Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at Deschutes County Historical Society.

100 Years ago

For the week ending

Nov. 4, 1917

Russia out 
of war for winter

The Russian embassy has announced that while temporarily withdrawing from active military participation in the war, Russia will not make a separate peace. It is admitted that the tremendous struggle to establish a stable government after the revolution in that country has worn it out. Until next spring, at least, Russia is shunting the burden of active warfare on the shoulders of the allies.

Secretary of State Robert Lansing declared that any statement that Russia is quitting the war is entirely unwarranted. Petrograd dispatches quoting Alexander Kerensky as saying that Russia must turn the war burdens over to the allies created great consternation here.

The participation of the Slavs is important because 1,500,000 Germans, Austrians and Turks are engaged on the eastern front. Russian peace would release great forces of Teutons for the Italian and French offensives.

Announcement 
to our customers:

There has never before in the history of the United States been a time when the prices of foodstuffs and wearing apparel have been as high as they are now and the present credit system of trade necessarily make them still higher than they should be, so high in fact that it is difficult for the average consumer to save money to tide him over the days of possible illness, old age, or for any other reason, a reduced earning capacity.

The merchant can purchase his goods at a discount if he has the cash to pay with and this discount can go to the consumer which is impossible under the credit system.

Some customers fail to pay their accounts. No matter how careful the merchant may be, he is sure to lose some in this way and must raise prices.

On account of this saving benefit to the customer we are beginning November 1st, placing our business on a strictly cash basis and will sell all items at a reduced price.

This reduction may not seem large on each article, but just think what the saving each day will mean to you in a month or a year.

We will be glad to recommend to any other merchant our customers who still wish to trade on credit but we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to save your money. Bennett’s grocery.

75 Years ago

For the week ending

Nov. 4, 1942

Childless married men will be reclassified for draft

The army’s need for men has reached the point where continued deferment of physically fit men will be based increasingly on essential usefulness in civilian life, selective service officials said today.

Married men who have children remain at the bottom of the draft lists regardless of the nature of their jobs, but those with wives only are being rapidly reclassified on an occupation basis and very many of them soon will be called.

This reclassification is based on a list of 34 essential industries issued in July. The selective service headquarters has urged local boards to speed the reclassification because pools of single men are about exhausted.

Married men who have any job in one of the 34 essential industries are being reclassified as 3B.

This soldier really good: bayonets deer

The night was dark. The soldiers crouched with fixed bayonets on a practice raiding drill in the mountain country west off Colorado Springs.

Suddenly a dark form dashed at the soldiers.

Corporal Floyd Kephart lunged out with his bayonet instinctively.

And then when they turned on a flashlight, a fellow soldier reported today, the soldiers saw Corporal Kephart had bayoneted a deer — probably the first case of its kind on hunting or military records.

Nazi saboteur trial resumed

Judge William J. Campbell today admitted as evidence in the trial of six persons for treasonable aid to Saboteur Herbert Haupt a statement signed by one of the defendants asserting that four of the defendants knew Haupt was a trained Nazi saboteur and had come to the United States by submarine.

The statement was signed by defendant Walter Froehling and given to the FBI after young Haupt was arrested prior to his trial and electrocution as a member of the eight-man submarine-borne Nazi sabotage mission against the United States.

The government is seeking to prove that Haupt’s parents, his aunt and uncle, his wife and two friends aided young Haupt in full knowledge of his intention to sabotage the American war effort.

50 Years ago

For the week ending

Nov. 4, 1967

Stage is set for “Pinafore” at Bend High

The stage is set for the Bend High Music Department’s production of the famed two-act Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore.” It will be presented tomorrow and Saturday night in the Bend High School Auditorium.

The operetta, first presented in May 1878 in London, ran 700 consecutive nights. It takes place on board a ship in the harbor of Portsmouth, England.

Principal characters in the operetta: Barry Rogers as Sir Joseph Porter; Eric McKaig as Captain Corcoran; Koby Kemple as Ralph Rackstraw; Lew Constable as Dick Deadeye; Jim Shotwell as the boatswain; John Holmes, the carpenter; Colleen Hogan as Josephine; Jessica Dearth as Hebe and Anne Carson as Little Buttercup.

Admission will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for students. The majority of proceeds will go towards sending the Bend High Band to the Shrine Game in San Francisco this year.

Today marks anniversary 
of early wagon encampment

Out of the north 100 years ago, on Nov. 4, 1867, moved a long train of army wagons to make camp on the Deschutes River at a site known to early day Indians as Wychick Ford at the present site of Pioneer Park.

The wagon train was carrying supplies from Fort Dalles to Indians on the Fort Klamath reservation. With the train were 70 soldiers and a group of Klamath and Modoc scouts.

With the train were 60 head of cattle. On the night before some cattle and horses had been stolen by nomadic bands of Indians.

Heading the supply train was J.W.P. Huntington, superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon. To guard the supply train, he had asked that soldiers and Indian scouts join the train through the “Indian country”. There were also some scouts in the party.

One of the scouts was the late Captain O.C. Applegate, later a colorful figure in the Klamath country.

Captain Applegate recalled that a company of axemen preceded the wagons to cut a road through the pines. That rugged route was the beginning of U.S. Highway 97.

Although a heavy guard accompanied the trains, raids by the Piutes had subsided a bit. The leader of the nomadic warriors had been killed a few months earlier. The leader was Chief Paulina.

When the wagons stopped here 100 years ago, Bend was not even marked by cabins of stockmen, who were to come shortly later. There were no towns, though Prineville was beginning to feel the stir of life, with Barney Prine filing on a homestead that was to give Prineville its name. This was in 1868.

Later, when Captain Applegate was in Bend in 1929, he watched the construction of the Great Northern Railroad south toward the Klamath basin. The steel line followed the route of the 1967 wagon train.

25 Years ago

For the week ending

Nov. 4, 1992

‘Sense’ rules last 
bellwether county

Want to feel the pulse of America on Election Day?

Turn off the television. Forget the polls and pundits. Grab a cup of coffee and step onto the porch of Merle and Kay Kellogg’s log house, high on Grizzly Mountain.

There’s not a campaign poster in sight — just the little town of Prineville in the valley below, an oasis of quiet streets and modest homes. Gazing off this landscape toward the mountainous horizon makes you feel you can see clear across America.

In a way, you can.

This is Crook County, the nation’s last bellwether county. In every presidential election since 1884, voters here have picked the candidate who won the nation’s popular vote, from Grover Cleveland to George Bush.

It’s a record unmatched among the nation’s 3,106 counties, ever since Iowa’s Palo Alto County lost bellwether status by siding with Walter Mondale in 1984.

Some say it’s luck that makes Crook County get it right. But spend time here, and it becomes clear something more is at work.

“Common sense,” declares Merle Kellogg. He is a builder of houses and a man whose political philosophy is as simple and sturdy as the pine-plank kitchen table he’s pounding on to make his point.

Common sense — “If I like the guy, I vote for him. I don’t care if he is Republican or Democrat. I don’t care whether he’s going to win or lose.”

Bellwether tolls no more

Crook County blew its bellwether status Tuesday.

Until it went for George Bush, Crook had been the only county in the country to side with the popular vote winner in every presidential election,

The Central Oregon county, which began voting in presidential elections in 1884, shared its bellwether status with Iowa’s Palo Alto County until 1984. Palo Alto broke its string that year by going for Walter Mondale.

Real clown telegraphs 
a tip to ‘Bozo’ Clinton

Bozo the clown has some advise for Bill Clinton, who President Bush dubbed a latter-day “Bozo” during the campaign: Just keep laughing.

Larry Harmon, who played Bozo on television, sent Clinton a telegram congratulating him for winning the presidential election.

“I feel it’s an honor to have been so recognized and wish you all the best in the days to come,” wrote Harmon, who noted he’d been Bozo for 43 years, since Clinton was 3.

“And remember what your old pal ‘Bozo’ always says, “Just keep laughing.”