Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

December 4, 1924

Sheriff Otis Zimmerschied took in another live one last week when he apprehended Roy W. Wasmund at the Zane hotel. Wasmund was wanted at several South Dakota points for working the bogus draft scheme. He obtained $1200 at Custer and about the same at Rapid. The Crook County sheriff spotted his man on a tip from Billie Driskill, who had seen Wasmund at Spearfish.

In line with the recent Cheyenne meeting to formulate game legislation for the coming state session, Crook County sportsmen, associations and legislators should get together and line up what is needed for this county. There is some agitation to close the season on sage chickens, whereas these birds are more plentiful now than for many years, and it would do no harm to hunt them in Crook County for two weeks each year. The deer season, coming in September, places hunting at a time when the leaves are on and seldom any snow. The result is that the hunters cripple many deer that are lost before the one allowed by law is secured. The open season on deer should be the month of November for Crook, Weston and Campbell counties.

75 Years Ago

December 1, 1949

Revival of Farm Bureau activity in the Sundance area was marked last Saturday with the organization of a Sundance local of the Crook County Farm Bureau. The organization meeting was held at Ray's cafe in Sundance. Miss Ruth Frolander was named first chairman of the new local. The group is the first Farm Bureau local in Sundance for several years. In the election of officers, Dr. R. I. Port was named vice-chairman and Fred Cundy was elected secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Olive Schelldorf is the chairman of the Associated Women for the local and the membership chairman is Harold Schelldorf.

Perhaps the Bear Lodge mountains are beginning to live up to their name. A black bear was seen by L. W. Johnson of Sundance Tuesday morning about 8:30 on the Ed Mathews ranch three and one-half miles east of Sundance. Mr. Johnson watched the bear cross a wheat stubble field and go toward the Moskee road where Mathews and his men were drilling a well. Apparently the activity frightened the animal and it headed south toward Green mountain. Mr. Mathews and Bob Humes got rifles and pursued the bear but were unable to get sight of the animal.

50 Years Ago

December 5, 1974

Supt. Hugo Hendrickson said Tuesday that Bigelow & Co., Denver, has donated 1000 square yards of carpet for the new Sundance elementary school. The carpet is valued at $10,000. Hendrickson said the carpet is now at the University of Wyoming and is only a few months old. He reported the carpet came unstuck and the university insisted that it be replaced. Hendrickson said the school district will have to transport the carpet from Laramie to Sundance. For their part in obtaining the carpet, he thanked Mrs. Dee Holst, Sundance elementary teacher, and Greg Madison, University of Wyoming purchasing agent and son-in-law of Mrs. Holst. 

After considering recommendations from various local groups, the Sundance city council Monday night agreed to enforcement of its present curfew affecting children under the age of 18. The council said the curfew will go into effect Saturday night. Under the present city ordinance, children under 18 must be in by 11 p.m. unless accompanied by their parents or guardian or a person over 21. Mayor Ray Buckman said that one blast on the siren will be blown at 11 p.m. He said there will be no warnings for curfew violations.