Death of George Loff Reported in Evanston
George Loff of Evanston died today after a sudden illness from pneumonia at his home. He was general manager for the Standard Timber Company of Nebraska with headquarters in Evanston and had long ties to Big Piney and surrounding Wyoming areas, traveling here for over a decade related to the tie camp on Cottonwood and the Horse Creek project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
George Loff
Wyoming
Loff
Standard Timber Company of
Nebraska
Big Piney
Cottonwood
Horse Creek
Quealy Sells Big Sheep Outfit
The sale of P J Quealy’s sheep business near Kemmerer Wyoming wraps up with about 10 000 ewes to be delivered May 1 and 2000 acres of Lincoln County range land near Cokeville. Estimated total value reaches 250 000 with debt led by the Harry J Smith Livestock Co of Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Qutaly
Kemmerer
Wyoming
Lincoln County
Cokeville
Harry J. Smith Livestock Co
Kearns
Salt Lake City
Quealy
Harry J. Smith
Colorado
Utah
Giannopulous
Nevada
Rock Springs
Mothers Day program at Community Church and Episcopal reopening
The Community Church invites mothers and children to a Mothers Day program on Sunday May 12. Next Sunday the Episcopal Church reopens for public worship under the Diocese of Wyoming with the sermon The Dedication of the Temple and an offering to defray expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Best
Episcopal Church
Diocese of
Wyoming
God
Wilson Boy Improves After Rock Springs Hospital Operation
Woodrow Wilson, son of Mr and Mrs George Wilson, was taken to Wyoming General hospital Rock Springs last week for an appendectomy on April 17. His father reports he is progressing well and should be released soon if his condition continues to improve. His mother remains at his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
George Wilson
Wyoming General Hospital
Rock Springs
Twila Bellin
Joe Murdock
Socrates” Cing
Joe Bird
Jennie Bird
Dr. Graham
June
Wise
Rosalind Wilson
Daniel News Notes Shows Local Social and Travel Activity
Dwight and Lester Mycroft brought touring cars for two barrels of gas. Lee Smith visited Daniel Sunday. Lyman Sanford came up from Lava Hot Springs for the winter. Miss Reed, Emmia Lindback, Boyd Kelly and Lee Caldwell went to Big Finey for a dance. News mentions mail delays and poor roads. Several locals shopped, visited, or moved about including Mr H H Graham and W E Brown with Carper gas. Elizabeth Engstrom of Kimball Nebraska planned to teach near Bondurant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight
Lester
Mycroft
Daniel
Miss Reed
Emmia Lindback
Boyd Kelly
Lee Caldwell
Big Finey
Local officials visit Daniel fish hatchery and Kemmerer trip
Carl Lund chief assistant state game and fish commissioner and Senator Oscar Beck toured the Daniel fish hatchery last Friday by horse and sleigh. They stayed overnight with Beck and Lund left Saturday for Kemmerer. Dr Bud Hocker and another man joined from Kemmerer and tried fishing in Green River without success due to high water. Rev Best sets Episcopal church reopening Sunday at 8:60 pm with services invited. church renovators note no pastor but will hold future services with the community church. Sunday school continues at the Congregational church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lund
Green River
Daniel
Best
Episcopal Church
Congregational Church
Program Joe Murdock Robert Hill Jennie Bird Joe Bird Twila Bellin Alma Stewart
A brief program listing shows Joe Murdock and Robert Hill with Jennie Bird and Joe Bird in a sequence featuring Twila Bellin Alma Stewart and Wah Whitman, concluding with Mae Ott in the lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Murdock
Robert Hill
Jennie Bird
Joe Bird
Twila Bellin
Alma Stewart Wah Whitman -Mae Ott
School Activities Set for May 11 at Big Piney
On May 11 in Big Piney the annual School Day features Spelling Contests for grades 5 to 8 and 3 to 4, Reading Contests for grades 1 and 2, a Track Meet for grades 1 to 8, and a Trustees Meeting. State Superintendent Katherine A. Morton will oversee the spelling contest and meet district trustees to discuss finance and certification issues. Track events run 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, while spelling and reading contests start at 1:00 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Piney
Katherine A. Morton
Proclamation Designating May First as Child Health Day
President Hoover proclaims May 1 as Child Health Day urging national awareness of children's health and physical vigor. The proclamation, dated March 25, 1929, invites agencies and organizations to promote understanding of healthy childhood and year round health conservation.
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United States
America
Congress
Herbert Hoover
United States of America
Washington
Child Health Week Proclamation by Wyoming Governor
The document proclaims May 1 to 7 as Child Health Week. It urges education and training for youth while stressing physical health as essential to national progress. Governor Frank C. Emerson signs the notice in Cheyenne on April 15, 1929, with Secretary A. M. Clark attesting.
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Hoover
America
Frank C. Emerson
State of
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Uluiakl
uoAylas
Jennie
Joe Bird
I. Frank
Rance
Fontenelle
Emerson
Great
Commonwealth
Oil Well Planned Near Bolden Hill West of Big Piney
George A. Hartman of Denver and A D Quaintance of Golden Coto arranged for drilling an oil well on their property six miles west of the J C Walters ranch near Bolden hill. Charley Jones holds the drilling contract and equipment will be on site soon to begin operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Hartman
Denver
A.D. Quaintance
Golden
Coto
Big Piney
J. C. Walters
Bolden Hill
Charley Jones
Wyoming Supreme Court Admits G B Hockett to Practice
G B Hockett received word from Cheyenne that a supreme court order admitted him to practice in the supreme and all Wyoming state courts. He traveled to Rawlins for the bar exam on April 5 and 6, then returned home the same evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Hockett
Cheyenne
Supreme Court
Wyoming
Hockett
Rawlins
Hackett
Profession and Law Association
Resolutions of Respect for Wilbur C Homer
A memorial note from Faith Camp No. 5867 Modern Woodmen of America expresses condolences on the death of Wilbur C Homer dated March 27 1929. The tribute honors his ministering to the afflicted and his faithful community service with a closing prayer for comfort to the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur C. Homer
Woodman
America
KE Cazier
Geo
Wilson
Arnold
Olson
Bronx Budget and Community Notes Highlight Local Visits
A long list of social calls and travel traces residents including T O Warren in from Denver and Wheatland, Court Johnson to Big Piney, and multiple gatherings at the Lester Pape and W C Brewer homes. State official Oscar Beck visited the Forty Red Creek Fish Hatchery with State Game and Fish staff to discuss hatchery plans as Music Week proclamation urges May 5 to 12 celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lund
State Game and Fish Commission
Oscar Beck
Big Piney
Forty Red Creek
Big Piney High School satire play and music week notice
Fragmented text describes Big Piney High School and junior activities, with names Burr Budd May Alexander Twila Bellin and others. It mentions a school play casting jokes about characters and a March to May 1929 Music Week proclamation by Wyoming Governor Frank C. Emerson and state officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burr Budd
May Alexander
Twila Bellin
Big Piney Election Proclamation 1929 for Town Officials
Proclamation sets town election in Big Piney Sublette County Wyoming for May 14 1929 to elect Mayor two Councilmen to serve two years and the Freshman Sophomore Literary Society group to oversee. Polls open 9 am to 7 pm at town hall. Mayor J F Shipley signs. Library notes announce free magazines for reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Sublette
Big Piney
Jim
Marshall
Literary Society
Ais
A. D
J. F. Shipley
Wyoming Industry Review Highlights Local Developments
Utah Power and Light cuts household electric rates benefiting Evanston residents. About $100,000 in electric plant under construction in Evanston. Indian Mountain Mining plans major Sunrise district development this spring. Torrington to host an upcoming airframe factory. Thermopolis sites surveyed for a new airport. Wyoming farmers eye crop market expansion per the Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. Cheyenne Highway Commission awards state road contracts. National electric industry data show seven year spend of $4.36 billion on permanent plant from 1921 to 1927.
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Utah Power & Light Company
Evanston
Wyoming
Wyoming Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Electric Light and Power Industry
United States
Boston News Bureau
Career of General Grant One of Many Paradoxes
Birthday anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant highlighted by a feature on Cadet A. H. Grant by Elmo Scott Watson. The Exansiner marks his paradoxical rise from a boyhood mocked at West Point to commander in chief of the Union Army in the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
United States Military Academy
West Point
A. H. Grant
Elmo Scott Watson
The
Exansiner
Divorce Granted to Mrs Ethel Mae Spencer
A brief Friday session of District Court granted a divorce to Mrs Ethel Mae Spencer from William Clifford Spencer. Grounds cited are desertion and non support. Former residents of Big Piney were named in the Biemmerer Gazette report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Mae Spencer
William Clifford Spencer
Big Piney
Biemmerer
Not So Dum Miss Sielaff and the Grammar Lesson
Sophomore Scintillations notes a stormy day delaying horseshoe games. A humorous exchange shows Bobby hesitating to supply the principal parts of him after the verb swim lesson.
Laymans Move to Home in Gillette
Gillette Wyoming Mr and Mrs Geo A Layman formerly of Big Piney have arrived and expect to make their home here Mr Layman who is a lawyer was a member of the last legislature 28 representative from Sublette county
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Gillette, Wyo
Geo A. Layman
Big Piney Wyo
Gillette
Layman
Sublette’ County
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BIG Sheep
Daniel News
Lee Smith
Daniel Visitor
Lyman Sanford
John Taylor
H. H. Graham
Pinedale
W. E. Brown
Elizabeth Engstrom
Kimball, Nebr
Bondurant
R. T. Alberts
Berit Payne
Warren Bridge
E. M. Duckworth
Bernie Payne
Emma
Lindback
Daniel School
Vigo Miller
Chas, D. Cheney
Salt Lake
Mr. Lund
Bud Hocker
Jet B. Wise
Mathew Graham
Billy Blake
Jupiter Jackson
Jane Ford
Rata .Ngued
Mo June Graham
Popuar College
Prof. Wise
Frank B. Kellogg
Secretary
A. M. Clark
Secretary of State
Hockety
Opal
Bronx
T. O. Warren
Wheatland
Mr. Court Johnson
Mrs. P
Paps and Son
Lester Pape
G. L. West
W. ©. Brewer
Rodney Pape
Homer
James Payne
Mason Phillips
Phillips Place
Scott Place
D.E. Bess
H. EB. Jons
W. C
F.H. Pape
Alice
William Pape
D. H. Scott
Mr. Scott
W. GC. Brewer
D. H Scott
Henry Jons
R. T. Albert
Charles Albert
Jerome Albert
Betty
Doris Lucile Scott
Mary” Elizabeth
Alma
A.M. Clark
Helen
Alexander
Thelma
Mofpat
F. J. Alexander
Salt’ Lake
Olin ‘King
Tulsa
Wyoming Industrial Review
Indian Mountain Mining & Milling Company
Sunrise District
Torrington
Cheyenne State Highway Commission
General Grant
Laymans
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