80 Years Ago: Town quietly observes Japanese surrender

100 Years Ago:

Aug. 14, 1925

A change was made in the management of the Standard Oil plants here last Friday, when T. S. Cooke, manager of the Rocky Mountain division, combined the two refineries.  The two plants here were formerly known as the Standard and Midwest.

The sheriff’s office this week again demonstrated that it does not pay to try to sell booze in the county.  On Tuesday Sheriff Burgess secured search warrants for the premises of Thomas Lee on Shell Creek, about whom there has been considerable complaint in the past. The sheriff’s force found a still and 75 gallons of mash and brought Lee before the justice yesterday.

90 Years Ago:

Aug. 15, 1935

Miss Myrtle Anderson and Drew Prugh were united in marriage Saturday morning. The wedding ceremony was read by the Rev. Floyd Ellison of the Baptist Church of Basin, at the home of the groom and his mother in Greybull.  Mrs. Prugh is an assistant cashier of the First National Bank here.  Mr. Prugh is a valued employee of the Foe-Saunders Lumber and Hardware Co. here.

Bandmaster Archie Wheeler was much pleased with the fine turnout for band rehearsal Monday evening. The attendance was increased by double the number of the previous rehearsal.  Mr. Wheeler announced there would be two more rehearsals before the Labor Day celebration.

Greybull and Basin baseball teams will be seen in a postseason game at the local diamond Sunday afternoon.  The game will start at 2:30. The Basin team has had a good season, and they have always shown themselves to be good sports.  The game Sunday will be worth seeing.

80 Years Ago:

Aug. 16, 1945

While the people of Greybull no doubt all heaved a sigh of relief when the news of the Japanese surrender was officially announced about 4:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, there was no overt demonstration of apparent desire to give vent to pent-up emotions by celebration.  News was received here calmly.  When that news was released, the fire siren sounded a short blast.  A few cars moved up and down Greybull Avenue, blowing horns for a few minutes. and then the demonstration appeared to be over.  But every man and woman and every child old enough to understand the significance  of the announcement wore a smile.

Betty Ann Kinnaird, Mary Ann Evans and Eleanor Ennis, all of Greybull, will graduate with their nurses training degrees this Sunday, Aug. 19, from the Sisters of Charity School of Nursing at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, Mont.

Prospects for a community museum as a living monument to the boys and girls who have served in the war moved a step nearer reality with the appointment of a permanent organization to work out plans and means of financing the building at a meeting held Monday evening.

70 Years Ago:

Aug. 18, 1955

Two empty box cars were derailed in the local railroad yards near the Greybull depot of the CB&Q railway at 5:30 Sunday morning.  The main line was blocked by the derailment.  The derailment was caused by the car brake rigging being down and causing a switch to open.  The derailment was cleared early Sunday.

Elmer Plenger, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Plenger, will appear as a guest on Lawrence Welk’s Coast to Coast Television Show which will be seen here at 10 o’clock Saturday evening.

Offered by Vaughn Ragsdale Company: Back-to-school blouses in pink, mint, red and blue for $1.98; corduroy skirts in turquoise, red, blue and orange for $3.98: for the boys: Wrangler jeans -  sizes 4 to 12, $2.79 and sizes 13-15, $3.39.

60 Years Ago:

Aug. 12, 1965

One of the worst automobile accidents on Emblem Bench in recent years took the lives of three tourists outright and a fourth died a few hours later at SBHC Hospital Monday night.  The accident occurred on the slight curve near the Cline farm, the last place on the Emblem Bench toward Cody.

Tom Hubbard, Greybull manager of the Pacific Power and Light Company, broke his left shoulder blade when he slid into third base and hit Virgil Jordan in a softball game played last Wednesday at the Greybull ballpark.

A new dryer which will increase the capacity of Magnet Cove Bariums bentonite plant at Greybull is expected to be installed in 60 to 90 days, Lee Grenier, manager, has announced.