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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
2
Local notices list Wise’s drugstore and Black’s machinery offerings with sales pitches and contact points. Residents visit Basin for repairs, seed, harness, feed, and rentals while names like O. J. Robertson and Mrs. C. Webster appear in varied community mentions.
The Rev. M. B. Nash rector notes financial conditions and high meat prices force a strictly cash sale after June 1 at the 781 City Meat Market.
Local residents and officials visited or attended the circus yesterday. Names include Park Davis of Shell, J J Gruenig of Greybull, Sheriff B F Wickwire, Col A G Mercer, Abe Kent, R H Ewart, Frank Musselman, Chas Pfeiffer, A Johnson, County Commissioner Chas McDonald, Mrs E J Bullivan, and multiple families from Manderson Worland Cody and Myattville.
Letters and quips mix in a column segment noting Wise's paint line display in Greybull and a Hyattville visitor. The piece blends brief observational lines and satirical paragraphs on marriage money brains and survival of the fittest from the Chicago News.
Notice to farmers offering buy sell or trade of real estate across locations. Advertises selling ranches or farms for investment securities or income property with full descriptions and prices. Includes Hoover Investment Co contact and references church services schedule at Presbyterian Church with Sunday school and service times.
Local notices describe Wise's serving a fresh strawberry sundae and Basin Deli offering cold boiled ham. A new line of graduating jewelry novelties is advertised at Wise's. Meeteetse liveryman John Faust visited town Wednesday and went home Thursday. Frank Crutchlow, guest at Sheriff Wickwire's hotel for thirty days, departed for Laurel Montana on Tuesday.
Historical market letter lists prices for grains live stock dairy and produce with numerous items such as hard wheat corn flour steers cows hogs lambs butter honey potatoes spring chickens turkeys ducks geese beets cabbage onions and more with prices in cents per unit and per cwt across multiple categories. The fragmentary OCR shows typical 19th or early 20th century regional market terms and unit counts.
Presbyterian services will be held in Fraternity hall next Sunday with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Worship services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. The morning topic is The Reward of the Christian and the evening topic is Helping Jesus Raise the Dead. Frank J. Medford, pastor.
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