Blast From The Past - January 20, 2023

10 years ago
(January 17, 2013)

YuYu Chen, a Rotary Exchange Student from Taiwan, for the year 2009-2010, returned to Ulysses over the holiday season to visit her host families and all her friends.

20 years ago
(January 16, 2003)

Grant County Economic Development Director Mark Skiles is leaving Ulysses to take the city administrator position at Kiowa, Kansas. The Grant County Economic Board announced they would meet to begin the search for a replacement.

30 years ago
(January 20, 1993)

The Ulysses High School Debate Team headed for State. The 1992-93 state debate squad consists of Heath Stanley, Timothy Haskell, Tennille Smith, Jeremy Armstrong, Nathan McCaffrey, Ali Ketchum, Shalini Ramchandani, Jennifer Kimball, and Julie Sifuentes. Their coach is Troy Langdon.

40 years ago
(January 13, 1983)

Ulysses increased its size by annexation in 1982 by approximately 150 acres and 350 people, according to City Clerk Paula Shapland in a news article in 1983.

Kermit Rainman of Ulysses is a member of the Kansas State University Wildcats Cheerleading squad, which will be involved in national championshipcompetition January 13-15 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

50 years ago
(January 18, 1973)

A grainery owned by Ulysses Co-op Oil and Supply was "full to bursting". The big metal building filled with corn, split its side. Workers spent the weekend trying to clean up the mess.

60 years ago
(January 17, 1963)

Members of Grant County School boards approed a move toward consolidation of all school districts within the Grant County Rural High School district.

70 years ago
(January 15, 1953)

The outgoing board of county commissioners, in one of its last official acts, approved petitions of the city of Ulysses which will extend the limits of the city by some 120 acres.

80 years ago
(January 21, 1943)

Nineteen Grant County farmers have purchased feed wheat from government storage to date. Since the first of January there has been a big increase in wheat sales. In Grant County, 1,600 bushels have been sold. The price now charged is 84 cents per bushel or $1.50 per hundred pounds, which compares favorably with the price of other feed grain.

90 years ago
(January 19, 1933)

Ulysses City Marshall W.B. Gregory found what was apparently a set of burglar tools back of Smith's store last Thursday, also evidence that somone had made an effort to get into one of the windows of that establishment. The tools of the burglar consisted of two chisels, two punches, two bolts, one small pinch bar, one screwdriver, and one eight pound sledge hammer with a silencer on the head of the hammer, which was a home made affair consisting of a piece of belting attached to the hammer head and held in place by a copper gasket taken from an automobile. The thieves evidently had been frightened away and in their hurry left their working tools. 

100 years ago
(January 20, 1923)

Harry Brown and T.N. Thorpe, two of the prominent business men of Lakin, were in Ulysses a few days ago looking up some matters.

R.E. Byers has moved his barber shop to the west side of Main Street into the restaurant annex. Leroy Manley has bought the building and fixtures on the east side and will soon begin business, we are told.