Peek at the Past

100 Years Ago

April 5, 1923

Dr. C.K. Stewart of Moorcroft received, thru the government forestry department, 100 Chinese elm trees. The stock came from the propagating station at Bellingham, Wash. and is about 3 feet high and fine looking stock. Dr. Stewart took the trees out to his KF ranch 1 ½ miles north of Moorcroft where he has been successfully growing trees for five years. The doctor has about 50 apple trees on his place just coming into bearing, and will set out for further demonstration purposes this year 135 Black Hills spruce, 25 apple, 200 black walnut, 100 black locust, 100 Russian mulberry, 200 laurel leaf willows, 100 choke cherries and plums.

Gillette - With the shooting of a pair of gray wolves and the finding of their den of eight pups by Trapper Henry Goodson on March 22, one of the most troublesome packs of predatory animals ever known in this part of Wyoming has been destroyed. Two years ago, 22 adult gray wolves were ranging from Black Thunder creek to Cabello creek, 40 miles south of Gillette.

R.O. Partlow, local weather observer, reports snowfall since Oct. 1 amounting to 96 inches.

During the latter part of last week, a good share of mail arriving in Sundance was rather well soaked, owing to the fact that the Upton end is running high water and the mail carrier has taken several baths that were not on the schedule.

75 Years Ago

April 1, 1948

Having sold his ranch ten miles west of Sundance to Maurice Williams, Nic Schweim is holding an auction sale at the ranch April 9th.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Edsall stopped in Sundance Thursday of last week enroute home from Texas where Ray and his horse "Blondie" have been winning honors the past season in different shows in that section. "Blondie" and Ray won first place in the Houston cutting horse show and received a beautiful gold trophy with the inscription "Grand Champion Cutting Horse". In the Tulsa, Oklahoma show Blondie was first in the day money and third in the finals. They participated in the Denver show where they won first by public applause in an exhibition cutting contest without a bridle.

50 Years Ago

March 29, 1973

The annual county spelling contest will be held in Hulett Friday, Assistant Supt. Delbert Harbaugh said this week. Competing in the contest will be three Sundance elementary students – Mark Lanning, Cindy Gray and Bill Hamel.

25 Years Ago

April 2, 1998

The judges as Chadron State College Jazz festival selected one vocal and one instrumental student for the most outstanding soloist out of 500 students from 20 schools ranging in size from Spearfish and Gillette to Sundance and Lusk. Both recipients of these awards were from Sundance: Mandy Marr, most outstanding vocal soloist and Jeremy Engel, most outstanding instrumental soloist.