Looking Back

100 YEARS AGO – APRIL 2, 1920

TREATY GOES BACK TO THE PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON-The peace treaty with Germany has been rejected in the United States senate. Not only did the senate vote its rejection by seven more votes than were required, but passed a resolution returning the document to the president. It is stated that one time during the controversy between President Wilson and the senate majority he threatened to send Senators Lodge and Knox to Germany to negotiate a treaty if the one he brought to them should be rejected, and while this was taken at the time as a sardonic bit of sarcasm, something of the sort is now an actual possibility.

75 YEARS AGO – APRIL 6, 1945

NEW BRAZOS RIVER BRIDGE PROPOSED BY HIGHWAY GROUP

Representatives from Throckmorton and from the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce highway and traffic committee met with the local Chamber of Commerce highway committee in a conference Wednesday afternoon, regarding a proposed new bridge over the Brazos River between Throckmorton and Olney. The conference resolved to request J.M. Isbell, division engineer of the State Highway Department, is to prepare the plans and specifications for the bridge. The need for this new bridge has been felt in this area for some time, since the present Brazos bridge is a comparatively weak one, having a load limit of only 6,000 lbs.

50 YEARS AGO-APRIL 2, 1970

THIRD MISS OLNEY TO BE NAMED SATURDAY

Final preparations are being made for the Third Annual Miss Olney Pageant scheduled for Saturday evening at 8 in the Olney High School Auditorium. Olney Jaycees are sponsors of the event. Seven local high school girls are entered in the pageant with the top two winners entering the Miss Throckmorton Pageant enroute to the Miss Texas Pageant. Entrants in the pageant include: Rhonda Gail Cagle, Kay Crosthwait, Norma Gail Harris, Jill Elizabeth Kunkel, Sarah Louise Larimore, Jamie Thornton, and Claudia Faye Wiesen.

25 YEARS AGO-APRIL 6, 1995

OLNEY SCOUTS TAKE PART IN TRI-COUNCIL CAMP

Olney Scouts were among 1,400 Scouts from Texas and Oklahoma who attended the Scouts 1995 Tri-Council Camporee held at Perkins Reservation Boy Scout Camp. Activities included black powder rifle, obstacle course, archery, tomahawk throwing, patrol challenge, branding, pioneer log race, BB guns, leather stamping, nature walk, catapults, baseball throw, marble derby, plaster crafts, horseshoes, monkey bridge, 3-way tug of war, and barrel bronco.