90 Years Ago: School board amends dress code for girls

100 Years Ago

July 31, 1925

Burglars entered the store of A. E. Schlaf at Burlington Monday night and stole about $80 from the cash register and safe.  Just how they got into the place is not known, as no damage was done to the building, but they went out the door to the rear. The safe, it appears, was not locked.  It is said there is no clue to the criminals.

Ad from Berry’s Grocery (Phone 33):  Heinz Goods. We have on display in our window a fresh shipment of Heinz goods, including all 57 of them. Come in and see this display.

No duplicate wanted:  “My wife says if I were to die, she would remain a widow.”  “Evidently, she thinks there isn’t any other man in the world like you.”  “On the contrary, she says she’s afraid there is and that it would be just her luck to get him.”

90 Years Ago

Aug 1, 1935

A long-standing rule with respect to girls’ dress has been observed in the Greybull High School year after year.  This rule was amended last year by the school board as follows: The regulation dress for girls is a white, middy blouse and a dark skirt, preferably dark blue or black but not in colors or patterns.  The blouse may be worn either on the inside or outside of the top of the skirt, providing it is worn in a decent and respectable manner.  Every high school girl is to wear full length hose whenever on the school grounds.

A contract for oiling 24 1/2 miles of the Greybull-Cody road was let Tuesday by the state highway department.  Peter Kiewitz and Son, of Omaha, Neb., was low bidder. The bid was $66,511. Work will commence on the oiling job within a few days. 

Bill Wilkinson, who for the past several months has been employed at the post office, will leave Saturday to accept a position as clerk in the forest service and will be located at Jackson. Mrs. Bertha Smith has returned to take over her duties at the post office.

80 Years Ago

August 2, 1945

In a deal completed early this week, George Strickland became the new owner of Bear Lodge in the Big Horn Mountains.   The lodge is located a short distance from the Y where U.S. Highway 14 and Wyoming 14 branch off on top of the mountains.

Lt. and Mrs. Lytle Hoover invite all their friends and neighbors from the Big Horn Basin to attend a free wedding dance at the Greybull Community Hall next Saturday, Aug. 11.  Music will be furnished by Fred Gould and his orchestra and a good time is assured.  This is the first time a free wedding dance has been held in the Greybull hall.

J.P. Amundson, for several years the superintendent of Manderson schools, is going to join the ranks of Greybull businessmen.  He recently completed a deal to buy J.J. Carey’s partnership interest in the McLean and Carey garage.

70 Years Ago

August 4, 1955

A load of hay and the wagon with which it was being hauled burst into flames when it overturned at the intersection of Highway 20 and North Seventh Street Tuesday afternoon.  Internal combustion was blamed.  The hay wagon was being drawn by a tractor driven by Donald Sabbe.  The tractor remained righted and Sabbe escaped uninjured.

A flash fire which broke out in a used car in the Collingwood office washroom building Saturday afternoon caused damage of approximately $300 to the car and severe burns on the hands of Daniel Brown, an employee.

Lawrence Good of Greybull, was winner in the annual magpie extermination contest sponsored by the Greybull Elks Lodge, it was announced by George (Conoco) Scott, chairman of the committee in charge of this event.  Young Good brought in 775 pairs of legs, which paid him $38.75.

60 Years Ago

August 6, 1966

In every baseball tournament, some team catches the fancy of the crowd and emerges a tournament favorite no matter what the final standings are.  Such a team was Greybull’s girls softball team that competed this past weekend at Powell.  Fighting a nemesis in Casper whom they couldn’t seem to beat, the Greybull girls beat everyone else they met and boxed some of them soundly about the ears. Members of the team were Judy Williams, Jeanette Tolman, Eileen Shelledy, Kathy Neves, Joy Jones, Jean Miller, Bonnie Ward, Terri Kelly, Jeannette Johnson, Kaye Haycock, Donna and Rosaline Riopelle.

Incumbents Merl Gipson and Dr. A. S. Rogers were re-elected to three-year terms on the Greybull school board and Roy H. Buchmeier was elected to the two-year term in the election Tuesday.

Joe Wheeler, 19, of Basin, received a skull fracture and a broken ankle after being allegedly run down by a car Saturday night in front of the Lilac motel in Basin.