Regular Town Council Meeting Big Piney August 3 1915
Official minutes record the August 3 1915 regular meeting of Big Piney Town Council. Present were Mayor L D Tanner and councilmen J L Black F D Chapel G F Whitman with D B Budd absent. Bills read and approved including Big Piney Examiner advertising and J L Black auto fare for paupers. L D Tanner appointed city attorney R R Rose and confirmed by council. Meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Piney
L. D. Tanner
J. L. Black
F. D. Chapel
G. F. Whitman
D. B. Budd
R. R. Rose
August 9 social news sparse haying season slows events
Glenn Jones returns with a sewing machine and haying tools. Phil Twichel brings store merchandise from Kemmerer and heads to Opal for sweeps. Earl Jones and family visit Kemmerer to meet Mrs Frickie of Oakland and her Indiana visit. Fox relatives from Nebraska visited. Mrs Twichel and Mrs Pickell visit at the rench. Big Finey Mercantile promotes summer dresses and waists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Twichel
Kemmerer
Opal
Earl Jones
Merna Community Notes and Social Roundup
Floyd Binning works for J F Miller. Neighbors share Sunday visits and travels among Robi Houston John Necker Walter Stewart Birney Hand Conwell family and others. Death of H C Wall of New York City shocks locals. Dr Hallinan administers care.
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Robi. Houston
John Necker
Kemmerer
Walter Stewart
Marbleton
Stout Family Acts Visit to Cottonwood Settlement
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stout and daughter from the Cottonwood settlement spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs. Stephen J. Bailey. They returned that evening with their daughter Miss Nellie Stout who had been visiting Miss Josephine Osterhout for two weeks. Chester McIlvain from Kendal was in town last Friday for the entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Stout
Cottonwood Settlement
Stephen J. Bailey
Nellie Stout
Josephine Osterhout
Chester McIlvain
Kendal
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Columbia
Messrs. Atwood
Crail
Atwood
Osterhout
Ball
Carol Mills
Alice Ball
Dorothy Mills
L. E. Bennett
M. R. Fish
New York Artist Hermann C. Wall Dies at Merna
Hermann C. Wall a renowned New York artist and magazine illustrator died at Merna on August 3 after ten days of arterial rupture from outdoor exertion. Funeral in Merna church, remains sent to Milwaukee for burial. Wall leaves widow Jeanette Huston Wall and a three-year-old son. He was 39, born in Germany, studied under Howard Pyle, and his work appeared in major American publications.
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New York
Wall
Merna
Horse Creek
J. M. Turner
Denver
Houston
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Jeanette Huston Wall
Lillian Richardson
Salti Lake City
America
Chicago
Los Angeles
California
Jeanette Hustion
Howard Pyle
Wilmington
Delaware
Bondurant Social Notes Include Haying Help and Visits
Bondurant residents and visitors are listed with daily activities from haying teamwork to calls for mail and local travel. Notables include Bondurant and Piketon arrivals, farm labor at the Vanvleck and Query ranches, and a gold prospecting passerby traveling through the Basin on foot with a wheelbarrow.
Local visits prompt regional social rounds
Mrs. E. C. Richardson travels Wednesday for an extended visit with daughter Mrs. Fred Ayer in Colorado. Marvin Chamberlain and son visit the VanDevoort Jones & Key families. Mrs. R. Branson was a visitor in the community.
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E. C. Richardson
Mrs
Fred Ayer
Colorado
Marvin Chamberlain and Son
VanDevoort, Jones & Key
Redmen Meeting Draws Strong Attendance
At the Webbranch Wednesday the Redmen held their meeting here last Saturday night with good attendance and apparent interest. School has been closed here for three weeks due to haying workload.
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Redmen
Mrs Huston Family Thank You Note
Mrs A H Huston and family extend heartfelt thanks through the Big Piney Examiner to those who offered aid and consolation during their illness and bereavement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Huston
Big Piney Examiner
Site of Old Fort Bonneville Located in Wyoming
Special to the Examiner reports the unveiling of a monument at the site of old Fort Bonneville six miles west of Daniel Wyoming on the Doctor Montrose ranch. Dr Grace Hebard Col Nickerson and others attended with a granite stone inscribed Site of Fort Bonneville 1832 1915 and a program of speeches and song.
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Daniel
Wyoming
Old Fort Bonneville
Doctor Montrose
Montrose
Grace Hebard
Col
Nickerson
Oregon Trail Commission
Alice Hebard
Hebard
Chicago
Enos
Dr. Hebard
Col. Nickerson
Yellowstone National
Wip
Pinedale
Lancer
Wyo
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the Town Council
G. Trittipo
Glenn Jones
M. Fox
Nebraska
O. M. Twichel
Albert
Floyd Binning
J. F. Miller
J. E. Sargent
Conway
Birney
John
Ruth Hand
Conwell
R. C. Irwin
Eber Darrow
Beaver
Conwell Ranch
W. F. Webb
Rock Springs
Saratoga
Points
Fr. Webb
Roy Edwards
The
Binning Brothers
Rosa Ball
Josephine Bentley
Leo Baker
H. C. Wall
New York City
Dr. Hallinan
Deering
Jenkins
Peter Schuttler
Henney Buggies
Big Piney Merc. Co
Hermann C. Wall
Lawrence Bess
Smith Avenue
Charlie Lackey
Lawrence
Piney
Big Piney Mercantile Co
Bondurant News
Chas. Barnes
Piketon
Ohio
Bondurant
Jesse Hathaway
L. L. Query
Lenna
Arthur Campbell
Frank Vanvleck
Mr. Vanvleck
Jackson
Joe Pride
Wm. Ferris
Rolla Bondurant
Little Son
Carl Johnson
Fred Watts
Dave Hicks
Perry Lewis
Perry Bowlsby
Mrs. Lewis
Lenny Campbell
She] Baker
Mr. Baker
Perry Ptsterer
James Williams
Query Ranch
Pete Richards
Mrs. R. Branson
Marbleton State Bank
Jones & Key
Wye
General Merchandise
Cadillac
Bonneville
the State Bank of
State Bank of
Jas. Mickelson
A. W. Smith
Albert Larson
A. Luman
F. A. Fear
John W. Hay
A. Kendall
P. J. Quealy
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