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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
6
The loss and damage committee of the C B and Q aims to cut claims to a new minimum. Freight Claim Agent J D Shields explains claims mean service defects and economic waste. Workers pledge to prevent mismarked packages and avoid cross road issues, hoping to set a historic 1921 record.
The Union Pacific offers every employee a chance to own 1 to 10 shares of the company stock at market price, with 8 percent return on investment. Purchases are payroll-deducted in 24 installments, with 6 percent interest on deferred payments and options to withdraw or upgrade ownership. The plan aims to make workers profit sharers and joint owners of the railroad.
Captain J. E. Frisby of Casper asserts he was the first Wyoming officer to enter Berlin after the armistice. He arrived March 32, 1919 as a courier of mail and dispatches to the German government, among about a dozen officers with the American mission.
The text contrasts tramps and capitalists, arguing the margin is narrow and saving shapes the line. It cites wartime costs of twenty billion and suggests replacement of capital. a family saving $260 yearly could erase deficits. It notes the solvent individual arises from earnings before spending and from prudent credit in a home banking system. Jersey milk delivery by C Spencer.
Farmers weigh the folly of quitting hog production amid high grain costs and current pork prices. Past cycles show those who retain brood sows reap gains when prices rebound. The piece advises careful farm accounting, using alfalfa pasture to cut grain needs, and weighing pigs to track gains.
Rev. Leon A. Losey pastor of the Meeteetse Presbyterian church and Robert P. Pearson cashier of Big Horn County Bank spoke during a town visit. Losey came with his family from Auburn New York last summer. Pearson recently resigned as captain of Troop A of the first Wyoming cavalry for other business concerns.
Wyoming’s irrigated land reached 1,209,527 acres in 1919, up 6.7 percent from a decade earlier. The land capable of irrigation stood at 1,799,161 acres, compared with 1,639,610 in 1910, while irrigation projects in 1920 totaled 2,664,471 acres, up 440,175 acres over ten years.
The Sixteenth legislature amended sections 098 and 3004 of chapter 191 of the 1920 Laws, effective Feb 3, raising the brand recording fee from 1.60 to 5.00 and the reording bill of sale transfer fee from 1.50 to 2.00. State Board of Live Stock Commissioners. M. B. Pickett, Bec.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters establishes a Western Office in San Francisco as a duplicate of the New York office. It will educate, study, and advise on fire prevention, arson reduction, and safety measures without handling insurance rates or commissions.
Last Friday night Mr. and Mrs. Wm Fedderson entertained a small group including Mr. and Mrs. Earl A Gebhart Mr. and Mrs. W C May Miss Agnes Beveridge Dick Hall and O T Gebhart in their home for a social evening.
A reflective piece argues that both rich and poor judge others harshly. Busy wealthy folk rebuke idleness in their class, while the busy poor rebuke luxury in the rich. Mutual fault finding deepens division, leaving the desolate poor as the only true critics of the rich.
Big Horn county warrants numbered 7596 through 9069 are called for payment. Interest ceases after February 15, 1921.
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