From our files: Lovell schools consider auditorium in 1976

100 years ago, Oct. 8, 1926

The Cowley Progress

Weight shrinkage tests in beet fields being harvested were made last week, comparing piles of topped beets covered with tops and piles left uncovered for varying periods. The uncovered piles lost from five to seven times the weight shrink suffered in the covered piles. The shrinkage in uncovered piles ranged from nearly three percent for 6 hours to nearly 8 percent for 48 hours. The average loss in weight for uncovered piles during 24 hours was over 4 percent. 

On a 15-ton crop at $8 per ton this loss in weight by leaving topped beets uncovered in the field amounted to about $2.50 per acre for 6 hours, about $3.50 per acre overnight and about $8 per acre in two days. These losses are largely avoidable by the simple expedient of covering the topped beets with tops or, more particularly, by not plowing out beets too far ahead of the toppers.

75 years ago, Oct. 11, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

Announcement is being made in this issue of the sale of the Davis Lumber Company in Lovell to the Bloedorn Lumber Company, which operates a string of retail lumber yards from Billings to Denver. 

50 years ago, Oct. 7, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

Approximately one-third of Lovell’s proposed $1.5 million school bond issue will go toward construction of an auditorium. The school board has OKed the plan to build a $547,000, 540-seat auditorium directly east of the Lovell High activity room. 

The proposed auditorium will accommodate the combined student body of the high school and the middle school or the student body of the elementary. Board members said it would be a waste of taxpayers’ money to construct a building to accommodate a once-a-year group. They also said the Hyart Theatre is available for very large crowds, such as for graduation.

25 years ago, Oct. 11, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

It looks like the low income housing project being planned for the former Lovell Clay Products land in north Lovell is going to cost more to prepare for than originally thought. Lovell Town Administrator Todd Wacaser reported at Monday’s town council meeting that the project has had some major changes forced upon it. 

For instance, he said, the town is going to have to reconfigure the project by designing looped utility lines and a different street system, and the project can be built no closer than 200 feet from the railroad track, including a wall for noise abatement to be built between the housing project and the track.

10 years ago, Oct. 6, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

Both schools held innovative dress-up days and special events and contests during the homecoming celebration week, with homecoming royalty crowned at each school’s pep rally on Thursday night. Seniors Zac Zier and Summer Johnson were crowned king and queen for Rocky at a pep rally on the football field in Cowley.