12th street business histories 07.07.2004
1st street to hwy
71 is a reality 08.29.1972
3rd Street Terrace is approved 03.20.57
Bandstand plans for Christmas 11.30.51
Bandstand takes it on the
roof 08.19.1974
Bids on Natural Gas lines
opened 07.19.1962
Carolyn Dockery hired as bookeeper 08.29.1960
CART (County Aid Road
Trust) money 06.13.1962
Chain fence & well abt square goes 09.02.1926
City
bldgs to be used for Civil Defense food shelters 03.29.1962
City buys a new police car
05.02.1952
City Clerk
snapped after announcing retirement 04.19.1960
City
declares dogs a nuisance & they will be dealt with 05.19.1971
City officials elected in
1929 03.28.1929
City still has those
diesel engines 06.08.1962
City
still trying to sell surplus diesel engines to Mexico 02.21.1962
City super
Hazelrigg gets salary raise 01.17.1962
City to
prosecute sidewalk bike riders 08.15.1962
City to
provide uniforms for law officers 04.10.1942
City officials sworn in 04.16.57
Civil War cannon per Reba Young 03.24.81
Civil War cannon dedication 00.00.81
Councilman Miller sworn in 02.02.82
Democrats take 4 of 5 seats p1 04.06.77
Democrats take 4 of 5 seats p2 04.06.77
Earlene Boucher payroll & billing clerk 00.00.76
Editor takes a tour around square 02.24.1870
Firsts for Barton Co 10.21.1906
Founding date of Lamar 12.11.53
Fred Gray's old letter p1 01.02.48
Fred Gray's old letter p2 01.02.48
Goodby to old city jail 04.15.1949
J C Parry to lay off 3rd addition 07.28.1870
Lamar adopts new liquor licensing ordinance 09.20.1960
Lamar city constable Wyatt Earp appointed 03.03.1870
Lamar city councilmen 00.00.00
Lamar city fathers vote to ban hogs 03.17.1870
Lamar city hall becoming restricted 07.25.1960
Lamar city hall restrictions expand 08.10.1960
Lamar city park getting new shelter house 03.29.1960
Lamar continues under the influenza ban 11.07.1918
Lamar dogs must be registered per ordinance 03.17.1870
Lamar gets with & renames streets 08.09.1940
Lamar has 60 air raid
wardens 12.08.1942
Lamar Heritage days celebration 08.05.1952
Lamar hog ordinance will influence council voting 03.31.1870
Lamar IDC committee holds 1st mtg 01.12.1960
Lamar IDC receives money from new investors 01.26.1960
Lamar IDC sign vandalized 07.01.1960
Lamar incorporated by county court 03.03.1870
Lamar lets paving contract to Wilhelm 07.06.1960
Lamar liquor licenses renewed 07.06.1960
Lamar long time city clerk of 37 yrs to retire 02.11.1960
Lamar long time employee of 49 yrs retires 09.23.2009
Lamar mayor defeated
in cow milking 06.23.1962
Lamar ordinance banishes all at large hogs 03.17.1870
Lamar purchases lot behind Memorial Hall 03.22.1960
Lamar square N side 00.00.39
Lamar to finally sell excess diesel engines 01.08.1960
Lamar under the influenza ban 10.31.1918
Lamar's 1902 generatimg plant 01.18.73
Lamar's centennial plans 01.20.57
Lamar's elevation location 12.20.55
Lamar's
natural gas voted in by people of Lamar 11 to 1 01.17.1962
Lamar's new superintendent 09.30.54
Lamar's progression for 1956 01.02.57
Lamar receives money
from new gas tax 06.16.1962
Lucky Roberts
complains of runoff water 04.03.1962
Mayor to turn
on natural gas for 1st time 11.27.1962
Mayor turns
the valve as officials watch 11.27.1962
Memorial Hall cornerstone 27 years late 06.01.55
Memorial Hall scheduling 04.16.57
Moving the fire siren tower 06.28.1949
Natural gas
company looking for building to use 03.24.1962
Natural gas
franchise for neighboring towns 05.02.1962
Natural gas
tax project issues discussed 03.08.1962
Natural
gas voted in by people of Lamar 11 to 1 01.17.1962
New bridge on 1st
street still needed 03.17.1962
New church signs put up 06.27.60
New city building 05.10.49
New
police car is on the streets 07.18.1962
Old Police car & 2 new city trucks 01.13.1960
Paving of 1st street 08.24.72
Paving of Lamar square 11.25.1926
Paving of square contract let 07.22.1926"
Poisoning of
animals in E part of town 05.09.1962
Presiding
judge lights gas torch in courtyard 12.03.1962
PSC approves natural
gas for Lamar 05.18.1962
Public spirited businesses
10.02.1962
State
gas tax voting results in road money increases
Stop light & stop signs for 160 hwy 10.25.49
Those darned
diesel engines still a problem 10.05.1962
West side of Lamar square 1870 05.06.81
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