From our files: LHS wins state title in Jazz Dance in 2015

100 years ago, March 21, 1925

The Cowley Progress

President Coolidge has called national attention to the seriousness of the timber depletion in the United States, and issued a proclamation designating the week of April 27 - May 3 as “American Forest Week.” Too long, he declared, has the country gone ahead cutting down its primitive forests and taking no steps to renew them.

75 years ago, March 23, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

Miss LeRose Doty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Doty of Byron, became the bride of Dee Ray Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Peterson of Cowley, at a ceremony performed in the Idaho Falls Temple Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson will continue their schooling, Mrs. Peterson as a senior at Byron High School and Mr. Peterson at the University Center in Powell.

50 years ago, March 20, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

A family tradition is about to end in Cowley. Orin Mann and his father Charles B. before him have owned and operated the Cowley Equitable for the last 66 years. That era is about to end with the announcement this week that the Cowley Equitable is for sale.

The Mann’s ownership of Cowley Equitable goes back to 1909, when Charles B. Mann migrated to the Cowley area with Mormon pioneers at the turn of the century. For Orin, the years ahead promise a more relaxed life of tending his bees. But for three generations of Cowley residents it’s going to be a strange face that greets them from behind the counter at the Equitable.

25 years ago, March 23, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

Donna Minchow (Educator of the Year) has devoted her entire teaching career to Big Horn County School District No. 1, beginning duties in 1983 as the physical education teacher at the middle school in Deaver and at the Frannie Elementary. In 1984, when the district consolidated, she began traveling between Frannie, Cowley and Byron elementary schools. 

Minchow earned her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Montana College in Billings. She said she selected physical education as her focus area because she likes to stay physically active, rather than being in one spot. She and her husband Jim have three children – Nichole, 15, Heidi, 13, and Jared, 7.

10 years ago, March 19, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

They’ll be raising another banner at Winterholler Gym. For the second year in a row and the third time since the Wyoming State Spirit Competition was reduced to just two classes – 3A and 4A – a Lovell High School team captured a state championship in Jazz Dance at the annual competition at the Casper Events Center.