15 Years Ago

November 30, 2001

• Eads explores trash collection options; Grant received for sewer system.

• USDA Update Rod Johnson: We’ve gone from summer–like weather to the deep freeze. Up to1/2 inch of rain in some parts of the county.

• A number of Kiowa County residents spent Thanksgiving in various parts of Texas visiting family and friends.

25 Years Ago

November 28, 1991

• History buffs may have to cancel an anniversary service they were planning to hold Fri. at the Sand Creek Massacre site. Organizers were told by the current landowner not to come to the site.

• Special Election for the Weisbrod Memorial Hospital & Nursing Home tax district to increase the mill levy for the next 3 years duration only.

• Report from the Colorado Agricultural Statistics Service show that farm operators paid workers hired on ourly basis a average of $5.70 per hour.

40 Years Ago

November 24, 1976

• One of two men charged after being arrested in Kiowa County Apr 19 with more than 100 lbs of suspected marijuana found guilty under plea agreement and fined $5000 and given 5 year probation.

• Application for license to sell 3.2% beer in Towner was denied by the Kiowa County board of Commissioners

• The Weisbrod Memorial Hospital Board has scheduled a public meeting to explain what we (the board) trying to do, what the problems are and especially to explain our deal with Southeast Colorado health Care Association

• The nation’s largest association of journalists and newspeople adopted a resolution requesting Congress to examine the effects of increasing postal rates on the circulation of news in rural areas such as Colorado and Wyoming

50 Years Ago

November 25, 1966

• Eads Building Supplies Inc announce they will conduct a weekly contest which will be a reward for the heaviest goose brought into their establishment

75 Years Ago

November 21, 1941

• Amity Mutual Irrigation Company applied to the County Court of Kiowa County for an injunction James N. Harris to permit them to enter upon his property and make ditches necessary to their project at the huge storage basins