Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

Feb. 23, 1922

Dr. Clarenbach reports the arrival of a son at the Mat Whalen home in Aladdin, Sunday.

Alferd Thurman, who has conducted a general store at Alva, has sold his stock to B.P. Colin and John Bothwell.

Wilford Miller and Horace Williamson were in town Saturday with a load of wood. They said they only tipped over four times before reaching there. Looks like there might have been too much sunshine along the road. How about it boys?

In all probability Sundance will soon be the home of a very rich man. John Grice is the lucky person, and he has just received word from a poor rich man who is in jail in Spain that he left a check for $360,000 in his valise in America. He wants John to get the check and send the money to Spain, John holding out $120,000 for his trouble – a snug sum at this time of the moon. Mr. Grice has not yet announced what he will do with his fortune, but probably he will build a four-story stone structure for his growing hardware business. He has promised the Times a nice box of cigars, and maybe will donate a heating plant to the Commercial Club. We’re sorry for the poor man in jail at Madrid, but it’s an ill wind that don’t do Sundance some good.

75 Years Ago

Feb. 20, 1947

Merle Sisson, proprietor of Sisson’s Welding and Machine Shop in Sundance announces this week that he has received and installed a new 14-1/2 inch Swing South Bend Quick Change Gear Lathe and is now equipped to do all general lathe work including key-way cutting and threading.

A crew of five men is now working in the Black Hills beetle infested area in the Bear Lodge. They are cutting the trees and burning them. At present they are working in Ogden canyon. Verne Tollefson of the Cement Ridge lookout station and Ray Glout are assisting with the work along with the regular Sundance crew.

To continue the study of legislative problems the senate has passed and sent to the house a bill creating a legislative interim committee. Such a measure was passed in 1945 but vetoed by the governor.

50 Years Ago

Feb. 24, 1972

Over 200 riders battled for trophies and prize money Saturday and Sunday when the third annual races of the Bear Lodge Snowmobile Association were held here. An estimated 700 spectators jammed the association’s track west of Sundance for Sunday’s races. Association president Mervin Peterson said 43 contestants competed in Saturday’s 30-mile cross-country event.

Sundance bowler Loren O’Haver swept the singles and all events titles during the 10th annual men’s city bowling association tournament held recently at Krause Lanes in Moorcroft. O’Haver rolled 684 to capture the singles crown and posted 1916 in all events. The team of Wynne and Kidd won the doubles with a score of 1319.

25 Years Ago

Feb. 20, 1997

A new FM radio station will definitely be up and running by the end of July or early August. Cynthia Grimmelmann, Belle Fourche, SD said that she has received FCC approval for the station. The antenna tower for the station will be erected on Warren Peak as soon as the weather permits, they are now looking for a site for an office in Sundance for the station.