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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1920
Page
8
Greybull and nearby communities see frequent visitors and business matters as Rairden, Manderson, Thermopolis, and Burlington residents travel for meetings and social calls. Ernest Gugenheim and Nay Bros. minstrels perform at Rex. typhoid illness eases for Mrs. Lou Blakesley. various attorneys and agents conduct legal and commercial business.
Mrs A C Watches of Basin Gardens died last Sunday after pneumonia. She had been ill for weeks and funeral services were held Tuesday at the Methodist church with Rev R M Jones officiating. Burial followed in Mount View cemetery. Born Cora Delia Fent in Kirk Iowa December 29 1867 she was 62 years old. She married Archie C Watches November 25 1891 at Thurman Kansas. The family moved to Wyoming about three years ago. Survived by husband and five children Mary Hartman Mrs Addie Dobbs Blanch Clinton and Lavadas. She joined the Friends church in 1906 and was valued by neighbors.
Local listings show Owen Johnson advertising express service and shoe repair in Greybull with phone 190. Frater nity hall hosts a Thursday dance while 14 For any drug work or moving call Johnson. Multiple residents including G I Smith and Thos C Marshall attend town business. Frank Rue leases home. mittens found. John Weints and C A Welch attend county board.
Kenneth Harlan Universal leading man returns from service to stage his first postwar photo drama at the Hex in The Trembling Hour supporting Helen Eddy. The plot follows a shell shocked veteran whose nerves snap at the slightest noise. Director George Letyman, a fellow veteran, also met Harlan in France.
At a school board meeting Miss Lucy Feddersen was elected instructor of mathematics and science at the local high school. A University of Wyoming graduate, she taught math in its summer program and has three years teaching in Kemmerer under the superintendent's high recommendation. Basin gains skilled service for the year.
A Basin man lights an electric lamp in a hen house at nine each night and hens lay extra eggs. Jim Berry buys a grocery for chewing tobacco, Frank Hime finds a dime, and a street owner may claim property with proof. A garden seed catalog returns, plans loom for a big garden, and talk turns to gas bills and land yields.
Lists of local officials including Mayor and department heads, followed by a fragment describing Cologne, its etymology, population figures, and notes on its fortress status and Gothic cathedral. The text shifts to legends about the Church of Ursula and the ancient Huns in a historical context.
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