A Look Back, Oct. 20

Posted 10/20/17

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A Look Back, Oct. 20

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100 Years Ago
Oct. 25, 1917
Goshen County Journal

Red Cross delegates go to Denver
Delegates from the Goshen County attending the National Red Cross convention in Denver beginning Oct. 24 were: Mrs. J.T. Snow, chairman; Mrs. Lottie Patrick, vice chairman; Mrs. Nelle Armitage, treasurer; Mrs. C.H. Platz, work committee chairman, and; Mr. Chas Elquest, finance committee chairman.

Goshen County does her bit
A total of $44,000 was the sum apportioned to Goshen County as her share in the second round of Liberty Loans. Up to last Monday morning, no organized effort had been made to secure subscriptions and, so far as is known, none had been made. On that morning, a few public spirited citizens determined it was high time something were done, and they proceeded to do it.
These men “beat the bushes” throughout the entire county, visiting the camps of the reclamation service, the ditch contractors and the private homes of every promising “prospect.” And the “brought home the bacon” in the shape of subscriptions to the amount of $30,000, as the result of two-days effort, $14,000 short of the required amount.
Wednesday evening a mass meeting was called at the theater building, which was fill to capacity. After short speeches, application papers were distributed and, in a short time, the entire $14,000 shortfall was subscribed.

75 Years Ago
Oct. 21, 1942

Scrap roundup starts Sunday
Although more than 280,000 pounds of scrap metal went over the scales at local dealers in the county-wide campaign last week, there still are quantities of scrap in Goshen County that is sorely needed.
In a second, all-day drive under the sponsorship of the Torrington Volunteer Firemen, men, trucks and pickups will assemble at the local fire station Sunday morning to scour the southern part of the county for metal.
An earnest plea for more trucks and pickups and more men to handle the scrap is being issued by the firemen, who hope to make Sunday’s collection even greater than the previous one. They ask, too, that farmers and ranchers gather up all available metal on their places and, if they themselves do not expect to be at home when the trucks arrive, to designate some member of the family to be on hand to show the collectors just what can be taken.


Bandemer is recent U.S. Navy recruit
Eddie Bandemer, sone of Wm. Bandemer of Lingle, who has been working at the Sunrise mines the past year, has been accepted with the U.S. Navy and will report to the Navy office in Cheyenne. From there he will be sent to a training station.
Bandemer is the brother of Harold Wm. Bandemer who lost his life in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
His enlistment was accepted through the local recruiting officer, Al Wheeler.

50 Years Ago
Oct. 19, 1967

Table Mountain area farms damaged by fire
Three fires of undetermined origin were discovered burning at the same time at 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, six miles south of Lyman, Neb.
Mrs. Don Kramer got up to tend to a sick child and noticed the first blaze at the Wesley Blanton farm, one mile west. She immediately woke her husband and they in turn woke the Blanton family with little time to spare. A blanket was burning in the front yard only 20 feet from the house. The fire had already destroyed 1,000 bales of straw, 2,000 bales of hay and part of a windbreak. The loss was estimated at $2,500.
At the same time, fires were discovered at stacks on the Bob Preston farm, two miles farther south, and the Albin Beyers farm one mile north and one west. Tire and foot tracks were in evidence around those stacks.
Loss at the Preston farm was 450 bales of straw, while the Beyers farm loss was three stacks of alfalfa hay.

Bond issue provides for ‘Trainables’
If approved by voters on Nov. 10, the Torrington schools will for the first time provide a class for trainable children.
These children are currently attending the Opportunity School, which depends on donations for operating funds.
A good program for the trainable child should include self-help skills, socialization, language and economic efficiency. This type of child does not benefit from an academic program and they must receive training in the areas needed to live an everyday life.

25 Years Ago
Oct. 21, 1992

Beet harvest nearing completion
Sugar beet harvest is nearing completion, according to Holly Sugar agriculture manager Rod Fullmer.
“We do now have a number of growers finished harvesting,” he said.
Fulmer estimates that 76 percent of the harvest is complete and hopes to have 90 percent completion by the weekend. Although beet yields vary widely, Holly growers are averaging 17.5 tons per acre crop, according to Fullmer.
“There is a big variance in the yields,” he said. “High areas of yield at well water where a grower could irrigate early.”
Sugar content started at 17 percent and up to 17.5 percent sugar, Fullmer said.
Despite the scare growers had last week with low temperatures, Fullmer believes they have a good harvest. Holly is making every effort to ventilate the 100,000 tons of beets in the piles, he said.
“Thus far it has been a nice harvest,” Fullmer said. “Sometimes it takes as long to get the last 10 percent complete as it did to complete the first 50 percent.”

New feedlot planned
Permits are due to be issued Oct. 31 for a new Goshen County feedlot, according to information from the state Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division.
According to a DEQ release, Maxfield Farms Inc. is the developer of a new cattle feedlot with a capacity of 1,700. The lot will be located approximately four miles west and one mile north of the town of Lingle and is near the North Platte River.
Maxfield Farms shareholder Lest Maxfield Jr. said the feedlot will be used as a backgrounding lot for young cattle.
“We’re not attempting to make it into a commercial lot,” he said. “It will be for our own use. We have a commercial feed lot in Morrill (Neb.).”
The lot will take young, light cattle and grow them to the point they can be turned out on grass or sent to a commercial lot for fattening, Maxfield said.