Chieftain Notes
Contributions from Jim Reavis
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Bicycles and Good Roads. A bicycle club
was organized in this city last Thursday evening. The
following officers were elected: President, W. P. Samms;
vice-president, D. W. Sheahan; secretary-treasurer, G.
M. Hendrickson; captain, F. A. Clarke. Mark Homan Buys
Organ
Mark Homan has bought an organ. Music reigns
supreme, the children are happy and so are the rest of
us. Hack Better Than
Wheel Wallowa; Gen. Hedger, Enterprise’s enterprising jeweler stopped over night on his way to Elgin, but owing to the rain was glad to exchange his wheel for a seat in Lucien Tulley’s hack. Fruita:Mr. Balter and M. Blevans are freighting for the Chase Bros. Sept. 17, 1897 Clato Shackleford, a former resident of this county is again located on Alder Slope. He is Working for Ben Boswell. Sam Pace was in town Monday and said he helped to thresh some wheat for his brother John, that went 25 bushels to the acre. Miss Maude Craig started for Elgin last Saturday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Dishman where she will visit for a short time and then visit friends and relatives at Hood River and Salem. She will probably be gone about three or four weeks. V. S. Lewis has been hauling his household goods to town this week and will have his hotel ready for court. He has had the Old Burleigh House renovated and fixed up in good style. He will change the name to “Grand Central Hotel” Lostine Has New
Paper. Lostine came to the front last week with a brand spanking new paper, purporting to be independent in politics, but the average citizen of Wallowa County knows its editor well enough to know that he has not weakened on his populistic proclivities and as dodged behind this old time shield, thinking he will “ketch ‘em agagwins and acomia’”, The Leader was generally well gotten up and presents the news of Lostine in a readable manner and will be a credit to the town. John A. Bookout and Jas, J. Dougherty made final proof on their homesteads last Saturday before A. C. Smith, U. S. Commissioner. Jas. Hays of Alder Slope has his new house nearly completed. He said that last week he hauled four loads of the finest lumber he ever saw from A. H. Meek’s mill on Prairie Creek. H. W. Beecher was in town Saturday trying to find somebody to help him thresh. Hands are a scarce article at present. Shavings For
Carpet R. W. Bloom and sons carpeted the court house last Saturday with shavings. Miss Orpha Stubblefield has returned from a visit on the Imnaha. Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Funk on Saturday Sept. 18, a fine baby boy. J. P. Gardner and sons, Don, Jewett and Alfred started for Portland last Tuesday to attend the Mechanics’ and State Fair. Oct. 1, 1897 Chas. E. Lewis celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his birthday last Friday. Oct. 1, 1897 Dan Warnock says he will probably take his horse “Populist” out to the La Grande fair. A wrestling match between Clarence Luttrell and a Lapwai Indian was pulled off last Sunday in the rear of the Brown Front Livery Stable. Clarence was too much for the Sslwash and threw him the first two falls. Dr. Palsy and Prof. Hanville of Lostine were visitors Saturday. Mr. Hanville will have charge of the academy at Lostine this winter. J. S. Horner was in town last Monday night, enroute for Tacoma, where he is taking his two daughters, Maggie and Mable, who will live with Mr. Horner’s sister. The girls will stay two or three years. Oct. 9, 1897 Messrs. Bater, Ault, Sheshan, and Frank Reavis made a bicycle trip to Lostine last Sunday, Bater and Sheahan went on to Wallowa and returned. Two Marriages
Reported. Married: In Joseph last Thursday evening, Mr. Frank Hambelton and Miss Essie Tyler. Married: On Oct. 3, in the M. E. Church, Mr. Bayard R. Oliver and Miss Minnie Barton, both of Wallowa, Rev. Deweese officiating. The Enterprise Public schools opened Monday with a total attending of 89?. Thirteen have so far entered the Academy department. Those numbers will be greatly increased as soon as harvest is over and the fall work done. The teachers in charge are U.S. and C. A. Dotson and Alice Wilson. Oct. 22, 1897 Willie Zurcher brought a beet to our office last week that weighed 13 pounds. Forsythe moves
Drug Store E. J. Forsythe has moved his drug store into the building formerly occupied by R. C. Greig. L. J. Pizell with a force of men, has began work on Ott’s brewery. The work will be pushed to completion at an early date. The Indians have quite a curiosity to talk over the telephone. Nearly every day during the summer some “siwash” would have one of his tillieums called up at Lostine or Joseph. Last Friday Indian Enoch called A. C. Smith to the phone and bid him good-bye saying he was going away the next day. Gill-Hinton
Wedding Hinton-Gill: Edward H. Hinton and Miss Lizzie Gill, both of Chesnimnus were united in marriage last Wednesday morning at 7:30, Rev. Samms officiating. They left soon after the ceremony for their home on the Chesnimnus on horseback. The chieftain wishes them a happy trip over the hills and through the vales of married life. It was rather an amusing sight to see some of Enterprise’s young hopefuls last Monday evening engaged in a “blooded” ten seat game of seven-up with some young Indians. D. W. Otto, a former good citizen of Wallowa County, after spending the summer looking for a better country, returned last Saturday. He says there may be better places than Wallowa County, but they are all occupied. The Lostine contingent who attended the dance at Joseph last Saturday night met with very bad luck. They had two breakdowns. The party consisted of Guy McCully, John Gray, Scott Henderson, Don Gardner, Ed Cullen, and Howard Bersoe. David Diggins, one of the prosperous farmers of Prairie Creek mad our office a business call on Tuesday. Mr. Diggins has lately added to his already broad acres the J. C. Hutchinson farm, the first and one of the very best homesteads in the county. Mr. Diggins by faithful attention to business, proves that farming does pay. Salmon Run Heavy The fall run of salmon is fully equal to that of other years. Hundreds are caught every day. John Weaver and Frank Millard who are working on Ott’s brewery, killed ten in one forenoon. The banks of all the creeks are strewn with salmon carcasses. A very pretty wedding was that which took place in the Presbyterian Church at Joseph Wednesday evening. The contracting parties were Fred McCully and Miss Margaret Gally both of Joseph. Dec. 3, 1897 The football game at Joseph last Saturday between Enterprise and Joseph resulted in a victory for Joseph by a score of 22 to 8. The Enterprise line up was as follows: Will Allen, center; Will Luttrell, guard; Elbert Luttrell guard; Les C. Henderson, tackle; Mark Graves tackle; Chas. Ratcliff, end; John Hansen, end; C. A. Dotson, full; Clarence Luttrell, quarter; Colonel Graves, half; Carl Roehalf. Goes on Annual
Visit D. B. Reavis left on Monday’s stage to pay his yearly visit to his sons at La Grande and his daughter at Wattsburg, Washington. His many friends wish him a good time and a safe return. The genial Tom Marks of Imnaha, was in town on Monday, he says times are lively, and prosperity noticeable in all lines. The school which all the young people attend is prospering nicely under the efficient management of Miss Amy Fleet, and nobody has cause to regret that they live on the Imnaha. Wallowa Items. Fred Holmes prominent druggist of Island City, brother of E. A. Holmes of this place and W. R. Holmes of Enterprise, was a visitor in Wallowa this week with his brother and has now gone to Enterprise for a visit with his brother W. R. S. F. Pace, George and John Wood and Marshall Boatman of Lostine were in town Friday evening and attended the meeting of Highland Tent K. O. T. M.
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