Terray Harmon, Cheryl Green and Lee Langston contributed to this report.
Last week’s History Mystery, above, shows “The Dalles, January 1885, opposite the post office,” according to a partially visible label at the bottom of the print. It is from the digital archives of The Dalles Chronicle.
The same view, also taken in 1885, but without snow, can be found in the online photo archive at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. In that photograph the first business sign beyond the partial “Drugs” sign on left can be seen, and reads, “Stoves, Tinware & Hardware.” Just beyond that sign is one reading “Tobacco, Books and Stationery, Cigars.”
A third image, also found on the CGDC’s online collection, shows the “Old OWR&N shops at The Dalles,” during that same winter.
20 years ago – 1998
Thanksgiving arrives next week, and the holiday needn’t be lonely for anyone as preparations continue this week for the 10th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 26.
Construction has begun on a project to replace the Mill Creek pedestrian bridge swept away by the flood of 1996. Civil Construction Co. Inc., of The Dalles, began work about three weeks ago, starting a project that will culminate with the placement of a new footbridge across Mill Creek next spring.
The Chenowith Water Co-op wants to form a public utility district, so it won’t be taken over by the city. The move was spurred by the city’s talks of forming a plan for adding, or annexing, populated areas to the city — which would largely be the Chenoweth Area. “They (the water co-op members) don’t want annexation, the city should know that … it’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull,” said Chenowith Water Co-op Manager Dave Tipton.
SALEM (AP) — Gov. John Kitzhaber hasn’t said it in so many words, but the Oregon Health Plan, among his public policy trophies, could face problems in the next Legislature.
40 years ago – 1978
There are six bazaars in progress today in The Dalles. Four churches, The Dalles Art Center and Columbia Basin Nursing Home each have sales of special, hand-made Christmas gifts.
Should the legislature come back with property tax relief? You bet. That was the firm opinion Man on the Street found this week when he asked people what should happen now that ballot Measure 6 and 11 both failed.
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — Six prisoners were attempting to escape at the same time a tour by the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners was being staged at Rocky Butte jail Tuesday, the sheriff’s office confirmed Friday. Lt. Robert Skipper said the inmates succeeded in enlarging a hole in the wall made by workers installing new shower facilities in one of the cells, and crawled through a pipe loft and into the officers laundry room.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus is taking a new look at a federal ban on poisoning coyotes that western ranches say are destroying their sheep, according to Interior Department sources.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) — When Proctor and Gamble makes a mistake producing toothpaste, it can be a big one. “We do make batches in pretty good size lots — several thousand pounds,” company spokesman Joe Segretti says. The company recently obtained permission from the state Department of Environmental Quality to dump up to 10,000 pounds of toothpaste per day in the Iowa City Sanitary Landfill.
60 years ago – 1958
Front yard at home of Mrs. Harry Walther, 310 W. Eighth Street, was sheathed in ice Sunday night when she left sprinkler on to prevent water line freeze-up.
Testimony of witnesses this forenoon brought medical and other testimony on injuries that led to the death of Ethel Helen Jake as the murder trial of Douglas Jake moved into its second day in Wasco County Circuit Court.
The Dalles Women’s Club has undertaken a program to again spur interest in development of Sorosis Park and has called a meeting for Nov. 28 at 7:45 p.m. in the upstairs hall at the Pacific Power and Light Co. building.
Big George Coleman who knows a lot about steel working but not too much about wrestling, is shooting for the moon along with some of the country’s best known brass. Coleman’s ambition is to lift The Dalles championship trophy from off the corrugated brow of tough Tony Borne, present holder of the title.
BERLIN (UPI) — The Soviet Union accused the United States and West Germany today of using Russian refugees in the cold war against Russia.
(UPI) The spectacular and apparently successful halfway flight of another intercontinental Atlas brought the powerful missile a step closer today to the ocean-hopping capability for which it was designed. The Air Force did not disclose whether the Atlas, the nation’s first ICBM, achieved the objectives desired in the shoot late Monday night.
80 years ago – 1938
Winter, for all practical purposes, has arrived! Eight pairs of bloomers, hanging with other washed clothes on the line at the home of Paul Darnielle, 922 Elm street, were stolen last night, it was reported to city police. Other clothes remained untouched.
More than 300 memberships have been received to date in the local membership drive of the American Red Cross, according to an announcement by Mrs. Joseph Stadelman, who is acting as roll call chairman.
The sheriff’s office and state police today were investigating the reported entrance and burglary of the Woodcock Brother’s mill at Maupin last night, according to reports. Details of the burglary were not learned here.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Nov. 18. (UP)—Two navy aviators escaped death today when their single-seater combat planes collided in mid-air over San Miguel mountain 25 miles east of here while engaged in routine gunnery practice.
THE GROTTO, Pittsburgh, Nov. 18. (UP)—The first convention of the Congress of Industrial Organization adjourned sine die today after electing John L. Lewis to the presidency and calling on the government to oppose fascist economic and political penetration into the western hemisphere.
BERLIN, Nov. 18. (UP)—Germany completed a “psychological suspension” of relations with the United States today by ordering nazi ambassador, Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff to return to Berlin and explain President Roosevelt’s “strange attitude” toward recent events in the reich.
100 years ago – 1918
Many people attended the funeral services of George Ruch, octogenarian, one of the city’s earliest and most prominent residents, which were held yesterday afternoon in the I. O. O. F. cemetery under the auspices of the local Odd Fellows lodge. Bearers were E. C. Pease, C. W. Moores, S. S. Smith, Rex A. Ward, W. A. Kirby and Ed Kurtz.
Although scarcely in absolute charge as yet, H. T. Hopkins (Hop) new manager of the Northwest bureau of the United Press with headquarters at Portland, former editor of The Chronicle has introduced an innovation which will greatly increase the value of the service of the United Press organization. This is a northwest letter which will cover the northwest field in their style.
PARIS, Nov. 18.—A reception unparalleled by any known in history awaits President Wilson in Europe. The French call him the “man of victory,” the “man of peace,” and the “man who won liberty for mankind.” It is not expected here that he will remain longer than the first sittings of the peace conference, which are expected to begin the middle of December and last for some time. (No official word of any kind has come so far to indicate that President Wilson is going abroad, but the belief that he plans to make the trip appears to be firmly fixed in Europe.)
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