Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

Jan, 1922

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75 Years Ago

Jan. 22, 1947

Listing several projects as the Wyoming’s Reclamation Association’s fiscal year program in Wyoming, that association’s latest bulletin has reached the editor’s desk. Among the projects listed is the Keyhole Dam Project on the Belle Fourche River about 15 miles southwest of Devils Tower. The report says that this project involves a storage capacity of 276,000 acre feet primarily for lands in South Dakota. For the present fiscal year $200,000 has been provided for this project. Work for the year will involve the starting of construction of the access road and the completion of preconstruction work, including designs and specifications for the dam structure.

To further determine the feasibility of extending proposed lines, to get new signers for the use of electricity and to discuss the advantages of rural electrification, four meetings have been scheduled in the county the last of this month by L.G. Landers, manager of the Tri-County Electric Association. All ranchers and others interested in securing electrical energy from the R.E.A. are urged to attend one of these meetings. Results of these meetings will determine whether additional allotments can be obtained for extending R.E.A. lines.

50 Years Ago

Jan. 27, 1972

A coming three-year-old Hereferd bull, bred by Schelldorf Herefords was sold for $6000 at last week’s Denver Stock Show. SHR Perfector 908, reserve champion at the 1971 Wyoming State Fair, was voted among the top ten bulls at the Denver show by spectators and headed his class at the show.

Fourteen Sundance High School speech students will attend the Sheridan invitational speech tournament this Friday and Saturday. Competing in the meet will be: Debbie Jones and Debby Lamb, debate; Lois Barnes and Linda Barnes, girls’ extemporaneous; Charles Shelton, boys’ extemporaneous; Donna Crawford, oratory; Shannon Lee, Judy Carson, Harry Vore, dramatic; Faye Carlson, Jody Beagle and Melody Rathbun, humorous; and Wanda Hejde and Connie Bell, poetry.

25 Years Ago

Jan. 22, 1998

Over 450 of Wyoming’s best high school music students met in Riverton for the 1998 Wyoming All-State Band, Orchestra and Choir. Three Hulett students were selected to perform with the All-State band. Nicole Pilcher, a junior, played the clarinet in her first trip; Julie Johnson, a sophomore, returned for her second year and plays the French horn; and Spencer Clark, a junior, played the trombone for his third year in this prestigious group.