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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
3
A large audience welcomed the Alabama type minstrel troupe at Buddhall on Wednesday night. The performance, aided by a capable colored orchestra, drew strong applause and forced encores. Proceeds of 180 dollars will aid the Big Piney High School basketball team and debaters bound for Laramie. a dance and supper followed.
The program lists performers including Martha Whitman, M Jenkins, V. Ray, A. Ray, E Norton, H Kimmel, E Bowden, S E Leopold, Uncle Joe, Geo Wenrich, Ned Davison, and Harold Hakes. Praise goes to Leopold for directing the show and delivering a well rendered production with all participants deserving credit.
Bruce Nowlin veteran and deputy game warden named to succeed the late Wm. T. Judkins on the State Game and Fish Commission by Governor Carey. He is son of D. C. Nowlin of Dubois Wyoming a former state game warden and elk feeding supervisor in Jackson Hole. Nowlin is recognized as an expert on big game and brings experience to the commission.
Notice announces the Big Piney Roundup Association annual meeting at Buddhall on Tuesday March 2 1922 at 2:00 PM. Election of officers and other business to be discussed. President Al Osterhout signs the notice.
Saturday travel to Opal for freight tied to E. D. Key. Several families visited, including Mrs. Clare Stacy with Billie and Charles, Mrs. Meeks hosting the Daniel Social Club, and Ed Sargent with L. W. Sargent visiting Austin Richardson. Donnie Angus broke his leg skiing, and Mrs. Blackmon won a stock ing prize at the social.
A Cincinnati reader reports Mrs. C Y Simpson died February 22 of typhoid fever in Idaho Springs Colorado at her parents home. She was 29, survived by husband and three children, and both families mourn her loss. The Simpsons had moved from town last December to Colorado and plan to return to Piney soon.
Mrs Key and Hileen Angus visited the school Wednesday. Richard Key visited Vago Miller home Saturday and drove the toboggan horse to Daniel for Mrs Miller. Bryan and Dan Ball are cutting timber on Lead Creek above Merna. P W Conwell and son Geo were business callers at Merna Binning and Pelton homes. C F Webb and Austin Richardson are putting up ice from Horse Creek. Mr Sneider, father of Mrs W F Bleamer, has been ill the past week. Harry Capron plans to start to the road this week with steers he has been feeding.
Notice announces a stockholders meeting of the A. W. Smith Livestock Co to be held at the State Bank of Big Piney on Friday March 24 1922. The call asks attendance and participation by shareholders.
The editor laments the challenges of producing a weekly paper offering jokes, original material, and verses while balancing reader expectations. He notes accusations of silliness or seriousness, lack of variety, laziness, or unfaithfulness if the paper varies its content or its community involvement.
A fragment shows a joking editor's note about taking material from a news exchange and admitting the practice. The text reflects office tensions between newsroom hustle and desk work. It hints at hypocrisy and the dilemma of chasing scoops versus staying in the office.
Forest Supervisor A Beam reports from Ogden that the Secretary of Agriculture allows grazing fees for 1922 to be paid in two equal installments. The first by entry date, the second by December 1 1922 with no interest on the deferred half. First payment timing is flexible before stock enters the forest. Mr Beam says instructions will come with permittees’ transmittal letters. B M Fox of Ogden bought Sutton estate cattle at auction for 30 25 per head of roughly 700 800 head. Cattle go to Foxs LaBarge ranch to be fed through spring amid continued cold weather.
Big Piney sends its first basketball and debating teams to Laramie for the state tournament held Monday March 13. The basketball squad faces strong foes after snowbound travel while the girls debate team expects honors. Players include Sellon Budd George Moffat Jesse Budd Orville Sims Edward Spotts Elmore Walker Doris Mac Glashan Mac Whitman Extemporaneous Speaking Martha Whitman. Principal Bond manager A P E Newcomb coach. Mrs. Bond chaperone. Carl Hoezel damaged freight sleigh en route from Opal.
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