High School Week Set With Large Wyoming Attendance
Forty eight Wyoming high schools will attend the Ninth Annual High School Week at the University of Wyoming March 15 21 with expectations of more than fifty schools. The event will feature a dawn parade a color display bands film crews and broadcasting by Cathedral Station KFBU with daily noon and evening programs of basketball and academic contests. Finalists will broadcast after the finals Saturday. Schools entered include Rock Springs Hanna LaGrange Casper Guernsey Torrington Basin Sheridan Laramie Worland Hillsdale Newcastle and many others totaling 36 in basketball and academics plus five basketball only and eight academics only schools.
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Wyoming
University of Wyoming
KFBU
Ing
Laramie
Rock Springs
Hanna
LaGrange
Casper
Guernsey
Torrington
Basin
Sheridan
Worland
Hillsdale
Newcastle
University Training School
Kemmerer
Rawlins
Lyman
Wheatland
Thermopolis
Egbert
Burns
Moorcroft
Cheyenne
Carpenter
Evanston
Glenrock
Ft. Laramie
Gillette
Glenda
Sunrise
Pine Bluffs
Lingle
Buffalo
Saratoga
Shawnee
Big ‘Piney
Douglas
Greybull
Chugwater
Jackson
Superior
Green River
Hulett
Rock River
Cody
Mountainview
Riverton
Powell
Baggs
Big Piney
Ray Griggs Died After Pneumonia Funeral in February
Percy Griggs returned to Kemmerer Saturday morning from Thurman Indiana where he attended the funeral services for his brother Ray Griggs on February 16. He died of pneumonia. Norris Griggs accompanied him east and went on to Carter. Deceased was reared in the Green River valley and attended school with Mrs. A. P. Sommers. Carbon paper for sale here.
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Percy Griggs
Kemmerer
Thurman
Ray Griggs
Norris Griggs
Carter
Kemmerer Gazette
Green River Valley
A. P. Sommers
Death of Mrs. Sarah Lowe in Denver
Mrs. Sarah Lowe of Denver died early today after a lengthy illness. Survived by daughter Pearl Berger and daughters and son in Denver, plus sisters Mrs. Josephine A. Budd and Miss Jennie Boyer of Big Piney, with several relatives here expressing sympathy. Aunt Sally was longtime resident and well remembered in the community.
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Sarah Lowe
Denver
Pearl Berger
Josephine A. Budd
Jdennie Boyer
Big Piney
Lowe
Sally
Wyoming Sublette School District Bond Election Notice
Notice of a March 20 1926 bond election in Sublette County Wyoming for School District No 9 to authorize bonds up to 10000 at 6 percent to cover outstanding indebtedness. Document lists officials F D Chapel Frank Springman Al Osterhuut and dates, plus unrelated local notices and ads about cattle and produce.
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State of
Wyoming
Sublette
Board of Trustees of
F. D. Chapel
Frank Springman
AL Osterhuut
Wyoming to finish paying territorial debt by 1893
The Wyoming state treasurer’s office reports that the 1888 territorial bond issue of 90 000 dollars for public buildings will be fully redeemed in three years. With 27 000 dollars outstanding, the state pays 9 000 dollars yearly, despite holders seeking large bonuses for liquidation.
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Wyoming
University of Wyoming
State Penitentiary
Rawlins
State Hospital For the Insane
Evanston
Cheyenne Tribune
New Barber Shop Under Construction by Howertons
Mr and Mrs Chas Howerton started building a new barber shop on the west adjoining the post office. Foundations begun and work proceeds toward a modern facility featuring a marceling parlor for ladies and two baths, aiming for a first class tropical parlor atmosphere.
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Chas. Howerton
Opal
Card Party Aids High School Contest Travel Funds
The Hook hall Parent Teachers Association hosted a 500 card party lasting to midnight. Prizes went to ladies first Mrs. Clifton Fear and Miss Martha Jenkins, and to gentlemen first Arnold Whitman with Dan Budd as runner up. Ice cream cake and coffee followed. Proceeds support contestants heading to Laramie for the High School Tournament. Walter Lindback hauls oil from LaBarge to the Corder oil well west of town.
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Parent Teachers’ Association
Hook Hall
Clifton Fear
Martha Jenkins
Arnold Whitman
Dan Budd
Laramie
Mrs. Rose Hoskins Dies in Denver En Route Home
The body of Mrs. Rose F. Hoskins wife of former State treasurer A D Hoskins arrived in Kemmerer Wyoming from Denver where she died Sunday after a recent operation Funeral services were held Thursday in Kemmerer with community leaders and residents expressing condolences to Mr Hoskins a pioneer merchant and bank president who is a noted Republican figure in the area
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Rose F. Hoskins
A. D. Hoskins
Denver
Big Piney Students Head to State Tournament
Students from Big Piney High School prepared to represent the school at the annual state tournament in Laramie. They will depart next Saturday morning by train for the University gymnasium, with Marie McGinnis in Piano, Helen Budd in Essay, Francs Tanner and Joseph Budd Debaters, and Gerald Willson in Extemporaneous Speaking. Chaperones are Mrs. Jesse Budd and Superintendent Glassner.
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Big Piney
University Gymnasium
Laramie
University City
Marie McGinnis
Helen Budd
Francs Tanner
Joseph Budd
Gerald Willson
Jesse Budd
Glassner
Agreement on grazing bill reached in Washington
Washington March 9 final agreement on regulating grazing on the public domain was reached in a conference between Chairman Stanfield of the Senate lands committee and Secretary Work Hearings in disputed cases would be held before registrars of local land offices rather than local grazing boards The compromise aims to harmonize western and eastern positions and include local interests in grazing district creation Negotiations on grazing in national forests continue and a formal agreement is expected Monday The report notes the issue has split eastern and western factions with the former opposing any form of grazing legislation
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Washington
A.P
Stanfield
Senate Lands Committee
Work
Lands Committee
Interior and Agriculture Departments
Agriculture Department
National Forests
Stanfied
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Burney & Co
Big Piney, Wyoming
F. D. Ball
Kansas City
H. C. Dunham
Walter Lindback
LaBarge
Corder
IMRS
Western Newspaper Union
Salt Lake
State Bank of
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