70 Years Ago: Nearly 800 pass through check station near Shell

100 Years Ago

Oct. 20, 1924

A rattlesnake about 12 inches long, with one button on the end of its tail, was killed yesterday on the sidewalk just south of the Greybull Exchange.  This is the first rattler we have heard of being seen in town in years.

Did you ever stop to consider that if the streets of Greybull were strung out in one long line they would reach almost to Lovell?  Greybull has more street mileage than other town in this part of the state.

90 Years Ago

Oct. 25, 1934

Frank Casey of Greybull has the distinction of bagging the largest buck deer ever shot in the Big Horn Mountains.  Mr. Casey shot a 24-point buck, acclaimed by Game Warden Clyde Clucas and others to have been the largest one killed in these parts.

A baby girl, weighing 7 pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Axel W. Lilja Wednesday morning.  The little lady has been named Sylvia Gayle.  Mother and daughter are doing nicely.

In the past six weeks during the wet days, we had the physical education classes begin working with the parallel bars, horses and other interior apparatus.  The students are apparently enjoying the physical education classes this year more than usual.

80 Years Ago

Oct. 26, 1944

War prisoners are being used on Shell Creek to help farmers and ranchers harvest their crops this fall.  Their help has been urgently needed because of the shortage of local labor. Crops being harvested are beans and beets.

Wilma Collingwood of Shell was admitted for treatment of a foot injury caused by the accidental discharge of a gun.

The Greybull Buffs took a terrific shellacking at the hands of the strong Powell football aggregation Saturday.  Greybull was held scoreless while Powell piled up a score of 60 points.

70 Years Ago

Oct. 28, 1954

Deputy Game Warden Colonel L. Noyes reports that this morning 798 hunters had checked through the lower Shell game checking station, and that the kill had been termed good so far.

Adrian Elvick arrived this week from Thermopolis to assume management of the Greybull Sawyer Store. 

Kenneth Wilkinson of Shell escaped injury when he swerved his pickup truck to avoid hitting some cattle and ran into an embankment at Red Gulch, three miles west of Shell.

60 Years Ago

Oct. 22, 1964

In Bruce Kennedy’s “Getting The Bull By The Tail”:  A high school homecoming float in a small Nebraska town got a lot of laughs during the parade.  It consisted of a tractor pulling a flatbed wagon which was filled with kids working feverishly.  The sign on the float: ‘Sorry, we thought the parade was tomorrow.’”

S-T-R-E-T-C-H Pants on sale for $7.95 and Elasticized Pretty Girl Petti Pants on sale for $3.98 and your local Excella Shop.

50 Years Ago

Oct. 24, 1974

Mike Clucas, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Clucas, suffered a severe injury to his right hand Monday evening when the hand was caught in an electric meat grinder.  Mike lost the index finger of his right hand and surgeons are attempting to limit the loss to the one finger.  Mike is a right-hander.

Tim Kershner, 18, of Greybull, was awarded a trophy for the six-point bull elk that he shot in Willet Meadow east of Greybull Friday morning.

Fall Harvest Table Dance at the Greybull Community Hall.  Music by Gene Gravning and The Brotherhood. Table for eight, $4. Table for four, $2. Admission per couple, $3.50.