Pages of the Past

100 years ago

April 8, 1926

The road to Hyattville is again out of commission this spring because of a bad wash at Wild Horse Gulch. A committee of men the various organizations will go before the commissioners this morning asking that they co-operate with Basin to put it in passable condition.

Wasn’t it a disheartening Easter day? At 10 Saturday night, after one of the most disagreeable March and April weeks we have ever experienced in this section, it was perfectly clear and the wind had ceased to blow. It gave the promise of being a beautiful Easter. Then the wind began blowing early morning and by 8 a.m. it was snowing and kept at it until afternoon.

75 years ago

April 5, 1951

“Sliding Down a Moonbeam,”  an operetta in two acts, will be presented in the high school gymnasium by boys and girls of the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. The cast includes: Nancy Bishop, Pennie Kay Pearson, Christine Griffith, Joe Lyman and Richard Bennet, Robert Holland, Dalene Hinman, Gary Hartman, Jimmy Whipps, Gary Skovgard, Sherian Bowyer, Jon Ashment. The chorus of stars will be composed of Sondra Walrath, Eleanor Johnson, Darlene Gilmore, Vicki Hartman, Patricia Wheeler, Carolyn Boelens, Carol Raffl, Karen Bennett, Judy Weaver, Dorothy Ingalls, Peggy Wrigley, Karen Michaels, Vida Nation, Sandra Sturgis, Vicki Jean Wheeler and Mary Kay Riley. Ballet dancers are Sally Harris, Virginia Hill and Joy Elliott. The Raindrop Soldiers will be played by Billy Hallcroft, Tommy Pelton, Lanny Farley, Steve Hogue, Lyle Ellison, David Nation, Craig Sooelk, Allan Mercer, Bruce Campbell, Billy Ruffing, Charles Patterson and Jerry Flyr. The planet imps will be played by Terry McKone, Myron Hastings Bennie Chapin, Teddy Rapstead, Bobby Caines, Jim Saban, Sammy Dalley, Lawrence Snyder, Robert Hallcroft, James Hastings, Marvin Porter, and Jimmie Dean. The rainbow chorus will include Jeanette Akin, Francis McNeal, Mildred Snyder, Charlotte Creech, Judy Kost, Jean Stenvick, Jean Palmer, Jackie Briag, Patricia Wheeler, Ida Paxton, Georgia Perkins, Carol Wright, June Eckert, Carol Clack, Virgie Dalley and Karen Cummings. 

50 years ago

April 8, 1976

A new school record in the discus was set at Basin last Thursday in a triangular meet with Manderson and Greybull by Fred Werner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Werner. Werner hurled the discus a distance of 129 feet 3 inches, farther than any previous hurler in the school’s history. 

Dennis Spargur of Lewistown, Mont., has joined the Basin police force as of April 1. 

25 years ago

April 5, 2001

The following Riverside High School students were included on the third quarter straight A honor roll: Bradee Crosby, Jamie Jares, Anna Bayert, Lisa Frame, Tara Jones, Ashley LaBudda, Chad Schell, Elizabeth Kidner, Dusty Lewis and Kelli Skarda. 

Population of Big Horn County Towns in the 2000 census:

Lovell 2,281. Greybull 1,815, Basin 1,238, Cowley 560, Byron 557, Burlington 250, Frannie 209, Deaver 177, Manderson 104.