From our files: Eight-man football on the brink in 1976

100 years ago, Oct. 22, 1926

The Cowley Progress

Two representatives of the Polish government arrived in Washington and presented to President Coolidge 100 volumes containing the signatures of 5,000,000 Poles expressing their gratitude to the United States for its post-war help. One million of the names are those of school children, and the remainder are those of persons in all walks of life. The President also was presented with a commemorative gold medal, and silver medals from the same dies were given to Secretary of Commerce Hoover and the United States Military academy.

75 years ago, Oct. 25, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

Lovell High School’s annual, “Wyovell,” won first place honors on its advertising section at the University of Wyoming journalism weekend held on the campus last week. The “Wyovell” also won second place for its cover.

50 years ago, Oct. 21, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

Eight-man football in Wyoming may soon be dead. The Wyoming eight-man conference has dwindled the last few years, and this year Manderson-Hyattville dropped out of the league, unable to field a team. That left a four-team conference of Ten Sleep, Deaver-Frannie, Cowley and Burlington, a phenomenon found only in the Big Horn Basin.

Cowley coach Ralph Winland says the 11-man formation would be for the best. Deaver-Frannie coach Rich Durbin envisions a strong 11-man team, if the two schools combine.

25 years ago, Oct. 25, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

Masons from around Wyoming and south Big Horn County participated in a ceremony to dedicate and lay the cornerstone at the new Big Horn County Jail facility last Friday. The ceremony was conducted by Wyoming Worshipful Grand Master Steve “Kit” Carson of Sheridan and officers of the Grand Lodge of Wyoming.

Items placed in the time capsules included photographs of the jail project, Basin school children, teachers and staff members, a local telephone book, local business cards, a road atlas and Wyoming map, a cell phone and fiber optic wire … and more.

10 years ago, Oct. 20, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

The Sweetwater YWCA recognized a woman with ties to the Lovell community, Corporal Michelle Hall, as a “Professional Woman of Distinction” for 2016. Her employer, Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell, announced Hall’s honor the first week in October. Hall has 12 years of service with the sheriff’s office as a patrol deputy sheriff, DARE officer and a detective and patrol corporal.

Hall is a 1998 Lovell High School graduate. She is the daughter of Renata and Gary Wantulok and granddaughter of Connie Fernau and the late Richard Fernau and the late John and Nina Wantulok.