Pages of the Past

100 years ago

June 4, 1925

Mr. Thos. M. Hyde received information from Cheyenne on Tuesday afternoon that the State Board of Charities and Reform accepted the Broadmoor site for the state tuberculosis sanatorium at the original price offered. This good news meant that since the site has been selected, the work of drawing up the plans and calling for bids for construction may proceed at once. It should be but a short time before active work will be begun on this project and the town of Basin should be the scene of much activity during the remainder of the year. 

Yellowstone National Park, the summer playground of the nation, will officially open earlier than usual this year on June 18, with appropriate ceremonies being held at the West Yellowstone, Mont., the west entrance to the park. 

75 years ago

June 1, 1950

Ashby’s Clothing, owned and operated by Morris Ashby, opened this week. It is located two doors south of the Security State Bank of Basin on Fourth Street. 

Cart Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beck who graduated from Basin High School this spring, has enlisted in the United States Air Force, according to Sergeant T. Williams of Casper. Cart was the first 1950 graduate to join the armed services. 

The Basin Motor Co., opening today in the former Case garage building, became the third new business to establish itself in Basin this week. Jack Core, formerly with the Norris Chevrolet company at Greybull, will manage the firm. 

The names of seven women were among 50 names selected in Basin Monday to comprise a jury panel in Big Horn County. Mrs. Dick Jolley of Lovell, Daisy Ilg of Hyattville, Mr. Julian Codak of Greybull, Helen Q. Johnson of Lovell, Ettie L Brimhall of Deaver, Lettie Anderson of Otto and Louelly Wagner of Lovell became the first women in history to become part of a jury panel in Big Horn County. 

50 years ago

June 5, 1975

A father and two sons for the first time in the memory of those present were members of the class of novices entering Kalif Shrine Temple Saturday. They are Ned Kost Jr., Ned Kost Sr., and Reynolds Kost, all of Basin.  

Three Basin residents are spending this week in Laramie for the 1975 session of Wonderful Wyoming Girls State. Janet Winterholler is attending as a junior councilor this year, joining delegates Jeri Black and Nancy Jo Eckerdt. 

Three eighth graders graduated form Hyattville on May 27. They are Pamela Tharp, Marie Tencich and Tammy Shirran. 

25 years ago

June 1, 2000

Members of Basin’s chamber of commerce voted at their last meeting to sponsor Sheri Curtiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. DuWaine Curtiss, as a contestant in the Miss Teen Queen state contest. 

The completion of the Roach Gulch Dam on the Greybull River will provide additional irrigation water for farmers and ranchers in the Greybull Valley Irrigation District later this summer. The dam has been completed on Roach Gulch and is currently being filled.