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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1915
Page
1
Clarence N. Mershon of Cora Wyoming and Roxie R. Roach of Warrensburg Missouri wed at noon Thursday in the Mershon home of Cora. Rev. D D Reese officiated. The couple will settle on the Mershon ranch with a family dinner and well wishes from friends.
Classified ad offers a complete 26 volume encyclopedia Britannia for sale at 1 dollar per volume. Seller listed as D. D. Reese.
Burleigh Binning offers two hundred tons of hay and pasture for sale in Cora Wyoming. Details include location and contact for prospective buyers.
1915 Model Ford Touring in California offered for sale. Purchased in July and in fine running condition with new oversized tires shock absorbers circulating pump cushion covers and more. Price 450. Enquire at the Fredell Hotel Big Piney.
For sale 50 head of yearling steers and 60 head steer calves taken before December 1. C. G. Jewett, Leita, Wyoming.
Last Saturday evening a Buick truck carried nine pleasure seekers from Piney to the Justin Pomeroy ranch for a dance. The party included Misses Hallett Goodwin Bailey Nordstrom Solon and Messrs Bess Jensen John and R A Young. Rain followed the trip as the party danced to Jennings and a Kemmerer violinist, with midnight supper and morning cake and coffee for departures.
Receipts remain liberal with a special heavy run today. General market prices run 15 to 20 lower than last week. Smaller receipts expected to stimulate value. Union Stock Yards Company.
Community notes Steve Daniels completed purchase of Chas Walker interests in Big Piney including the White Liv ery and Feed Stables on block 20 between Piney Drive and Smith Avenue. Daniels plans hay hauling from the ranch and will stock livery and saddle horses and build a home on a purchased lot. The barn will soon open for business.
The Fall River Basin, famed for elk, deer, sheep and abundant trout, is slated for a permanent camping site expansion. Fred Chapin of the Kemmerer hotel leads a group applying for a 15 year lease to build a club home with a timber and stone lodge, guided by Tod James.
The Ladies Circle meets at Mrs. Frank Travis home on November 19. The 20th Century Club gathers at Mrs. Eugene Noble’s home on Saturday November 20. Frank D. Ball and wife visited from the Double Dishpan ranch on North Muddy this week.
A letter to the Examiner responds to a previous article about husbands of women in male Halloween attire. It claims husbands possessed more than one pair and were not languishing in bed but occupied in a more pleasant way. Jim Fleming visited from the upper country this week.
The Dailey family expresses thanks to friends for kindness and assistance after the death of husband and brother Chas. E. Dailey. Mrs. Dailey and family appreciate the support.
Frank A. Fear of Big Piney received an Arabian colt shipped by express to Opal and loaded on the Whitman truck for delivery to the Big Piney Valley. Fear prides himself on quality driving and saddle stock, believing this colt marks the first of its kind in the area.
A Kemmerer jury bound Dan Crafton over to district court on the charge of killing C. E. Dailey. Subpoenaed witnesses from this area included Dan Creedon Elmer Woodward and Dr. E. L. Hallinan.
Miss Hilda Verlie Bird, 17, died October 20 at LaBarge after two years with tuberculosis of the bone. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Bird. Funeral services were held November 2 at the Holden home with Rev Hawley officiating. The community extends sympathy to the family.
Regular town council session in Big Piney Wyoming adjourned due to no quorum. Mayor L D Tanner with councilors Budd Chapel Whitman present. bills read and approved including Big Piney Mercantile nails and lumber Geo Durnford coal and labor for town hall with adjournment to a future date.
T F J Alexander manager will tour the region with a visiting hotel schedule at Piney Big Piney Marbeton Daniel Foley’s Pinedale from Nov 20 to 25. The firm, one of Salt Lake’s oldest optics houses, promises high quality work and offers last chance eye service this year.
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