Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago
Aug. 9, 2012
    Melissa Memorial Hospital Foundation has hired Jessica Johnson to fill the vacant executive director position. The position opened when Cherrie Brown announced her resignation at the beginning of this year.
    Extremely dry conditions have caused a jump in corn prices over the last month or so. Grainland Cooperative grain merchandiser Steve Young said corn shot up $1.75 a bushel in the month of July.
    
Ten Years Ago
Aug. 9, 2007
    A day of fun is planned to promote support of the Phillips County Event Center project during a Fall Fling Aug. 12. The County Fundraising Committee will host fun and games — with activities like paintball games, potato gun shooting, the 4-H Council bouncer and Velcro wall, and horse-drawn wagon rides — at Homesteaders Park and the community building at the fairgrounds.
    In an effort to increase services from those of a reactionary type to prevention, Phillips County Social Services has built a resource library on site to help with a wide range of topics.
    The Chappell, Nebraska, Junior Buckley Bombers are proud 2007 Class C Nebraska State Champions. The baseball team’s victory in championship tournament action gives them back-to-back state titles.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Aug. 13, 1992
    All five occupants in a Cessna 402 escaped injury when the twin-engine passenger plane crashed in a nearby cornfield shortly after takeoff at the Holyoke airport Tuesday evening, Aug. 4. The plane’s four passengers had been presenting a computer workshop at Highline Electric Association in Holyoke and were returning to their homes in Bismarck, North Dakota.
    Star Song recording artist the Newsboys will be coming to Holyoke for a concert on Saturday, Aug. 15, in Holyoke City Park. Sponsored by Youth Challenge, the concert is free to the public.
    Cow chip throwing, bull roping, barrel racing and a milking contest made for a lively Adaptive Rodeo in the front parking lot at Prairie Vista Care Center Wednesday morning.
    
Fifty Years Ago
Aug. 10, 1967
    At the meeting of the Holyoke board of trustees on Aug. 7, considerable discussion was held concerning the present sewage disposal plant which is located at the east edge of town. Under new, stricter laws, the present plant no longer meets the standards. The Town is now forced to make additions to the plant in order to meet present-day requirements.
    A weed control district in Phillips County is to be formed after final results of the special election have been tabulated, with 476 voting in favor and 181 opposed.
    Last Thursday was the final day of the Phillips County Fair, which was considered by many area residents to be one of the best to be staged in many years. Total attendance for the three-day affair was 4,093.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Aug. 13, 1942
    Citizens of Holyoke who are not already conserving their automobiles and tires are asked to do so. Pointing out that “no more cars and no more parts for cars will be manufactured until after the war is won” and that “our armed forces and war production workers will require all of the rubber — crude, scrap and synthetic — which our nation can produce,” W.M. Williams, executive secretary of the Colorado Highway Traffic Advisory Committee to the War Department, stressed that civilian car owners must conserve their cars and tires in every way possible.
    Harvest, although near completion in northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska, has been halted several times during the week by rains. The rains have been beneficial to both feed and corn crops, and these crops are in splendid condition over most of the territory, where they have escaped hail.
    Club rooms of the Holyoke American Legion will be moved to the first floor in the southwest corner of the Legion Hall this month, the apartment in which the post has had its club rooms for the past several years having been rented to William Koepke for his shoe shop and living quarters for his family. Their present building, owned by the Foster Lumber Company, is to be torn down this fall.