Big Piney Band Festival entrants perform at Ninth Annual event
Big Piney High School students entered the instrumental sales held in Kemmerer last Friday at the Ninth Annual Musical Festival. Participants include Marjorie Whitman Norman and Mary Moffat who performed solos on alto saxophone tenor saxophone and clarinet with ratings ranging from TI minus to TT plus. The concert band at Victory Theatre earned TI plus while the marching band received a T minus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thee Big Piney High School
Kemmerer
Marjorie Whitman
Norman
Mary Moffat
Ney Géllent
Norman Moffat
Victory Theatre
Green River Rendezvous Pageant Reenacts 1833 History
The Green River Rendezvous pageant will be held Sunday July 3 in Daniel Wyoming. Produced by the Sublette County Historical Society led by President Mrs Euan Gooley the event recreates the 1833 rendezvous site with local residents performing. The pageant honors mountain men fur traders and fur companies of the old west while celebrating Sublette County’s heritage and rural labor contributions.
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Green River
Daniel
Wyoming
Sublette County Historical Society
Euan Gooley
Rendevous
Loadle
Sublette
Campbell and Fontenelle
Upper
Compstition
Fox
Sublette County
Histon
Develon
Notice to Binders for School Transportation Bid
The Southwest School District in Sublette County Wyoming met May 18 at Big Piney School to open bids for transporting school children. Irwin Cover submitted the lowest acceptable bid to provide standard equipment and transport on established routes at 179 per bus mile, a yearly saving of 655.74. The bid was accepted unanimously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trusters of
Southwest School District
Sublette County
Big Piney School
Irwin
Vite
Southwest
Big Piney
Wyoming
Evanston Bank Merger Plans Include Name Change
A merger will create the Evanston First National Bank using the First National Bank quarters in Evanston after remodeling. Walter E. Cossriff would chair the board with Painter as president and Albert Bradbury as vice president while Andrew Coutts serves as cashier. Directors include Tom Painter, David Davis, and Andrew Coutts. existing Evanston and First National directors may retire from active duties but stay as advisors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Evanston
Evanston First National Bank
Walter E. Cossriff
Painter
Albert Bradbury
Andrew Coults
Claude Stout
Tom Painter
David Davis
Andrew Coutts
Bh. D. Wallace
M. I. McCuaig
O. E.bradbury
Hellewell
Albert
Bradbury
George W. Gue
EB. F. Ritchie
Evanston National Bank
Tunnel Building Like Life-Plus $8,000,000 Bill for Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad advances a 700‑foot Aspen Wyoming tunnel with 250 workers using 60,000 yards of reinforced concrete and 5,000 tons of steel over more than two years in a project costing about $8,000,000. A photo sequence shows formwork, concrete pours, and extensive reinforcing as the work progresses toward completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad
Aspen
Wyo
Tacific
Omaha Salt Lake City
Aeviens
Pure water study shows dental decay high in Wyoming children
State health officials report that in Big Piney Pinedale and nearby towns 536 children were examined and treated with a 2 percent sodium fluoride solution. Findings show rising decay with age, with 93.7 percent of nine year olds affected and a peak near 100 percent by age 15 to 17. The area lacks local dental care, and a Public Health Service team has treated nearly 7400 Wyoming children since last October.
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Wyoming
State Department of Public Health
U. S. Public Health Service
Big Piney
Pinedale
Boulder
Daniel
Cora
la Barge
Culper
Big Pine
Pinedale-Big Pineyares
Health Department
U. S. Public Health Se
Jackson
Sheridan County
Cemetery Clean Up Day Saturday May 21 1949
Wext Saturday May 21 has been designated as Cemetery Clean Up Day. Interested people are asked to turn out and help make the necessary improvements before Memorial Day. Men should bring rakes hoes and shovels and women should bring lunch. Coffee will be served.
Church Service Time Change at St John the Baptist
Episcopal St John the Baptist Church announces services begin at 9 06 a m starting May 1 with Rev Judson Leeman leading the parish in worship and prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John the Baptist (Episcopal) Church
Judson
Leeman
International Harvester Loans 36 Trucks To U S For Bond Drive
International Harvester announced it has supplied 30 tractors to the U S Treasury for the “Am erous Onocrmity Drive” savings bond campaign running May 16 to June 30. The trucks haul 39 Freehaw trailers each carrying two covered wagons, replicas of the 1849 Gold Rush conveyance, to states via air forces.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
United States
Treasury Department
Army
Navy
Key States
Independence
Truman
Liberty Crenof
Court House Square
California
Oreton
Thoerenienen
Jackson County
Truan
U.S
Staeg Bond
Geornors
Paul A. Dever
Massachueetts
Atlantic
Parl Warren
Patilie Coasht
Forrest
Smith
Mise
Earth
Samuel Wheeton
Army and Navy Air Forces
Utah
Indenendense
the Treasury
John V. Sayrer
Reverend Henry W. Johnson to Lead Sunday Services
Reverend Henry W. Johnson, superintendent of Intermountain Congregational Churches, will conduct services at the Congregational Church Sunday evening at 7:00 PM. He is scheduled to preach and lead the worship, inviting all members of the community to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Johnson
Intermountain Congregational Churches
Congregational Church
Danse and Lunch for Cancer Fund Drive at Community Hall
A dance and supper to raise funds for the cancer drive will be held at the Community Hall on Saturday May 21 at 9 00 pm The program includes square and ballroom dancing with various callers Dr Judson Leeman Dick Robertson Frank Pearsley and Bob O Neil The penny dance adds a fun feature and the Homemakers Club serves sandwiches and coffee Proceeds go to the cancer fund with no individual shelling requested Large attendance is anticipated from Big Piney Kemmerer Daniel Pinedale Carpet LaBarge and Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Piney
Judson Leeman
Pinedale
Dick Robertson
Jackson
Frank Pearsley
Bob O'Neil
Homemaekrs Club
Midmieht
Kemmerer
Daniel
Carpet
LaBarge
Willer
Cancer Fund
Sublette County Artist Guild Meets in Pine Dale
The Sublette County Artist's Guild held a 1:30 luncheon at Mrs. Paul Pape's Pine Dale home. Members reviewed essays for the annual contest with the theme Pioneers of Sublette County. Winners to be announced later and prize pieces to run in local papers. Next meeting set for May 26 at Mrs. Robert O'Neil's Big Piney home at 12:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sublette County
Paul Pape
Pinedale
Mesdammes Bert Glark
Robert O'Neil
Lynn Sarzens
Blood typing drives aid life saving urged by Red Cross
A public notice urges blood typing and registration programs sponsored by Red Cross chapters in Rock Springs Wyoming and Jackson area. It notes non profit basis with expenses paid, calls for donors at Sweetwater Memorial Hospital and St John’s Hospital, and highlights a Sublette County initiative. It also covers an all school picnic under PTA at Floyd Spencer Ranch on May 27 with races, baseball and prizes. Mr and Mrs Arthur Weber recently returned from Seattle after visiting Mrs Weber’s parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater Memorial Hospital
Rock Springs
Wyoming
Rock, Springs
Mike
American Red Cross
Sublette County
Floyd Spencer Ranch
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Wyoming Aeronautics Commission
Cheyenne
C. EK
Buddy" Pfauzht
Commission
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Wyooming
Richowy
Faught
Natural Resources
Wyoming Commerce and Industry Commission
E. C G. Anderson
Anderson
Commerce and Industry Commission
Sinclair Refining Company
Department of Interior
Bureau of Mines
Evanston Bank
Nternational Harvester
U. S
Enomous Dem
Sayvings
Seblette County
Artist's Guild
P.T. A
Mrs
Arthur Weber
Seattle
Wash
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