15 Years Ago

October 12, 2001

• Kiowa County is currently suffering from a shortage of qualified day care providers, and the Department of Social Services is seeking anyone interested in providing this valuable service to children within the county.

• Harvest of fall crops is progressing ahead of schedule. Several producers are nearly finished wit harvest.

• Spot checks are being perform for maintenances on CRP contracts. A problem we encounter nearly every year is unintentional, unauthorized grazing of CRP.

• Another Kiowa County couple has gone for the winter to a warmer climate. This time in CO the weather is about perfect weather wise here. We hear its really HOT in Arizona.

• The Plainview School faculty and staff would like to congratulate Jim Trahern for winning News 4 coach of the week.

25 Years Ago

October 10, 1991

• Two children and 36 years later, Bev Japhet finally met her father for the first time. After re-introducing himself to Bev’s brother Jim, they devised a plan to met Bev. Jim told Bev on the phone he had something he needed to talk to her about. Jim and Bev both had wanted to locate their Dad since they were small but didn’t know where to start. Their father had lost track of the family when he and their mother had divorce.

• Growing season came to a halt for many plants last weekend when a old northern blew in.

• To wipe out its projected cumulative deficit of $353,000, the Weisbrod Memorial Hospital and ursing Home board last Fri. Agreed to pursue a 11-mill tax increase.

• Ham On Rye: The figment claim that when people owe a lot of money they lay low, out of site. That can cause a small town to look deserted. Kiowa County-Eads- must be doing alright. The Maine Street traffic and activity have been active in recent months.

• Towner: When Sean Harkness reach for a kitten, in his parents garage, a porcupine’s paw reach for Sean. Needless to say, the porcupine was removed and the boys had quite a story to tell at school.

Pages of the Past

40 Years Ago

October 8, 1976

• County taxes will go up in 1977 if a request from the Kiowa County Board of Commissioners to raise the mill levy by five mills is okayed by the Colorado Division of Local Government.

• Kiowa County has been approved for special funding for erosion control. Practices through ASCS’s Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP).

• Sheridan Lake Ripples: Mrs. Clarence Weber took seven members of her junior Sunday school class on an excursion in and near Colorado Springs last weekend. They went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and ate dinner in the Garden of the Gods.

50 Years Ago

October 7, 1966

• Principal V.F. Williams announced that one senior, Ted Abrams, at Eads High School, has been named Semi-finalist in the 1966-67 Merit Scholarship.

• Towner News: Mrs. Charles Tallman of Brandon, Gerald Nix, Wayne Smith and Bill Godden of Sheridan Lake received notice their names will appear in 1966 edition of Colorado Who’s Who.

• Haswell Happenings: Larry Gifford became quite ill during the night and it was discovered that he had been bitten twice by a Black Widow spider.

75 Years Ago

September 26, 1941

• The Local Department of Welfare announced State approval to several budgets presented to them by eligible recipients in Kiowa County. This marks the start of Food Stamp Plan in Kiowa County.

• Mrs. Clyde Crow had the misfortune to cut off the end of a finger and part of a nail in meat slicer. Other than her finger being sore, its heeling nicely.

100 Years Ago

October 7, 1916

• J.C. Dunlap Shipped 19 fat steers to Kansas City. They were around 1000 pounds each and were the best to leave the yard this year.