Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

March 3, 1921

C.O. Griffin has completed the book case for the Red Cross library and it has been installed in the commercial club rooms. The case is a fine piece of cabinet work and is an ornament to the new county library. Several hundred new volumes have been received and the Delphian society has about finished the work of classifying and listing.

The building program of the Wyoming University at Laramie is now in shape to be prosecuted vigorously. As a result of the work of the sixteenth state legislature, adequate funds will be available to push the work of construction as rapidly as featurable, assuming of course, that the federal oil royalties yield returns as large as the members of the legislature anticipate. Construction work will be commenced on the heating plant and the woman’s dormitory as soon as plans can be completed and contracts let.

75 Years Ago

Feb. 28, 1946

The three members of the Crook County Draft board, Lee Waddell of Moorcroft and Sidney Harvey and Joe Allread of Sundance were decorated recently at Cheyenne, Wyoming when they received the Congressional Selective Service medal for patriotic service to their country. The medal is of bronze, and along with it each member received a distinctive lapel ribbon.

Bud and Arthur Roberts became the new owners of the Moorcroft blacksmith shop recently when they purchased that business from Kelly Etheridge. Bud Roberts has been carrying the Rocky Point mail and freight for the past several years and Arthur who has worked at the mechanical trade at Moorcroft for quite a number of years.

Harry E. Clingan, a discharged World War II veteran, has opened a radio repair shop in Sundance and is now ready for business. The new shop will be known as Western Radio Repair Service, and is located in the Sundance Electric building.

50 Years Ago

Mar. 4, 1971

Two Sundance racers placed in the money Sunday at Deadwood in the oval track Winter snowmobile races. Barbara Glick, Sundance, running in the Powder Puff section, won $7.50 when she placed second with an Arctic Cat in the 0-340 class. In the modified 0-295 class, Jim Clark, driving a Ski-Doo placed third and won $30.

Lightning does strike three times in the same place as Coach Earl Gray’s Sundance high school wrestlers proved Saturday night at Casper by winning the state Class B wrestling championship for the third consecutive year. The Bulldogs, who piled up 82 points, had only one state champion, Randy Proctor. Tom Pridgeon, who had won state championships two years in a row, fought his way into the 145-lb. championship bout but had to forfeit the match because of an injury. Moorcroft’s Wolves placed second.