The Star Valley Independent has been covering the news for the communities for more than 108 years without missing a week.  Take a look at what made the news 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago.

25-years ago:

Hunters, outfitters and campers have been preparing for the Annual Greys River Elk hunt, due to open Monday, Oct. 15. Camp preparations have been in progress for more than a week, as hunters and outfitters have been setting up camps and preparing their equipment and horses for the annual season. The Greys River season draws large numbers from outside the Star Valley area, as the western part of Wyoming is a watershed for hunters.

Ad: Children’s Clothing sale, 20% off at the Hospital Gift Shop.

Ad: Home Pharmacy will be closed Thursday, Oct. 11, to attend the Wedding of the Century! (Morgan and Marsha).

Ad: Artful Yarns is going out of Business! Everything in the stores is reduced to our cost, just in time of Christmas savings.

50-years ago:

Ad: No need to hunt … for groceries. Buy ALL of your needs here, at Roberts Market. Eggs, $.41/doz.; shortening, 3 lb. can, $.69; Jiffy biscuit mix, 40 oz. pkg., $.29; bananas, $.10/lb.; Cudahy’s Purity thick sliced bacon, 2lb. pkg., $.98.

Star Valley High School’s 1958-59 yearbook, Sta-va-hi, won All-State honors in Division I (over 300 enrollment) in the annual yearbook competition held during Journalism Weekend at the University of Wyoming last week.

Afton’s new municipal water system improvement project is nearly completed, and water will be turned from the new pipeline extending to the intermittent spring seven miles up Swift Creek Canyon into the town distribution system next week, according to Mayor Doyle F. Child.

Notice to Afton Water Users, Next Monday, Oct. 12, has been tentatively set as the date the new pipeline will be turned into the town construction system. If bad weather or other delays arise, the date may be set back a day or two. As the water will be off for perhaps, three hours when the system is cut in, there will be a warning signal given the night before . . . . The signal will be six long blasts on the fire siren at 8 p.m. on the eve of the morning . . . . Water was stored in the reservoir for the first time on Wednesday of this week after the concrete in the 70,000 gallon storage tank had properly cured.

75-years ago:

Survey crew to test sites for reservoirs in valley streams . . . sites will be surveyed in upper Salt River, Crow Creek, Stump Creek and the possibility of raising Cottonwood Lake about three feet. If any of these sites are deemed feasible by the surveyor, we are assured that federal money will be available to build dams, etc., to conserve the water. This will also give employment to local people and if reservoirs are built it will mean much to the people of Star Valley.

Card of Thanks–We wish to cordially thank all those who so kindly assisted us during our recent illness. J.T. Nelson.

Dell Draney had an unusual and painful accident early this morning. He was cranking his car and when the motor started, the crank failed to come loose, with the result that Dell was whipped about and two of his fingers cut off or torn off, He received other bruises on his arm and head. His fingers were attended to and he is feeling pretty good. They were taken of at the first joint.

Almanac–Oct. 8, $200,000,000 loss in great Chicago fire, 1871. Oct. 10–First pony express arrives in San Francisco, 1859. Oct. 13–Cornerstone of first white house laid , 1792.

100-years ago:

We want to call your attention to the Fourth Dry Farming congress to be held at Billings, Mont., Oct. 26,27, &28 1909. There congresses have done an invaluable amount of good for the dry farmers of the West, and it would be money well spent to hear the reports of yield and experiments that would be of a benefit to all farmers.

Cattle Buyer–Having been east, I am in touch with the market, and will pay the highest price for fat cattle. L.J. Tolman.

Ad: “Clearance” Sale at N.G. Allred’s On all goods in my Store until Oct. 15, 1909. New Ann Arbor Organ, $50.00; Window blinds, $.35; 3 lb. feather pillows, $.55; 6 good heavy tumblers, $.20; 6 good 7 in. plates, $.50; Linoleum $.50/sq yd.; Go-carts for the babies, $2.25.