Andrew C. and Lizzie Cauble are pictured on their ranch in 1889. The man with the beard, sitting down in the middle of the group, is Andrew’s father, James. The other man is likely either Andrew’s uncle Ben or brother Orpheus. A.C. Cauble staked a homestead claim on land 10 miles southeast of Holyoke in the Amitie community in October 1886. On his homestead, he built a one-room sod house, 10 feet by 12 feet, with a roof, one door, one window and no floor. Later a second room was added to the house, and finally the sod house grew to five rooms. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago — April 17, 2014
Denver Broncos football players Malik Jackson, Virgil Green and Mitch Unrein, along with Miles the mascot and cheerleaders Kendal and Emily G., made a stop in Holyoke on April 15 to sign autographs, take pictures and thank fans for their support throughout the year.
Pastor Armenio Pineros is kicking off a weekly Hispanic ministry time at Zion Lutheran Church in Holyoke on April 23.
A collaborative effort of the HHS 21st century skills class, Regent Park/Carriage House staff and other volunteers made a Great Gatsby/Roaring ’20s-themed Senior Senior Prom a reality for Regent Park/Carriage House residents April 12.
Glenn Huwa, Marc Wailes and Gregg Wailes, owners of Double W Dairy of Holyoke, have been named a 2014 Member of Distinction farm by their milk marketing cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America.
Ten Years Ago — April 16, 2009
Taking another step in its efforts to upgrade U.S. Highway 385, The High Plains Highway Coalition recently unveiled the official High Plains Highway sign, which will soon dot the highway as it winds through Colorado.
Following a 35-minute executive session during their meeting April 7, members of the East Phillips County Hospital District Board approved the contract with High Plains Center for the Arts on the sale of the former Melissa Memorial Hospital property.
In April of 2008, Phillips County received word from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that it had been awarded a $48,140 grant to turn the old incinerator building at the landfill into a recycling center. Now, almost a year later, landfill supervisor Matt Meusborn announced the project is complete.
HHS junior Chad Stroh earned High School All-American status at the High School Wrestling Nationals in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This tournament is the largest folkstyle tourney in the U.S.
Twenty-Five Years Ago — April 21, 1994
An 8-foot-by-20-foot mural of Free Willy, baby Shamu and Ariel has been placed on the wall behind the diving board on the south wall of the Holyoke Swimming Pool, thanks to the efforts of artists Diana Gerk, Tammy Dubbert and Brenda Krueger.
A response sent from Phillips County to the State Air Quality Control Division states that the incinerator at the county landfill is being operated under a valid permit, that the County made a timely request in December 1987 for renewal of that permit, and that the State has never taken action on that application. County Attorney Al Wall issued the response April 12 after the Division repeatedly charged the County with violating current state law.
Fifty Years Ago — April 17, 1969
Sale was announced this week of the Holyoke Phillips 66 station by John Jacobson, Wray, to Loran Prottsman. Prottsman has operated the station for Jacobson for the past three years.
This year in the elementary-junior high school, two new programs involving student aides have been organized. Junior high students and high school members of the Future Teachers Association assist in the classrooms during one of their study halls. Students’ experiences may range from correcting papers to instructing a class, always under the supervision of a regular faculty member.
Seventy-Five Years Ago — April 20, 1944
About 65 persons met at the auditorium of the Amherst public school last Wednesday evening for the purpose of organizing a cooperative lumber yard and hardware store. The assembly was 100% in favor of organizing a lumber yard and hardware line under the co-op plan since the community has been without these commodities for over six months.
Snow began falling here Sunday evening and continued more or less continuously through Monday, April 17, amounting to 5 or 6 inches, much of which melted as it touched the warmer ground.
Lt. Col. Henry F. Ford, the highest-ranking “garbage” collector in the United States Army and a priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, has recently returned home after two years of foreign service. After seeing 120 half-starved orphans in two homes in Naples, he conceived the plan of salvaging the leftovers in the mess halls of the Army camps so the orphans might be fed. Father Ford was at one time priest of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Holyoke.
A recent ruling of the War Production Board at Washington has stopped all new extensions of Rural Electrification Associations, the local association is informed, because of “acute shortage of materials.”