Tensleep picnic opens canyon survey for interstate highway
More than 200 residents and visitors gathered at the old saw mill site above Milo Burke ranch for a big dinner and a canyon excursion to inspect a potential interstate highway route. Speakers urged concerted road-building action as Tensleep bands and a home talent show entertained before an evening dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tensleep
Milo Burke
Monument
Femat
Chas. B. Shaw
P. W. Mets
H. B. Gates
Ashley Howell
W. A. Sizer
W. J. Booth
A. Higby
Roger Culbertson
F. A. Wise
HR. H. Ahrens
J. B. Thompson
A. W. Coons
C. H Smith
R. H. Ewart
Tnnesleep
Hyattville
Progress dinner at And era attracts light attendance
J. B. Thompeca presided, A. W. Cogasoted secretary, minutes approved. Communications asked about opportunities were directed to the secretary. A note from an airplane company on contract flights was referred to A. Higby. W. Colling asked to arrange a delegation to attend the good roads meeting at Buffalo. President Thompson noted Saturday will
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andera
Weeneaton
Thompeca
A. W
Good Roads
Buffalo
Thompson
Three Year Homestead Bill Passes in Congress
Washington May 29 Represented Mondell and house conferees win a great victory on a three year homestead bill. The measure gives homesteaders a five month annual leave, requires cultivation of land from year two, and extends the option to elect old terms within ninety days. The reform aims to boost western development and reduces cultivation requirements for enlarged entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregaman F. W. Mondell
Washington, D. C
Republican
Basn
Wye
Washington
Mondell
West
Jones
Borah
Senate
House
Kinkead
Secretary of the Interior
Irty
Memorial Day Exercises In Fraternity Hall
Memorial Day exercises were held in Fraternity hall yesterday at 10 30 in the morning with a large turnout. The program included reading of general orders, music by quartets, addresses by Commander 8 M Stout and Mrs Zela Murphy, a long oration by Thos M Hyde, prayers, and songs by High School quartettes. After the hall program the procession to the cemetery decorated graves with flowers. The oration praised the nation and urged future progress and unity despite challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Fraternity Hall
Post Adjt
Jas
Patten
Quartette
H. H. Hime
R. J. Extra
Loren Gray
J. P. Arnott, Jr
Post
Conmander
M. Stout
Lincoln
Zela Murphy
Kathileen O'Neil
Lois Coons
Norene Wrey
Faith Rossiter
Harret ‘Rossiter
Thos. M. Hyde
W. 8
Collins
Rev. M. Joslin
Thos. M
Ana
Pation
Hudson Bay
Panama
Counsel Board of Nations
Federation of the World
Death of V G Lantry in Cody Means End of Life
The people of this part of the state learn of the sudden death V G Lantry in Cody last Tuesday morning from heart failure. Lantry, born 68 years ago in New Haven Indiana, lived in eastern Nebraska, then Germania, and moved to Cody in 1906 where he resided since. He held local Republican posts including Northern Wyoming central committee member and served as a 8 Commisal in northern Wyoming. The obituary notes he was well known and widely liked, with many friends here mourning his loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Lantry
Cody
Wyoming
Commencement Echoes From Big Horn County High School
The Big Horn County High School graduation, held in Fraternity hall Wednesday night, saw six graduates Henry Edward Wilson Anna Pearl Wilson Amy Pearl Gould Edith Pearl Rech Eva Blanche Emery and Ralph Wyman. The program featured orations music and diplomas with praise for the class and teachers. Local notes report 61 paid members in Producers Association District 3, with a call for more members as the piece continues on page four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Horn County
Henry Edward Wilson
Anna Pearl Wilson
Amy Pearl Gould
Edith Pearl Rech
Eva Blanche Emery
Ralph Wyman
W. Albone
Harry Wilson
Faith Rossiter
Kathleen O'Neil
Noreme Wiley
Lois Coons
Amy Gould
Gerald Coons
Billie May
Doyle Joslin
Alva Gould
Morten Joslin
Edith Rech
Pearl Wilson
Blanche Emery
Clara Barton
Red Cross
Collins
Producers Association
Producers’ Association
Eighth Grade Graduates at Basin Grammar School
The Basin grammar school eighth graders held graduation exercises Friday at Fraternity Hall. A sixteen-student class performed a program of stories biographies poems and songs, with decorations in a national motif.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Basin Grammar School
Fraternity Hall
Mth
Long
M. Joslin
Frank J. Medford
Winifred Fernon
Liteirginia Plantation
Hel Mead
Mag
Owen
Gladys
Upstream from Greybull Wyoming riddle article
Greybull sits at the heart of the Big Horn Basin. The article explains four up and down river directions from Greybull and details the drainage of about 80,000 to 85,000 acres, including 55,000 in the basin and 17,000 in Germania Beach. It notes Germania Beach as a German settlement with cattle fencing and grain production, housing a Chicagoan farming a thousand acres. Continued on page eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greybull
Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
Big Horn
Grey Bull
Big Horns
Shell Creek
Germania Beach
Germania Store
Good Roads Day Urges Regional Road Initiative
Citizens urged to join Tomorrows Good Roads Day as the first broad regional road effort in the area. A Port McKenzie incident left Lieut. Griswold cut by jacket fragment from a glancing bullet. report notes the injury was quite severe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut. Griswold
Port McKensie
Roosevelt Sweeps New Jersey Primary Delegates
Newark May 28 Roosevelt wins a sweeping victory in New Jersey with indications showing he carries every congressional district and all 28 delegates to Chicago. Wilson wins in his state but yields 24 of 28 delegates. Taft supporters acknowledge Roosevelt's strong early plurality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Theodore Roosevel
New Jersey
Chicago
Roosevelt
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft Organization
E. W.gray
Taft Business Men's League
Essex and
Hudson
Jersey City
Hoboken
Taft
Hasex County
James Smith
J. M. Nugent
Penmanship Prizes Awarded In Big Horn County School
D L Carr of the Big Horn County Bank offered two prizes for grammar school pupils showing greatest penmanship improvement this year. Superintendent Rossiter collected initial and final samples, numbered for reference, with judges W B Pease Loren Gray and H H Hime selecting Marjorie Coons first Anna Watkins second and Earl Colley honorable mention all in the 5th grade. The teacher Miapyipen is credited with overall improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Carr
Big Horn County Bank
Rossiter
Pease
Loren Gray
H. H. Hime
Marjorie Coons
Anna Watkins
Earl Colley
Miapyipeen
Teachers Expatrnation and Local Hyattville Play
An exam for teacher certificates is set for Basin on June 14 and 15 with assembly at the high school rooms at 8 a.m. Rev H E Shepherd of Worland greeted locals earlier. Hyattville audiences enjoyed the local talent in The Foreman of the 7N with Dick Extra and Smith helping. cast included Jim Horton Warren Dalley Chas Strong Dr L G Van Slyke Oscar Hoback Fred Rose T F Nelson June Hayes Mrs L G Van Slyke Mary Miss Hortense Howerton Nell Miss Ruth Smith Grace Mrs Irving Ewart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyattville
Foreman
Dick Extra
Smith
Jim Horton
Warren Dalley
Chas
Strong
Tenderfoot
Chicago
Dr. L. G. van Slyke
Cowboys
Oscar Hoback
Fred Rose
T. F. Nelson
June Hayes
L. G. van Slyke
Mary
Hortense Howerton
Nell
Ruth Smith
Grace
Irving Ewart
Also Mentioned on This Page
al T Mem
Bere
Warren
Yellowstone National Park
Mammoth Hot Springs
North Boundary Line
Lake Hotel
East Boundary Line
Lake Geyser
South Boundary Line
Fountain Hotel
West Boundary Line
Col. Torrey
Jay L. Torrey
Fruitville, Mo
Wes
V. G. Lantry
Park County
Ring
Banjo
Clase
Rozina Hoel
Uncle Bam
Margaret Reed
Riley
Delber
Gladys Hoel
Lilian Anderson
Julian Bnow
Our Country
Harriet Rosalier
Ida May
Fayne Leighty
Gertrude Sowers
Alfred Davison
South School
Lucile Crong
Delbert Davis
Vanderunler
E. B. Rose
Bamue
Adame
Rupert Anderson
Fleg
Esther Wow
J. C. Kinnode
Denver Magazine
Teddy
Basin
H. E. Shepherd
Worland
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!