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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1909
Page
8
The Laramie High School football team toured Casper and Douglas after a Casper visit. Casper defeated Laramie 26 to 0 in Casper with generous hospitality and heavy play. Douglas then beat Laramie early, but Laramie forfeited the game 1 to 0 due to an offside dispute and referee questions.
The article describes dance as strenuous exercise and estimates nightly distances covered by dancers and partners. It cites the average waltz turn as over thirteen hundred yards, ma aurka at about one thousand fifty, polka just under a thousand, and notes quadrilles as the record holders with each dance covering substantial ground.
The Casper team won 26 to 0 against Laramie. Students and band greeted the visitors at the train and Casper players hosted them afterward. Casper plans to play Cheyenne next, with high schoolers boasting strong academics and a 70 percent average. The town awaits new songs, yells, a Douglas visit on the 20th, and a Library Society program Friday.
Casper residents were alarmed Monday after a telegram from the Casper National Bank claimed death by accident of James and Tom Cosgriff of Salt Lake and Cheyenne. The report proved false, the Cosgrifts later found safe en route to Wyoming. A Sunday-night taxi crash on Jackson Boulevard killed two passengers a woman and a man and the driver, with initial belief the Cosgritts were aboard.
The State Board of Charity and Reform after opening bids for the Casper hospital construction deemed all bids too high and rejected them. No further action was taken at the meeting, delaying the building's erection considerably.
Scrip for sale dealer C. F. Maurer in Douglas offers guaranteed Soldier's National Homestead Scrip in forty and eighty piece units. The scrip can be used at any time on agricultural land on a first come, first served basis.
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