The town of Paoli is pictured in June 1921. The building in the foreground is the Roy Dinsmore General Merchandise and Cream Station, which is said to have been the first store in Paoli. Fire completely destroyed the building and its contents the evening of March 3, 1922. Roy Dinsmore had operated a store there for some time but had closed out his stock. S. Gold and his partner had recently rented the building and put in a large stock of merchandise, with several truckloads having been put in the afternoon before the fire. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
June 19, 2014
A vacancy has been declared on the Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education with the recent resignation of board member Kim Killin. She became ineligible to hold the office when she was appointed Phillips County judge this month.
This summer, Robert White is settling in at First Christian Church in Holyoke as an intern under Pastor Merle Powell.
Kaitlin Yost spent Feb. 23-May 16 as a missionary intern with AG World Missions in Sucúa, Ecuador.
Ten Years Ago
June 18, 2009
Harlan Stern is retiring July 1 after 31 years as president/CEO of the Holyoke and Grainland cooperatives.
Sixty years of dedicated service to the local Home Extension chapter earned Holyoke resident Viola Colglazier special recognition at the state Family and Community Education convention held in Holyoke last week.
Retailers selling cigarettes will now be required to charge the 2.9% sales tax. House bill 09-1342 was passed and signed, making the bill effective July 1. Cigarettes are still exempt from city, county and special district sales tax.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 23, 1994
Installation services were held June 14 at the Holyoke Post Office for new postmaster Helen Murray, originally from Wray. She came to Holyoke in October of last year to serve as officer in charge.
In its five years of operation in Colorado, D&D Farms has experienced tremendous growth which is evidenced in part by the quadrupling of its payroll, number of locations and number of sows.
Jim Oliphant assumed his new position with Holyoke’s Youth Challenge on June 1. The former pastor of Holyoke First Christian Church will be handling a number of areas at the local youth outreach.
Fifty Years Ago
June 19, 1969
The Re-1J Board of Education has hired James D. Gribben to be junior high and elementary grade school principal for the coming year.
Southwest Nebraska and northeast Colorado residents will have an opportunity next Saturday to personally inspect one of the Midwest’s newest agricultural industries. A modern alfalfa dehydrating plant at Venango, Nebraska, operated by Western Alfalfa Corporation, will be unveiled to the public for the first time during an open house.
New pastoral assignments for the Rocky Mountain conference of the United Methodist Church were announced Tuesday by Bishop R. Marvin Stuart. William L. Youngblood, formerly of Northglenn, has been assigned to the Holyoke congregation, replacing Gerald J. Dingman, who has been assigned to the congregation at Worland, Wyoming.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
June 22, 1944
The traveling exhibit of captured German war equipment is on display in Denver several days this week and was viewed by R.C. Ozman and F.B. Kelly Wednesday on their return from a convention in Pueblo.
Twenty-eight Farmers Union young people attended the first Phillips County Farmers Union Camp at the Amitie School June 18-21. The ages of the attendants were 12-15, known as Junior Reserve Locals. Represented were Amherst, Haxtun, Paoli, Amitie and Holyoke.