15 Years Ago

May 9, 2008

• USDA Update- Rod Johnson: With the unsettled weather, it is amazing we still have any wheat left.

25 Years Ago

May 8, 1998

• Eads Elementary School (K-5) participated in the planting of two Burr Oak trees on the school grounds
• USDA Update-Rod Johnson: Winter wheat generally looks very good throughout the county. Grass pastures are greening up and spring farming operation are in full swing.

40 Years Ago                    

May 13, 1983

• The Eads High School Fine Art Exhibition is open in the gym and glass foyer, and the Music Concert will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m. on stage.
• Kit Carson Roundup- Ruby Lafferty: The monument at Mt. Pearl has been cleaned up, the little emergency building painted, and has a new door. Don’t know who the good fairies were, but their vehicles bore WU tags.

50 Years Ago

May 11, 1973

• The traditionally feared Army worm is gnawing his pestiferous way across eastern Colorado wheat.
• Chivington Briefs- Mrs. Oren White: Nothing like the South Plate River or the mighty Mississippi, but Rush Creek is doing its share of flooding in a small way. The rushing water flowed out of bounds northwest of Chivington, with water across the road in some places.