From our files Downtown mural completed in 1999

100 years ago, Sept. 5, 1924

The Cowley Progress

State Treasurer Johin Snyder, acting on the advice from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Katherine A. Morton, is preparing to distribute among the public schools of Wyoming $1,713,798.12, representing the schools’ proportion of Federal lease royalties received by the state of Wyoming. The fund is apportioned among the various counties on the basis of the number of teachers and school truck drivers employed. The fund is apportioned on the basis of $559.97 for each special, elementary and rural teacher and each school truck driver employed and $839.96 for each high school teacher employed.

75 years ago, Sept. 8, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

“It seems to me that if the Senate and House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this security bill, the Social Security Act, the session would be regarded as historic for all times.” Those are the famous words spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. This month celebrates the 14^th anniversary of Social Security in this country.

50 years ago, Sept. 5, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

City and county work crews have nearly completed the paving of Second Street, according to town manager Bob Snedeker. The project, costing approximately $8,000 just for materials, involved all of Second Street, which had never been paved, and all the side streets which still remained in a primitive condition.

25 years ago, Sept. 2, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

A stunning, colorful mural of the view from Devil’s Canyon Overlook unfolded at Main and Nevada in Lovell during the last week as crowds gathered to watch noted artist Harry Engstrom work his magic.

Engstrom, who lived in Lovell from about 1977 to 1980 and now lives in Arlington, Washington, arrived in Lovell on Saturday, Aug. 21, prepared for the project on Sunday and Monday and started work Monday night. He had studied a painting done by June Wood of Lovell and a series of photos of Big Horn Canyon at the overlook taken by Wood, then studied the Devil’s Canyon Overlook site himself under different lighting conditions.

“At the scene, I re-evaluate the whole process,” he added. “Usually some things change in my mind with regard to how it will be viewed by the public.”

10 years ago, Sept. 4, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

An international team of scientists has completed its first field season of cave study and excavation at Natural Trap Cave, located in the flanks of Wyoming’s northern Big Horn Mountains, northeast of Lovell. Researchers from Des Moines University in Iowa and other academic institutions in New York, California, Washington, Colorado and Australia spent 10 days at Natural Trap Cave this summer, conducting excavations for an ongoing paleontological, genetic and paleoclimatological research project. The group will continue excavations during the next two summers.

Researchers were pleased with the first year’s efforts. Samples of bones and teeth found are now being analyzed … to construct both a picture of how Ice Age animal populations adapted and responded to climate change as well as an analysis of major extinction events.