Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago
Sept. 5, 2013
    Phillips County commissioners reported at their Aug. 30 meeting that they will be putting up surveillance cameras and signs at Homesteaders Park due to people mistreating the rocks and other equipment at the new water feature. The cameras will also be used at the adjacent playground at the fairgrounds.
    Melissa Prante has been promoted to interim chief financial officer at Melissa Memorial Hospital after serving as an accountant and controller at the hospital for the past year.
    HHS sophomore Austin Vieselmeyer claimed grand champion market hog honors with his hog Wulfy at the 2013 Colorado State Fair.
    
Ten Years Ago
Sept. 4, 2008
    Americans watched history being made last week in Denver when the Democratic Party became the first political party ever to nominate an African-American candidate for president. Barack Obama will face Republican candidate John McCain, who has chosen Sarah Palin to be his running mate. This marks the first time ever Republicans have nominated a woman as their candidate for vice president.
    Holyoke High School welcomes eight foreign exchange students for the 2008-09 school year, with the international students representing six different countries.
    Holyoke fourth-grader Tyler Camblin of Holyoke took grand champion market beef honors at the Junior Livestock Sale at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Sept. 9, 1993
    Forest and Sharon McWilliams of Holyoke are launching a new business venture called Kidz Alley, featuring sales of used children’s toys, clothes and furniture. Located at 245 N. Interocean Ave., the former Gene Wells Realty building, the business opening is set for Sept. 13.
    Monica Weber of Amherst, a junior at HHS, earned champion senior beef showman honors at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo last week.
    A couple of reported cases of encephalitis were noted last week by residents of the Holyoke area. Dr. Larry Ensz said it is possibly mosquito-borne encephalitis, a viral disease carried by mosquitos.
    
Fifty Years Ago
Sept. 5, 1968
    Kenneth Meade, who joined the Holyoke High School faculty this fall as English and speech teacher, is also Rev. K.R. Meade, new pastor of the Holyoke Church of the Nazarene. Rev. Meade succeeded Rev. Clarence Manners as pastor of the Nazarene church.
    This is the last week for Clark’s Corner, the weekly column by Enterprise editor Ted Clark. The Corner was begun close to 17 years ago, and when estimating how many columns of type he has run through The Corner, Clark came up with an estimate of a column of type that would stretch down Interocean Avenue from Ye Enterprise office at 134 N. Interocean Ave. to a point somewhere between the post office and the old hospital building.
    Dorothy Ortner was chosen grand champion in the guest meal demonstration at the Colorado State Fair for her Irish dinner.
    Replacing Julian Tofil as welfare director for the Phillips County Welfare Department is Douglas Keasling, who assumed his new duties this week. Named to succeed Mrs. Robert Hogan as welfare case worker was Theo. P. “Ted” Clark.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Sept. 9, 1943
    The Holyoke Enterprise was sold Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Kelly of Howard, South Dakota, who will move here next week to take over operation of the paper. The paper was sold to them by Marjory Lindberg after the death of her husband, E.W. Lindberg, Holyoke Enterprise publisher, in June.
    The deadline on the time allowed for the legal holding of big game killed last season was midnight on Aug. 31. Any sportsman who has overlooked this fact should immediately check up on himself and avoid prosecution for illegal possession by disposing of the meat at once.
    Ring Bros., three-ring circus, will be a feature that none will want to miss today and tomorrow at the Phillips County Fair. It is the largest miniature circus on the road today and will be shown in action. It is built to scale and took three years to complete, being entirely hand-carved.