From our files: Big Horn Drug gets new soda fountain machine in 1924

100 years ago, April 18, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Mr. Stratton of the Big Horn Drug store has just installed a dream of a new electrically propelled carbonator for an already well equipped soda fountain. It is manufactured by the Electric Carbonator Co. and improves the quality of the soda drinks fully 50 percent. The mechanism works, starts and stops automatically and is in reality and truly a marvel. Mr. Stratton, being a most progressive druggist, believes that the best of everything is none too good for his patrons.

75 years ago, April 21, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

Notice: All preschool children, starting school in September, are requested to register for a health examination with the school nurse in the elementary building between the hours of nine and twelve noon, Monday through Friday, the first two weeks in May.

50 years ago, April 18, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

It was very expensive crab grass seed. What started out as a joke, proved to be a little embarrassing for a Lovell businessman. Last week Lovell banker Jack Pearson placed an ad in the Chronicle offering crab grass seed at 29 cents per pound. Giving the already humorous offer a twist, Pearson put former Big Horn County weed and pest control man Wes Meeker’s telephone number in the ad. 

Meeker, harassed with telephone calls for the phony offer, decided to turn the tables on Pearson. Packaging up a sack of grass clippings and attaching appropriate labels attesting to its authenticity as certified crab grass, he sent it collect to Pearson. Pearson now owns a $7.60 bag of grass clippings.

25 years ago, April 15, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

The first steps are underway in a long-awaited process to bring a first class wild horse museum and educational center to Lovell. Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Center, Inc., a non-profit corporation formed by members of the Pryor Mountain Mustang Association, is seeking a $25,000 planning grant to help design and plan a facility and seek funding for the project.

10 years ago, April 17, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

The long-anticipated Lovell Streets Project in downtown Lovell will begin Monday, April 21, state and local officials announced this week. Town engineer Andrew Mattie of DOWL HKM Engineering said work will begin on the west end of Main Street Monday with traffic control and work to remove the median strip between Hampshire and Idaho in preparation for the replacement of an irrigation water drain that crosses Main at that point.