100 Years Ago: City uses lumber from dismantled bandstand to construct new dam

100 Years Ago

Oct. 3, 1924

Lamoin M. Beal, who has been employed at the city pumping plant for the past four years, died very suddenly Sunday morning at 4 o’clock at his home.  He had been up and about all day Saturday and had not been ill, so his unexpected death was a great shock to his family and friends.

The old bandstand, which has so long stood at the corner of Greybull Avenue and Fifth Street, was dismantled and a portion of the lumber was used by the city in constructing a dam to hold back the water while the teams working on the east channel of the river finished removing the gravel that has choked that side of the stream.

90 Years Ago

Oct. 4, 1934

School enrollment now totals 523.  

The Greybull Panther football squad will journey to Cody Saturday to meet the heavy Cody team.  It is said the two teams are quite evenly matched.

News of the wedding of Mrs. Jane Higley to E.J. Aebischer was made known here today.

80 Years Ago

Oct. 5, 1944

T-Sgt. John B. Snyder, well known to many Shell Creek folk, where he was employed before going into the service, has been awarded the bronze star medal for meritorious service while at an advanced base in the South Pacific.

Mrs. Clifford Holm has accepted the position of librarian at the Greybull Public Library. Mrs. John Alderdice resigned a short time ago and the board selected Mrs. Holm to fill the position. 

70 Years ago

Oct. 14, 1954

Sylvia Lilja, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Lilja, was recently nominated as a candidate for homecoming queen at the University of Wyoming.

60 Years Ago

Oct. 1, 1964

The Greybull Youth Center building will be deeded to the Town of Greybull and the organization dissolved, it was decided by those remaining members.

Construction of a 25 foot by 60 foot building on the site of the former Horn’s store began Wednesday, and will house a Montgomery Ward mail order store.

Mr. and Mrs. O.W. Horton of Otto announce the engagement of their daughter, Lola Jean, to Melvin Leslie Lee Zum Brunnen of Lusk.  The wedding date has been set for Dec.17 at the First Presbyterian Church in Greybull.

50 Years Ago

Oct. 3, 1974

George Scurlock, 641 South Sixth Street, Greybull, who waged a one-man campaign of more than six months to collect old newspapers as a means of financing the furnishing of one room at the South Big Horn County Hospital, completed the self-assigned task last Friday morning.

John Clucas gathered in a pass and then moved across the stripe to give the Greybull Buffs a 6-0 triumph over the Thermopolis Bobcats Saturday afternoon.