From our files: Hockey game leads to broken wrist in 1925

100 years ago, Nov. 27, 1925

The Cowley Progress

Our local hockey season was formally launched Saturday, Nov. 21. The initial game was featured by the sophomores taking the freshmen into camp to the tune of 2 to 1. The freshmen, however, feel that accidents will happen, but not frequently, and promise dire things in store for the sophomores when they clash again. An unfortunate fracture of the game was an accident to Miss Vanita Robertson’s wrist. She sustained a cracked wrist due to an accidental blow from a hockey stick in the hands of an opponent.

75 years ago, Nov. 30, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

About 50 people attended the Lovell Farm Bureau square dance party at the West Ward hall on Monday evening. Among those winning prizes were Mrs. Pete Korell, free membership; dancers showing most progress, a free live rooster each, Lee Hoffman, Willie Korell and Arvil Ashment. Door prizes won included 10 lbs. of alfalfa seed to Alma T. Brown and Jim Averett and a pound of butter each to Vern Townsend, Alta Smith, Jennie Lewis, J.H. Donley and W. Porter.

50 years ago, Nov. 26, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

Landscaping around the National Park Service Visitor Center in Lovell has been altered to correct an error in the surveying of the site. The center was placed 100 feet east of the proper location, and it was feared earlier that congressional approval would be necessary to acquire two more acres of land on the east border. However, a walkway will be altered to make the landscaping fit.

25 years ago, Nov. 23, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

Eighteen-year-old Bob Weber’s summer job was a little out of the norm, but he wouldn’t exchange with anyone the weeks he spent as a member of the “Hot Shots,” the experience he gained, the insights he learned or the new friends he made. Weber, who graduated from Lovell High School in May, got the job through Tony Mullins, former high school teacher and Forest Service employee.

10 years ago, Nov. 26, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

Momentum is building for the revived walking/biking path project for Lovell as another active meeting was held Thursday night at the Bighorn Canyon NRA Visitor Center auditorium. Park Service employee Jennifer Schneider presented ideas with cost estimates: a loop around the hospital at $1,257; south on Shoshone Avenue/Road 11 to Lane 13, $99,000; Road 13 to the Emblem Highway (Highway 32), $98,000; Road 13 out to the Foster Gulch Golf Course, $72,000; and around the golf course area for $78,000 – about $350,000 worth of concrete pathways.

LB Kummerfeld said concrete is hard on her knees, but Schneider noted that gravel is harder to maintain, and she had no easy way to figure asphalt costs.