Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

October 23, 1924

Isley School and Vicinity: Waters, Talbots, Thompsons, Ealys, Meglemres, Isleys, Grubb and Mrs. Olsen shipped three carloads of cattle via Aladdin last Friday. Mr. Ealy went to Omaha with them. Ilsley and Belshe received a small band of sheep from Gillette last Wednesday.

New Haven: The county superintendent, accompanied by Miss Mae Krebs, nurse, spent Thursday afternoon at the school measuring, weighing and examining the pupils, very few defects being found.

75 Years Ago

October 20, 1949

Sundance may be connected with Hulett by a radio-telephone circuit in the future, if plans of the Mona Short Line Telephone Co. are completed. This was announced this week by M. O. Trego, manager of the Sundance telephone company. Mr. Trego disclosed the plans after a two-way radio demonstration was made in the county last weekend by the General Electric Co.

Bill C. Bush of Hulett and Russell French of Alva were reelected as supervisors of the Devils Tower Soil Conservation district in an election held, Oct. 14. Bush and French won over Aubrey Long of Seely and Bruce West of Rocky Point. Joseph Svoboda was named over Eldon Nielsen to fill the unexpired two-year term of the late Earl J. Holcomb.

50 Years Ago

October 24, 1974

The Crook County Hospital Board said Tuesday that Dr. Harmon Keyes, Phoenix, Ariz., has revealed his intentions of practicing medicine in Sundance. In a news release, the board said that Dr. Keyes notified the board Monday night by telephone that he was mailing a letter stating his intention to practice medicine in Sundance. Dr. Keyes spent a week in this area in late September and both he and his wife, Nancy, indicate they like the area very much.

25 Years Ago

October 21, 1999

With all the junior high and high school students assembled in the auditorium, Randy Ludeman, high school principal, proudly announced that Bernie Schnorenberg, Sundance high school science and math teacher had been named Teacher of the Year for 2000. Schnorenberg was chosen by a panel of judges external of the Wyoming Department of Education.