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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1930
Page
5
Joseph Bird found heavy smoke in Western Drug Company and adjoining apartment on Saturday morning. Fire started near the furnace feeding a dance hall and picture show upstairs. Volunteers arrived, broke into the building, and contained a blaze with only smoked walls and minor damage otherwise.
Governor Frank C. Emerson recounted his long friendship with James M Noble of Cory Wyoming. He cited Noble as a pillar of the upper Green River country and recalled their early Wyoming days including Noble’s hospitality and guidance as a second mother to Emerson.
Torrington Telegram reports George Drummond, Holly sugar factory district superintendent, says in a Lions Club talk the 1929 campaign handled 225,000 tons of beets and 1600-1800 tons of frozen beets. He urges a 220 tariff in 1930 to raise farmer payments while noting low sugar prices and overproduction in Cuba.
Notice is given that the Big Piney Mercantile Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting at 8 p.m. on February 1, 1930, in the company office to elect officers and conduct business as needed.
Daniel and Mrs Jenne L Hewston and son Hayden visited Piney on Thursday. Mrs Chas A Cox traveled to Piney Saturday to visit Mr and Mrs Frank Fear. The Texas Company reps visited Daniel Garage Friday. Homer Payne was in town Sunday. Walter Brewer and family drove to Rock Springs via Pinedale on Wednesday returning by the new Green River road. Brewer bought a Studebaker Dictator Royal sedan in Rock Springs. Charles Jerome and David Balfinger were in town on Wednesday.
Wyoming towns claim to be the setting of Owen Wister’s The Virginian are refuted by Wister himself in a letter to Professor W. C. Clough. He explains his travels, states that most material came from Wyoming and the West, but warns geography is not precise and places are sometimes renamed or fictionalized.
Governor Emerson notes House Rules Committee favors immediate consideration of the Dowell bill to raise federal aid highway funding from 75,000,000 to 12,000,000 annually. The measure, already passed by the House highways committee, would bring Wyoming about 630,000 more dollars over three years, with Senate support anticipated and a presidential construction program alignment cited.
The piece notes no service Thursday at Community Church with Rev. A. C. Best, mentions the second part of Hamiet talk titled The Peru of Delay, and reports Mountain States Tel and Tel began rebuilding toll lines from Douglas to Casper and Douglas to Denver at an expenditure of $200,000.
James M Noble of Cora Wyo died at Rock Springs General Hospital after a pleurisy attack. A Burlington Iowa native born 1663, he moved west in youth and settled at Cora. Survived by wife Pauline Rahen two sons Freeda and Ida in nurse training, two brothers Eugene and Zack. funeral at Pine Dale Community Church. Interment Pine Dale cemetery. community extends sympathy.
Wyoming farmers can obtain ordering blanks for shelterbelt and windbreak trees starting February 1. Blanks distributed through County Agents or mailed from the Department of State Experiment Farms, University of Wyoming. Available varieties include green ash, American elm, box elder, Russian olive, caragana, willows, cottonwoods, western yellow pine, Col Ergo blue spruce, silver poplars, and chokecherries. Northwest poplars unavailable due to nursery shortages. cottonwoods may substitute. Flat trees and some others not supplied by the university. order early to avoid substitutions.
Southwestern Wyoming to be surveyed in a Rock Springs meeting on April 15 as part of a planned Wyoming Worth Knowing exhibit in the capitol rotunda. L. L. Newton and board members outlined a new edition of the illustrated book with added material including the State Fair at Douglas. Some 15,000 copies will be printed within thirty days amid the exhibit’s educational and publicity aims.
Goshen county 4H youths who claimed first at the Wyoming 1925 State Fair topped the Interstate Stock Judging contest at Denver Stock Show scoring 100 points ahead of New Mexico. Linn led the field with Reid tying for second. coached by N L Gibson. Victory earns a trip to the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago near December to compete in the non collegiate division.
Miss Virginis Hocker, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert A Hocker of Kemmerer, died last Saturday following acute appendicitis and an operation by Dr A L Arbogast of Rock Springs. A large Kemmerer funeral reflected the community’s sorrow as a junior at Kemmerer High School.
Wyoming leaders led by Z E Levison and Congressman Carter pushed federal road and forest service funding. The appropriation bills propose seven and a half million for forest roads trails and fire control plus four and a half million for local and federal connecting roads, with a Gallon bill seeking twelve and a half million. Post Office funding would provide three new Wyoming buildings under regular funds and possibly two more under an added 115 million, if postal receipts exceed twenty thousand. Carter aims to remove the twenty thousand hurdle so Wyoming gets extra buildings, possibly Kemmerer and Wheatland. ex-service men compensation limits may also extend this session. Sugar tariff debate favored Wyoming beet and sugar makers but Senate shifts reverted to existing rates.
School sections record class notes with humor and classroom topics. Mentioned are Dickens studying Tale of Two Cities, coasting party thanks to freshmen and sophomores, biology mountains and distribution of organisms, civics books, and a lighthearted Q&A about etiquette and dining manners.
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