This photo was taken around 1910 on North Interocean Avenue in Holyoke. The first moving picture in Holyoke is believed to have been shown in the small weathered building on the left. The large building on the left, the Sears Hotel at the time, was located where the Burge Hotel is now. The corner of the porch of the old Herald office may be seen on the right, and one of the buildings farther back on the right was a hotel at one point. The man standing in back on the left with his arms crossed is thought to be Judge S.S. Worley, and the man on the right (partially hidden behind a pony) is thought to be Harrison “Doc” Norris. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
Feb. 14, 2013
HHS students Nicholas Ortner and Alyssa Killin recently traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and were able to witness the presidential inauguration in person.
Discussions concerning the existing stray cat problem dominated much of the Feb. 5 Holyoke City Council meeting. A cat ordinance was discussed at length, but a variety of problems stand in the way of being able to actually put an ordinance into effect.
The Okee Dokee Brothers won a Grammy for their children’s album “Can You Canoe?” at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Feb. 10. The bluegrass duo, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing, are childhood friends from Denver, and Mailander is the grandson of Marie Mailander of Holyoke.
Ten Years Ago
Feb. 14, 2008
Walt Heinitz, line superintendent at Highline Electric Association, retired Jan. 31 after nearly 35 years as a Highline employee.
Local soldier Robbie Doman was severely injured in a recent accident when his Army unit’s Humvee rolled, throwing Doman out and rolling on top of him.
Nearly 300 county residents attended the Taste of Agriculture event Feb. 4, bringing in over $1,200 in funds for the new Phillips County Event Center.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Feb. 18, 1993
Welding and small manufacturing, including custom fabrication, are the main features of Powell Productions, a new business enterprise started at 210 S. Sherman Ave. in Holyoke by Gary Powell at the first of the year.
With just over two days in between, two snowstorms hit the Holyoke area in the past week. The first brought about 5 and a half inches of snow Feb. 10-11, while the second amounted to 4 inches of snow Feb. 14-15.
Teresa Edwards, a native and current resident of Yuma, is in the midst of a six-week clinical internship at the Physical Therapy Clinic of Holyoke.
In an integrated unit featuring library skills, reading, writing and science, students in Judy Ginapp’s third-grade class have renovated their classroom into an enticing Land of Imagination. Nine ecosystems have been constructed in the classroom, including a beach, desert, forest, island, jungle, lake, mountains, river and swamp.
Fifty Years Ago
Feb. 15, 1968
Action of the college committee of Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, to discontinue intercollegiate football was announced Monday by E.S. French, president. The action does not affect other varsity sports.
The Holyoke High School business law class will be conducting a mock trial Feb. 20-22 in the HHS band room. The public is invited.
More than 80 beautifully framed prints by master artists have been added to the large collection of the High Plains Public Library system and will be available for loan through public libraries by Feb. 22.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Feb. 18, 1943
According to information received by the local REA office, permission has been granted from Washington for the building of several short extensions to customers in this district. To be eligible for receiving electricity, the consumer must have 50 animal units per mile, and not more than 5,000 feet may be built in one continuous stretch at one time. No one may even be connected, even if just a very short run, for less than 10 animal units.
Recruiting of women for the U.S. Marine Corps, to take over noncombatant posts within the continental limits of the United States, thus releasing thousands of leathernecks for duty on the battlefield, was begun last Friday.
Flat files, not less than 10 inches in length, are needed to make knives for American fighting men.
At the meeting of the Holyoke town board Monday night, it was decided to use smaller lights along parts of the whiteway in the town in order to save electric energy during wartime.
Fifty-six teachers of a total 80 in Phillips County received a salary of less than $1,000 in 1940-41, and 36 received less than $800 for that year, according to a study made recently of the last available official records in the state department of education.