Carl Millage is pictured in the fall of 1907. His father Jacob sold 160 acres in South Dakota and purchased 3,000 acres 12 miles southwest of Holyoke in 1904. Jacob died in 1908, leaving the ranch to Carl. Carl engaged in various farming operations in both Phillips and Yuma counties, including running a dairy with his sons Harold and Gerald. Carl began to acquire and improve more land when the hardships of the 1930s began to lift. With his sons as partners, their holdings spread to over 12,000 acres of farming and ranch land. The Millage farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
June 2, 2016
Paoli Mayor Virgil Harms invites local residents to an open house Saturday, June 4, to celebrate the new Paoli Town Hall at 111 S. Lohn Ave.
Fifteen HJHS students competed in the BolderBoulder as part of the BBRacers Club. Sponsored by HJHS teacher and track coach Amber Schroetlin, this was HJHS’s first year to participate.
Ten Years Ago
June 2, 2011
Jon Sutton of rural Holyoke is now offering on-site computer repair in northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska.
Holyoke weather observer Dan Kafka reported 2.38 inches of rain in Holyoke Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. The Frenchman Creek was running fast, with yards and roads seeing flooding conditions.
Phillips County Museum is hosting “Night in the Museum” on June 2, including cattle branding, a hand corn sheller demonstration, and tours of the schoolhouse and Reimer-Smith filling station.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 6, 1996
Between 85 and 100 volunteers teamed up for Build the Barn Day at Phillips County Fairgrounds to build an open-sided, tin-roofed structure west of the current cattle showing area to be used primarily for livestock shows and junior livestock sales.
Highways 6 and 385 will undergo repaving this summer, and a new stoplight will be put in. The paving will extend two blocks north, two blocks south, one block east and one block west of the stoplight. The new stoplight will be a four-post system with crosswalk signals included.
Kirk Rusch, a junior at Platte Valley Bible College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, is the summer intern at the First Christian Church in Holyoke.
Fifty Years Ago
June 3, 1971
Zeezo, Safeway’s delightful comic clown, will be on hand to entertain children of all ages at the Safeway store in Holyoke on June 7. Zeezo will thrill youngsters with magic tricks, rides in his miniature Model T Ford automobile, and free balloons twisted into shapes of animals, rockets, fruits and a variety of other imaginative things.
Two Yuma area ranchers south of Yuma are undergoing a series of painful rabies shots after coming in contact with a rabid Hereford heifer on the Leonard Nelson ranch. A second cow on a ranch southwest of Eckley has shown strong symptoms of rabies, and tests are being made by veterinarians at CSU.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
June 6, 1946
George Rober, Phillips County Extension agent, announced Monday that the Haxtun grass field day will be conducted June 14, with a tour of farms in the Haxtun country. Demonstrations of grass plantings, such as brome, Lincoln and Canadian crested wheat, intermediate wheat grass, Russian wild rye, sweet clover and sand sage mowing will be demonstrated. Stock water ponds, windbreaks, etc. will be visited on the tour over the Haxtun territory.
Unseasonably cool weather came to an abrupt end June 4, when the thermometer in the government weather box here recorded 20 degrees higher than the previous day’s high of 67 degrees. And yesterday another increase of 8 degrees was recorded, bringing the season’s first hot day at 95 degrees.
George J. Rober, county agricultural agent, announces that a wheat field day will be held sometime during the last week of June at the Timm Bros. Farm north of Amherst. On the plot are 13 varieties of winter wheats seeded side by side that are showing a very good comparison at this date.