From our files: First female governor elected in 1924

100 years ago, Nov. 21, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Wyoming, the first state to grant equal suffrage to women, November 4 elected a woman as executive of the commonwealth. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, widow of the late Governor William B. Ross, by virtue of ballots cast by the Wyoming electorate at Tuesday’s election, stepped into the office made vacant by the death of her husband a month ago. 

Mrs. Ross will be the first woman ever to assume the office of governor of an American state, despite the election of Mrs. Marim A. Ferguson in Texas. Mrs. Ross will be sworn into office before the Texas woman assumes her duties January 25, 1925.

75 years ago, Nov. 24, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

Miss Lorece Keller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Keller, appeared with the Mid-City Concert Orchestra in the autumn concert given at the Carpenter Chapel in Chicago Tuesday evening, Nov. 15. Miss Keller rendered four vocal solos during the concert. On November 27 Lorece will appear in a concert, and give both piano selections and vocal numbers. The talented young lady is a freshman at DePaul University School of Music in Chicago.

50 years ago, Nov. 21, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

A former Lovell man, Dick Bassett, son of Mr. Harvey Bassett, says he took a basket of surplus military electrical parts and a junk auto and turned them into a little electric car that hums along at 40 miles an hour for up to 50 miles.

25 years ago, Nov. 18, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

Two longtime Lovell residents gathered with several friends and family members recently to celebrate a truly amazing accomplishment. On October 9, 1999, Thurman and Ethel Sessions went beyond golden. They celebrated their 70^th wedding anniversary.

They went together for about two years. She left to begin college in Billings. On a visit to see her, he decided that he would like to make her his, and so he asked her to marry him. They were engaged for about a year. 

Ethel did not want her parents to know that she was engaged. Ethel says that her mother knew she was engaged, but her father didn’t. She was at home eating dinner with her family, and so that her dad would not see the ring, she tied it to the tablecloth underneath the table. 

Along came Thurman, and in her haste to rush out to see him, she forgot all about her ring. Later, as her mother cleared the table, she took the cloth out the back door and shook it. Along with the crumbs went the ring, and so Thurman had to buy her another one.

10 years ago, Nov. 20, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

A new enrobing machine at Queen Bee Gardens, able to produce around 3,000 truffles and 2,000 honeymoon candies in just a few hours, was installed this week. The new machine bathes truffles in a creamy rich chocolate as they travel through on a conveyor belt to a drying rack. It is a job that used to take two people an eight-hour day of dipping by hand.