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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1917
Page
4
Opinion urging students to stay in school during wartime and families to avoid pulling youths from education for labor. Emphasizes conserving sugar and corn meal to aid troops, praising Hoover and the national effort, and noting local movements and residents traveling for business.
In Basin a man who mocked the Stars and Stripes and President Wilson prompted youths to form a vigilance committee. The group vows to purge disrespect to the nation and its ideals, citing growing public sentiment and a need for swift action to curb libberties.
The piece contrasts battlefield mud in Flanders with home front hardships urging readers to support war measures and not complain about rations. It laments farmers not increasing hog production and echoes Hoover’s line equating fat with bullets.
The Wyoming Weekly Review notes coal shortages as most coal mined in Wyoming ships elsewhere. It reports 300 high grade dairy cattle moved into Star Valley and bids for a 226000 cubic yard main lateral of the Fort Laramie unit on Dec 18 for the North Platte irrigation project serving 200000 acres in Wyoming and Nebraska. It mentions sugar beet expansion boosting meat and dairy, Cheyenne talks to improve citizenry, a $1,000,000 liquor tax, and bids to reclaim the vast North Platte irrigation empire with new oil refineries planned for Laramie and Thermopolis.
J W Rhodes, returned from Sherard to Basin area, representing Baker Co. and a local rig owner. Company member reports ongoing drilling and supply orders for equipment and tools to support operations in Elk Basin country.
Corp Henry O. Lewis of Bat F 148th Field Artillery writes from Camp Mills Hempstead N Y dated November 16 1917 to Rev R M Jones Basin Wye recounting good health happy times in Charlotte and New York including a ride on the water past the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty he thanks Basin friends for candy and letters and asks for more correspondence while noting lonesomeness away from home.
Union Pacific plans more than 1.5 million dollars in expansion at Cheyenne shops. A new large building will house hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of new equipment to modernize the facility. Work depends on supply constraints but will start once arrangements are complete. About 100 more mechanics will be employed and payroll will rise by roughly 12 000 to 15 000 dollars monthly.
Washington November 20 no adlo ments of supplies will be permitted to go from the United States to Russia until the situation clears The embargo could become permanent if the Bolsheviks gain control and seek peace with Germany The provisional Russian government has received credits totaling 825 billion dollars with 191 billion already advanced
The head of the American railway car Winston traveled from Petrograd to Vindivestrok to oversee tie work for rehabilitating the Russian railway system.
Wartime briefs reveal Britain with 900000 war pensioners and recruits in the marine corps lowered to seventeen. Missouri pledges conserve food. Germany awards iron crosses widely. World demography, food shortages, and industrial mobilization dominate the home front as war plans advance.
A German labor leader was made a life member of the Prussian Diet’s upper house for support of the kalner. This marks the first time a representative of organized labor has entered the chamber. contracts with Gad ski and Gorits not renewed due to pro German sympathies. Meanwhile an Avatelon effect on leave affects Frite Krebler beaniee and American money, and German oper under the bar of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Kansas City report says more than 50 alleged I. W. W. were arrested in Butler county oil fields near Augusta. State and federal agents raided a tent believed used for meetings and seized literature. Arrested men will be checked for registration as raids aim to clear undesirables from the oil fields. Armed guards had been posted in the area recently.
The Cody Herald comments that the governor’s claim of being the only non drinker in the wildest town is misleading. It argues he likely fits a class he once associated with, and urges a memory refresh to honor those who stayed straight.
Four Basin churches plan their annual union service next Thursday forenoon at the library with the Presbyterians. Rev. R. M. Jones will preach the sermon this year.
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