Pages of the Past

100 years ago

September 25, 1924

Mr. George Maller had a little experience the other day that was rather exciting. Driving along on a perfectly good piece of road, he started to turn a corner when, at the same time, a tire blew out and the car turned completely over.  

Uncle Joe Denny showed up on the streets on Monday in a badly crippled condition because of an auto wreck, which had happened on Thursday last. With Mr. and Mrs. Gus Scoville, he was returning from Billings where they had been to the fair. They were coming along nicely over on Liberty Bench when a cow showed up before the headlights too late for Gus to stop and the car was unset. When Joe came to, he found Gus sitting on his neck and he is still turning his whole body when he wants to look around. 

75 years ago

September 22, 1949

The first F.F.A. meeting of the Basin schools was called to order Monday and the new organization was named the Basin Chapter. The officers were installed as follows: Bill Maller, president; Miles Bennett, first vice president; Franklin McNeal, second vice president; Monte Best, secretary; Cart Beck, treasurer; Jack Deveraux, reporter and Bill Michaelis, sentinel.  

50 years ago

September 26, 1974

Three Basin youths spent Sunday night in shirt sleeves at the bottom of a Sheep Mountain canyon after one of their motorcycles broke down. When the boys had not returned to their home by 8 a.m. Monday, Big Horn County Sheriff George Warfel’s office was notified. Deptuy Sheriff Bob Stauffacher, Deputy Game Warden Terry Cleveland and two others set out for Sheep Mountain where the boys had said they were going to explore caves. Nightfall overtook Lonny Ward, Bill Harley and Pete Werner at the bottom of a deep canyon some 300 yards from the north plant of Wyo-Ben. Monday morning, as searchers were making their way down into the canyon, the boys made their way back to the eastern slopes of the mountain and came home, leaving the broken machine in the canyon to be retrieved later. Neither party was aware of the presence of the other and the officers were left with a fruitless five mile walk back to their vehicles. None of the boys suffered any injury. 

25 years ago

September 23, 1999

It wasn’t an omen of Y2K. It wasn’t even a big storm that put the town of Basin in the dark. It was a bird landing in an electrical power substation that pulled the plug on Monday night football for almost an hour this week.