A bar at home, back to school and student athletes

100 Years Ago

How to Make Money at Home

Start a saloon in your own house. Be the only customer (you’ll have no license to pay). Go to your wife and give her two dollars to buy a gallon of whisky, and remember that there are sixty-nine drinks in a gallon. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, and by the time the first gallon is gone she will have eight dollars to put in the bank and two dollars to start business again. Should you live ten years and continue to buy booze from her, and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have enough money to bury you decently, educate your children, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man and quit thinking about you entirely.—Ex

75 Years Ago

Local Schools Opened Tuesday; Enrollment Now Is 219 Students

The local schools opened for the 1940-41 term Tuesday of this week, and Spt. F.J. DeForest reports a first-day registration of 159 pupils in the grade school and up to this morning 60 in the high school. It is expected a few other registrations will occur in both schools within the next week or ten days, when the enrollment will probably be near the peak for the year.

Supt. DeForest also revealed that 19 students have registered for the new vocational-agriculture course, added to the curriculum this year. Classes are being held in the high school building pending completion of quarters in the new building being erected on the high school grounds for that purpose. Mr.DeForest said the contractors will start pouring the concrete for the basement this morning, and that it is hoped the building can be occupied about October 1.

Other subjects offered in the high school this year which were not taught last year, include advanced algebra; chemistry, which alternates each year with physics, and World History, which this year takes the place of American History.

50 Years Ago

Football Team to be Big, Fast

Saratoga will field a big, fast football team this fall when they open the season at Glendo Sept. 10, Coach Robert Hileman said this week. Presently 16 boys are holding practice sessions weekdays after school.

A total of 18 boys have checked out suits, but Kenny Zeiger was injured the first week of practice and will be out for the rest of the season with a broken collar bone and Phil DeHart is still limping from a knee injury received during the summer. Coach Hileman reports that the rest of the team members are in good condition, with no major injuries.

Practice sessions are now built around the conditioning and scrimmages. The coach, in that first year here, reports that the boys are in good shape physically and barring any further injuries should be tough for the opening game. The first game on the Panther field will be Sept. 24 against Pinedale.

25 Years Ago

Tiger spikers down

Togie Panthers

The Encampment Tigers defeated the Saratoga Panthers in volleyball action last Friday.

Encampment’s junior varsity team outplayed the Saratoga team to take the match in two games while the Tigers varsity squad had to go three games to down the Panthers.

Assistant Tiger coach, Dana Greenwood, said her junior varsity team defeated Saratoga in two well played games, 15-8 and 15-6.

“The junior varsity team excelled as a team unit to down the opposition and set the stage for the Tiger varsity,” Greenwood stated.

The Tiger varsity squad jumped to a quick victory over the Panthers, defeating them 15-5 in the first game. The Panthers came back to win the second game of the series, however and the Tigers lost 8-15 before rallying to win the third game 15-9 and take the match.

Head Tiger coach Anne Pantle said, “An overall united team effort brougth sweet victory to the Tigers.”

Saratoga head coach Jeff Thielbar said, “It was a tough game but we’re doing better than we ever have and we’re expecting great things.”

Thieldar said the Panthers showed “a lot of heart and come back ability,” nothing they have had to learn a whole new offense and defense this year.

The Tigers traveled to Walden Tuesday night with scores unavailable by press time and will travel to Medicine Bow for a tournament Saturday.

The Panthers, meanwhile, will travel to Walden Thursday night with game time at 5 p.m.; host Bow-Basin in Saratoga on Friday at 5:30 p.m. and travel to Pinedale and Big Piney on Saturday. Game time in Pinedale is 12:30 and in Big Piney action will start at 4:30 p.m.