Wyoming Highways Commission awards low bids for state projects
The Wyoming state highway commission awarded contracts to low bidders for grading and culvert work on the Kemmerer Big Piney road to Midland Construction of Casper at 22 166.40 dollars and grading on the Buffalo Across road to the Hopkins brothers of Buffalo at 3 872.25 dollars. A Worland garage contract went to Fred Christensen. Sheridan office building bid was rejected and no bid was received for the Daniel garage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
State Highway Commission
Kemmerer-Big’ Piney
Midland Construction Company
Casper
Buffalo
Hopkins Brothers of
Worland
Fred Christensen
Wortend
Sheridan
Daniel
Governors Conference Call Aug Salt Lake City
Governors Frank Emerson of Wyoming and H Bald ridge of Idaho head a special committee calling a conference in Salt Lake City on August 26 and 27 with 11 western states. Delegates will discuss federal irrigation policy inter state water allocation public lands mineral rights and oil and gas permits. Resolutions favoring western views will be drafted and sent to the President and relevant federal departments with possible federal attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank GC. Emerson
Wyoming
H. GC. Baldridge
Idaho
Salt Lake City
Teachers Examinations Set for August 30 and 37
County Superintendent May McAlister Summers announces teachers examinations will be held at her office on August 30 and 37. Interested parties are urged to communicate at their earliest convenience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May McAlister Summers
Community Church Ministers Service and Public Worship
Reverend A C Best leads a church service next Sunday with a children's program and a sermon titled The Help of God at 9:30 a.m. An evening service follows at 8 p.m. The Star Valley Independent has changed ownership.
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Rev
A. C. Best
the Help of God
Bronx Budget Kinsfolk Holidaying at Miss Byrnes Place
Miss NeHe Byrnes and HL Ward of Evanston visit Miss Byrne's homestead renewing district ties. Mrs. Alice Pape hosts house guests from New Jersey before a Yellowstone Park trip. Local social life includes dances at Pinedale and birthday dinner for Miss Leila Jons at the Scott home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NeHe Byrnes
HL Ward
Evanston
Alice Pape
Edward Coyte
New Jersey
Yellowstone Park
Leila Jons
D. B Scott
Piney LaBarge Oil Co Gasses at 556 Feet
Charley Lackey reports Piney LaBarge Oil Co drilled a Dry Piney Basin well to 556 feet reaching 120 pounds gas pressure. Water shot from the hole, and the pressure overwhelmed the control head. Lackey travels to Salt Lake to notify company members and celebrate the find.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piney-LaBarge Oil Co
Charley Lackey
Piney-LaBarge Ol Company
Lackey
Salt Lake
He Spanned the Continent With Steel
The Examiner presents an illustrated feature by Elmo Scott Watson on Gen. G. M. Dodge, famed railroad builder. It recounts the driving of the last spike on the first transcontinental railroad in Utah in 1869 and marks 60 years since that epochal event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Massachusetts
G. M. Dodge
The
Examiner
Elmo Scott Watson
Barbed wire scratch causes blood poisoning
Dan Rathbun of Mason arrived in town Wednesday with blood poisoning in a finger from a barbed wire scratch. Dr. Looney treated the infection and Rathbun returned to his ranch, with friends hoping for no serious effects.
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Dan Rathbun
Mason
Teachers Institute Set for Green River with Sweetwater County
May McAlister Sommers Sublette County Superintendent announces a joint Teachers Institute in Green River City on September 2 and 3 with Sweetwater County. Last year the event was held in Pinedale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May McAlister Sommers
Sublette County
Teachers’ Institute
Green River City
Sweetwater County
Pinedale
Wyoming Weekly Industrial Review
Wyoming plans a Cody to Butte natural gas pipeline for Anaconda Copper. Evanston tests with gas line segments and cement piers for a Dear River bridge. Baggs approves 14 000 dollar gym project. Wyoming Placers Inc files for 250 000 dollar stock. Sheridan bids for Wyoming Girls School building. Finedale highway surfacing and a 100 000 gallon water tank at the school site. US air routes reach 9 000 miles to 16 foreign countries with plans to extend 5 000 miles to four more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mondy-Seagraves Oil Interests
Cody
Wyoming
Butte
Montana
Anaconda Copper Company
Sheridan
Wyoming Girls’ School
United States
Boston News Bureau
Wyoming Worth Knowing Aims From Progressive Papers
A collage of Wyoming notes shows small-town progress, farm improvement, and public-spirited promotion. Star Valley farmers buy purebred sires, Fox and Fur Breeders meet in Laramie, and public notices praise local editors, merchants, and extension clubs while urging education and state pride.
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Wyoming
State Department of Commerce and Industry
Tom Mix
Star Valley
Willow Creek
Eimaison
Jack Allen
Allen
S. B. Murray
Pauline Bunting Bunting
Big Horn County
Lincoln County
Erma Bradford
Utah
Miss Bunting
State University
Wyoming Fox and Fur Breeders’ Association
Laramie
National Editorial Association
Cheyenne
Pople
Afton
W. E. Settle
Jackson Frontier Show Set for September 3 4 5 1925
An Examiner advertisement announces the Jackson's Hole Frontier show sponsored by the American Legion Post. The event runs September 3 4 and 5 with inviting fishing near Jackson Wyoming, a few hours from Big Piney.
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Jackson Frontier Show
Examiner
Jackson's Hole
American Legion Post
Wyoming
Big Piney
Jackson
Notice to Hunters at Green River and Bridger Preserves 1929
A notice restricts hunting at Green River State Game Preserve for 1929 by order of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. Bridger State Game Preserve remains open to hunting for 1929 under commission orders.
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Green River State Game Preserve
Greet River
Wyoming National Forest
Green River
Roaring Fork
Wind River Mountains
Wind River Divide
Premont Lake
Gloyver Peak
New Fork River
Forest Boundary
Wyoming Game and Fish Comission
Bridger State Game Preserve
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission
Daniel News Notes and Local Happenings
Daniel reports visitor stops from Denver and Kemmerer figures, fishing at Jackson Lake, and a box of community news. Notables include Jack Dempsey joining a fishing party, a steel concrete bridge contract near the post office, and a forest fire safety appeal for aviators about discarded burning tobacco from airplanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud Hocker
Plat Wilson
Kemmerer
Daniel the
Sth
Jackson Lake
Praire Creek
Daniel Post Office
Rocky Mountain Motorists, Inc
U. S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Altijet Lp
Chitown
Mrs. T. Cox A Wyoming Children's Home Society Field Agent Visits Big Piney
Mrs. T. Cox, field agent for the Wyoming Children's Home Society, visited Big Piney from Cheyenne to promote the society’s work for orphans and distressed children. She thanked local residents for their generous donations aiding the society’s mission to care for children and find homes.
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T. Cox
Wyoming Children’s Harme Society
Big Piney
Cheyenne
Sage Rens Protected Sage Hens Ended Quietly by Rain
In Sublette County the 1930 chicken crop benefited from heavy rain on the last Sunday. Hunters gathered, some arriving Saturday, for a planned massacre that was called off early Sunday due to weather. The season ends with a larger potential crop than if rain had not fallen.
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Settle
Wyoming
Star Valley
N. BE. A
Goshen Hole
Platte Valley
B. O. Huntington
Lovell
Department of Commerce and Idustry
Sid
Frank B. Astroth
American Jesey Cattle Club
Uinta County
Cody Road
Yellowstone Park
Natrona County
Solier
Evanston
PB. A & J. E. Shope
Wheatland
Cheyenne
Gillette
Leslie A. Miller
Cal Holliday
Bob Burgeson
Kansas Geological Society
John Marzel
John Whiting
Yellowstone ‘Park
Sublette County
Lighting costs at Cheyenne airport stand at five thousand
The report cites Cheyenne airport lighting project J with an estimated price tag of 5 000 dollars.
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Cheyennne
Airport J
Wyoming to issue black and white 1930 license plates
Wyoming announces 1930 auto licenses will be black with white figures and the words Wyoming 1930 under the number. Next year counties collect licenses under a new act. Fees depend on factory price and horsepower with set percentages and a state fee, plus county index numbers starting Natrona through Sublette.
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Wyoming
H. M. Symons
Natrona County
Congress to Hear Details on cancer Cure Claim
Washington reports say Dr. William F Koch claims a cancer cure and Congress will call him to explain the method. Officials note cancer's rising toll with heart disease and cancer ranking high among deaths.
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Washington
D.C
Detroit
Wm. F. Koch, Ild
M.D
Congress
Koch
United States
Wus Sehiman
Mueller
Virchow
Broussais
Paget
E. C. Folkmar
Dr. Koch
Dr. Ricch
Residents Head Home After Shitook Visit to Big Piney
Mr and Mrs Loren Waters and Dr and Mrs Goddar of Shitook Oklahoma were visiting in Big Piney and left early this week for home. The women stayed longer while the men joined for the ee chicken hunting season.
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George and
Harold Rich
Las Vegas
Nevada
Herman Rich
Big Piney
Loren Waters
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Pendiston
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Ein Salt Lake
CIFY
Asten
Star Valley Independent
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Sen
L. H. Mennick
D. H. Scott
Lester Pape
Rock Springs
Martha Sommers
Mary Elizabeth
Pape
Charles Bush
Coeur - Alene
Rodney Pape
Homer Payne
Emma Stuck
Messrs
Dave and
John Wilson
Mr. Furniss
J. F. McCormick
U. S
Wyoming Weekly Industrial Review
Baggs
Casper—Wyoming Placers, Inc
Daniel-Finedale
Daniel News
Mr. Austen Ayer
Denver
E. A. Richardson
A. E. Richardson
Mr. Geo. McLain
Jack Dempsey
Sargent Inn
Mary O'Neil
Boyd Kelley
P. G. Hanson
Daniel Sunday
RERE
Children's Home Society
Sage Rens
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