EVENTS March 10 - Markie Scholz of Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppet Productions, Niobrara County Library, 6:30 p.m. March 11 - First Annual benefit for the USA Lusk Wrestling Team, Niobrara County High School, 7:00 p.m. March 11 thru 13 - High School Speech at Riverton. March 13 - NCHS Rodeo Team Dinner at Niobrara County Fairgrounds. March 16 - Public meeting with Wyoming Game & Fish, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Niobrara County Courthouse, public is welcome to attend with questions about this year's hunting season. March 17 - Niobrara County Homemakers Council 4th Annual Soup & Scholarship Luncheon, 11:00 AM -- 1:30 PM, Niobrara County Fairgrounds,$5.00 per person,Children under 7 -- 1/2 price ($2.50). March 18 thru 20 - High School FBLA State Conference at Sheridan. March 24 thru 26 - High School FCCLA at Cheyenne. March 25 - Elks Spring Celebration Open House for local home based business owners, 5 to 6:30 p.m., Lusk Elks Lodge. March 25 thru 27 - High School Speech District Competition at Cheyenne. March 26 - No School for Niobrara County Schools; High School Track Viking Invitational at Guernsey. March 27 - High School Track Early Bird Invitational at Morrill, NE.

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20th Annual Lusk Area Pitch Tournament Sunday, January 31, Lusk Elks - Sunday, February 21, Lost Springs Sunday, February 28, 3 Sisters - Sunday, March 14, Lusk Elks Sunday, March 28 The Pub - Sunday, April 11, Silver Dollar Bar Sunday, April 25, Lusk Liquor All Games Start at 1:00 p.m., Contact Host Site for More Info! Click Here for Online Pitch Standings

Allbright's True Value - Now Offering Dry Cleaning Service! Pick Up and Delivery Each Tuesday from the Starch Barn in Torrington! ************************************************** Niobrara Birthdays presented by Allbright's True Value Hardware March 8 - Dale Fullerton; March 10 - Brayden Bruegger, Tammy Bonsell; March 11 - Shelley Kant, Sam Erlewine; March 12 - Ryan Rapp, Jim Kingma; March 13 - Audrey Pfister, KaciJo Skrukurd; March 14 - Beth Gilbert; March 15 - Natasha Doyle, Twila Barnette, Rosemary Tadewald; March 16 - Jay Doyle; March 17 - Pat Gardnar; March 18 - Sean Wasserburger, Traci Ann Zerbe; March 19 - Janet Ningen, Sharron Clarke, Quinton Gibson, Wil Bolden, Verle Ellis, Jerry Owens; March 20 - Carmen Weeks, Joseph Kinchen, Andy Nelson, Velma Butler; March 21 - Linda Mitts, Eldon Alexander; March 22 - Patsy Schutt, Brenden Weymouth, Dale Gunn, Shannon Haynes, Carmen Bone, Eli Nelson, Joanne Thorbjornsen; March 23 - Lynn Rising, Edie Wilson, Cheri Thompson, Rick Long; March 24 - Jeff VanGundy; March 25 - Dean Nelson, JD Wasserburger; March 27 - Sue Johnson; March 28 - Larry Bone, Bob Vollmer; March 29 - Klaus Krueger; March 30 - Candy Dooper, Madisyn Griffith, Paul Luker; March 31 Flora Mae Clark, Troy Hladky, Janice Sturman.

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Back by popular demand! Gold in the Black Hills! The Mystic Gates: Troops sent from Camp Robinson, Nebraska and from Fort Randall, Dakota territory, to bring out this party, were unsuccessful because of a terrific blizzard. The storm which struck the cavalrymen was one of the worst ever recorded in that area, with the thermometer registering forty degrees below zero. The suffering of some of the "boys in blue" was said to have been almost beyond description. Twenty-four empty saddles went back to Camp Robinson while ambulances were sent to bring n the men who were to badly frozen to ride. Forty men were hospitalized for frozen limbs. Old timers said that not since the winter of 1848-1849 had they known such snow drifts north of Fort Laramie, nor could they recall ever having heard the wind "get up and howl" as id did for about ten days around the close of the year. On January 8, 1875, a Cheyenne householder, Isaac A. Bard, noted in his diary: "Fearful cold. Froze one ear going to the post office and back. Rose had her house plants all frozen last night. Buckets froze fast in the well… Ice is one inch thick… Apples froze hard in the cellar… Our pet robin was frozen stiff last night…" Cheyenne was crowded with marooned freighters, army officers, and would-be-prospectors. "Chin music" was plentiful, with the Black Hills the main theme, as men grouped around the huge pot-bellied cast iron stoves in the stores, hotel lobbies, and saloons. All were eager for a Chinook to whisk the drifts out of the gullies so they could head northeastward. Tons upon tons of freight accumulated at Cheyenne depot (Camp Carlin), two miles from Cheyenne, while freighters endeavored to round up their work cattle, which had been scattered by the storms.A substantial committee of Cheyenne businessmen ranging from storekeeper, cattleman, banker, jeweler, and lawyer, to saloon keeper, laid definite plans for developing the Black Hills mining region and endeavored to answer the hundreds of inquiries pouring in from every direction relative to available transportation, routes, outfitting possibilities, distances, danger from Indian attack. One hundred men, organized in Ogden, wrote that they were ready to start for the Hills via Cheyenne; three hundred men were waiting impatiently in Salt Lake City; and in the vicinity of Evanston, Wyoming dozens of idle coal miners milled around hoping to hurry eastward "at the drop of the hat." There was a greatly increased undercurrent of forward-looking business activity in the little "Magic City of the Plains," which now comprised about three thousand inhabitants, exclusive of transients...... (Continued next edition)

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