From Our Files

Nov. 15, 1951   A well-intentioned Sweet Home newcomer, Allen Garnet Tate, turned himself in, confessing – out…

Nov. 8, 1951   Ralph “Swede” Johnson, parttime Sweet Home resident living currently in Nevada, was held up…

Nov. 1, 1951   This year’s goal for the Community Chest drive is $5,565.70, almost half of which…

Oct. 25, 1951   Diagonal parking in Sweet Home will be outlawed after final passage of a new…

Oct. 18, 1951   A Sweet Home resident was preparing a borrowed rifle for a hunting trip with…

Oct. 11, 1951   Sweet Home High School will be giving the community a new magazine publication when…

Sept. 27, 1951   City Council voted down four applicants seeking to serve mixed drinks in Class C…

Sept. 20, 1951   Western Veneer explained their reasons to move operations from Sweet Home to Eugene. The…

Sept. 13, 1951   Sweet Home’s City Council for the second time refused to take action on applications…

Sept. 6, 1951   Two Sweet Home boys, Charles Raymond Shives, 15, and Archie Vibbard, 13, were charged…

Aug. 30, 1951   Results of the latest bloodmobile visit targeting Sweet Home’s lumber company employees were disappointing…

Aug. 23, 1951   The Sweet Home swimming team now has a name. Henceforth, the local splashers will…

Aug. 16, 1951   A crowd attending the annual Frontier Days festivities got their first glimpse of the…

Aug. 9, 1951   Alice Cook was identified as the Frontier Days queen. The blonde is employed at…

Aug. 2, 1951   Frontier Days’ annual Buckaroo Breakfast will be sited this year at the city park…

July 26, 1951   Support in an x-ray drive was urged in an attempt to procure chest x-ray…

July 19, 1951   Three Sweet Home boys, unidentified due to being underage, were found guilty for being…

July 12, 1951   Sweet Home’s water situation got worse when an overworked water pump gave up under…

July 5, 1951   No local holiday celebrations marked the Fourth of July in the past nine years…

June 28, 1951   Sweet Home’s Mayor Eugene Ellis issued a letter to residents urging cooperation with water…

June 21, 1951   A new flare-up in the 240-acre Wiley Creek fire southeast of Foster caused fresh…

June 14, 1951   The city park will soon offer a variety of play equipment to youngsters. Park…

June 7, 1951   The Sweet Home fire department will sponsor a carnival next week on M Street…