Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

April 6, 1922

Arthur J. Robinson, son of John Robinson, the old time sawmill man of Crook County, and Barbara Beach, of Broadus, Mont. were married at Belle Fourche, Saturday Mar. 25.

An indication of how Crook County livestock can come through the winter season, A.O. Banks informs the times that he wintered 400 sheep through the late severe season with a loss of only four head.

J.G. Bush arrived Monday from Oakland, California, where he spent the winter with his family. Although Mr. Bush has retired from his long service with the Sundance State Bank, he is still a large property holder in Crook County and will still devote the summer looking after these interests.

75 Years Ago

April 3, 1947

Kenneth Dudrey, Sundance baseball hurler and all-around athlete, has gone into spring baseball training at San Diego, California with a Pocatello Club, which is one of the "farm" clubs of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dudrey has a contract with the Dodgers.

We learned this week that Ben Justice has sold his ranch located about 10 miles south of Sundance to a Mr. Inglehoff of Nemo, S.D. The entire ranch consisted of 2080 acres, but a short time ago a portion of the land was sold to Edwards Bros. The Justices will move into Sundance to live.

It is reported to the The Sundance Times that a group of residents of Sundance will petition the town council for the services of a night marshal at the special meeting of the town council Wednesday. Because there have been many instances of misdemeanors in town, drunkenness and disturbances of the peace and no way to control it without the presence of the law, it is felt by the group that it would be wise for the city to hire the service.

50 Years Ago

April 6, 1972

Sundance High School juniors Louis Morris and Clayr Alexander were selected Tuesday by the Sundance American Legion to attend the American Legion's Boys State program in June.

25 Years Ago

April 3, 1997

Recently Jeff Gregson, son of Glenn and Dorothy Gregson of Sundance, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. Although trained as a helicopter pilot, Jeff is currently assigned as an instructor in the Army's Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS.

Carol Farver, 5th grade teacher at Sundance Elementary, has been selected as a participant at the fifth annual Teacher Forum to be in Washington D.C. Farver's name was submitted and an applicant to the Wyoming Teacher of the Year. She was runner-up and her name was subsequently suggested for the Teacher Forum.