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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1916
Page
8
Local notes recount visits and travels of Basin area residents including Miss Edith Scott, J. Loman, Henry Jordan, J. J. Perkins and Dr. Dodge. Visitors from Greybull, Manderson, Lovell and Powell are noted, along with remarks on a sugar factory and Basin dental plans. Mentions of teachers, farmers, cowpunchers, and county officials appear amid social calls and short trips.
Wm. Franz, long time Mandelson hardware dealer now in Nebraska, spent several days in Basin for business last week. He stated that despite residing in another state, no other place on Earth matches the Big Horn Basin climate.
Hyattville and Manderson people were in Basin last Saturday and Sunday for various visits and business. Local merchants and ranchers including Fawcett, Forshee, Nelson, Ewen, Torguson, Zorn, Walters, Larson, Seaman, Pries, Shoemaker, Diehl, and McKee are mentioned with frequent cross town ties and trades. Hides and pelts prices listed. two Keystone side delivery hay rakes offered for sale by J H Montgomery Manderson Wyoming.
An office announces payment of 10 cents per pound for good clean cotton rags. Woolens are not accepted. Also notes Shoshone Creamery selling drinking buttermilk at 10 cents per gallon.
The piece records a sequence of brief notes from a Basin area town last Saturday and over the week. It mentions Dr Otto Traugh the farmer, Kodak sells, egg prices at City Meat Market, Clint Hall an oil driller returning from Grass Creek, John Allen a sheepman of the upper Beaver country, C W Atherly from Billings, and various visits by Mrs Wm Tilforth Mr and Mrs Patten and others. It also notes Dr George Smith the Sheridan eye nose and throat specialist visiting April 5 to 7 at the Markham House and millinery offerings at The Famous.
Good Seed lists soft wheat at 1.75 per hundred and oats at 1.50 per hundred. J O Neff of Burlington is buying horses. George Games of Ramsey and Games Billings seeks horses and mares in good condition. Mail to Billing or ask M R Douglas at the Capital Bar. George Rogers and wife near Greybull were passengers on the southbound train last Wednesday en route to visit old friends with “real viles” in Lander.
The dining room at the Antlers will be closed all day Sundays. MalT-tg G. M. Booth, proprietor.
A flurry of small-town notes reports Gus Will visiting Red's pool hall, and numerous residents like W J Tatman, A Johnson, Cecil Wiley, Angus Beaton, and Charlie Deaton in Basin. Accounts mention Dr Traugh’s nephew George L Barry from San Francisco, Ruth Donaldson’s travel for school visits, and local workers from Thermopolis to Burlington and Worland.
Mrs Maggie Tolman of Otto is sick but improving. The Larson infant of Otto was ill but is now much better. Whitestock brothers of Utah visit Otto country seeking land sites and express satisfaction with the area. They are friends of Vic Olson.
About 600 pounds of fine sweet clover seed available for sale. Contact Miztt W. C. Snow in Basin Wyoming for details.
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