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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
4
Public sale to be held December 21 at Jones Bros Ranch near Wyo offers 16 horses including geldings and mares with colts, 28 head of cattle with two milch cows and a Herford bull, 800 bushels of oats, farm implement lineup, and a 12 month note terms at 10 percent with 5 percent cash discount for sums over ten dollars.
The district court of Big Horn County Wyoming hears a petition filed December 13 191 with intent to establish the Five Mile Drainage District to drain bog land and prevent water damage. It outlines proposed drains A B and C with routes through townships 49 north range 92 west toward Alamo Creek and related boundaries. The document lists starting points and directions for each drain.
The text outlines the drainage district boundaries for a Big Horn canal region, detailing corners of sections 7 18 19 30 32 and 20 17 across multiple townships. It defines drains labeled D and C with points near section centers and river junctions to establish the district limits and flow paths toward the Big Horn river.
The text describes a survey description in Township 49 North Range 92 West and states a swearing of a petition before the District Court of Big Horn County, Wyoming in Rawlins on January 20, 1917 at 10 a.m. The notice is signed by R. H. Ahrens, Clerk, with deputies and dates of first and last publication in Basin, Wyoming.
The Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches list December services including Sunday school at 10 a m and worship at 11 a m. Evening service 7 30 p m with midweek prayer on Thursdays. A community event on December 16 features a men and friends banquet and a silver offering for the building fund.
St Andrews Church holds Holy Communion and sermon on the 1st and 3rd Sundays at 11 AM. Morning prayer and sermon also at 11. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 AM. Members and friends invited. Phone available for Rector Dean Nash.
The Presbyterian Church invites all to Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 with the sermon on Efficiency. Young people meet at 6:30 and praise the work of the group. A full house last Sunday evening followed a helpful service. The Bethlehem pageant Christ ia etbry will be given Christmas Eve Sunday Dec 24 replacing the regular evening service.
Christian Science Society invites attendance at Sunday 11 a m services with Sunday School at 10 a m for youths up to 20. The Sunday lesson for December 17 is "In the universe, including man. Involved by atomic force?"
C. C. Barrown of Billings visited town at the start of the week and sold the L. A. Lew ranch on Shell Creek to O. V. Kinderson for six thousand dollars.
At a December 4 meeting in Germania Bend, Ank Keller Man, Herman Wendelow, and Wm. B. Edwards were elected directors of the Germania Bend Drainage Company. Edwards acts as parentary and holds the company books. attendees discuss interest payments on six bonds secured by property benefitting the ditch.
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