Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
    July 19. 2012
    Holyoke Cleaners owners Dave and Sheila Johnson have closed the laundromat portion of their business as of last week. While closed for public use, they said they will continue to handle drop-off laundry. The Johnsons noted they will be expanding their embroidery business, including Dragon apparel and accessories.
    Lamar, Nebraska, was easily six times its current population Sunday as its 23 residents, family, friends and descendants of the community’s early business owners gathered to celebrate the 125th year since its founding.
    After a very dry summer in northeast Colorado, Mother Nature decided to throw a twist into the action with over 3 inches of rain and large amounts of hail in some areas.
    
    Ten Years Ago
    July 19, 2007
    Bruce Rosenbach, Marv Skipworth and Mike Gracey have all recorded a hole-in-one on hole No. 3 at Holyoke Golf Course this summer.
    Holyoke Soccer Club has announced a three-on-three tournament for Friday morning, July 27, at Homesteaders Park for ages 4 through adult.
    Both the 13-year-old and 15-year-old Border League All-Stars teams and the Junior Buckley Bombers will move on to state tournaments this weekend.
    
    Twenty-Five Years Ago
    July 23, 1992
    As Area One district champions of the July 17-19 Babe Ruth 14-15-year-old All-Star baseball tournament held in Holyoke, the Border League All-Stars earned a trip to the state tournament in La Junta July 25-29.
    Tennis enthusiasts representing more than a dozen communities converged on Holyoke this past weekend to make the 1992 Harold Millage Tennis Tournament a success. Nearly doubling the number of participants who played in last year’s tourney, 50 players took to the newly resurfaced Holyoke tennis courts July 17-19.
    In a trial before Sedgwick County Judge Max Carlson June 2, three Holyoke men were found guilty on amended charges of illegally netting walleye fish at Jumbo Reservoir last year. They were sentenced by Judge Carlson in Phillips County Court on July 13.
    Danny Aragon is serving as interim minister at Holyoke Church of Christ during July and August.
    
    Fifty Years Ago
    July 20, 1967
    The board of trustees of the Town of Holyoke at its regular meeting Monday evening passed and adopted two new ordinances. Ordinance No. 3 is “an ordinance prohibiting the establishment of unwholesome or offensive businesses and prohibiting the enlargement or increase of existing offensive and unwholesome businesses.” Ordinance No. 4 is “an ordinance regulating and prohibiting the keeping, storage or collection of junk.”
    More than two weeks later than normal, wheat harvest is finally underway in Phillips County. Generally, the quality is below par due to excessive rain.
    
    Seventy-Five Years Ago
    July 23, 1942
    The Safeway store, closed for two weeks for remodeling, will open Tuesday as a completely modern store, with new front, new fixtures and a larger main store building.
    Miss Viola M. Putney, for the last four years with The Holyoke Enterprise, this week assumed management of the Julesburg Grit-Advocate, the publisher, Donald E. Smith, having been called into Army service.
    Cealo Mohawk, who has been in Holyoke several times during the last few years to give exhibitions and instructions in swimming, was hired Monday night at a meeting of the town board to have charge of the pool for the remainder of the season. Ivan L. Eicher, who has been the manager of the pool since its opening last month, has resigned.
    Discontinuance of mail service from Holyoke at night might not be far off in the future, due to the rubber-saving program of the federal government.
    Dates for the Phillips County Fair have been set for Sept. 10-12. Later dates were selected for the fair because of the slow harvest, which it was expected would hardly be finished by the time it was originally planned to hold the fair, Aug. 12-14.