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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
8
Basin residents and guests flocked to the Park County fair in Cody with many Basin people planning to attend. Local visitors include J K Burnham Otto and John Bamford Otto as well as families from Bonanza Te Mose Wyo Cody and Burlington. A variety of announcements and sales, from Whitemans Samplers to wagons, appear amid fair reports.
D. T. Hand, agent, offers latest styles and patterns in women's skirts coats and suits for fall and winter from the Ideal Ladies' Tailoring Co of Chicago. Measure to order clothing for men and women. Phone 80M. a20-817.
The Seattle Times Sept. 5 feature praises Basin Wyoming camp grounds as the best for motorists. Dora Dean cites tourists from Oregon California New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Ohio Indiana Florida praising Basin and urging similar amenities for Basin’s grounds. Lost coat note and Pinder message appear at end.
Miss Elsie Goddard recalls army rules banning flowers on graves in American cemeteries in France. Uniform white crosses create acres of sameness, while rest huts run by the YWCA, Red Cross and field staff aid visiting relatives at Romagne, Bony, Belleau Woods and Fere-en-Tardenois.
In 1909 during Roosevelt’s African safari Kermit Roosevelt stepped in as official photographer after the professional left. He excelled in big game and wildlife shots, including a celebrated herd of elephants in a forest scene praised by William Hornaday and featured in Scribner's and the African Game Trail. Col. Roosevelt and editors admired the image.
Several American commissions report U S aviation can lead world civilian aviation in 1920. They note U S ahead in civilian plane orders and sales, daily aerial mail service, and mail volume. They cite post office proof military planes can be converted for mail use, enabling immediate service despite manufacturing shortfalls.
A regal woman enters a restaurant in brown attire with refined air. She sits, diners admire, and a waitress serves an onion omelette which she cuts and speaks to with a playful tone in a Hast side voice.
A seven year old boy on a Grant county farm informs a neighboring farmer that their bull has a new calf and will be ready tomorrow. The boy, Edwin, reports his father’s instruction in a tone of importance. The incident reflects a humorous child’s miscommunication about cattle.
Mrs F A Little receiving attention at Dr Smiths hospital and reported improved today. Wanted girl or woman for general house work on ranch. Address Republican. Miss Lulu Bunck of Himes was a guest at Carl Wilsons home during the fair this week.
Miss Hasel Blakesley came from Cody to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Lou Blakesley and to attend the fair this week.
Worland Grit editor W G Johnson wed Mrs. Winnefred Bulow of La Junta Colorado in Denver last week. Friends plan to extend congratulations to the couple and their families.
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