Peekin’ into the Past

Five Years Ago
Nov. 19, 2015

Kathy Meyer, FNP, is rejoining the staff at Melissa Memorial Hospital. Patients will find her in the Family Practice Clinic three days per week and also helping cover call on the hospital side. Meyer previously worked at MMH from 2000-2008.

High school cheerleading has returned to activity status at HHS, rather than a school sport, as announced by athletic director Sandra Rahe at the Nov. 16 meeting of the Holyoke Board of Education.

Nov. 17 marked the second snow day in a week’s time for Holyoke schools, ushering in an early-morning blizzard after heavy rain, thunder and lightning the evening before. Although the time between snowstorms saw sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s, Nov. 11 was another cold, blustery morning as north winds and 3 inches of snow made for icy roads and poor visibility.

Printers Paper & More will remain an important part of Holyoke’s business district, now as a division of Scholl Oil Company. The business’s new location will be 118 S. Interocean Ave., in the former Abts Express building.

Ten Years Ago
Nov. 18, 2010

The Holyoke area received its first snow of the fall on Veterans Day.

Phillips County Event Center will celebrate its grand opening/thank-you celebration on Nov. 21.

MV Equipment in Holyoke is planning an open house for Nov. 19 for the grand opening of their new service shop.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
Nov. 23, 1995

Despite efforts by administrators to keep Holyoke High School in its current classification, it appears that the school will be bumped up to 2A/3A for at least two years, beginning with the 1996-97 school year. A student count of 199 is the breaking point between the classifications. On official count day this year, HHS had 200 students.

Jack and JoAnne Kiernan, who operate a landscaping and gourmet gift store business at 201 E. Denver St., have leased out the west half of the building for the new State Farm office. On Jan. 2, Mike Neill will be officially opening offices in both Holyoke and Yuma. Neill’s office manager at the Holyoke office will be Marla (Weber) Camblin, who returns to this area from Fort Collins, having grown up near Amherst. The Kiernans noted that the gourmet gift store will be discontinued and their landscape business will open in the spring at 109 N. Campbell Ave.

Dr. Cleon Kimberling, CSU Extension veterinarian and professor, pedaled 3,448 miles from Oceanside, California, to Bar Harbor, Maine, capturing his cross-country bike trip in photos to celebrate 65 years of life on planet Earth. Kimberling is a native of the Champion, Nebraska, area and recently stopped in Holyoke on his trek across the country.

Fifty Years Ago
Nov. 19, 1970

The Holyoke station of Great Western Sugar Company received a total of 148,105 tons of sugar beets during the 1970 harvest.

The largest payment ever made for sugar beets out of the Sterling office of Great Western Sugar Company will be mailed to growers tomorrow. Announcement of the $4,253,144 initial payment for the 1970 crop was made today. The payment will average $12.06 per ton in this area, which covers beets grown in Logan and Phillips counties in Colorado, and Chase, Perkins and Cheyenne counties in Nebraska.

The development of a birth control vaccine for dogs was announced recently by a veterinary researcher at Colorado State University. However, the vaccine will not be commercially available for at least four years.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
Nov. 22, 1945

After careful consideration of the proposition relative to owning the land used as a golf course in the northeast part of Holyoke, the town council voted unanimously to accept the land, provided it would be self-supporting. The Holyoke Golf Club in a meeting Tuesday night last week decided to set the annual membership dues at $10 and to sell certificates of membership for $10 each, the money to be used for buying the land now used as the golf links.

Now that the postwar era has become a reality with the downfall of Japan, citizens of Phillips County can look forward to dramatic developments in canned food, many of which were first packaged for the armed forces. Among the new foods are such items as canned hamburgers, canned bacon, seafood cocktails and salads in cans, as well as a long list of meats new to a can, among them chicken stew with dumplings, beef and gravy, pork with applesauce, ham with raisin sauce and boned turkey.

Dundy County was placed in the unique situation of being the only county in southwestern Nebraska operating on Mountain Time on Monday when Chase County joined Hitchcock and Hayes counties in their countywide secession from the Mountain Time zone. The action took place on Tuesday of last week when the Chase County commissioners adopted a resolution setting the entire county on Central Time and establishing the Nebraska-Colorado line as the western boundary between the time zones insofar as Chase County was concerned.

Five one-act plays will be sponsored by the Thespian Dragons as part of the school assembly programs during the next three months. Student directors will supervise plays for the first time in the Thespian Dragons’ two years of existence.