From our files: Check out the prices in 1950

100 years ago, April 18, 1925

The Cowley Progress

Just think! Cowley is going to have a park. Where? The best location in town, right on the State Highway – one block east of the business section – the Chas. Strom and George Hogg place all in one with gas and light connections and on the sewer line. Everyone wishing to join the Park Club – men, women, boys, girls and out-of-town people – may do so by sending in their names and a small fee of 10¢ to Mrs. Hilda Tucker, secretary, at any time.

75 years ago, April 20, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

2^nd Big Week – Penney’s 48^th Anniversary. 30-piece Silverware Sets, $5; Famous Nation-Wide 81 X 99 Sheets, $1.79; Cotton Sun Dresses – sizes 3 to 6X, 88¢ and sizes 7 to 14, $1.33; Women’s White Sandals, $2.44; All Metal Luggage, $2.77 Bargain Buy of a Lifetime!

50 years ago, April 17, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

Henry C. Lovell, grandson of Henry C. Lovell, pioneer cattleman for whom Lovell is named, died April 5, 1975, in the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, after a short illness. Born in Seattle in 1905 to the late Willard R. and Isabel Wyman Lovell of Berkeley, California, he spent many years in Wyoming, California, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio, where he founded and operated Lovell & Co., Independent Insurance Adjusters.

25 years ago, April 20, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

Lovell Elementary held its annual Spelling Bee Tuesday. 

10 years ago, April 16, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

A Lovell veteran of World War II will soon be able to once again travel the streets of Lovell in his golf cart thanks to the efforts of some Lovell citizens and the Lovell Town Council. Bill Fink, 94, was recently informed by a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper that it was not legal for him to drive his golf cart on the streets of Lovell. He had been driving the golf cart for a couple of years after health concerns led to him not being able to drive an automobile.

According to a petition of more than 200 signatures presented to the council by Craig Trumbull at Tuesday’s regular April meeting at town hall, Fink has been using his “small, red golf cart” to go to breakfast, pick up medication, buy groceries and run errands, without incident, for more than two years. . . . Trumbull said the golf cart is important to Fink for his social interaction and is vital to his self-sufficiency. 

Town attorney Sandra Kitchen said Wyoming state statute allows municipalities to allow and establish rules for golf carts on town streets. She said Lovell clerk/treasurer Valerie Beal has already been getting sample ordinances to allow carts, and the council merely needs to tell her what they wish to see in the ordinance and she can draft it.