From our files: Byron Eagles win 40th straight game in 1949

100 years ago, Nov. 14, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Undoubtedly the largest electrical chicken-hatching plant in the world is located at Petaluma, California, where a great new hatchery is rapidly being completed which will house an electric hen capable of “covering” 508,000 eggs at one setting. That would indeed be the talk of the barnyard if it would be visualized before the eyes of the common two-legged variety of hen.

The Petaluma hatchery is electric throughout, and its new plant will be able to ship 25,000 chicks daily. The output for a single season is three million chicks. Thirty of the largest egg farms in the vicinity are kept busy supplying eggs for this hatchery.

75 years ago, Nov. 17, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

The Byron Eagles, coached by Wilford Mower, won national standing yesterday by winning the state football championship the second year in succession, and also tallying their 40^th game without a defeat.

50 years ago, Nov. 14, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

An estimated 250-300 people are expected to attend the Governor Hathaway Appreciation Day and North Big Horn – Lovell Chamber of Commerce banquet Thursday evening. The chamber is asking area businesses to close at 2:45 Thursday afternoon, so that they might join the rest of the town in attending the ground breaking ceremony at the site of the National Park Service visitor center, one-quarter mile east of Lovell at the intersection of highways 14A and 310.

Wyoming governor Stanley Hathaway will be the guest of honor at the ceremony. Hathaway first conceived of the idea of a visitor center and interpretation point on this end of the 71-mile long lake several years ago, and has been a prime force in the formation of the center.