Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

The Times

January 22, 1919

A. Bulkey today retires from the feed barn business, having conducted the barn since last July. Leslie Hooper of the Sundance Hotel succeeds Mr. Bulkey at the barn, and also retaining the hotel.

Oliver Boon has pursued the seasonable sport of landing a few messes of trout from Sundance creek lately.

Oakley Banks, in the city Saturday, stated that he was on the previous day a member of the party pursuing a band of elk in the Black Buttes country, but failed to catch up with the band.

75 Years Ago

January 27, 1944

The Wyoming health department has opened its 1944 war against the state’s spring and summer pinhead murderers – wood ticks. The department announced today vaccine against the Rocky Mountain spotted fever carried by the lethal ticks is available for free distribution to doctors.

The Wyoming game and fish commission has revealed that over 5,000,000 pounds – a new record – of big game was killed in Wyoming during the 1943 hunting seasons. The largest kill, Game Commissioner Lester Bagley said, was antelope, with 14,863 animals checked at game stations. The kill compared with 6050 the year before.

50 Years Ago

January 23, 1969

Travel to Devils Tower National Monument in 1968 reached an all-time high with 155,245 visitors, according to Acting Superintendent Elvin T. Aaberg. Last year’s travel increased 24.1 percent over the previous year and was an increase of 11,977 over the previous high figures registered in 1965.

Sixty-four persons attended the annual pancake supper of the New Haven Farm Bureau, Jan. 23. Door prizes were won by Warren Wood and Bradley Clark.

25 Years Ago

January 27, 1993

Good Sportsmanship awards have been presented to the Sundance High School varsity football team and coaches, and to Coy McLaughlin by the Wyoming High School Activities Association.