Pages of the Past

100 years ago

April 30, 1925

If not for Cody and the state of Montana, the weather of the Big Horn Basin would be just one round of delight. But with the two acting up the way they are accustomed to, there are times when we feel a little aggravated at them. For instance, the latter part of last week Montana proceeded to pull off a two-foot snowstorm, then on Monday Cody thought the proper way to welcome the governor was to do it with a full-fledged blizzard. As a result, Basin has experienced some rather cool weather. Sunday morning the temperature was at 25 degrees and on Tuesday, after the Cody stunt, it fell to 28. In spite of the freezing weather, those who know tell us that gardens have suffered very little and that fruit is not at all damaged.

75 years ago

April 26, 1950

The Basin high school band was judged “excellent” in both concert and sight-reading competition during the music festival presented at Thermopolis last weekend. 

The graduating class of Basin High School of this year numbers 24, the largest in the history of the school. They are as follows: Minnie Berry, Hazel Curtis, Anna Extra, Constance Chatfield, Emma Taylor, Charles Reidl, James Keachie, Burl Jones, Jerome Devereaux, Carl Peavler, Paul Wilson, Mary O’Neill, Nina Peavler, Mark Plasters, Harry Sweeney, Vernon Beall, Wynona Johnson, Agnes Wheeler, Adana Tolstrup, Nellie Moon, Ruth Wickwire, Opal Bruce, Thelma Weintz and Walter Clifton. 

Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Shores of Basin are the parents of a son born recently at the Greybull Hospital. 

50 years ago

May 1, 1975

Members of the Big Horn County road and bridge crew and two Town of Basin employees were engaged Wednesday and Thursday morning in pulling carcasses of dead cattle from the Big Horn River between Manderson and Greybull. Twenty-six carcasses were retrieved and hauled to the landfill north of Basin. It is suspected that the cattle fell through the ice. It is believed that the cattle belonged to Mark Carter of Ten Sleep Cattle Co.

Top contenders from the Basin school wrestling program are Larry Mead, Tom Davis, Billy Olson, Tim Doerr, Tim Beck and Terry Beck. 

King and queen of the junior prom were Jeri Black and Larry Herzog. The theme was “Happy Days.”

25 years ago

April 27, 2000

In a little over a month and possibly as early as June 1, the South Big Horn County Hospital District hopes to open a critical access hospital and a 24-hour emergency room at its facility between Basin and Greybull. 

The members of the Riverside High School’s FCCLA are as follows: Katrina Jares, Betsy Crosby, Julie Stidolph, Courtney Bresach, Catrina Olson, Terri Harrison, Lisa Dunlap, Hannah Irvine, Lindsay Williamson, Nicole Jares, Clint Cullison Daniel Hull, Reid Stidolph, Wes Graham, Jennifer Jacobs, Kristi Williamson and Jennifer Cooper. 

Five members of the Burlington High School FCCLA will be heading to the National FCCLA convention. Members of the FCCLA are: Macy Winters, Mandy Bullinger Lindsay Carrizales, Jessica Mitchell and Sierra Garza