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editor@newslj.com June 18, 2015 -- 5
news letter journal Passages
A PIECE OF HISTORY
100 years ago - June 17, 1915
Our community was startled on
Wednesday morning last by the news of
the sudden death by a stroke of light-
ning of Elias W. Whitecomb, (Grandpa
Whitecomb), of Moorcroft, one of the
earliest settlers of the state, having located
here in 1859.
W. J. Wilkins and Homer Charlton
arrived from York, Neb., Sunday evening
and are visiting at the Alverson ranch. Mr.
Wilkins is Mrs. Alverson's father and Mr.
Charlton is her cousin. This is Mr. Wilkins'
first visit to Wyoming since 1866, when
he was Custer U. S. Regulars, and will
visit old familiar places such as Inyan
Kara, Castle Creek, Devils Tower, etc. He
expresses himself as somewhat surprised
at the wonderful changes in Wyoming
since that early date.
A Fourth of July Celebration will be
held at Humphrey Hall in the Howard area
Saturday July 3. Horse races, foot races
and a ball game will be the chief ports.
There will be a "bake and take" dinner,
and after the ball game there will be free
ice cream and cake. A dance in the hall in
the evening. All cordially invited.
Excitement reigned at Hampshire
Saturday, the cause of it all was a Chinaman
made his appearance dressed up in his
China dress, and only stayed long enough
for a few of the natives to catch a fleeting
glimpse of him.
After the severe electric storm Monday,
the Coy children started home from school
but finding Dug Out creek up, returned
to the school house. Miss Barr then took
them with her to the Dixon ranch. Mrs.
Coy becoming anxious, set out on foot
to find her children, arrived at Dixon's
at eleven o'clock, wakened them and
returned home in the night.
Last Thursday when Mrs. John
Schneider was returning home from the
meeting of the club, the king-bolt of the
buggy broke, which let the front of the
15uggy do so suddenly that it threw Mrs.
Schneider and her daughter, Mrs. Gene
Watt to the ground. Had the team been
going fast at the time the accident might
have proved quite serious.
C. P. VanLeuven, the "little" Calumet
baking powder representative, was in town
yesterday. Van says if you use Calumet
right it will make nice "big" biscuits just
like himself.
75 years ago - June 20, 1940
Five clips, totaling nearly 150,000
pounds of wool, were sold here over the
week-end for the first marketed in Weston
county this year, bringing over $45,000.
A supervised playground will get under
way here Friday morning at nine o'clock.
The sports program for the summer will
be prepared by supervisors and conducted
according to age. The younger children
will enjoy a varied program of games and
contests.
Getting the first major forest fire of the
year in Weston county under control, nearly
one hundred CCC workers were starting
mopping up operations Wednesday after
the blaze had burned over an estimated
1,900 acres of timberland north of here.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest VanBuren and
son Gary and Mrs. VanBuren's father
and brother, Orrel and Clarence Westman,
returned to Newcastle Sunday evening
from Buffalo where they attended the
funeral of Mrs. Mary McKinney. Mrs.
McKinney was a sister of Mrs. VanBuren.
Two softball games during the past
week which changed the city league stand-
ings considerably, indicate that the race
for the pennant during the summer's play
will be one of the closest ever played here.
Dogies are winners over the Lodge team in
slugfest, 13 to 12.
Mrs. Albert Millhouse entertained last
Thursday afternoon at her home with 15
members and one guest of the Sew and
So Club as her guests. The ladies brought
their own sewing and thus passed the time
of the afternoon, sewing and visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rawhouser and
daughter Helen, of the Prairie, were shop-
ping in Newcastle Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Burke and daughter
of Clifton left Saturday for Laramie. Helen
will attend school there this summer. Mr.
and Mrs. Burke will visit their daughter and
her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lawton,
before going on to Portland, Ore., to visit
their daughter, Lucille and her husband.
Osage and the Oil Field was well
represented at the softball game on Friday
night when Osage beat the Toomey Mills
team 13 to 6.
50 years ago - June 17, 1965
Weston County 4-H members, 166
strong, will camp at Mallo June 20-23.
They will be accompanied by 28 chaper-
ones. Theme of the camp is the Jubilee
Wagon Train.
Three members of the Wyoming State
Historical Society were in Newcastle from
Thursday to Saturday last week marking
trails, securing guides and speakers for the
Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail Trek to be held
July 17 and 18.
Frank Fawcett, Beaver Creek rancher,
was beaten and robbed Friday evening in
Kansas City, Mo. While on a trip to St.
Louis. Fawcett was accompanying Robert
Harper and Glen Crawford to St. Louis,
where Harper was to return his mother to
Newcastle.
The Flying Farmers of Wyoming will
hold a fly-in at Newcastle the weekend of
June 26. The group will consist of some
100 people and between 30 and 40 planes.
Church services will be held Sunday
morning at the airport at 8 to be followed
by a pancake breakfast at 9 hosted by the
Newcastle Jaycees.
Over 1,000 people attended the free
flapjack feed Saturday, sponsored by
the retail merchants committee of the
Newcastle Chamber of Commerce.
The Osage Independent Baseball
team has been organized again this year.
Needed equipment has been purchased
by Tex Thompson of "Curley's" Bar.
The Osage team will be in the Northeast
District League with Gillette, Upton, and
Newcastle.
An open house honoring Mr. and Mrs.
Carl H. Hansen on their 40th Wedding
Anniversary was held on Sunday at the
ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell D.
Davis on Beaver Creek.
Frank Sytsma of the Morrisey area got
his calves branded Sunday with John Hutt,
Edgar Whitney, Glen Hansen, Clyde and
Clyde Lee Bayne and Donald Fillinger and
Michael Kropatch helping.
WHAT'S UP I Weston County Meetings & Events Calen,dar
DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION
Thurs Jun 18
Ffi Jun 19
Sat Jun 20
Sun Jun 21
5:00 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
8:00
9:00
8:00
a,m.
a.m.
a.m
Men Jun22
Tues Jun 23
Wed Jun24
Thurs Jun 25
Ffi Jun 26
Sat Jun 27
Dawn
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
6:45 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
Birthdays &
Anniversaries
WC Health Services
Networking Business Mixer
Sumner Performance & Lecture
AA Meeting
Masons
Stampede Rodeo & Gift from Mother Earth
Bingo
Stampede Rodeo & Gift from Mother Earth
American Legion Poker Run
West Blvd. Summer Festival
Stampede Rodeo & Gift from Mother Earth
Father's Day
Peace Officers Fishing Derby
Dogie Volleyball Run & Dye
West Blvd. Summer Festival
Open House
Vacation Bible School
Low Vision Support Group
Vacation Bible School
Friends of Fair Gymkhana
WC Health Services Board Mtg.
ALANON Meeting (746-9791)
AS, Meeting
AA Meeting
Eastern Star
Vacation Bible School
WCSD #1 Board Meeting
Vacation Bible School
WC Health Services Foundation Mtg.
Sumner Performance & Lecture
AS, Meeting
Vacation Bible School
Night Blast
WC Library Board Meeting
Western Ramblers Dance
Bingo
Homer Hastings Town & Trail 5K Run
Board Room
T&A Brewery
Crazy Horse Memorial
WC Senior Center, Family Room
Newcastle Lodge #13
Crazy Horse Memorial
VFW Hall
Crazy Horse Memorial
West End Lounge
Wilson Park, Rapid City
Crazy Horse Memorial
Spearfish Canyon Lodge
LAK
NHS Track
Wilson Park, Rapid City
Hanson Research Station
Seventh Day Adventist Church
WC Senior Center
Seventh Day Adventist Church
WC Fairgrounds
WCHS Board Room
Mondell Heights
WC Senior Services, Downstairs
WC Senior Center, Family Room
Newcastle Eastern Star #30
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Administration Building
Seventh Day Adventist Church
WCHS Board Room
Crazy Horse Memorial
WC Senior Center, Family Room
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Crazy Horse Memorial
Library
WC Senior Services
VFW Hall
Main Street Newcastle
June 19
Leonard Singer
Adam Cobb
Denice Pisciotti
June 21
Nancy Zerbst
June 22
Mr. & Mrs. RogerWfight
June 26
Mary Folkes
Melissa Beck
June 27
Estelle Mills
Kenneth Hedge
Cory Crinklaw
June28
Mt &Mrs. DuaneOttema
Dakohta Reynolds
June 29
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Harder
Josie Smith
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