A corn-shelling scene at the Kropps’ farm is pictured. John Fredrick William Kropp and his family moved to Amherst in 1907. His son Fred was elected Phillips County sheriff in 1954. Once, while attempting to question three young runaways, they ambushed him with nine stolen pistols and rifles. He was shot several times, but the stolen ammunition was only birdshot, leaving him with painful wounds. The subsequent manhunt, after which the offenders eventually surrendered to law enforcement, was one of the largest in northeast Colorado at the time and was joined by officers from surrounding towns and Nebraska. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago — Nov. 17, 2016
Holyoke High School now boasts a student on the Northeastern Junior College debate team. HHS junior Luke Krogmeier joined the team’s ranks and participated in a Nov. 2 debate between NJC philosophy and criminal justice classes concerning popular vote versus the electoral college. Krogmeier spoke for the philosophy class, arguing for electoral votes, and his team won.
After 28 years of coaching Holyoke JR/SR High Dragons, Arlan Scholl is now taking on an assistant coaching position for the NJC girls basketball team.
The Holyoke Enterprise launched a new design today for the print edition. This new modern look has introduced a new logo, updated fonts, new layouts and a few additional features.
Ten Years Ago — Nov. 17, 2011
The first annual Young Entrepreneur Marketplace will be held Saturday, Nov. 26, at AmeriTowne in Wray. Fourteen young business owners will have displays featuring businesses they have started up themselves. Four local entrepreneurs — Briar Bergner of Bri’s Tie Dyes, Keegan Shaw of The Soup Coup, Hannah Marner of Friend of Mine and Hannah Gibbs of Hannah’s Gems — will make up part of the show.
Corn harvest was estimated to be about 90% or more complete as of Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, and the local sugar beet harvest wrapped up just before Halloween.
Colorado Department of Transportation recently unveiled its new snow plow that will be used to help maintenance crews clear snow and ice from Interstate 76 between Wiggins and Atwood and ultimately farther east. The plow is a trailer pulled by the plow truck that swings out to the side and can plow snow and apply de-icer. It will effectively plow the entire interstate’s width at one time and will be escorted by a CSP car or CDOT truck at all times.
Twenty-Five Years Ago — Nov. 21, 1996
The Phillips County Historical Society will host an open house at the museum on Nov. 22 for the public to view the many new additions to the museum. Four new showrooms have been built in the museum to make areas to display gifts from Richard LeBlanc. A kitchen, dining room, parlor and bedroom hold many of the items.
Tennant-Thompson Funeral Home, located at 241 E. Furry St. in Holyoke, will hold an open house Nov. 24. Tours of the new 2,000-square-foot addition will be incorporated into the day’s festivities.
Last week, construction crews laid blacktop for a new bike path leading from the community center at the fairgrounds to the Frenchman Creek and also to the creek from the highway south of the bridge. Also included in the project was pavement from the highway to the community center.
Fifty Years Ago — Nov. 18, 1971
Vincent Dunn, chairman, Housing Authority of Holyoke, received word last Friday from H.B. Bolas, assistant regional administrator for housing development, that program reservation for low-rent dwelling units for the elderly had been approved for Holyoke. The turnkey elderly housing project calls for 30 low-rent units.
The Great Western Producers Cooperative achieved its initial goal in the purchase of Great Western Sugar Company, that of signing a majority of members. Great Western United Corporation announced that management is willing to submit to its board of directors a reasonable proposal from the growers cooperative to purchase the Great Western Sugar Company at book value.
The Northeastern Junior College women’s field hockey team closed out the 1971 season last Saturday with a tie for second place at the regional tourney held at the University of Northern Colorado. Chris Lehman and Renee Young are members of the team.
Seventy-Five Years Ago — Nov. 21, 1946
Sgt. Robert L. Einspahr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Einspahr of Holyoke, was one of seven boys who had the thrill of helping kill a 650-pound boar in the mountains 30 miles south of their camp at Chanj Gu, Korea.
The Mobile chest X-ray Unit took 600 X-rays in Phillips County during the survey in 1946 and showed three persons with significant tuberculosis finding, no cases of silicosis, two with heart defects, and one with other chest conditions such as tumors and infections not caused by tuberculosis.
The Office of Price Administration Price Control Board at Sterling, serving the counties of Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips, has been closed to public business as of Monday, Nov. 4.
The Beachville Club is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It was started Nov. 23, 1916, as the first women’s rural club organized in Phillips County.