100 years ago

August 2, 1917 — While the Russian women’s battalion, known officially as the “Command of Death,” went into action against the Germans near Smorogon on July 25, they captured a number of women, from who it was learned for the first time that German women also were fighting on the battle front in Western Russia. Ten wounded heroines of the womens battalion arrived in Petrograd leaving their commander, Vera Butchkareff and Marya Skrydloff, the daughter of Admiral Skrydloff, the former commander of the Baltic fleet and Minister of Marine, in a hospital at Vitebsk. Interviewed the women said it was reported that of the 200 of the command who reached the front, only 50 remained. Twenty were killed, eight were taken prisoner and all the rest were wounded.

75 years ago

July 30, 1942 — Second wave of potato flea beetles is now coming out of the ground in large numbers to infest potato fields generally throughout the area, according to information received from County Agent G.V. Hagglund this week. Dave Anderson, entomologist from Oregon State College, who checked potato fields Wednesday, said that the infection was quite heavy in certain spots. Anderson stated that dusting is imperative now, as the next three weeks are critical. He was accompanied on his tour by C.A. Loop. Hagglund suggests that growers use an insect net to determine whether or not dusting is necessary, in order to save considerable time and expense. Growers sometimes dust when it is not necessary to do so, causing useless expense while at other times growers fail to dust when it is necessary, bringing about losses in the potato crop and greatly increasing the size of cull piles.

50 years ago

August 3, 1967 — Headed by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John A. Baker and Edward P. Cliff, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman’s advisory committee on multiple use of the national forests was scheduled to arrive Wednesday noon at Redmond Air Center. The national committee, on a five-day field trip Aug. 1 to 5, will spend two days touring the Deschutes National Forest and the Crooked River National Grassland of the Ochoco National forest. M.M. Nelson, deputy chief for management of the National Forest System, came from Washington with Baker and Cliff. Alfred Spauling, deputy regional forester, is with the committee as Regional Forester Charles A. Connaughton was unable to make the trip. He is being assisted in conducting the tour of the Mt. Hood, Deschutes, Willamette, and Ochoco forests by Philip A. Briegleb, director of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station.

25 years ago

July 29, 1992 — Bungee jumping has come to Redmond, but not without stirring up some concerns. The concerns of some city officials about the operation of a bunjee-jumping concession in Redmond during fair week seemed to be assuaged by the company’s owner and bungee consultant during Tuesday’s Redmond city council meeting. Ken Evans, owner of Kee-A-Bungee, assured the council that his firm has at least doubled every precaution and installed virtually every safety measure possible in the bungee-jumping operation at Northwest Fifth and Dogwood. Kee-A-Bungee will offer jumps from a 150-foot crane throughout fair week.