Reflections: Basketball fun, highway matters and a new drug store

101 years ago

Feb. 27, 1913

Basketball game and dance

Saturday night the Laramie team of basketball players and the Saratoga team met in conflict in the opera house here, and put on a game that was well worth the price to those who attended. Saratoga winning by a score of 31 to 10. The Laramie team was handicapped both by not having two of their players and by being much outweighed by the local team. After the game a big dance was given for the entertainment of the visitors, and everyone enjoyed themselves. The Eastern Star served a supper on the stage at midnight. The Saratoga boys say that the Laramie boys are the best bunch of spots that have ever come into this town, and everyone were nice, clean fellows and good all round players. We hope that this is not the last we will see of them, and there will probably be another good game of two staged before the season closes.

75 years ago

Feb. 23, 1939

Road matter to come before commission

A group of Saratoga businessmen are making their plans to go to Cheyenne Tuesday of next weeks to attend a meeting of the State Highway Commission. The delegation will have as its mission the completion of the Snowy Range highway from the west boundary to the intersection with the Rocky Mountain highway above Saratoga. The county recently completed the purchase of right-of-way for the road, and now every effort will be made to have the state start construction on the project this coming summer. It is expected the local delegation will be joined at Cheyenne by another group of businessmen representing the Laramie Chamber of Commerce.

50 years ago

Feb. 27, 1964

Everist’s Drug to open Saturday

The Everists’ Drug Store, Saratoga’s newest business establishment, will open Saturday, Feb. 29, in quarters in the Everist Super Market. The drug store will maintain regular hours from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and will be closed every Sunday, according to Ray Baum, manager.

Mr. Baum said the pharmacy will feature pharmaceuticals, prescription service and veterinarian supplies as well as other items. Stock is arriving daily, Mr. Baum added. He also said that the quarters, in the south part of the building have been remodeled into one large room.

Mr. Baum, a native of Platte Valley, is well known here. He is a 1951 graduate of the local high school and was graduated from the University of Wyoming, where he majored in pharmacy, in 1959. He was employed for three years in the Bunten Pharmacy in Cheyenne and also was manager of the North Park Pharmacy in Walden, Colo. for a year previous to moving to Saratoga with his family in January.

Mrs. Baum is the former Marian Needham, also a previous Saratoga resident. The couple has one son and three daughters.

25 years ago

Feb. 22, 1989

Cheney, Wallop field representatives to visit

Field representatives for U.S. Congressman Dick Cheney and Senator Malcolm Wallop will hold office hours in Saratoga on Feb. 27.

Tony Padilla of Cheney’s office and Billee Jelouchan of Wallop’s office invite Carbon County residents to stop at the Saratoga Town Hall between 11 a.m. and noon to discuss any concerns or problems with the federal government.

The Wyoming Congressional delegation maintains field offices in southwest Wyoming in order to provide personal contact with the people of the area. Cheney’s office is in Green River, while Wallop’s office is in Rock Springs.

The field representatives will be available in the council chambers of the town hall. If you need further information, contact Padilla at 875-6969.