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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
5
Local and personal notices show for sale ads for an oak buffet and large garage. Several residents plan trips to Boulder and Thermopolis while others address business in Basin. Community events include a dance at Fraternity hall and Dr L C Barnes addressing Baptists.
Fine team weight 280 and a good set of harness offered for sale. Inquire at Antlers hotel.
Burlington residents Geo Maller and C L Dustin visited Basin this week for shopping and coal purchases while W J Durfey and Earl Gebhart traveled from their county area for errands. Mayors and officials including Clarence J Williams attended meetings as regional residents from Otto and Greybull coordinated with lenders and merchants.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl M. Southard and his mother arrived Sunday forenoon and spent the day at the L. L. KB Deck home. Southard is manager of Everybody's Five to Six store at Worland and is well known in Basin from prior work in the local store. His mother recently arrived from Omaha and will stay in Basin for a few days before returning home.
Ranch listing offers 385 acres on Beaver creek with 35 head cattle 10 head horses and 100 tons of hay. For details contact Mrs Hester Moberly Basin Wyoming.
Last Monday night a reception at the J A Berry home honored Rev and Mrs R M Jones and Basin schools teachers. Hosted by the Methodist church ladies aid and the Epworth League the program featured Kathleen O Neil vocal solo piano duet by Anderson and Howard Lois Coons violin solo Clifford Whitmore piano solo Mrs R M Jones reading Delbert Davis Earl Keefer vocal solo and a vocal duet by Mr and Mrs Boyd V Osborn. Refreshments of frappe and cookies followed.
On Tuesday morning Mrs Frank Pollock was operated upon for serious abdominal trouble. She is recovering as well as expected and friends hope for a rapid recovery.
A. C. Small, hospitalized for two weeks, expects to return home in the near future.
County bankers met in Judge Percy W. Metz's office and agreed to secure bonds to satisfy public subscription needs. They adopted a partial payment plan requiring 10 percent at subscribing, 25 percent by November 16, 30 percent by December 15, and 35 percent by January 15.
At a regular directors and stockholders meeting the resignation of Loren Gray was accepted. Drew Prugh will serve as assistant cashier and Delbert Davis replaces him. Kathleen O Neil also serves in a clerical capacity. Bank books were carefully examined and found satisfactory.
City authorities hired Wm Tilforth as night marshal and he assumed duties this week. Tilforth moved to Basin from Crystal Creek two weeks ago and locals expect him to bring order to the position.
The Big Horn Press club will meet with Mr. Leedom in Lovell today and tomorrow. This is the fourth quarterly meeting since the club was organized last winter and an excellent program is planned by all members attending.
Last Saturday C A Randall left for Omaha to attend the Odd Fellows grand lodge meeting. He is Past Grand Master for Nebraska.
Frank T. Brigham arrived in Basin on Wednesday after business in Cheyenne and Denver. In Cheyenne he attended the state meeting of the Odd Fellows. Andrew Taylor, confined at the hospital for a week with typhoid, is reported to be doing nicely. The District Court of the Fifth Judicial District of Wyoming in Big Horn County handles the estate matter of Thomas J. Griggs.
Mrs. R. E. Rooney is confined in the hospital with heart trouble. She arrived from the east to live here while her husband is drilling. A. C. Burgess of Hyattville was in town to arrange cattle sales to Gus Thompson of Montana.
New house and lot in Grand View available at once. Terms inquire of owner Isabelle Belton contact 105R. Basin visitors noted including Harve Perkins Jr from Otto and Sam Scoville from the Bonanza country with cattle. Run for sale lists 150 head good native cows with calves and 100 head dry cows. Inquiries at this office.
L. J. Willis of Cowley and M. B Rhodes traveled in from Basin and Rene for business. Henry Wegner of Germania, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Allen from Hyattville, and Claude Waln of Hyattville were in town for brief business. Juliette Collins and Mrs. Collins returned from Cheyenne after a Rebekah meeting. Jesse Crosby and C. A. Mann from Cowley attended a Liberty Loan meeting at the Rex theatre.
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