From our files: LMS students help at NPS visitor center

100 years ago, Dec. 5, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Sport Notes: The first baseball factory in America began business in 1858. 

Ralph Greenleaf, the world’s pocket-billiard champion, has his arms insured for $80,000. 

Princeton is using the huddle system of calling signals, for several years popular in the Middle West.  

Baseball won its first great popularity nationally in the years 1865 and 1866 when the game spread throughout the United States by the soldiers returning from the Civil War. 

Fifty-one minutes is the shortest time in which a nine-inning Major League baseball game was ever played. This record was made by the Giants and Phillies in September of 1919. 

75 years ago, Dec. 8, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

Awarding the normal diploma after completing two years education has been discontinued by the department of elementary education in the University of Wyoming’s college of education, according to an announcement this week. This step is in line with the national trend of recognizing teaching in the elementary school as being as important as and requiring as much preparation as teaching in the secondary school. City elementary schools will require a four-year degree by September 1, 1952, under present state certification regulations.

50 years ago, Dec. 5, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

The council heard a request from the Town of Cowley to use Lovell’s jail and dog pound. Police commissioner Jim Wagner said he would like a little more information about their request, such as who would feed and watch the prisoners, before considering the question of the jail, but that the dog pound is definitely out, as are most of the dogs. “It wouldn’t be hard for Cowley to build a pound of their own,” Wagner said. “We’ve got enough trouble with ours without them using it.”

Town manager Bob Snedeker noted that even though the town would get reimbursed for feeding Cowley prisoners, it would be better for them to handle the feeding themselves. “It depletes our general fund,” Snedeker noted, “and with budget time coming around, it makes it look worse than it really is.”

25 years ago, Dec. 2, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

The Lovell Middle School Student Council has joined forces with the National Park Service to enhance the pond area behind the visitor center east of Lovell. Lovell sixth, seventh and eighth grade student council members spent Tuesday afternoon out at the National Park Service Visitor Center laying a gravel foundation for a pathway around the pond behind the visitor center.