A stroll down memory lane from the archives of The Torrington Telegram
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100 years ago
July 26, 1917
Goshen County Journal
Red Cross Bulletin
We need more helpers. There is an idea abroad that this is a small and independent effort. On the contrary, ti is a community affair and requires the active participation of every woman in the community to make it a success. This is everybody’s job and everyone is urged to appear at the workroom at least one day a week. We shall make a very small showing in the two afternoons, which we are giving to the sewing end of the work unless all who can sew come and do their bit. There are examples of the hospital garments we are making in the window of Elquest’s Hardware Store. Make it a point to look at them.
State Guards ready to act
CHEYENNE – Following the proclamation of President Wilson callin the Wyoming National Guard into the regular Army of the United States on Aug. 5, after mobilization on July 25, preparations are under way for placing the state’s quota of men at the disposal of the nation. More than 1,200 men, comprising 12 companies, are now under arms in the state. Recruiting officers expect the have the Wyoming independent regiment organized as a fighting unit before the draft for Aug. 5 becomes effective.
75 years ago
July 29, 1942
Scrap metal drive begins next week
Goshen County will join the nation’s drive for scrap metal in a salvage drive to begin in full earnest next Monday, it was announced this week by Reed Feris, county salvage chairman.
50 years ago
July 27, 1967
Ground broken for EWC first phase
Construction has begun on the first building on the new Eastern Wyoming College campus on West C Street. Earth moving equipment will begin to prepare a part of the 44.5 acre site, a gift to the college by the Tebbet family. Completion of the building is scheduled for August 1968, according to Albert Conger, president of the college.
The first structure will contain a general academic area with classrooms for English, history, political science, education, sociology and psychology. A special classroom for music, speech and language with a recording and practice room is included.
VFW and their ladies give flag and pole to hospital
A new U.S. Flag now flies over the Goshen County Memorial Hospital for the first time since the building was erected in 1949, thanks to the Torrington Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary.