Jim Evans’ Guernsey dairy north of the Frenchman Creek is pictured. Evans hauled milk from the dairy to Clover Blossom Creamery in Holyoke. In 1943, Fred R. Peterson, owner of the creamery, sold about 4,000 pounds of butter to the quartermaster corps of the war department since regulations at the time required butter manufacturers to set aside 30% of their total production monthly for the government. The creamery was the only butter-making plant between Denver and McCook, Nebraska, and it was sold to L.A. Biddle in 1946. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
Dec. 8, 2016
Construction is complete, licenses are approved and shelves are stocked at Melissa Memorial Hospital’s Hometown Pharmacy, located in the clinic side of MMH at 1001 E. Johnson St. in Holyoke. Under the direction of pharmacist Amy Kleve, the new business opened its doors Dec. 6. Michelle Liang is the new bilingual pharmacy tech working alongside Kleve.
Holyoke High School seniors Tara Krueger and Kaitlyn Shafer recently worked with Karen Weaver from Military Missions Inc. in Kentucky to send gifts and letters to military men and women who are serving overseas.
Ten Years Ago
Dec. 8, 2011
Virgil Harms marks 50 years as mayor for the town of Paoli. He was honored at a surprise party of celebration Dec. 3.
Ron Koch recently opened Headquarters at his newly remodeled salon at 114 E. Denver St. Also renting stations at the new shop are Jane Zink and Jeff Sullivan.
Debby Banaka is celebrating her 30-year anniversary as a stylist at Ardie’s Beauty Barr in Holyoke.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Dec. 12, 1996
Cellular One opened a new customer service office in Holyoke on Dec. 4. The office is located in the north office of the former Lions Den at 115 N. Campbell Ave. Keith Sharpe in Haxtun and Scholl Oil in Holyoke will remain authorized Cellular One dealers.
Except for a few “odds and ends,” construction on highways 6 and 385 is finished, with a new addition to Denver Street — a left-hand turning lane.
Linda Tufts became the new secretary at the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce last week.
Fifty Years Ago
Dec. 9, 1971
Dan Austin, Ovid, was one of six winners in the agricultural program this year. He received his award, a $700 educational scholarship donated by the International Harvester Company, while attending the 50th annual 4-H Congress in Chicago, Illinois. He is a 1971 graduate of Holyoke High School and a freshman at Colorado State University.
The oldest farmer or rancher in northeastern Colorado will be honored at the Colorado Farm Show, scheduled in Greeley from Jan. 25-26. The person to be honored will be selected from among applicants submitted by organizations in northeastern Colorado and must be or have been actively involved in farming or ranching in the area east of the Continental Divide and north of Interstate 70.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Dec. 12, 1946
The VFW is at present expanding its program, and the canvassing committee reported last Tuesday evening that increasing progress is being made in the present drive to raise money for the VFW memorial building. It is the desire of the organization to advise the people of the community and general trade area that their building, when completed, will stand not only as a tribute to our dead but as a symbol of democracy and freedom.
$25 million in new highway projects are in prospect for 1947 in Colorado — this in spite of the fact that only between $6 million and $7 million in contracts will have been let by the end of 1946.