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Date Year Event
14-Mar 1907 H.A. Stine sells Elk Saloon to Nelson and Hampton of Billings. Stine has been appointed Supt. Of Construction of the Hanover Canals.
6-Jun 1907 H.A. Stine has resigned as Supt. of canal construction for the Hanover Canal Co.
20-Aug 1908 Cole and Shaw were given the contract of a new bridge across the Lower Hanover canal by the city council.
18-Feb 1909 Mrs. Ruth Culbertson, president of Hanover Canal Co. has purchased the Hannold residence property.
13-Jun 1912 Heavy rain does damage, almost all basements were flooded in Worland. The new bridge across Nowater completely washed out, damage to Hanover canals at Nowater and serious damage to Big Horn Canal. Ice house on river’s edge was undermined, may have ice shortage this summer.
10-Jul 1913 Hanover Canal litigation ended, establishes the right of the association for the possession, operation and control of their respective canals.
26-Jul 1917 Article - Flume across Big Horn River for Upper Hanover canal goes out for the second time this spring.
27-Mar 1919 Article - Cars go into Canal where road crosses Hanover canal, need a new bridge for a straight run.
4-Nov 1920 The contract for the new bridge across the Hanover Canal just east of town was let a short time ago and work started this week. The bridge will be placed straight with the road so that tourists will not have to make a turn as heretofore.
16-Jun 1921 The Lower Hanover Canal has installed a new concrete and iron headgate for the Town’s use on the canal where it intersects Grace street.
10-Jul 1924 Big Horn Light and Power Co. started on the extension of the power line which will furnish power East of the Lower Hanover canal as far east as H. E. Bryant’s farm.
17-Mar 1927 C. S. Grable has purchased a lot just east of the Lower Hanover Canal and has started the erection of a new residence.
7-Apr 1927 Article - Came here 24 years ago today- about C. F. Robertson and surveying the Hanover Canals. Also list a few of over 20 year residence; S.H. Black, J. Ashby Howell, H.L. Bonine, W.G. Johnston, L.E. Laird, Ray Hake and Noel Morgan.
23-Apr 1931 The Boy Scouts recently cleaned the swimming hole in the Hanover Canal west of the High School and request that residents refrain from throwing trash there.
8-Oct 1931 Obit - Herman Ilg, age 52, Superintendent of Upper Hanover Canal for many years.