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From Our Files: May 28, 2025
June 1, 1950 The Sweet Home Swimming Pool Association, inactive for several months, was reorganized when new…
From Our Files: May 21, 2025
May 25, 1950 Four high school students received minor injuries when an unidentified roadside vandal threw a…
From Our Files: May 14, 2025
May 18, 1950 The 88-member class of 1950, graduating this week, is the largest in the school’s…
From Our Files: May 7, 2025
May 11, 1950 The city superintendent of grade schools proposed establishing a junior high school as a…
From Our Files: April 30, 2025
May 4, 1950 The Oregon State Highway Commission turned down Sweet Home’s request to install a traffic…
From Our Files: April 23, 2025
April 27, 1950 The town celebrated the dedication of the high school’s new auditorium, the completion of…
From Our Files: April 16, 2025
April 20, 1950 Henry Clay Tollett, 55, one of two holdup men who in 1947 robbed the…
From Our Files: April 9, 2025
April 13, 1950 The City Council voted to follow the lead of other Oregon cities for Daylight…
From Our Files: April 2, 2025
April 6, 1950 Eight local men will receive summons this week as defendants in a $15,000 civil…
From Our Files: March 26, 2025
March 30, 1950 Repair work progressed rapidly at Wells Department Store, site of a furnace room explosion…
From Our Files: March 19, 2025
March 23, 1950 Mrs. Ethel Miller bought a bus ticket that was over 10 feet long. When…
From Our Files: March 12, 2025
March 16, 1950 Trilbylee Langmack, 16, returned from a trip to Havana, Cuba after being selected as…
From Our Files: March 5, 2026
March 9, 1950 The annual Frontier Days was about to die, so the Junior Chamber of Commerce…
From Our Files: Feb. 26, 2025
March 2, 1950 The City Council amended the amusement licensing bill by lowering the proposed fees but…
From Our Files: Feb. 19, 2025
Feb. 23, 1950 Sweet Home Active club members will launch a fundraising drive as the first step…
From Our Files: Feb. 12, 2025
Feb. 16, 1950 James Lee, local tavern and pool room operator, and George Gessler, owner of the…
From Our Files: Feb. 5, 2025
Feb. 9, 1950 Jack Barger, 21, who last week inflicted a 12-stitch gash on the forehead of…
From Our Files: Jan. 29, 2025
Feb. 2, 1950 Local thermometers indicated a low between one degree and minus seven degrees this week.…
From Our Files: Jan. 22, 2025
Jan. 26, 1950 President Truman’s estimated budget for the fiscal year includes a requested appropriation of $200,000…
From Our Files: Jan. 15, 2025
Jan. 19, 1950 The City Council passed for its first reading a new amusement ordinance bill that…
From Our Files: Jan. 8, 2025
Jan. 12, 1950 Ground will probably be broken in May at the site of Sweet Home’s new…
From Our Files: Jan. 1, 2025
Jan. 5, 1950 Thieves escaped with $306.60 worth of merchandise and personal belongings during two New Year’s…
From Our Files: Dec. 24, 2024
Dec. 29, 1949 Gene Caswell, who operates the Holley Chinchilla farm, is expecting another litter from his…
From Our Files: Dec. 18, 2024
Dec. 22, 1949 Christmas activities in town this year include the annual Christmas tree party sponsored by…
From Our Files: Dec. 11, 2024
Dec. 15, 1949 A $100 reward is offered leading to the arrest of persons who shot out…