Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

August 23, 1923

Work has been progressing unusually well on the high school building, there being a full crew of carpenters and stone masons at the present. Arrangements are completed for laying the corner stone next Saturday at 4 p.m. under auspices of Sundance Lodge No. 9, A.F. & A.M. Invitations have been sent out to neighboring lodges and a large number of visitors are expected.

County enforcement officers went to Sand Creek Sunday and apprehended George Ferguson, who with his family had been camping on the banks of that placid stream since early summer. Ferguson is wanted on a charge of operating a still, the same having been found a short distance from his camp.

Tom and Dan Straight went over to Aladdin last week with a string of horses and wagons to move the large storasge tank of the Continental Oil Company to Sundance. The tank is of 20,000 gallon capacity, thirty feet long by ten feet in diameter and weighs seven tons. Naturally it is a risky load on a wagon, and the freighters had the misfortune to tip it over before getting far from Aladdin. They got loaded again and expect to get in sometime this week.

75 Years Ago

August 19, 1948

This week REA will energize their electrical line from Wyodak to Moorcroft, extending as far out as Much creek. This will provide electricity for electricity for everybody in Moorcroft and Mush Creek oil field, and the bentonite plants at Moorcroft.

William H. Blakeman, Crook County sheriff, tipped his Chevrolet sedan bottom side up sliding over the end of a bridge on the Farrell road through the Bearlodge. Luckily Blakeman himself suffered no injury, but the top of his car was smashed.

50 Years Ago

August 16, 1973

The Crook County Hospital Board selected Roger Vander Boom,. 50, Fairfax, Mo., a veteran hospital administrator, as the new administrator for Crook County Memorial Hospital.

The roof of the main building at Nathan Lincoln’s new campground just east of Sundance loudly proclaims the campground’s KOA affiliation. The building and other facilities at the campground are approaching completion.

25 Years Ago

August 20, 1998

The unofficial Primary Election results have been tallied with the results presenting some surprises. For the four-year County Commissioner position Merle Clark received the most votes with 1220 and Perry Livingston came in second with 869. It appears that Steve Stahla will run unopposed in the General Election for sheriff, as he received 993 of the votes compared to 796 for Bill Sipe. The Justice of the Peace race was a contest between Mary Garman and Bobby Hegge. Hegge lead early but Garman had received the most votes by the end of the evening. Garman received 777 and Hegge 670 votes.