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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1900
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader promotes Christmas shopping at City Market with choice young turkeys and the best chickens ducks and geese. Fresh oysters game and fab arrive daily. Morrells Iowa Pride hams and bacon and Lily brand pure Leaf Lard are highlighted as superior.
The piece highlights gift ideas from J. F. Jenkins at 217 West Sixteenth Street and Palace Drug Co. with slippers or shoes, military brushes, leather wallets, and silver fittings. It also notes Buechner & Sons as busiest jeweler with engraving, ring work, and a rich, varied stock for Christmas orders.
Town notes report Prof Naperstek fever at home and the IC S car moving east. Jack Long becomes day yardmaster after Mr Keeshan. Meason of Saratoga Wyoming receives a Pension raise to 144 dollars monthly. Rumor hints Clara Underwood wedding to a Denver businessman. Church services and school uniforms noted. Modern Woodmen lodge installed in Guernsey. Railroad worker Christensen hospitalized with rheumatism. Christmas services set at Scandinavian Lutheran church. Colonel Lionel Chapman of gas artillery, formerly of Tranavaal, is tied to Mrs Douglas Williams of Laramie. Children hang stockings tonight for Christmas Eve.
In district court Herman Well nite as assignee of Henry A. Rice pursues revival of a 1986 judgment of 1696 dollars with interest. Trinity Gerald Lutheran Church hosts Christmas services with children’s programs. Two Colorado couples married today include Edwin J. Clarke with Mary Johnston of Denver and Wm N. Hughes with Jennie Smith of Cripple Creek.
Harold Robinson, eighteen, was arrested on suspicion of stealing a gold bracelet from Mrs. Eggers at the George residence. The case rests on circumstantial evidence. lacking proof, police released him last night. He had claimed inheritance funds and appeared involved in a local dispute with a rival suitor.
Mr J F Schmitt of the Elk bowling alley sends the Leader a box of fine cigars which are quickly sampled. A good time is promised to all who attend the Sonergan dance in Keefe hall on Thursday evening with admission two cents.
All are invited to a turkey lunch and dance at Keefe hall on Thursday evening December 27. Troop A of Keefe hall armory hosts the evening with a dress parade and a coke walk. Admission is 50 cents. N Ternes' Dry Goods Store notes wraps now in stock at low prices.
A fireman, F. Alkire, was seriously injured at Rock River when the freight engine he piloted was dragged by a stockyard gate. Thirty workers were discharged at Rawlins shops amid light activity elsewhere. A Guernsey wreck damaged a flat car and a passenger coach, with a brakeman unable to stop two moving coaches in high wind.
In Washington on December 23 Senator Warren urged Secretary Hitchcock to direct the geological survey to examine the streams supplying Cheyenne’s water and to report on the feasibility and cost of building storage reservoirs on those streams.
A visit to the Warren Mercantile Company shows strong Christmas sales with stock still ample. Manager Smith works on plans for the new year and readiness to enter 1901, aiming for the largest business volume in its history.
Col. E. P. Snow, secretary of the state board of sheep commissioners, returns from Montana after causing the arrest of stockmen crossing the line into Wyoming. Two men faced a justice at Billings and were held on two thousand dollar bonds. Indian photos at Stimson are authentic originals, printed on special paper and suitable for a Xmas present.
In the church service notes Rev. Davis praised nineteenth century achievements over earlier ages, praising material and moral progress and Christian influence. Rev. Tarbill emphasized simple Christian faith with examples of reliance on God in adversity. Rev. Harmon H. McQuakin discussed the Magi, their gifts, and worship, urging devotion to the newborn King in a sermon from St. John.
The schedule lists low mass at 8:00 and high mass at 10:30 led by Rev. Bishop Lenihan and Rev. P A Basse with a benediction after the last mass. Sermon by Rev. George M Bryant and musical program directed by the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus features choir and orchestral accompaniment. Collection supports the church.
The passage notes that belief in the resurrection rests on faith rather than personal evidence, while the Christmas season is universally observed to support this core tenet. It highlights the link between festive observance and doctrinal belief in the resurrection.
Stimson recommends the Anest collection of Indian photographs in the west and invites attendees to join a turkey lunch event on Christmas night at the Elk club.
The removal sale at N A Andrus store crowds customers and offers deep discounts as stock is cleared for moving day. The new opera house corner jewelry shop will be one of the west's finest, with a large stock and prime corner location. Mr Andrus will continue the sale in coming days inviting shoppers to buy needed articles. Ney's Tonight offers home made cigars for Christmas presents.
Under the new army bill sixteen regiments are to be organized. Major promotions include Lieut Col Wm A Vin Horn, formerly with the infantry at Fort Russell, now given command of a regiment. Lieut Col Corliva is also made full colonel.
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