Cora District Roundup Reports Ranching and Social News
Mr Bartlett from the state engineer's office in Cheyenne visits the Cora district on business. Cora stockmen finish branding. cattle on summer range reported fine. Willow Creek roundup riders include Buster McIlvain and Frank Carr of Green River. Residents host guests, attend picnics, and plan fall ditch camp work. Numerous locals and visitors are named, with community events and births noted, including a son born to S. P. Barber on July 20, 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartlett
Cheyenne
Buster McIlvain
Frank Carr
Green River
Willow Creek
Willow Creek News From July on Willow Creek Ranch
Willow Creek notes haying starts July 15 on the A. W. Smith ranch and a July 15 harvest. Enrollment at the local school stands at 10 pupils. Dick Grant of Pinedale was found dead on July 13 in a murder case with an arrest based on circumstantial evidence. Chas Bellin is suspected. Local building activity includes Mr. Doyle and Mr. Jones. Mrs. J. L. Allen visited her husband at Ranger state last Thursday and Friday. Lumber yards at Thomas and Company offer all kinds of logs and lumber. The Thomas family and Mrs. Warren plan a trip to Lava Hot Springs on September 1 for the rheumatic cure. Claire Mershon and mother helped Miss Roach home Sunday afternoon. Jno. Ray starts a Willow Creek homestead. the Ray garden looks good. Chas. Thomas will cut logs for winter hauling. Jake Davis returned to the sawmill. Ranger Co. FE Johnson repaired the telephone line. service is improving. Miss Carrie Payne of Forty Red Flat was seriously injured June 25 when lightning struck the house. she is recovering. The bolt burned a hole four inches wide through the log wall and started a fire. Carrie is the daughter of W. J. Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Grant
Pinedale
Ben
Chas Bellin
Mr. Grant
Carrie Payne
Carrie
W. J. Payne
Daniel
Merna community notes July 19 highlights local visits and events
R H Houston Pitt Hand and wife returned from Fall River Basin. Sunday visitors at E R Miller home included M W Clarkson, Mr and Mrs Harry Capron and children, Wm Meyer, Miss Mary Cartwright, P W Corwell, Levi Hill. Box supper and dance at Menin schoolhouse praised. Miss Nickle lauded for the program. Harry Thompson finished a bunk house on the triangle ranch and haying began on the McGovern ranch. Dry weather and low creeks complicate water access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Houston
Pitt Hand
Fall River Basin
E. R. Miller
M. W. Clarkson
Harry Caperon
Wm. Meyer
Mary Cartwright
P. W. Corwell
Levi Hill
Local business visitors tour Kemmerer and nearby towns
Daniel Doings of Wood-Oswald Co. is attending to business interests in the area. Mrs. Maggie F. Nicholson and her daughters join Mr. and Mrs. Haffner of Kemmerer and Franston on a combined business and pleasure trip through the vicinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Wood
Wood-Oswald Co
Maggie F. Nicholson
Mrs. Haffner
Kemmerer and
Franston
Viola Local Notes Highlight Visits and Illness
J L Fleming spent nearly a week on the Lafarge surveying for J Twichel Claud Daniels J W Jones and others. Ralph DeMiurier made a short visit with Glenn Jones last week. Dr Stafford was called to Viola Saturday for Mrs Ivan Jones sudden illness. Ivano accompanied him in the doctor’s car. Very much better, Sam Hoyle was visiting neighbors of Upper LaBare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Fleming
Lafarge
J. Twichel
Claud Daniels
J. W. Jones
Ralph DeMiurier
Glenn Jones
Dr. Stafford
Viola
Ivan Jones
Ivano
Mrs. Jones
Sam Hoyle
Upper
LaBare
Fox family to spend summer at Mountain Meadow ranch
M. Fox and family plan to stay the rest of the summer at Mountain Meadow ranch after a delightful trip to the Panama exposition. Scarcity of water will necessitate an early haying in this vicinity.
Local Notes From Viola Area Highlight Surveys and Drought
Mr and Mrs Simpkins enjoy a new Haynes car while James L Fleming surveys the region and stirs local chatter. Mrs Guyette visits Viola and is seen at the post office with Miss Hartley. Mrs van Jones lies sick at her in law's Viola residence as water shortages deepen and ditches receive attention from Howard Holden, the water commissioner.
May Mean End Of All War Says Aviation Expert
Claude Grahame-White envisions future air war with thousand-horsepower power plants and armored craft carrying hundreds, including aerial torpedo tubes. He predicts battles in the air at hundreds of miles per hour, with warfare moving high above earth and raising fears of universal destruction. Some argue the brutal evolution could spark humanity's revolt and ending of war through science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Grahame-White
Earth
Changes Wrought by War in British Soldier Training
The article notes a shift from rigid redcoat drill to agile mental and physical training at Sandhurst and Woolwich. Swedish exercises replace calisthenics, with monkey tricks like balance walking and rope skipping. Overdeveloped chests are seen as unhealthy, pneumonia risk, and marching soldiers are urged to stay comfortable and refrain from smoking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Cadet Schools
Sandhurst
Woolwich
Doctor Smith’s Lunacy Theory Sparks Public Interest
Ninety two year old Dr Stephen Smith, a long time New York physician, outlines in an interview a theory of insanity. He argues many inmates could live outside asylums with proper care and engaging work. He cites conversations with 15 000 lunatics and notes parallels between asylum tales and those told by former patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Smith
New York
Cornell
Doctor Smith
Boston Herald
Florence Nightingale Statue Unveiled in London
The Lady With the Lamp statue of Florence Nightingale was unveiled without ceremony at Waterloo Place London beside Sidney Herbert. The red and gray granite pedestal set against a Crimean memorial backdrop portrays Nightingale with lamp in the right hand in early Victorian dress. It is London’s first public statue of a nonroyal woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Nightingale
Lady With
Waterloo Place
London
Sidney Herbert
Prehistoric Skeletons Found in Blue Rock Cavern
Quarrymen uncovered two petrified skeletons in a cavern blasted from solid blue rock in a Hulton hillside. One skeleton depicts a giant man and the other a much smaller woman. Geologists examining the remains say they evidently belong to a prehistoric age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hulton
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Newsy
Cora
Messrs
Wm Alexander
P. W. Jenkins
Clare Meshon
Guy Holt
Chas. Alexander
Wm. Woods
C. W Wright
Wood-Oswald Cattle Commission Firm
South Omaha
Neb
Jas, Redwond and
Son
Mr. Redmond
Idaho
Jenkins Ranch
Loyd
Earl
Lawrence Alexander
Carne
Frank Wright
Gwen
Evelyn Holt
Miriam Jenkins
Frank Belknap
Chas Sowers
Alta Munson
Willis Mershon
Harry
Jennie Quark
Ellicott Redmond
Jenkins
Holt
Chas, Reynolds
Mr. Irv. Lozier
R E. Clark
Pinedale Triday
Cora Holt
Bertha Boulter
Chas. Johnson
Chas. Hiles
Kendall
Chas. Wright
Jack Reynolds
Mr. Schultz
A. C. Wacner
Illow Lake
Lennis Irving
Edgar Munson
Frank Gorey
Boulder
Bert Clark Jr
Jackson
Mr. Bailey
Rinedale
Mrs. Redmond
Mrs Jenkins
Matthewson
Seattle
Wash
Mr. Matthewson
Houston Ranch
Jennie Leister
Bonneville School
Daniel Hotel
Lee Wright
C. F. Webb
Jesse Barber
Ball Ranch
C. H. Kelly
L. R. Smith
8. P. Barber
A. W. Smith
Mr. Doyle
Mr. Jones
J. L. Allen
The
Ranger Stat
Cr. L. Thomas
Thomas
Warren
Lava Hot Springs
Claire Mershon
Miss Roach
Claire
Henry Binning
Jno
Ray
Chas. Thomas
Jake Davis
Merna
A. A. Houston
J. &. Canor
J. E. Sargent
Robt. H. Houston
Pitt P. Head
Meadowbrook
Menin School
Miss Nickle
Rosa Ball
Miss Emma
C. G. Jewett Home
Harry Thomps N
Theriangle Ranch
Harry Thompson
McGovern Ranch
H. C. Hall
Carl
Lillian H. Richardson
Conwell and
Houston
Wm. Bleamer
Cottonwood
L. W. Sargent
Roy Edwards
Beaver Ranch
Binning Boys
Lewis
Floyd Binning
Mrs. Simpkins
Joseph H. Guyette
Phil Twichel
James L. Fleming
van & Jones
Howard Holden
LaBarge
Gertrude Whitman
L. Elias Bennett
NEW York Conservatory OF Music
Big Piney, Wyoming
Tommy Atkins
Walter Winans
Europe
Vertcia
Shoulder Arma
British National Rifle Association
Winans
Savacet Arms Company
Savace
Savage
Live Stock Commission Merchants
Union Stock Yards
South Omaha, Neb
Billy Wood
Herman Oswald
Mike’s
M. D. Meeks
Marbleton
Ed Yeadon
Marbleton, Wyoming
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