Pages of the Past

100 years ago

August 5, 1926

Sweet corn arrived last week and is now so plentiful that all are enjoying its delicious toothsomeness. Along with the sweet corn come the ripe tomatoes.

Mr. W.D. Marple last week closed a deal with Mr. G.C. Dillavon, receiver of the First National Bank, by which he becomes owner of the former T.J. Jones ranch, which has been leased for some time past to Mr. Harry Rosenberry. 

Basin Troop of Boy Scouts left yesterday morning for the Tensleep meadows, where they are spending a few days in camp. Campers from Basin include James Zaring, Paul Murphy, Paul Hoel, Marion Johnson, Billy Irwin, Gaylord Armeling, Bobby Brome, Bobby Hansel, John Twomey, Lou Johnson, Ralph Johnston, Sherwood Dodge, Roy Jones, George Ingalls, Philip Ahrens and Carl Wilson. 

75 years ago

August 2, 1951

The faculty of the Basin public schools for the 1951-52 school term has been completed, according to Superintendent Robert L. Kilzer. Teachers include: First grade, Miss Elizabeth Ford amd Mrs. Alice Hopkins. Mrs. Harry Russell, second grade; Mrs. V.P. Irwin, third grade. Mrs. Robert A. (Margaret) Flam will teach fourth grade, Mrs. Tacetta B. Walker will teach fifth grade and Mrs. R.J. O’Neill will again have the charge of the sixth grade. High school teachers include: A.J. Barker, science; Glenn D Biggs, social studies and English; Martin Darling, commerce and driving; James R. Durkee, Agriculture; Robert A. Flam, mathematics; Roger B Pelton, high school music and Miss Joyce Muerhead for grade school music. Miss Gertrude Smith will teach English and Latin. 

Basin’s Municipal light and power plant will be placed on a standby basis as soon as negotiations can be completed insuring an adequate supply of electrical power from the Mountain States Power Company. 

50 years ago

August 5, 1976

Basin Chief of Police Reginald Bickham informed the town council Monday night that two rabid bats had been found in Basin over the past 7 or 8 months and he was concerned with ways of exterminating the dangerous animals. The attics of old buildings make good nesting places for bats and there are probably several buildings in the area housing them. For several years the newspaper building has been harboring a colony of bats. They seem to arrive in the summer and leave in the winter. We haven’t been up in the attic for years, but assume the bats are probably there again. 

25 years ago

August 2, 2001

The first bricks of the outside wall of the new Big Horn County Jail were laid Monday morning as construction passed the halfway point. Big Horn County Sheriff Dave Mattis laid the first three bricks Monday morning in a brief ceremony organized by his staff and Groathouse Construction as a surprise for Mattis. The construction is passed the halfway point and should be open by the first of the year. 

Becky Allred, who has taught at Riverside High School and its predecessor Basin High School for 32 years, had been selected by the American Legion Department of Wyoming as its “educator of the year.”