Pages of the Past

100 years ago

September 3, 1925

They had a family reunion at the A.S. Hartman home, near Otto, last week, and it proved to be a most enjoyable one. Mrs. S.A. Hartman of Pittsburg, Kas., mother of Mr. Hartman, came out several weeks ago. Last week Dr. and Mrs. Wm. V. Hartman and their children and Mrs. Blanche Bussey, a sister, drove out from Pittsburg. On Friday Mrs. Maud Whaley arrived from Berkley, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reidl were also down from Thermopolis, and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hartman, who drove up several weeks ago from Laramie, were also in attendance. 

Reports come in that the threshers are very busy and that the wheat, oats and bean crops are going to be out of the way and taken care of nicely before the beet harvest starts if this wonderful weather continues for a little while longer. 

75 years ago

August 31, 1950

The first truckload of the 1950 bean crop was delivered to Basin Powell Bean Company mill here Tuesday. L.L. Breining, manager of the plant, stated that the load apparently is the first to reach a processing mill in the Big Horn Basin. Sam Kaup of Orchard Bench is the bean grower who brought in that first load of beans.

Mrs. Harvey Wrigley of Orchard Bench hosted a party given in honor of her daughter Peggy Jane and Carol Ann Raffl, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Claude Raffl, on the occasion of the girls’ ninth birthday anniversaries. Among the invited guests were Carol Sue Wright, Sally Harris, Judy Kost, Vicki Hartman, Sandra Walrath, Vicki Wheeler, Christine Griffith, Dorothy Ingalls, Clemmie Johnson, Karen Michaelis, Ginger Hill, Jean Louise Palmer, Jimmy Raffl, Douglas Cukr, Bobby Wrigley and Sandra Bassett of Cody. 

50 years ago

September 4, 1975

Coach Andy Johnson’s Basin Bobcats will open their season on Friday. The starting team will include: Carl Olson, Fred Werner, Dan Olsen, Dave Kelsey, Larry Herzog, Tadd Estes, Tom Pearl, Allen Triplett, Brian Hawk, Mike Dellos, Shawn Hawk, Donald Olson, Doug Martin, Dennis Graham, Terry Davis and Cliff Nelson. 

Dear editor: This Sunday my husband and I had dinner at the Basin A&W. We arrived at rush hour and chose about the only empty table, which was one near the kitchen. I was able to observe the waitresses and some of the kitchen proceedings. There was no adult supervisor that day—at least none was in evidence. Six or seven teenagers were doing everything from cooking to serving to cleanup. I was very impressed with their mutual co-operation and lack of dissention during that busy and pressured hour. The teens were running things and doing a good job of it. Just wanted to say as a newcomer to this area, I was proud of them. — Mrs. Elmer Hassler, Greybull.

25 years ago

August 31, 2000

Approximately 115 friends and relatives of Shirley and Jim “Mid” Rannells attended an open house reception in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary held Aug 12 at the senior citizens center in Greybull. 

Zack Paxton turned in one of the finest performances of his career to pace the Greybull-Riverside golf team’s effort at last weekend’s Lander Invitational. Zack’s scored a two day score of 177.