Several members of the 1923 PCHS football team are pictured from left, front row, (unknown) Miles, Pat Benson, Wyvard Sprague and (unknown) Evans; second row, Bud Edgar, Bus Harmon, Delbert Weir, Alan Schmidt and (unidentified); and back row, Whitney Borland, Earl Albers, (unknown) Bevard, Tony Clark, Virgil Albers, Percy Thompson and Coach Broiler. The Sept. 20, 1923, issue of The Holyoke Enterprise reported that “football practice is progressing in good shape at Holyoke High School, with 25 Dragons appearing in suits each night. The number of grid men in moleskins this year is the greatest since the sport has been followed here, and the interest shown is an indicator of a successful season. During the three years that football has been demonstrated here since its reinstatement, the interest shown by the high school athletes as well as by the followers of the game in Holyoke has been gradually increasing. With the fourth year giving every indication of the most successful one in the history of the school, football is a big item of conversation.” — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago — Sept. 25, 2014
Ernesto Quezada and Silvia Cano are the newest restaurant proprietors in Holyoke. Restaurante y Panaderia Juarez is open for business at 430 E. Denver St.
Seven newspapers, including the Enterprise, collaborated on a special section to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the nation’s Cooperative Extension Service.
Evangelist and Christian author Gail Prentice will be in Holyoke on Sept. 27 to sign copies of his book, “Wolves: The Destroyer of the Church,” at Storybrooke, Ink.
Ten Years Ago — Sept. 24, 2009
Holyoke’s Albert Bahler is the oldest man in Phillips County and turned 100 on Sept. 18.
The Colorado Rural Health Center is providing 73 acute care hospitals throughout rural and urban Colorado with portable water purification units to augment emergency preparedness programs and procedures. CRHC Emergency Preparedness Manager Ron Seedorf recently hand-delivered one of the units to Melissa Memorial Hospital.
Twenty-Five Years Ago — Sept. 29, 1994
No exemption areas are included in the Tobacco-Free Schools policy which was adopted by the Holyoke Re-1J Board of Education at its Sept. 20 meeting.
Holyoke City Council has been added to the list of entities that are having to deal with the issue of smoking in the workplace. It was announced at the Sept. 19 meeting that the City has been advised by CIRSA to make all of its buildings and vehicles a smoke-free environment, or at least establish a designated smoking room that is physically separated and ventilated from other work or eating areas.
Fifty Years Ago — Sept. 25, 1969
Windows decorated for homecoming by the business houses in Holyoke will be judged, and a traveling plaque will be awarded for the best decoration.
The Colorado Department of Health has invited students in all of Colorado’s high schools to participate in its third annual Cleaner Air Week art contest. Entries must be on an 11-inch-by-14-inch poster board and may be in the form of a symbol for air pollution control work in Colorado, a graphic presentation of the effects of air pollution or a poster for Cleaner Air Week, scheduled for Oct. 19-25.
Beginners’ swim classes for women will start Sept. 29 at the pool. The fee for 10 lessons is $4, and bring your own suit.
Seventy-Five Years Ago — Sept. 28, 1944
Change in the construction of the name of Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to what is considered a more convenient and equally expressive form of Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College will be asked of the Colorado General Assembly, it was announced at Fort Collins Saturday. Not only has the name now used proved too cumbersome for general use, but it also has resulted in the institution being confused with the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, which also uses the name “Colorado State.”
The local dressing plant operated from Wednesday of last week to Monday afternoon this week and dressed for shipment two carloads of government-ordered turkeys. These are for Thanksgiving dinners for those in the armed forces.