Reflections from the files of the Saratoga Sun
100 years ago
December 16, 2015
Christmas Gifts
Saratoga Stores Well Filled With Appropriate Gifts for all the Family
We made a tour of the main stores of Saratoga and looked over the many useful and beautiful gifts on display by each. We find a strong tendency among both buyers and merchants to select really useful presents. To this end W.P Hays, the “Rexall Store,” has dozens of valuable gifts in toilet articles, books, different kinds of sets of useful things, besides many single articles too numerous to mention, outside of hating the fact that none of them are useless gifts.
W.C. Edwards has many little things in leather goods, such as purses, hand bags, belts, besides fur rugs, and, if needed, chaps and saddles.
Down at the Cosgriff Brothers store we found Manager Mace up to his neck selling toys and a thousand and one useful things from handkerchiefs to clothing. He has nice toys and a large assortment of men’s, women’s and children articles; some excellent sets of different kinds gotten up in Christmas boxes–all attractive and welcome gifts.
In the Saratoga Grocery we found cut glass and hand-painted china. Is there anything nearer a woman’s heart than hand-painted china or cut glass? Manager Hickok has many novelties and books. All his Christmas goods are both useful and ornaments, to say nothing of the “goodies” in fancy groceries, green vegetables, fruit, and above all good treatment.
We went in to Tilton & Son’s place to see what they had that would attract the Christmas shopper and bless your soul we found more stuff than we ever imagined existed in the hardware line. Carving sets, chafing dishes, knives, china sets, sleds, skates, and goodness knows what all.
Well, if Platte Valley buyers can’t satisfy themselves with what they can find in the above-mentioned stores, they will indeed be hard to please. Any and all gifts we saw on display would warm the heart of an editor even, except perhaps some of those delicate gifts for ladies.
Take in the “row” and see for yourself–then go draw on the bank and help yourselves, but! Oh, yes, we came very near overlooking it: “Shop Early!”
75 years ago
December 26, 1940<</i>/strong>
Platte River Flow 50 Percent Below Normal Last Water Year
The discharge of Wyoming streams during the 1940 water year was again below average, according to a bulletin to The Sun from Robert Follansbee, district engineer from the geological survey.
The total discharge of the North Platte river at Saratoga for 1940 was 450,900 acre-feet, he reported, which was 50 per cent of the mean annual discharge for the 33 years of record.
The highest year was 1909 with 1,800,000 acre-feet, and the lowest was 1934 with 238,600 acre-feet. The highest rate of discharge during 1940 was 4,650 second-feet (cubic feet per second) and the lowest was 90 second-feet, Follansbee reported.
The greatest deficiency in the State was the discharge of the Powder river which was 36 per cent of normal, and the discharge of the Laramie river with 68 per cent of average was the highest.
50 years ago
December 16, 1965
Christmas Tree Sales To End Next Week
Don Bielefield, Brush Creek district forest ranger, said today that so far sale of Christmas tree permits is very brisk. He estimated that more than 200 individual permits have been issued, with about a dozen small, local commercial sales also made. He said the commercial sales ranged from 150 to 300 trees.
Mr. Bielefeld again reminded permit holders to exercise care in cutting only those trees which are 150 feet or more from any traveled roadway. He also said persons should cut short stumps, as close to the ground as possible, and trim them out as desired after cutting. “Topping” trees is not allowed.
25 years ago
December 12, 1990
One man killed, another injured in snowmobile accidents
One Rawlins man was killed and another was seriously injured in two separate snowmobile accidents which occurred on Sunday.
Robert L. Baker, 40, of Rawlins sustained fatal injuries when he lost control of his snowmobile and crashed head on into a tree on the old Ryan Park ski area.
The accident occurred at approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, according to the sheriff’s office, and Baker was driving his snow machine down a hill. The carbon County Coroner’s office said Baker suffered a tracheal or windpipe fracture and later died from the injury. He was dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital of Carbon County, according to Deputy Coroner Jim Davis.
According to Burgess, Warren hit some bumps, lost control of his snowmobile, and subsequently hit a tree.
Warren suffering leg and back injuries and was later transferred to a Casper hospital and is reported to be in stable condition, Burgess said.
In a separate accident, Scott Warren, 23, also from Rawlins, suffered extensive injuries when he was snowmobiling in the Ryan Park area.
Carbon County Deputy Sheriff Wilbur Burgess said the accident occurred at approximately 11:43 a.m. Sunday morning.
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