler County Sheriff Otho Caldera.

The Arlington earth slide and accompanying fissures are in the news again. The largest fissure has now opened up to 20 feet across and is reported by some who have seen it as ‘only a dirt slide’ and by others ‘a horrendous thing’. There are still no real facts as to its cause.

75 years ago—

The store at Camp 5 is under new management this week. The new owner is Mr. Van Horn of Lexington. Dick Holton will still run the store for the new owner.

The Irma Pattee barn and winter’s supply of alfalfa hay, straw and other feed burned to the ground last week. It was discovered in time to save a milk cow and thoroughbred horse that were in the barn. The Pattees reside on the former E.R. Stanton ranch where two houses have burned, as well as two barns.

Voters in Gilliam County will have the opportunity to pass a $225,000 bond issue for the purpose of building and equipping a new high school at Arlington.

100 years ago—

Bill Wilkins recently paid a freak election bet lost to J.D. Weed, when he rolled a peanut with his nose, along the sidewalk the width of Weed’s law office. Some of the onlookers accused Bill of working the peanut behind his glasses before he made the start. But others say he fulfilled the terms of the wager with both eyes open and his nose hitting on all four.

Carley Seaberger, an Arlington man, for whom a warrant had been issued on a charge of bootlegging, escaped from the officers who went to his home to arrest him. He asked to be allowed to go into the house to build a fire for his wife before he left – and walked out the back door, and to date he is still going.

The directors of the Mayville school district took action to close the school there for two weeks, on account of more cases of diphtheria in that little city.

From the Condon Times 1910—

Art Barnum, of Moro, Sherman County, shipped a car of yearling beef to Portland last week. The cattle were thoroughbred stock and weighed over 1000 pounds each. The Benson Commission Co., who handled it, said the car of beef was the finest the company ever saw or sold. How’s that for Eastern Oregon?

Horace Vose, of Westerley, R.I., who supplies the turkey for the White House each Thanksgiving, evidently got the box labeled wrong when he shipped a thirty pound bird to President Taft for this year’s dinner, as the turkey did not arrive at its destination, and the chief executive had to be content with a mess of spare ribs.

Walter and Wallace Dodge and Jay and Clyde Mayfield were at the John Day River the first of the week hunting geese. They bagged a few of the feathery fellows.