110 years ago
July 30, 1914
Seldom has this community been so grievously shocked as when the news was received Saturday morning that Miss Viola Truesdale had been shot and killed and her sister, Pauline, seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of a revolver at Tacoma, Washington. The girls left their home at Powell Butte the first of this month to visit relatives in Tacoma and it was just as they were preparing to come home that the tragedy occurred.
Following is an account of the tragedy as take from the Tacoma papers:
“My God, I’m shot!”
With the cry upon her lips, Viola Truesdale, aged 17, of Redmond, Oregon, formerly of Tacoma, dropped to the sidewalk at Titlow Beach on Friday afternoon and expired in the arms of her sister, Pauline. Both had been victims of a single bullet, when a revolver carried by Deputy Sheriff George Ashby of Tacoma accidentally dropped to the sidewalk and was discharged in the midst of a crowd of people about to enter an auto bus for Tacoma.
75 years ago
July 28, 1949
An old time fiddler’s contest will be held at the Crooked River Roundup grounds Saturday night, Aug. 6 – the night before the annual reunion and picnic of the Crook County Pioneer association. Alvin Grimes and Arthur Michel, members of the committee in charge of the fiddlers’ contest, reported today the winner in the Saturday night event will be presented on the program at the pioneer picnic in the city park on Sunday, Aug. 7.
50 years ago
July 29, 1974
The Crook County Court and the Prineville City Council met last week in a special joint meeting to work toward further cooperation between the city and county government.
The major plan discussed was a proposed new city-county planning department. Jim Watson, city administrator, and Dick Brown, Crook County Planning Director, proposed that Brown head the new department.
Watson stated that “a city-county planner makes a lot more sense to me than a city planner and a county planner.” He went on to say “it would free up our engineer (Ralph Willes) to do what he is trained to do.”
Under the present organization, the city of Prineville has no planning staff but receives staff support from Willes while the county is staffed by Brown and one full-time secretary.
25 years ago
July 29, 1999
Karen Shaw hasn’t worn any holes in her shoes yet, but it’s pretty likely that she will soon. Only about halfway into her trek across Oregon on foot from Medford to Joseph, Shaw has a few blisters to show for her efforts to bring awareness to community involvement around issues of the year 2000 or Y2K.
Shaw was traveling through Prineville on her way to Mitchell earlier this week and took a few moments to explain her reasons for traveling along on foot across the state.
Her goal is to increase public awareness of the many positive and practical resources available in “the community resilience, emergency preparedness movement.”
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