From our files: Hy Bischoff honored in 1975

100 years ago, July 4, 1925

The Cowley Progress

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75 years ago, July 6, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Baxter and baby arrived in Byron last week, where Mr. Baxter will take up his duties as the new FFA teacher for the Byron High School.

50 years ago, July 3, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

Pioneer rancher and Lovell businessman Hy Bischoff will be honored Monday for his contributions to the community. Appreciation Day, the official opening of Mustang Days, this year will honor Bischoff at a barbecue at 6 p.m. in the town park.

Many say Bischoff was born with a pioneer spirit and has it still today. He has been involved in theater business most of his 75 years. His father built the first theater in Lovell, the Armada, in 1913. Bischoff spent many hours turning handles on old projectors. In 1951 the theater’s name was changed to the Hyart.

Bischoff married Virga Marie Porter in 1927. She shared his love for entertainment and dancing. He and two younger brothers own Bischoff Livestock Co., which covers about 100,000 acres outside Lovell. Livestock fattening is its main business.

25 years ago, July 6, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

Byron began its centennial celebration Tuesday with the entrance of the Byron Pioneer Riders at Jones Park Tuesday night.

One hundred years ago, the town of Byron was settled by pioneers coming here from Utah. The first year everyone raised a community garden west of where Byron is now on the James Cowley farm. The townsite was not chosen until the following year, and its main street was two blocks north of where the main street is now.

By 1902 a school had been established, a little one-room building with only one book. In 1905 the colonists suffered a devastating typhoid epidemic that took many lives. In 1907 oil was discovered southwest of town.

10 years ago, July 2, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

A Lovell man with years of experience in the retail lumber business is striking out on his own, opening Bazooka Lumber and Livestock LLC with the help of his wife and daughter. Brad Hutzenbiler is the owner and manager of what he calls a new “contractor-based lumberyard that will also cater to do-it-yourselfers” at 316 U.S. Highway 14A East about three-quarters of a mile east of the turnoff to Big Horn Canyon and AMCOL. His wife, Della, is the bookkeeper, and daughter Angelina helps with marketing.