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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
4
Basins newspaper states it is entered as second class matter on June 30 1905 at Basin Wyoming post office under the act of March 8 1879 indicating mailing status and publication details.
Publisher and proprietor announce subscription at $2 per year in advance. Official paper of Basin. Advertising rates listed: display per inch, regular insertion. locals per line with initial and subsequent charges. No further context or dates provided.
The note identifies Charles Evans Hughes as the presidential candidate and Charles Warren Fairbanks as the vice presidential candidate. It presents the two figures together as a ticket, signaling their political pairing without additional context or dates.
A call for a traffic ordinance to curb reckless driving appears amid Basin concerns plus a report from Cody on a Yellowstone park tour accident. Four people were injured when a Wyoming press group car skidded at Newton’s park, one critically, as rain made the road slippery.
Utah celebrates Pioneer Day on July 24 recalling Brigham Young leading the Mormon migration into the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The 1846 spring trek saw more than 1,000 wagons moving west from the Mississippi toward Council Bluffs as the Mormon advance divided across the plains.
Dr James E Talmage recounts the trek of a pioneer company of 148 souls across plains and deserts to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Brigham Young declares the area the gathering center and foresees towns temples and a city of promise. July 24 1847 marks the pioneers entry and a holiday celebrating continued immigration to Utah.
A satirical column notes hot weather inspires moonbeam gambols by lakes or mountains and laments unequal heat distribution. It jokes about foundations for distributing ice to the south and even a foundation to put everyone to sleep, while lightly critiquing local fairs and officials during a county trip.
Col W H May urges Big Horn county residents to unite for a bigger fair to be held September 19 20 and 21. plans include an expanded premium book Lovell band athletic events and a special Cody to Basin train. notable guests Governor Kendrick Senators Warren and Clark Rep Mondell and University of Wyoming President Duniway invited.
Dr W A Allen plans a silica toothpaste factory in Billings with 15 to 45 workers, costing several thousand dollars, in operation by September 1. He will travel to Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Philadelphia Washington and New York to purchase machinery and meet partners Charles Stubbs and Frank Ad Wise. The plant aims to produce 30 tubes per minute and serves a growing mail order and local customer base.
Mrs. Joe Hensley of Burlington suffered a badly sprained ankle at the Otto celebration on Monday when a seating platform collapsed. She received medical attention and is expected to recover and be able to get around as usual.
Oil industry notes from Wyoming describe Lamb Drilling Co and Lamb Williams operations across Grass creek Torchlight and Littlejohn tracts for Greybull Refining and Limit Oil Co. New wells advance, gas pressure improves at Great Western, and land values rise near Hart tract after a recent well bring in. Jake Erway and George Smith sold a 66000 acre oil land tract to New York buyers M Morgan H W McIntyre and W D Clur.
To all parties interested no charges against school district No. 17 Basin Big Horn county Wyoming will be recognized without an order from H. Smith supply committee All accounts must have written orders attached to receive board approval and payment By Order of the Board Republican for job printing
A sagging gate makes a farm appear run down and shabby. Proper gate construction saves time money and labor while greatly improving overall appearance.
A view of life urges steady patient character building through continuous effort. Phillips Brooks says the real struggle is now in quiet weeks, not only in future supreme sorrow or temptation, and character is forged by long process.
A teacher tests spelling with Phyllis and asks what a heathen is. Phyllis quips that a heathen is anyone not born in Massachusetts, reflecting a sharp turn of phrase from Woman's Home Companion.
In a rural scene Farmer Hornbeak and his wife discuss a village newspaper item about paying people for shooting a constable. The remark "they are offer shot Constable Hunch" sparks concern and astonishment as the couple questions the measure.
In this clipped exchange a woman’s remark suggests her marriage failed due to missing luxuries. A man counters that the issue also lay in lacking the quiet he was accustomed to, after she learned the desired luxuries were missing.
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