The J.C. Penney Co in the East Oregonian on Oct. 13, 1923, advertises bath towels for 25 cents and “True Blue” blouses for 79 cents. The EO did not have an edition on Oct. 14 that year because it was a Sunday.

100 years ago

The death of Joseph T. Hinkle occurred at his home near Hermiston Sunday at 12:30 p.m. after an illness covering a period of about three years.

Mr. Hinkle was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky on November 2, 1866 and came to Umatilla County with his parents in March, 1882, settling in the Northern portion of this county in the Juniper district. Here he continued to reside for several years and here he returned to teach in the public schools of that district after his marriage to Miss Ada Cooper, in Idaho in 1884. While thus engaged he took up the study of law until he was admitted to practice at the Pendleton bar in October, 1987. He was subsequently admitted to practice in all the courts of Oregon, Washington and Idaho and in the Supreme County of the United States.

75 years ago

A stray shot which wounded a deer hunter near here Sunday has landed Orbie Rivers, 28, of Umatilla, in jail.

C. J. D. Bauman, sheriff of Morrow county, reported that Rivers is charged with pointing a gun at another, an indictable misdemeanor, and is to be held for grand jury in November.

Victim of the shooting was John McNabb, 25, of Umatilla. Sheriff Bauman reported that the accident occurred at government Springs in Morrow county.

“Rivers had been drinking,” the sheriff said, “and after he had fired one show in the air a companion told him to ‘knock it off.’ But Rivers fired again, that time hitting McNabb in the leg.”

Sheriff Bauman reported that Rivers had admitted that he had “had some beer.”

W. G. Dickerhauff, chief of police at Umatilla, arrested Rovers on a warrant issued by J. O. Hager, justice of the peace for Morrow county at Heppner. He is being held in jail in lieu of $1,500 bail.

McNabb still is in the hospital here.

25 years ago

The company that owns mills in Heppner and Pilot Rock has changed its name and sold 360,000 acres of commercial timberland. But operation of the mills is expected to continue without change.

“They aren’t affected by it,” spokeswoman Jenny Ulum said of the two mills.

Pioneer Resources announced Tuesday it has sold 360,000 acres in northern California and Eastern Oregon and Washington to Strategic Timber Trust, headquartered in New London, N.H. The holdings include about 1.7 billion board feet of timber, primarily Douglas for, second growth redwoods and pine.

Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Ulum said the sale of the land will not hinder the supply of timber to the two mills. “Part of the agreement is to continue to provide the timber the mills need,” she said.

Greg Demers, founder of Pioneer Resources, will become a member of the board of directors of Strategic Timber Trust. But the Demers Group, made up of Demers and other Pioneer partners, will continue to own and operate the Pilot Rock and Heppner sawmills under a company called Frontier Resources.