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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1909
Page
4
Editor H J Peterson urges Casper's women to press the Club Improvement drive with business support. The piece lauds prior Lander efforts, notes plans for a town hall program next Tuesday, and praises Douglas hotel news along with local Easter events and upcoming sales and rentals.
Instructions to registers and receivers on coal land patent elections under the 1900 act, notice of sixty day election period, and coal reservations. Casper Fire Department adopts a resolution urging Wyoming Attorney General to compel insurance companies to pay fire tax levies and enforce statutes. call for action. Fresh strawberries at Schulte brothers.
Miss Augusta Adams visited from Bucknum yesterday. Schulte brothers offer fresh strawberries with Hardy sales pitches. Mrs M Ryan left for Chadron to visit a friend. Henderson and Lee of Cheyenne are in town for business.
Pursued by runaway cars down mine slope at Cumberland Perie Pittinger made a gallant race for life but was overtaken and cut to pieces. Douglas residents pledge 35000 of an 850000 hotel stock if an experienced operator subscribes 15000 and runs the place. The sheepherder MacKenzie was found on the Moneta prairie shot through the forehead still clutching a revolver. death weeks earlier. Four Kirby buildings burned, contents largely saved. 11-year-old Peter Facinelli, of Dallas, is charged with horse theft, rode it 125 miles to Rock Springs sold for 30 and spent much on a ticket home. Charles Brower, 62, died after joe wagon accident while holding a dog. Col E J Bell plans to leave for Alberta to bet 10000 he can raise more cats per acre on Laramie plains than anywhere else, challenging the Alberta board of trade.
Notice announces the dissolution of the firm Semitt & Esmay at Douglas Wyoming dated April 2 1900. J H Schmidt retires and J H Esmay assumes all firm accounts to be paid to him. Signatures Joan C Schmidt and Joan H Esmay authenticate the dissolution.
The State Veterinarian under Wyoming law declares a quarantine area north of the North Platte River from the guide meridian west of Casper to the state line. Cattle are prohibited from crossing south of the river until dipped in an approved dip or inspected by authorities. Quarantine takes effect April 1, 1909 at 6 a.m. in Cheyenne.
For Sale. The only hotel in Douglas a thriving city home of the state fair. Best proposition on the market today. For full particulars write D C Davis Douglas Wyo.
City water lawn and trees included in a three room house with a barn in the west part of town. Terms offer one half cash balance to suit purchaser. Contact Jerry Donivan.
Tan Clark of Casper Wyoming offers a four-room house on the southwest side of Casper on David street for sale. Inquiries directed to A J Forbs of Casper Wyoming.
Ida Hewes has been sick but now resumes duties as postmistress. A potential blaze at the Rhinoceros lunch room Tuesday night was stopped when a waiter acted quickly as a gasoline tank on a coffee boiler caught fire. it was carried out and thrown into the street, preventing a larger fire.
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