15 Years Ago - April 22, 2011

• East End Events- Sharon Scott: Its sleet, no its rain, no its snow…By Golly they’re all correct. Some good moisture for our area.
• The town of Sheridan Lake and Division of Wildlife will be hosting fishing day for kids 15 and under at the Sheridan Lake Pond.

25 Years Ago - April 20, 2001

• EagleVision, a cable television company based in Eads, made a presentation to the Eads Town Board in purchasing a portion of the company’s system.

40 Years Ago - April 18, 1986

• Nursing Home News- LaVerne Fischer: The Karvel Keenager band was here. It was a very entertaining afternoon.

50 Years Ago - April 16, 1976

• Cleveland Browns placekicker and punter Don Cockroft will be speaker at the Eads High School Athletic Banquet.
• Sheriff Larry Watts issued a plea to Kiowa County residents to help stop a rash of thefts of farm equipment.

75 Years Ago - April 20, 1951

• Sam Rehm says tractors may be the cause of the drought. If every farmer used mules and walking plows, sweat from the men and animals would evaporate and form raindrops

100 Years Ago - April 16, 1926

• This town is made up of a lot of slandering busybodies who have nothing to do but spread malicious lies about people. We are not talking about Eads but about the movie “The Slanderers,” to be at the La Cinema Saturday night.
• Gardening time is here and that all poultry must be kept shut up. Any owners of chickens running at large will be notified once. If a second notice is required the parties will be liable to a fine.