Pages of the past

100 years ago

January 17, 1924

Mr. H.E. Ingalls, one of the most successful of the Big Horn Basin’s beekeepers, this week received a car-load of apiary supplies. Mr. Ingalls made a big success of his business during the past year and plans to make it bigger during the coming year. 

At the gum tonight, the American Legion and Big Horn High School Athletic Association will give a dance, the music for which is to be furnished by the Greybull Orchestra. A fine dance and a good time are anticipated, as there has been no dance for quite some time and the signs look promising. 

75 years ago

January 14, 1949

Four-H club members winning trips to the Denver Stock Show will leave on Saturday, Jan. 15, it was announced by Aleen Hollbrook and Arvil D. Ashment. The 4-H members who won trips this year for outstanding work are Wilma Olsen and Arlene Emmett of Lovell. Thelma Snyder of Gould will attend as state reserve champion.

Superintendent J.M. Chappell revealed Friday that a course in motor vehicle operation will be given students of Basin High School during the second semester of the 1948-49 year. A 1948 Chevrolet sedan with dual controls has been made available to the school by Norris Chevrolet Co. of Greybull under the auspices of the American Automobile Association. 

A Casper oilman and former Basin resident, was credited with having saved a Scottsbluff, Neb., family from possible death by freezing in the blizzard-swept road north of Lusk. Matt M. Newell, battling drifts to reach Lusk after a trip to the oil fields near Newcastle, came across a man, his wife and small son, in a stalled car. This was at 10 o’clock at night with the temperature at 11 degrees below zero. Newell took the stranded travelers as far as he could in his own car, and when blocked by drifts, walked six miles into Lusk. Arriving at Lusk early in the morning, he sent a highway patrol car out to rescue the family.

50 years ago

January 18, 1974

The Basin Republican-Rustler regrets to announce spiraling costs have made it necessary to increase subscription rates to $5 for subscribers residing in Big Horn county and $5.50 for subscribers living elsewhere.

The pioneer building at South Fourth and B streets in Basin had been sold to Paul Smith by L.L. Breining and his associate. The structure houses the Pioneer Drug, Sportsman, and Dutch’s Barbershop on the ground floor. Until a few years ago, the upper floor contained apartments and office space. 

25 years ago

January 14, 1999

Riverside High School students Alicia Keith and Tara Jones will be among approximately 450 of Wyoming’s best high school musicians gathering in Sheridan Jan. 17-19 for the 1999 Wyoming All-State Band, Orchestra, and Choir. 

Robin Nichols of Basin recently received a five-year service award from the Wyoming Department of Transportation according to the department’s Human Resources office in Cheyenne. Nichols, an equipment operator for the past 30 months joined the department as an equipment operator in Dubois.