Pages of the Past

100 years ago
March 12, 1924
Another dollar per ton for the sugar beets of the 1923 crop will be paid to beet farmers by the Great Western Sugar Company on April 1.
Many Basin folks were shocked on Monday evening when they found that Mrs. F.L. McNown had bobbed her hair.
Billy Baker, had the misfortune of losing the tip of the middle finger on his left hand the other day, when it got too close to the planer at the manual training department.
Mr. P.P. Anderson, who, with Rev. Edwin Bowling, went to Cheyenne on Sunday to represent Basin at the meeting of the State Board of Charities and Reform, returned home yesterday. Mr. Anderson says that while the matter of selecting a site for the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium has been postponed until April 1, he feels that Basin has a very good chance of landing the site.
75 years ago
March 10, 1948
Barbara Ellison, Elizabeth Kennedy, and Kathryn Whitlock are on the honor roll in the senior class. Junior honor roll includes Betty English and Ethel Parkin. Sophomore class, David Cook and Ronald Harless. Eleanor Akin is the only Freshman on the list.
Helen J. Shoemaker, whose column appears regularly in a daily news tabloid published in Worland, leveled a blistering attack at the Big Horn county treasurer and the members of her staff on Friday. This particular complaint seems to have been that persons applying for automobile and truck license plates sometimes found it necessary to wait in line. The columnist referred particularly to “the last day of the month” as one on which many “disgusted people” filled the lobby of the county courthouse. Actually issued on this one day were 272 auto, truck, and trailer license plates. This indicates an average of one and one-half minutes consumed in the issuance of each license.
50 years ago
March14, 1974
Jeff Cummings, son of Mrs. Ellen Cummings of Basin, has received word of his acceptance to Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. for a year of internship.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Greer are the proud parents of a baby girl born Thursday, March 7 at the Washakie Memorial hospital in Worland, the daughter was named Barbara Jo.
Navy Airman Apprentice Kenneth M. Ellison, son of Mrs. Mary Twomey of Greybull, and grandson of Mrs. Marie Mills of Basin, visited the Far East port of Hong Kong while serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier Midway. He spent five days in the British Crown colony on a rest and recreation visit.
25 years ago
March 11, 1999
It was a sea of red at the Casper Events Center Saturday evening as the communities of Basin, Manderson, and Hyattville converged in Casper to root on their Rebels and watch history in the making. The local high school athletes didn’t disappoint: they brought home the 2A Boys’ Basketball State Championship—their first ever.
The new inductees of the National Honor Society at Riverside High School include: Erin Stiver, Doug Hamilton, Paul Hanson, Hannah Irvine, Jennifer Cooper, Daniel Hull, Elisa Farlow, Jessica Holloway, Skye Ellis, Weston Graham, Robert Evans, Teri Harrison, and Drew King.