Students are pictured at Phillips County High School around 1916. Those named in the picture include Charles Jethro Hoschouer, Raymond Summer and Francis Flanagan, who is second from left. After graduating from high school, Flanagan ran a threshing machine and did other farm work until 1918 when he signed a contract to deliver mail. In about 1920, he sublet the mail route and operated the Continental Oil Company bulk plant on North Interocean Avenue. He was a charter member of the Holyoke Volunteer Fire Department and remained actively involved for many years. He was also a volunteer weather observer for the National Weather Service for more than 20 years. He was appointed postmaster in August 1944 and served as president of the state chapter of the National Association of Postmasters of the United States in 1965. He retired from the post office March 1, 1967. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago — Sept. 15, 2016
Ben Rahe’s 15 years of banking experience was cited when he was hired as director of finance for Holyoke School District Re-1J. The school board voted on his employment at the Sept. 7 board meeting.
Longtime local barber Bud Brewer is retiring after a full 60 years in the business. Brewer has been cutting hair from a back room at the Pizza p.a.d for the past 26 years.
Ten Years Ago — Sept. 15, 2011
After serving many years as an officer and sergeant of Holyoke Police Department, Doug Bergstrom has officially taken the reins as chief of police. Bergstrom has been with the Holyoke Police Department in some capacity or another since January 1996.
Phillips County Family Education Services kicked off its youth program Sept. 12 with after-school sessions. Mallori Burnett was recently hired as the after-school program coordinator for the nonprofit organization.
Twenty-Five Years Ago — Sept. 19, 1996
Steve and Chris Hadeen, along with Steve’s parents, Harold and Vickie, have owned an emu ranch north of Paoli since 1992. They raise the emus from the incubation stage until they become adults. Hadeen’s Hallowed Haven Emu Ranch currently houses 91 emus.
The state of Colorado will get a boost of $91.4 million in lottery funds this year. Thanks to $331.4 million in lottery ticket sales for fiscal year 1996, the Colorado Lottery Commission at its August meeting approved one of the largest returns of proceeds to the state in Lottery history.
Fifty Years Ago — Sept. 16, 1971
The champion bull of the Hereford show at the recent Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, was 4A Prince 534, a 2-year-old son of 4A Prince 921, shown by Cumming Cattle Co., Amherst.
Holyoke merchants will offer many items at sale prices during the three-day “Crazy Days” sale to be held Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 23-25.
Better mosquito control programs throughout the state and embargoes on the movement of horses apparently helped Colorado avoid an outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, such as killed hundreds of horses this year in Texas.
Seventy-Five Years Ago — Sept. 19, 1946
Both the Holyoke and the rural schools of the county will open Sept. 23. The board of education feels that the danger of polio is not past, but due to the fact that the Yuma County schools are open and that the Sedgwick County schools will open Monday, it seems best to fall in line.
The Holyoke Market has just installed a Frigid Freeze frozen food case which will be used to display their line of fresh frozen fruits and vegetables. The case is 8 feet in length and is divided into four sections. The top is composed of four sliding glass doors.