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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
8
A miscellany of town notes reports visitors from Paint Rock Otto and Manderson, farm and business chatter, and upcoming events. Local officials meet as board of equalization and fishing tales near Paint Rock canyon and Medicine Lodge lake populate the week.
Followers of Cox claim his wet stance signals victory for Prohibition opponents. They say his nomination triumphs for the wets against Bryan and the anti saloon league, aligning with their goal to overturn or temper the eighteenth amendment.
Full blooded Hereford bulls offered for sale from yearlings to four years old. Seller G Hartigan of Basin advertises the stock with pricing listed as £20 18s.
County and city officials named including Sheriff B F Wickwire Assessor T J Jones Commissioners C A Welch chairman T W Olney John Weintz County Clerk Zela Murphy County Attorney F A Little Clerk of District Court Hazel Y Lawrence Judge Percy W Metz Court Stenographer Guy R Brill Superintendent of Schools Bertha K Van Devender County Treasurer Mazie V Rhodes County Surveyor G J Schenk County Coroner M H Smith Official paper The Basin Republican
Frank Hall of the Otto district is in town on business. Joe Denny plans to attend the Frontier Day celebration in Cheyenne this week. Paul Jones of Osceola Iowa arrived for a visit with his uncle T. J. Jones and family.
The Midland Empire Fair focuses prizes on regular farmers rather than professionals. Poultry favors farm flocks raised by non-purebred exhibitors, encouraging better on farm flocks and higher value in poultry raising. Major livestock and farm product prizes go to practical farmers, not show specialists.
No farmer or member of a farmer family in the Midland Empire should miss the Fifth Annual Midland Empire Fair premium list. The fair runs September 21 22 28 and 24 with over 16000 in premiums. Copies are free by mailing to Mr F M Lawrence Manager Midland Empire Fair Billings Montana.
The department of labor estimates that the cost of strikes in the fiscal year ending June 30 reached 875 million dollars. Workers forfeited 175 million in wages while the rest came from lost production for employers. Steel and outlaw railroad strikers suffered about 3 million dollars daily in wages and penalties. Workers are learning that strikes do not pay.
The American government studies Japanese policy as tensions from Siberian troop withdrawals, Chinese finance aid, eastern railway control, and Saghalien and Maritime Province occupation influence strategy. Secretary Colby meets British ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes who relays Tokyo updates rooming with Sir Beilby Alston and Roland Morris on leave.
Basin City officials include Mayor R. B. Weat and councilmen Rh. R. Denny A. B. Martin R. R. Ferris A. B. Moore. Clark Edgar L. Beard serves, with C. A. Zaring as attorney and Holgear L. Beard as marshal. Lola B. Gingrich is treasurer. Official paper is Basin Republican.
The article compares British interests in China and Japan with American aims amid racial labor issues on the Pacific coast. It notes the Anglo Japanese treaty renewal and concerns over the Chinese eastern railway open door policy. It reports a dispatch from Tokyo about Japan’s possible Siberian occupation and a commander in chief's note seeking prompt notification to powers.
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