Graduation Address by Mildred Bertram at Big Piney High
Mildred Bertram delivers a 1939 valedictorian style talk at Big Piney High School, comparing education to farming. She traces four years from grade school to graduation, praising the school’s growth, community support, and activities, and urging persistence through college. She notes scenery changes from sagebrush to green fields and thanks faculty, students, and locals.
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United States
Big Piney High School
Ckay
Big Piney
Yellowstone
Big Piney High
Idaho
Anderson Oil Company opens Marbleton office and rigs planned
J CG Anderson of the J C G Anderson Oil Company of Southern California arrived Monday by Overstage Bus Line with rig builders carpenters and staff. They set up offices in the old Marbleton Bank building and will reside at the Marbleton hotel. Two rigs planned on the old Marbleton townsite and Dan H Budd ranch as they drill leases in the area. Miss Leslie Coole leaves for Ogden Utah to spend summer with a sister.
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J. CG. Anderson
J. CG. Anderson Oil Company
Southern California
Marbleton Bank
Marbleton
Marbleton Hotel
Anderson
Dan, H. Budd Ranch
Anderson Company
Basin Holding Plans Water Development in Green River Basin
Basin Holding Company seeks $2,000,000 federal funding to launch a 52 reservoir and distribution system plan in southwestern Wyoming. State Engineer approves blanket unit rights for the Green River Basin, targeting 4,000,000 acres for irrigation improvements. Perry W Jenkins notes this marks pivotal news for regional development and water conservation. Miss Mildred Ankel returns to Nebraska for school vacation.
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Wyoming
Green River
I. C. Bishopp
Green River Basin Development Company
Utue
Boulder Dam
Perry W Jenkins
Big Piney
State Planning and Water Conservation Board
Jenkins
Mildred Ankel
Nebraska
Commencement Exercises Colorful Local High School Event
Big Piney High School held commencement exercises in the community hall with local performers providing entertainment. Mildred Bertram received scholarships and the valedictory. Anton Subic earned the English composition medal. letters were awarded for music, athletics, and clean attendance.
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Big Piney High School
Deveraux
Sorrengs
Girls’ Glee Club
Ray Guild
Glee Club
Giensshin
Cornelia Fear
Keith McNinch
Tharon Mickelton
Phillips Howerton
Anton Subic
Mildred Bert-ram
University of Wyoming
Henneger Business College
Miss Schwab
Ankel
Sebastian
Miller
Carter
Barcarolle
Tales of Hoffman
Mildred Bertram
Miss Bertram
Merrill Moffat
Emer McGraw
Donald Hopkins
Juanita Thomson
Hayden
Mgr
Ronealio
Reverend Guild
Rone Alio
Marjory Subic
Big Piney
Edward Carr
Eunice McGraw
Lenora Baldwin
Franklin Willoughby
Edward Car
John McGraw
Patrick Johnson
Hugh Wardell
Raleigh
Tony Subic
Marvis Howerton
Guy Carr
Charles Stacy
Dudley Miles
Robert Davis
Arthur Ray
Sammy Sage Loses Fingers in Dynamite Cap Blast
Sammy Sage 18 of this place was rushed Monday from Fall River Basin to Wyoming General hospital Rock Springs after touching a dynamite cap with fuse on a tree. The blast amputated his left thumb and index finger at the first joints. Phillip Marinck, nearby, suffered facial cuts but no serious injuries. Henry Jozs carried Sage to Buck Piney, where his mother and relatives took him to the hospital.
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Sammy Sage
Joseph Sage
Wyoming General Hospital
Rock Springs
Fall River Basin
Sage
Phillip Marinck
Sege
Tattle
Phillip Merinde
Henry Jozs
Bix Piney
Peggy
Odd and Interesting Facts About Wye
Odd and Interesting Facts About Wye recounts Wyoming history from the Federal Writers Project. It notes weather disasters, wool strikes, a Cheyenne opium raid, and regional figures such as Fat Evarts and Rev. Levis Thompson, with local visits and community notices.
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Wye
Wyoming
Federal Writers” Project
Agnes Wright Spring
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American Legion
Leslie Coole
Ogden
Utah
Southwest
Wwe
Kemmerer
Henry Budd Ranch
Granite Hot Springs
Sheepnin
Lander Country
Cheyenne
Western Writers’ Association
Cody
Fat Evarts
Fremont County
National Wool Warchese
Chicago
Otto
Levis
Thompson
Ciras
M. E. Church
Walter McNeil
Walter Yose
Salt Lake
Dad
William McGinnis of
LaBarge
Walter Ball
J. BH. Deveraux
Basin
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