15 Years Ago

August 31, 2007

• USDA Update- Rod Johnson: Record wheat prices, high fuel and fertilizer cost, rain, and hail! What a mixed bag facing agriculture.
• About Town- Melissa Peterson & Doris Lessenden: Our very own Gloria Peck was asked to display one of her award-winning quilts from the Colorado State Fair at the Quilt Museum in Golden.

25 Years Ago

August 29, 1997

• The Union Pacific is preparing to discontinue through traffic from Pueblo to Towner, including coal and vehicle carrier trains. UP will continue providing local service while negotiations with a short line operator to take over the line.
• Nursing Home News- Nellie Nichert: The affair crowning a new Silver Queen and King for various counties was the destination for myself, as ex-queen, Mary Shade, Dorthea Mayes and June Wilcox. We arrived late it seems, to an empty building. They had held the choosing and crowing and had disbanded.

40 Years Ago

August 27, 1982

• The “dish” for the cable TV system was put into place and won’t be long until hookups of customers begin and the system is in operation.
• The Dickinson Ranch, Calhan, recently air mailed two Texas Longhorns bulls from Denver to Nanton, Alberta, Canada

50 Years Ago

September 1, 1972

• Test pumping is continuing this week on what may be a record producing oil well in the Brandon Field of Kiowa County.

100 Years Ago

 September 1, 1922

• From Arlington News: Several were caught at the lake for fishing without licenses and it cost them pretty heavily. Others should take warning.
• Work on the Eads Community Church has stopped for the present, owing to the fact that the steel beams for the first floor have not yet arrived.