15 Years Ago - April 17, 2009

• USDA Update- Rod Johnson: April rains don’t get much better than last week. I’ve heard from 0.40 to over one inch county wide.
• Plainview second grade student Kaylee Wilson won the Denver Nuggets Skills Challenge in Lamar. This qualified her for the Skills Challenge in Pueblo in which she place second and a silver metal.

25 Years Ago - April 16, 1999

• Gary Woodward presented the Eads Board of Trustees the 1998 financial audit that concluded the town was in good financial condition.
• The Eads Board of Trustees voted to close the “baby pool” at the municipal swimming pool because it is a health hazard.

40 Years Ago - April 20, 1984

• Roger Saffer of Flagler recently purchased Riggins Spraying Service. Saffer is a native of Flagler and worked with his brother for the past five years.

50 Years Ago - April 19, 1974

• The state had negotiated a 99 year lease with the Anshutz Corp. for a recreation easement on the west side of Lake Nee Noshe in Kiowa County.
• The Southeast Colorado Power Association filed with Public Utilities Commission a proposed rate hike for about nine percent.
• Kiowa County showed a 45.2 percent, and Eads 44.1 percent increase, in sales over amounts the previous year.

75 Years Ago - April, 1949

• Brandon: Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Morris have wired their house and filling station and are now enjoying the benefits of electricity.

100 Years Ago - April, 1924

• Part of the Eads baseball team went to Galatea and returned with their scalp by a score of 12 to 10.
• Sunday turkey dinner at Strahan’s Café – 50 cents.