15 Years Ago - October 14, 2011

• Kit Carson Clips- Marilyn White: I texted daughter Melody to get home, her Roo’s were out. The wind had blown open the Roo’s door and three had escaped. After three hours one was finally captured. The other two had come home and were waiting to be put in.

25 Years Ago - October 12, 2001

• USDA Update- Rod Johnson: Fall harvest producers report yields have varied from good to poor due to the hit and miss precipitation this past summer.

40 Years Ago - October 10, 1986

• The first prize float for the 1986 Eads Homecoming was won by the junior class “The Longest Yard”.

50 Years Ago - October 8, 1976

• Kiowa County taxes will go up in 1977 if request by the County Commissioners to raise the mill levy is approved by Colorado Division of Local Government.
• The president of Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee said wheat producers in United States is in worse position now than in the depression days.

100 Years Ago - October 15, 1926

• Brandon News: The county grader has arrived and is doing some very good work on the roads south of town.
• Arlington: Eleven carloads of sheep were shipped in from Texas by Henry Bledsoe for his ranch in Karval