Pages of the Past

100 years ago

October 8, 1925

Breaking precedent, the Big Horn Basin was visited by a snowstorm on Monday night and folks awoke Tuesday morning to find trees and shrubs bending beneath a fall of “the beautiful” that transformed the landscape into a veritable fairy land. 

Mr. Thos. M Hyde received word this week that the State Board of Charities and Reform had on Tuesday taken action to take over the Broadmoor tract on which the Wyoming State Tuberculosis Sanatorium is to be constructed. 

From Manderson School, we hear that class officers have been elected. Seniors — Mable Johnston, Ruby English, and Harry Wiley. Sophomores —Adraen Krusee, Richard Nelson, Helen Nelson. Freshman —Walter Straley, Gordon Sykes and Laurence Strayley

75 years ago

October 5, 1950

The first issue of The Basin Bobcat as a distinct and separate printed publication was circulated among students of Basin High School Monday. Tabloid size, the four-page newspaper will appear once each month during the school term. Many local merchants have lent their support to the project by purchasing advertising space in the Bobcat, which is published by the high school journalism class under the supervision of Mrs. James Anderson and printed in the Republican Rustler office. 

Mrs. Lois Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Hill and Axel R (Swede) Johnson, both of Basin, were married in a double-ring ceremony at the Baptist parsonage in Jackson on September 23. 

The construction of a new building to house the Big Horn County Library is being considered by members of the library board and the county officials, it was learned Wednesday following a meeting of library board members with the board of county commissioners. It has been advised against spending additional funds in an attempt to remodel the present building. 

50 years ago

October 9 1975 

Two prisoners escaped from Big Horn County jail sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday. William Wayne Hume, Jr., and an unidentified juvenile cut their way out of their cell, removed some ventilators and made good their escape through the roof. They were not discovered to be missing until supper time Sunday. 

Strollers and bicyclists alike can soon expect to be able to enjoy once again the bike/walk pathway that leads from the northwestern edge of Basin to the baseball and Legion fields west of town, thanks to the near completion of a plan to install a new bridge across a drainage, according to a town official. 

25 years ago

October 5, 2000

Riverside High School homecoming royalty for 2000 include King and Queen Matt Vanderpool and Liz Kidner; senior attendants Dusty Lewis and Kelli Skarda; junior attendants Dale Query and Liz Bock; sophomore attendants Sara Spann and Tye Brown, and  freshman attendants Brenton Paxton and Jami Skarda. 

Robb and Heather Howe of Greybull are the parents of a baby girl born Sept. 26 at Washakie Memorial Hospital in Worland. Avery Francis is the couple’s first child.