From our files: Hailstorm rips area 50 years ago

100 years ago, June 18, 1926

The Cowley Progress

Members of the fair board met yesterday morning with the commissioners with reference to entertainment at the fair, and it was finally decided to allow Sheriff Burgess to direct this end of the attraction, furnish the prizes for the stunts and have the grandstand receipts for this purpose. Heretofore, the wild west costs the fair management about $600 over the grandstand receipts, and under this new arrangement the wild west folks will manage themselves and save the fair at least $600.

75 years ago, June 14, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

A capacity crowd of people from Lovell and vicinity and from all towns in the Big Horn Basin were in attendance last Thursday evening for a pre-opening party at the new Hyart Theatre. Friday evening, June 8, the grand opening to the public was held, and again the house of 1,000 seats was filled with theater-goers from all over this area.

50 years ago, June 10, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

Hail ripped through thousands of acres of beets, corn, grain, beans and hay east of Lovell Friday afternoon, the damage total probably reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ted Doerr had plastic irrigation pipe, which he started using this spring, punctured by the hail. Mrs. Harris Asay pulled some radishes out of the ground in her garden and found they had been damaged below ground level. Apples still on trees had holes in them. Plastic fuel lines on a tractor were broken. Camper trailers and vans had a lot of damage. Several air conditioners and windows in vehicles were broken.

25 years ago, June 21, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

Lovell Georgia-Pacific plant manager Bruce Wacker said the hourly workforce has been trimmed to 55 employees with 11 being laid off and two others that left due to fear of the cutbacks. The G-P Corporation last Wednesday, June 13, announced plant closures and indefinite curtailments equaling approximately 45 percent of the company’s gypsum wallboard production capacity in the United States and Canada.

10 years ago, June 16, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

The Zeller brothers and their employees at Queen Bee Gardens have a lot to celebrate this week, and they are inviting the community to celebrate with them at a special barbecue luncheon to be held on Wednesday, June 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The luncheon is free to the public and will celebrate 40 years of sweet success for the family owned honey and candy business.