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Big Piney Examiner

Location

Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Jul 30, 1914

Page

4

Auto counts by county show Wyoming total 2050

State records reveal 2050 autos licensed through July 2 with a five dollar fee each. Laramie leads at 395 and Sheridan close at 287. Albany 171 and Carbon 172 compete for top four. With 160000 people and average family size four, roughly one car per 19 families.

Hot Springs Wyoming Secretary of Atute Laramie County Sheddan Albany Carbon Washakie Big Horn Campbell Converse Crook Fremont Goshen Johnson Laramie Lincoln Natrona Niobrara Park Platte Sheridan Sweetwater Wuinta Weston Total

Episcopal Church Services and Masons Meet

Services will be held at the Episcopal church next Sunday morning for holy communion and sermon at 11, Sunday School at 3, and evening prayer and sermon at 8. The regular monthly Masons meeting occurred Saturday evening with second degree work and many country members in attendance.

Episcopal Church

Big Honey Shipment From Lovell Attracts Attention

Lovell dealers received a full carload shipment of 65 000 pounds of strained honey destined for the eastern market. The 1919 crop honey’s sale was arranged earlier but held for the new freight rate now in effect. A car shipment of packing cans for the 1914 crop signals Lovell’s growing prominence as a honey center and the Basin’s first full bee-supplies shipment, as reported by the Thermopolis Independent.

Lovell Thermopolis

Local Visitors and Weekend Outings Across the Area

Mr and Mrs Oscar Evans visited the BE. Pp Steele home Thursday. Mrs Bessie Cantlin and her daughters stayed with her parents last week. James Jensen took a trip to New York and Boulder Saturday for supplies and to arrange blacksmithing work. A 4 person fishing and camping party including the Charles Stuart Jim and Chas Sparks families visited Silver Creek Saturday and Sunday. Supervisor Hall is in the area to review forestry matters. Mrs E P Steele and Mrs Edgar Cantlin visited the S D Allen home Friday. Willa Rutledge transacted business in the area Thursday and Friday. Lionel Allen spent the day with Jim King Thursday. Knute Jomen and B N Tibham began haying in the morning.

Oscar Evans Steele Bessie Cantlin James Jensen New York Boulder Saturdty Charles Stuart Jim Chas Sparks Silver Creek Pinedale Sunny Forestry Bnalies Mra E. P. Steele Edgar Cantlin D. Allen Willa Rutledge Lionel Allen Jim King Knute Jomen B. N. Tibham

Public Land Sale Notice for Isolated Tract in Wyoming

Department of the Interior notices a public sale of an isolated tract in Wyoming under the 1912 act. Thomas D. O Neil applies for serial 03959. lots 3 6 and 8 in section township 28 north range west of the sixth principal meridian totaling 110 59 acres. Minimum bid is 275 per acre. sale set for August 14 1914 at 10 am at Evanston land office. Adverse claimants must file objections by sale time.

Department of the Interior T. 5 Evanston Wyo Hotice General Land Office Congress Thomas D. O'Neil Big Piney Wyoming Alex Nesbit Register

Notice on keeping roads clear by county supervisor

All persons are requested not to throw in cans or rubbing of any kind into the drain ditches along the county roads by order of the supervisor of county roads.

Market prices for fruits and produce at Piney Emporium

Readable fragments show P. O. nig Piney selling oranges bananas lemons grape fruit at the emporium with listed fruits. The brief note indicates a local fruit market display and prices may vary by fruit type.

Mail Order Commandments From The Inland Grocer

A satirical list titled Mail Order Commandments exposes abusive catalog marketing tactics. It urges readers to avoid cash sales to sellers, prepay for factory goods, favor distant depots, fund churches and road building, and rely on local merchants only as instruments of the vendor’s control. The piece criticizes manipulation, debt collection, and the undermining of local trade.

Rock Springs worker cuts leg with broad axe

George Kellogg of Rock Springs who is overseeing Highline canal construction east of town severely cut his leg with a broad axe Saturday afternoon. He is able to be up and looking after the work as usual. The Rev and Mrs Lewis D Smith stopped in Lawler Monday while en route from Atlantic to Buffalo to make their future home.

George Kellogg Rock Springs Fimaclf George Lewis D. Smith Lawler Atlantic Buffalo Wyoming State Journal

First Man Sentenced to Penitentiary for Non Support

In Sheridan Wyoming on July 21 Charles Wehr, the first man convicted under the state law making failure to support one’s family a penitentiary offense, will serve one to two years at hard labor in Rawlins. Judge Parmelee sentenced him last week and he has already been taken to the penitentiary by Sheriff Hoop. Chester Falk received a three to seven year term for attempting to shoot Officer Webb and accompanied Wehr. Sheriff Hoop will, on the return trip, obtain requisition papers for W. E. Cunningham of Millard. Ned, charged with grand larceny, will likely be brought back to Sheridan. Wehr’s case stems from repeated trouble and a prior parole.

Sheridan Wyo Chas Wehr Rawlins Wehr Parmelee Hoop Chester Falk Officer Webb W. E. Cunningham Millard Ned

HAYING AT FAYETTE OPENS WITH FISHER RANCH CREW

A. Thompson of Boulder began haying at Fred C. Fisher's Fayette ranch with fifteen workers. About a thousand tons of hay will be moved as rapidly as possible, marking the start of the season and the effort to maximize production.

Vw. A. Thompson Boulder Fred C. Fisher Fayette Tapilly

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