1926 — 100 years ago
A display of four Netted Gem potatoes was presented to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday by F. Tompkins.
R. J. Phillips, 52, Chapman block, was fined $75 [a little over $1,400 in 2026 dollars] in the recorder’s court this morning for possession of three-fourths of a gallon of moonshine whiskey.
All city police, railroad detectives and several deputy sheriffs entered into a concerted campaign last night to trap or clear the city of an outlaw, or group of outlaws, who have been doing considerable thievery in this district in the past few days ... Robbery of a section house at Quentin, near Arlington ... Theft of a pig and eight steer hides from the slaughterhouse... Theft of quantity of tools at Dufur ... Looting of a half-dozen automobiles ... located only one man, a harmless old hobo.
Armistice day will be a dry affair for nearly 200 Hood River celebrators, it was made known today with the announcement that a consignment of 190 pints of moonshine whiskey had been seized last night by Deputy Sheriff Glenn Sloat and destroyed.
— The Dalles Chronicle
Last Sunday, members of the Hood River Crag Rats were all set to scale Wind Mountain when it was reported by one of the “Rats” that 40 tons of vinegar apples were at the Ralph Jarvis ranch ready to be hauled to the vinegar plant and nobody ready to haul them. Mr. Jarvis was making preparations to haul these apples, when death called him. The Crag Rats at once postponed the mountain trip and, with a couple of trucks loaned by the Annala boys, became as active as the animals from which they derive their name.
— Hood River News
W. G. Hufford, of Stevenson, who is connected with the State Department of Fisheries, was in town Tuesday from a trip to the Klickitat river where he looked over the falls two and a half miles north of Lyle, which had some time ago been shot so that chinook salmon could go up the river. It is expected that the state will in the near future build a hatchery further up the Klickitat. The past year two hatcheries have been built tributary to the Columbia ...
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
The tug Invader, operated by the Tidewater-Shaver company, went aground on the Oregon shore of the Columbia river near Mosier Sunday and was, at last report, about half submerged.
A four-year-old Carson girl was recovering in Hood River hospital Monday of this week after spending a cold night lost in the woods near Wind river.
— Hood River News
The Dalles will observe Armistice Day, Monday, with public services at the veterans plot in the Odd Fellows cemetery, and a general exodus in the afternoon to Hood River for the annual football classic.
Another artesian well, producing up to 2,000 gallons of water per minute, has been struck in the lower Three Mile area, on the Milton Martin place ...
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
The White Salmon school election—the ballot to decide the second of three levies to get a new high school went over favorably over most of the district in Tuesday’s election with 1216 votes cast.
Over 58 million board feet of state-owned timber will be offered for sale in 12 counties on December 27, as authorized by the Board of Natural Resources.
— White Salmon Enterprise
The wreckage of a single-engined airplane missing on a flight from Troutdale, Ore., to Wenatchee, was found yesterday and the pilot, C. C. Lawrence, Wenatchee, was taken to the hospital where his condition was listed as “good.”
An explanation of City of The Dalles policy designed to encourage fire protection by automatic sprinkling systems drew much discussion at the League of Oregon Cities ...
— The Dalles Chronicle
1986 — 40 years ago
Mid-Columbia Medical Center operates with essentially the same labor and cost market as the Portland Metropolitan area hospitals. ... Since July 1, 1984, federal changes in the Medicare reimbursement systems have resulted in set reimbursement rates which are lower for rural hospitals than for urban hospitals.
There were no definite answers on Wednesday, but Sen. Mark Hatfield is continuing work toward gaining final approval of the Columbia Gorge Bill and the plans for Riverfront Park in The Dalles two of the senators aides said.
— The Dalles Chronicle
School advisors are hoping the White Salmon School District Board of Directors will choose one of their alternatives to remedy the closed high school bleacher situation... The safety of the high school bleachers has been in question for some time.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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