Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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1 years ago Jan. 6, 1916 Youth’s Vanquished Joys We hear it asked, “What has become Of olden-time co’n pone; Of Mammy’s beaten biscuits with The flavor all their own; But would they taste as good again If they were served tonight? Would memory make up, perchance, For jaded appetite? That chicken Maryland we knew In golden bygone days Seems to have lost its flavor now. The pies that mother used to make So flaky and so light, Go well in verse–but would they tempt The jaded appetite? And thus in reminiscent vein, One might...
Amid the week after Christmas, piles of wrapping in bags, shiny paper and boxes in trash with the tags. Sad little scissors sit broken and bent, from clamshell packaging--they don’t make a dent. The lights are still sparkly, still light up the town, but pretty soon work begins in taking them down. Kids run around ‘cause they’re still out of schools, having a good old time while acting the fools. But the tots are forlorn from here to Hoboken, Christmas is gone and their new toy...
A person cannot be much more cowboy than Sam Platts, who with his band, sings old time Country and Western music, lives in a town called Pony and works full-time on a ranch. He will bring his country music to the Platte Valley Community Center Thursday from 7-10 p.m. Platts is no stranger to small town living, as he grew up in Saratoga and is returning this week to play at the Platte Valley Community Center for the Valley Service Organization's (VSO) New Year's Eve party. Plat...
Reprint of this story from the December 25, 1903 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. THE OLD CHRISTMAS HEARTH I LEAN back in my arm-chair as the snow-flakes soft and white Clothe the hilltops and the valleys in habiliments of white. While the cutting winds of winter send their music far and wide, Disputing with the mellow bells the joys of Christmas tide; I seem to catch the echoes of the songs they sing on high, B...
1 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, out...
One of Saratoga’s favorite musical sons, Sam Platts and his band, The Kootenai Three, are scheduled to play for another in the series of the Valley Service Organization’s (VSO) popular family dance parties on New Year’s Eve. The event will be held at the Platte Valley Community Center from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31. VSO members will again provide their “fantastic heavy hors d’oeuvres” for the party, according to Kate Sherrod, VSO president. There will also be a cash bar which will serve soft drinks for the youngsters...
Reprint of this story from the December 8, 1905 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Depot to be Built at Lower End of Freeman Avenue While at Encampment this week President Chatterton and General Manager Hohl completed arrangements for depot grounds and yards. The depot is to be built at the foot of Freeman avenue, its front door to be exactly in the center of the street. From that point the yards will extend over t...
The Saratoga Community Choir is holding its holiday concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Platte Valley Community Center. The performance by the all-volunteer group will sing familiar, traditional favorites that audiences enjoy every year, while also playing other newer songs that offer a bit of a zip, a press release said. The concert will include several selections involving horns and other instruments. During the intermission will include refreshments. As always, the concert is free, but donations are happily...
1 years ago Dec. 12, 1915 Ford for peace Henry Ford is perhaps the greatest success as an automobile manufacturer and designer that the world has today, but that is not saying that his peace voyage will be as equally successful. He seems to be meeting with considerable the reverse in his invitations as he did in his early experience with the automobile, but who knows? When you find a lucky duck like Ford he can fall in the creek and come out perfectly dry with his pockets full of fish. It would seem that success would large...
Reprint of this story from the November 28, 1902 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. BIG FREIGHT BUSINESS A. J. Olson, of the Carbon Tie Co., gives out the Following statements: “We are having a large amount of supplies delivered at our two tie camps. There will be a million pounds of freight put into the Encampment tie camp, and between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds into the Brush and French creek tie camps this fal...
1 years ago Nov. 18, 1915 Killing Elk Several hunters returned just as the season closed from hunting deer in the Elk Mountain country. The deer seemed to be more plentiful than usual, with the result that most of the hunters from here were successful. Several of the hunters state that they saw the evidence of where two elk had been killed. The elk were shipped in here with the understanding that they would be protected by all of the citizens, giving them a good start in this locality again. To that end the government...
Reprint of this story from the November 14, 1985 issue of The Platte Valley Lyre brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. W.B. Cowan, of the Pick outfit, has been for several years the owner of a half dozen deer. The animals leave his ranch and stay in the mountains all summer, returning home every winter, and are therefore only partially tamed. One of them, a stag, has been wandering about near town for some days, the bell on his neck protecting him from the...