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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
6
North Bench community notes cover meetings, picnics, travel, haying, and local arrivals. A fire at a hay stack, a drowning river tragedy near town, new bank construction, and fair preparations are reported alongside multiple social visits and family updates.
The Wyoming state fair plans day long events with electric lights at night. A bright searchlight tops the arts building to entertain crowds. Theodore Simpson & Sons of Aurora exhibit ponies and hackneys prepared for the San Francisco exposition. A stock yards race offers a $100 purse, Donshwe Randall & Co and Lea ver Union stock yards back a $50 addition. The state fair commission will turn horses on ten days notice and a full blooded male cattle display will feature Herefords and Shorthorns during fair week.
County Officials of Big Horn County Wyoming are listed with roles from Sheriff to Superintendent of Schools. Also included is a Dairy clarifier notice from Pleasant Valley Dairy stating delays in arrival and upcoming clarified milk, with contact at J B Lemcke. Mrs Robert Davis and children return from Uinta county. Mr Davis remains in Casper for work. family excited to return to Big Horn.
In Basin, Pat's Willerd Hall is highlighted as the best box candy. The listing notes Hall is a Republican candidate for Clancy Prining.
Church notices for Christian Science Presbyterian and Methodist services list dates times and sermon topics. Also a regional hunting calendar sets open season dates for curlew ducks geese snipe in various counties and deer in autumn with county restrictions and deadlines.
Sage hens may be hunted from August 1 to September 1, inclusive, and grouse from September 1 to November 15, inclusive.
Henry Sherard, contracted by the county to drill a well between Worland and Tensleep, struck water near Cottonwood at 191 feet. Water rises 100 feet in the pipe and a pump is installed easing travel across the road. Sherard, from Greybull, has made multiple discoveries and continues work in the area.
Time table lists daily departures from Basin except Sunday. No 313 northbound 1:49 p m. No 311 southbound 1:50 p m. Lost on Ra in streets two child rings one with initial P and one with engraved mark. Return at office. Republicas printing. M H Smith M D. Cattle branded BETH on ribs range Tonnies Five Mile member of Cattlemen’s association PF O address Bag, Wyo.
Property described as section 4, township 51, near Otte, priced at 38 dollars per acre. Fire class land with potential bearing des section investigation. Inquiries to P. P. Andersen, Basin, Wyoming. Also mentions Pat Ward Hall for Republican job work and a contact about a pipe.
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