Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
25 Years Ago, July 17, 1997 - A fire, caused by an electrical short, started in the North Pole Locker Plant July 7. The plant received mostly smoke damage due to the quick action of the area fire departments.
100 Years Ago
July 13, 1922
Tom Hawken reports considerable damage on Black's Flat from a hailstorm Saturday afternoon. Garden crops and barley were the hardest hit, the wheat not being far enough along to receive much damage.
Manager Linstrum of the Sundance creamery is somewhat elated over the rating received last week on his butter shipment, it being held at 88, which is above average for the small creameries and extra high for a new institution.
A rather healthy cyclone struck the Four Corners neighborhood just over the Weston county line last Saturday. Several buildings were overturned, and a large store building was turned half around on the foundation and badly damaged.
75 Years Ago
July 10, 1947
Laramie- T.E.. "Buck" Yarbrough, one of Wyoming's best known and most colorful cowboys who is currently managing the University of Wyoming riding stables, has probably ridden more horses in one day than anyone else. On this particular day during World War I, Buck and four other riders were testing horses which private owners and companies were selling to the United States government. As all of the other riders got hurt, Buck was the only rider left. And the U.S. government had to have horses right away. Buck told the representative, "you saddle 'em and I'll ride 'em". And he did. In that day he set a record by riding 225 horses. Buck adds, "Just to show him I wasn't tired out, I bucked the last horse all the way back to the stables.".
50 Years Ago
July 13, 1972
Walter Quilllian, Sundance, won first place in the calf roping at the Sioux Nation Appaloosa Horse Show held Sunday at Rapid City. Quillian, riding Nine Mile Lucky, has qualified to compete at the National Appaloosa Horse Show in Sweeteater, Texas this November.
Two Sundance youths were chosen for the Babe Ruth Northeast All-Star team at Lusk on Friday night. Floyd Kanode and Bob Gray will represent Sundance in the combined team of All-Stars from Lusk, Newcastle and Sundance.
25 Years Ago
July 17, 1997
Earl D. Gill III, recently commissioned as a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer, has been posted in Sundance. Gill, originally from Frederick, MD, recently completed a 21-year career in the U.S. Army and most recently served as a military policeman at Fort Carson, CO.
