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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
7
Specialists in apparel for stout women showcase designs that flatter full figures. The model uses satin underskirt and sleeves with a serge overdrape, emphasizing straight lines from bust to hem. Careful pocket placement, side-point overdrapery, and slim cuffs reduce width while maintaining current fashion.
The Red Cross plans 30 base hospitals with 7,500 staff including 25 surgeons per unit and 50 graduate nurses with assistants to care for the wounded. It outlines the evacuation chain from field trenches to first aid stations, field hospitals, evacuation hospitals, base hospitals, and finally permanent interior facilities.
Hugo Bezdek faces a tough midseason turnaround with the Pirates as he takes the helm. The piece notes his prior coaching experience at the University of Chicago and as a scout, and compares his challenge to prior managers rewarded with backing from ownership.
Browns players confront war fever as several stars consider enlisting. Shortstop John Lavan shows eagerness for army medical service and may quit before season end. Catcher Hank Severide and outfielder Bill Rumler also discuss leaving baseball. Ted Sloan and other infielders plan enlistment together.
Clark Griffith sees a good ball player in Joe Judge who shines for Washington at Bretbane, proving his past judgment. Two years ago Griff let Gandil go to make room for Judge and his confidence is now proven correct.
Big Fred Toney is going like a house afire for the Reds while Cleveland fans trend toward pennant fever. Seibold of the Athletics and Mick Mack at shortstop draw praise, with Zeider a tower for the Cubs and Severald a first class catcher for the Browns. Sam Rice and Barry draw attention as strong hitters, and Bill Wambsganss shows promise for the Indians.
Governor Hioux names Maj. J. W. Cavender of Cody as colonel of the Third Wyoming Infantry. Burke H. Sinclair becomes lieutenant colonel. both officers bring long guard service. The entire Wyoming National Guard has assembled at a mobilization camp near Fort Russell for drill and training before Palo Alto, California.
The Wyoming Legislature will be asked to approve a resolution to submit a $7,000,000 bond issue for a concrete highway across the state from the Colorado line near Cheyenne to Yellowstone National Park. Casper designers Fred Patee and C. R. McGrew lead an educational campaign in central Wyoming counties on the project’s benefits.
Mrs Ed Wright, 20, famed world champion broncho buster, died after being thrown from a horse during an exhibition at Camp Baldwin reception in Union Park Denver. She succumbed in a Denver hospital about two hours later.
Two Dwyer residents, John Starett and John Schwartaz, died from asphyxiation after entering a freshly blasted well too soon. They had placed a dynamite charge to clear material and re entered the hole, being overcome by fumes.
Kemmerer John St Oltz found his wife and two children missing after returning from work and suspected his friend Frank Bremski of the abduction. After a long chase the trio were arrested in Denver as they stepped from a train, with probable Mann Act prosecution for Bremski.
Unconfirmed Cheyenne reports say Zachs Jordan of Denver, formerly Cheyenne, son of Rev. Jordan longtime Methodist pastor here, was killed in action on the French front only weeks after arriving in France.
Blood found on a razor said to have slashed Walter Burge’s throat but none on his hand fuels a theory that he was robbed and killed rather than dying by self inflicted wounds.
Louis Cook, 26, son of former Mayor Peter S Cook, was killed attempting to board a moving street car. He missed the handrail and fell across the track as wheels crushed his skull.
In Rocky Ford Wyoming excitement rose after a new well was drilled and shot on the Rocky Ford-Woming Oil Company property. The well sprayed oil thirty feet high and is estimated to have produced about 800 barrels in the first eight hours.
Wyoming reports include National Guard volunteers at Rawlins and drilling on Powell flat expected by September. A $75,000 apartment project at Kemmerer, a new lodge in Riverton by Masons, and a county city building contract at Cheyenne for $184,760 are noted. Also covered are drought relief, oil wells in Grass Creek and Lance Creek, and a student’s golden wedding in Guernsey.
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