15 Years Ago - September 3, 2010

• This year marks the Centennial year of the Colorado 4-H program, and the Colorado State Fair played host for this 100^th successful year.

25 Years Ago - September 8, 2000

• The Colorado Department of Transportation started work to resurface Highway 96 from the Colorado-Kansas state line west for 10 miles. The highway is being paved in asphalt and drainage improvements made.

40 Years Ago - September 6, 1985

• According to Librarians Doris Forsyth and Ruth Wissel, the first Kiowa County Fair was held September 6-7, 1915, Labor Day, on Maine Street in downtown Eads.
• Bunny’s number 5 opened in Eads in the former TJ’s Super “C.”

50 Years Ago - September 5, 1975

• A new addition to the 1975 Kiowa County Fair and Rodeo will be a historical pageant of the county’s history since its settlement in the 1880s.

75 Years Ago - 1950

• New feature at the Kiowa County Free Fair and Rodeo will be a parade Saturday morning.
• Visitors to the Wiley Sugar Beet Days reported a fine time, but the widely advertised bull fight failed to materialize. The bull would not fight.

100 Years Ago - 1925