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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1926
Page
5
Gil News Notes reports Elkhorn Oil Co officials treated their employer to a Christmas turkey dinner at Hotel Piney camp. Drilling paused for the meal. casing lowers daily at the H. L. Budd well with more casing arriving. Sco ville well on Clifton Fear ranch shows drilling progress as night lights attract attention.
Miss Emma and Clara Lind return from school for Christmas holidays while Donald Jewett and Jeneva Shipley travel to Big Piney for the holiday. Mrs. A. Lloyd returns from Nebraska. Gabriel Huhta wintering in Big Piney. Gust Larson visits Ball and Lindback homes. Leonard and Fred Lindback share Christmas with family. Fred Watts also visits Lloyds. Ball family hosts Christmas dinner with F D Ball Sr. and family.
Mr and Mrs C G Jewett and family and Miss Kitto spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs L D Tanner and family. Frank Tracy visited F D Balls ranch for cattle. F D Ball Sr house caught fire last Thursday causing damage but was saved. Mr and Mrs S A Lloyd visited Daniel and Pinedale Thursday and Friday. Mr and Mrs F C Ball entertained at a turkey dinner last Thursday with guests H E Surritt and son Frank and W C Ball and family. W C Ball visited D H Scott at Daniel. Lee Smith fed cattle for F D Ball at Charles Ball ranch on Horse Creek. Mr and Mrs T D ONeil visited Kemmerer last Sunday. Miss Marian Hoffman spending Christmas vacation with her Denver parents.
Fish Creek School pupils performed a Christmas play titled The One True Gift of Christmas on December 23. Attending were Mr and Mrs W R Baldwin and family, Mrs W F Mann, Mr and Mrs Harry Springman and family, Naomi Ray, Chas Slinkard, Rebt Springman, Bernard Murphy, Ed Lewis, Orville Mills, Mr and Mrs Geo T Wilson, and Allen Masoner. Beautiful weather.
On January 24 1927 Secretary of Agriculture and the Forester will hold a hearing in Salt Lake City with livestock men to discuss grazing fees on National Forests. The meeting aims to settle the long debated grazing fee question and may influence the region’s stockmen and forestry policy. J J Albano Forest Ranger notes hopeful attendance from West stock associations and the Big Piney Roundup Association.
Notice from Sublette County Commissioners that certificates numbered 1823 through 1419 will be paid on presentation to the County Treasurer. Interest stops twenty days after this notice. Dated December 1926. Grace MacGlashan, County Treasurer.
The Eighth Annual Ogden Livestock Show will be held at Union Stock Yards Ogden Utah January 4 5 6 7 8 1927 with free admission. The event is funded by Ogden citizens at about $20000 yearly to improve breeding and feeding of livestock.
This year's show occurs in the new $100,000 coliseum in Ogden inviting livestock growers of the Intermountain territory to spend a winter vacation attending the midwinter event. The opportunity makes travel expenses light for those attending.
Grandma Josephine A Budd hosted Christmas for 26 attendees including Chas Budd John Budd Jesse Budd Al Osterhout Henry Budd Dan Budd and Jennie Boyer two years her elder. Fellow guest Mrs M B Hook was the only nonrelative present, celebrating the holiday with culinary artistry.
Adah Power sustained a deep gash above the eye from a shotgun rebound she fired. Dr. Looney dressed the wound and she returned to her saleslady duties at Burney & Co. The report notes Kemmerer visitors John Budd and his son Joseph visited earlier in the week.
Miss Margaret Ellen O Neil and Ralph Edward Conwell were married at St Patrick's church Kemmerer in a nuptial mass officiated by Father Wm Short. Attended by the bride’s sister and brother in law they will reside at 1019 Canby St Laramie with both graduates of the University of Wyoming and members of Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Nu.
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