Pages from the Past - From our 129 year archive.
15 yrs
March 23, 2001
FSA is working on 3 different disaster programs at he the same time. There is the LAP for pasture losses, the CDP for insured, uninsured and non-insurable crops and the NAP for non-insurable crops
25 years
March 28, 1991
A lighting sparked fire charred 30 acres at the Jesse James Ranch. Volunteers from both Cheyenne and Kiowa counties responded to the fire, located near the county line.
40 years
March 19, 1976
Peoples Natural Gas has filed a schedule of proposed new rated with the Public Utilities Commission in Denver, and unless the PUC suspends the application and calls for a hearing, the higher rates will take place April1.
100 years
March 24, 1916
Destructive prairie fires raged across this county and into western Kansas reducing thousands of acres to black stubble. Before the fire could be check it was 30 miles wide and burned a distance of 160 miles.