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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
4
The ad invites shoppers to select Easter shoes like choosing flowers in a garden. It promotes Spring footwear as beautiful, airy, seasonable, and affordable, inviting readers to visit the store run by Mr. and Mrs. Good Dresser.
Mrs Helen Marie Warren wife of United States Senator F E Warren died at her sister’s home in Huntington Massachusetts after a two year illness. Funeral in Cheyenne at 2 p m Wednesday from the First Baptist church with a prayer service at the house. Also reports Thomas F Talbot named park commissioner and work to begin soon on city park.
Unusual preparations indicate a highly enjoyable Easter Monday ball by the Boilermakers with strong ticket sales and careful arrangements suggesting a standout event of the season.
The Cheyenne Business College announces its young ladies basketball team to meet Greeley High School next Wednesday. Members listed include Mrs D C Royer Miss Eva Glenn Miss Stella Glenn Miss Annie OConnell Miss Emily Stitser and Miss Lida Emigh.
Stone sawmill opened again after a months long pause with stone hauling to the public building and the ing of stone for the project resuming this morning.
A collection of brief notes lists residents visiting or returning home including A. D. Martin in Laramie, Miss Grace Myer ill, Mrs. William Ralston from Denver, and Meyer Frank visiting Newcastle. Other items mention Wallace Bond, J. H. Collier visiting his brother, Ed Morris party from Green River, William DuBois traveling to Douglas, and several Easter or visiting plans. Also notes a Denver trip by shop foremen and a temporary repair of telegraph lines Cheyenne to Sidney by railroad workers.
Local forecast shows fall with rising temperatures tonight and Sunday for Cheyenne and vicinity. A storm from the lower Mississippi Valley moves northwest to Canada bringing heavy rains east of the Mississippi and continuing rain in New York and the north Atlantic states. Cooler air spreads from high pressure along the north Pacific coast over the Rocky Mountain region. Snow reported in eastern Montana Wyoming Colorado and western Kansas. Alcoholism death reported in Laramie. pension granted to Oliver Goodwin of Lusk. May Bryan, once thought insane in Laramie, recovered fully.
Special to Leader Casper Wyoming March 29 quiet scenes reflect on the Woodard execution. Widow of the dead murderer slept as her husband was hanged. Coroner's jury returns verdict that Woodard died at unknown hands and no investigation will be pursued. Local notes report relayed bank and city happenings, and two new companies form in Laramie while a Salvation Army lecture arrives.
The first bulletins on the Woodard hanging were posted at 7 30 this morning by the Leader. Additional notices appeared in front of the Leader office and in various public places citywide.
Local event listings announce a handkerchief bazaar and bake day sale at the Kent bank block open this evening until closing time. Also scheduled is the Roiler Makers dance and supper at Turner Hall on Monday evening, March 31.
Harry Cid Smith former Cheyenne resident and Western Union manager in Laramie will wed Miss Hannah Peterson in Laramie on May 5. Mrs. William McGuire and Modesto F Ganches traveled to Mexico for their grandfather Modesto F Shanches's will reading, valued at $600000. Captain Ducat, recruiter in Colorado, visited Cheyenne en route to Denver after closing the Laramie recruiting station under Washington orders.
The Easter program was rendered yesterday afternoon by pupils of Miss Lee's room in Central School Sixth grade. The program featured a song by the school and a recitation by Walter Petit.
Three services held in Cheyenne mark an unusually busy day with Oscar Deitrick James Hayes and infant Elisabeth Burke laid to rest. Floral tributes impressed mourners as Rev Forsyth and Father Delahanty offered prayers at East Sixteenth Street residence Longhurst’s parlors and Carr station family. City cemetery burial R activity by friends Grand Army men and relatives.
The Leader reports a Woodard execution edition sold out within thirty minutes at 2 PM. The regular edition followed two hours later. The Lost Springs post office in Converse County Wyoming will be discontinued after April 30th.
The notice promises top prices for fur skins and includes a buyer named E. Clarke with address 617 West Sixteenth Street Cheyenne Wyoming. It also advertises a Methodist Ladies handkerchief sale titled Open Us 9 o'clock this evening.
A portion of the Cheyenne to Rawlins line shows WM. Daley resigning. H. W. Foreman, presently chief dispatcher at Green River, is named as successor. Officials declined to comment, but railroad men deem the report likely. Also: Three Step at Cheyenne dancing academy tonight.
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