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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
2
Local church notices list services at Basin area churches including Baptist, Christian Science, M E, and First Union Presbyterian with times and pastors. A bank report for Basin State Bank and First State Bank at Kane provides financial statements showing loans, deposits, and liabilities for November 1917.
War notes detail bond sales, YMCA wartime planning in France, food transport, and enlistment figures. It lists Christmas furloughs, sugar supply adequacy for England, insurance uptake, potato crop estimates, and car service needs. Also included are wartime bread recipes from Illinois and a cantaloupe sale ad plus a bank’s November 1917 financials and sworn statement.
Since April the corps of engineers has supplied equipment for over one million men and organized overseas rail transport. Materials ordered total about 70 million dollars, including locomotives rails ties cars and wire. Engineers also equip troops for lumber road construction sanitary camouflage gas mining and mapping.
Mrs Lizzie Bowman arrived in Basin on Sunday to visit her daughter Mrs Harry Drumm at her home. She has not been in Basin for some time and is enjoying her stay. The Central Barber Shop invites Pat for a haircut.
Clyde W Atherly, civil engineer, conducts surveys and maps for irrigation waterworks focusing on drainage and sewer systems. He provides design analyses for sewer piping, drainage channels, and flood control measures.
Notice states any owner or driver lacking a 1917 license number after July 16 will be arrested and fined under law. Issued by B F Wickwire Sheriff Pa Pa.
Basin City names its municipal officers including Mayor E J Sullivan. councilmen Wm Gibson F M Hime H T Lamb W H Pauley. treasurer Mrs M V Rhodes. clerk Jas F Ewers. attorney C A Zaring. marshal J H Hanlon. official paper Basin Republican.
Forbes is back at his old stand at the Basin Steam Laundry and personally looks after all the work turned out. Everything guaranteed satisfactory. All laundry work guaranteed at the Basin Steam Laundry, when Forbes is managing. 48-tf
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