Blast From The Past - October 28, 2022

10 Years Ago
(Week of October 25, 2012)

Now 92 years old, John Button reflects on his years in the Air Force, remembering as a young man going to volunteer to be drafted after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, being turned away because he had one bad eye.

20 Years Ago
(Week of October 24, 2002)

Fat pheasants can be seen casually snacking in fields around Grant County. Opening Day will find them practicing covert operations and evasive maneuvers.

30 Years Ago
(Week of October 29, 1992)

Grant County Chamber of Commerce members and ambassadors cut a ribbon at the site of the new ATM machine at The Grant County State Bank.

40 Years Ago
(Week of October 26, 1982)

Kustom Car Care was recently purchased by Mike Anderson. Mike and his wife Pam are both originally from Ulysses.

50 Years Ago
(Week of October 26, 1972)

The John Parker family sustained a total loss in a blaze in their home Thursday evening. A total loss of a pot of Hungarian meatballs. When someone left a cooking pot unattended too long, smoke came pouring out the kitchen and someone turned in an alarm. The long-winded Ulysses fire whistle immediately aroused the community into action, and the Ulysses’ brave firemen battled the blaze valiantly, but to no avail.

60 Years Ago
(Week of October 25, 1962)

Jay McGaughey of the Grant County Rural high school was among the more than 150 Kansas college administrators and high school personnel and guidance representatives attending a meeting at the University of Kansas Friday, October 19.

70 Years Ago
(Week of October 23, 1952)

Best Hallowe’en costumes exhibited in the annual Hallowe’en parade next Thursday evening will bring prizes for the top designers in three classes.

80 Years Ago
(Week of October 29, 1942)

The first snow of the season fell throughout Grant County and the Southwest Friday night and Saturday morning. The moisture content measured .57 of an inch in Ulysses. This included a light rain that fell before and after the snow.

90 Years Ago
(Week of October 27, 1932)

The Juniors have picked their play, “Two Days to Marry.” This play is a very good one. The cast is going to begin practicing soon.

100 Years Ago
(Week of October 28, 1922)

During several days’ absence of the missus this week, we had the pleasure of eating some of our own good cooking once more. The taste and variety have not changed much with the passing years, and in the interest of the culinary art we are thinking of having a few of our favorite formulas copyrighted. It is appalling how few housewives can prepare a good meal of dried apples and water.