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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1902
Page
4
Messick Dry Goods Company dissolves partnership Messick and Underwood will quit business. The store closed all day and staff marked down the entire stock with aggressive prices. They defy competitors by offering discounts up to 50 percent to move goods fast.
The sale begins at 8 o clock Monday morning with nearly every item in the house marked from one fourth to one half off regular price. The notice quotes several example prices to illustrate the reductions.
Classified style notes advertise various notions including Eight Papers of Good Hair Pine for 1 cent, Five Cent Quality Hair Pins, Best Make Two Papers for Pins, Large Size Solid Heads and Needle Points, Two Papers for Good Quality Hand Brushes, Large Bottle Pure Indigo Wash Bluing 3 cents, Large Box Tooth Picks, Talcum Powder, Fifteen Cent Percaline Twenty-five Cent Glass, Extra Fine.
A sweeping sale of wash goods advertised with a May first deadline. French lawns and fresh patterns are offered at deep discounts. Shirting percales, dimities, zephyrs and silks are advertised as closing out at low prices amid a bold sales push. Gloves are featured with marked down prices and a promise of value.
Our celebrated Messick gloves and Kid Gloves reduced from 1.50 to clearance price. All sizes and styles included as part of the closeout sale with everything else offered at lower prices, encouraging customers to buy now.
A notice describes children and ladies stockings priced at 4s to 6s for 5 cents and 7 cents for ladies fast black stockings. It promotes No. 115 ladies hose at 15 cents and claims every pair is warranted with closing out prices on drop stitch and fancy double heel and toe stock patterns.
A dated ad lists Turkish Towels 13x28 at 4 cents each and Extra Heavy Linen Towels 17x33 at 12 cents. Cotton crash towling 14 inches wide is also advertised with pricing.
Quality 15 inch wide toweling and eighteen inch toweling plus about twenty dozen sheets and pillow cases offered at a big bargain. Requests to view the items are invited.
Our Ladies' Suit Department boasts a full selection of new goods with heavy discounts to clear stock. Misses' skirts and heavy wool skirtings priced from $2.50 to $3.00, linen crash skirts 65 cents, rag lana sets $5.00, and a large line of $10 suits reduced to about five dollars.
A massive blaze in Rifle Colorado destroyed the J W Hugue & Co business district including a brick general store built last year at ten thousand dollars and a stock valued at twenty thousand. The Hugue bank was also wiped out with most contents consumed as relief work proceeds.
W B Ross files in district court for A A Mahar against William Dinneen liveryman seeking 5000 for injuries from a April 6 runaway. Mahar says permanent injuries deformity and loss of livelihood. four other pallbearers also injured. Claims horses were vicious and driver incompetent. case may set damages for all injured.
Rapid progress in boulevard and Ferguson Street tree planting with posts and wire fences in place. Additional trees to be planted east toward the cemetery. irrigation water flowing, supervised by A G McGregor. Five trees cost residents 2.00 dollars, 50 cents per tree.
The opera house managers secure a May 4 revival of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew with Charles B. Hanford as Petruchio. The James B. Delcher company directs a strong cast including Helen Mela as Katherine and others such as Hayner Knight Naonary Fiske Anderson Moore Browning and John C. Davis.
Preliminary trial clears Conductor Cahill and pit boss John Fitzpatrick of murdering William Harris at Buford. No evidence tied them to the shooting. William Plamond is discharged for lack of evidence to bind over for stealing the express package.
Ted Sloan, noted American jockey, passed through Cheyenne en route to New York from San Francisco. He denounced English race course methods and said he would not seek glory there in the future. If he rides this summer it will be on American courses.
President Roosevelt approved a congressionally appropriated measure allocating 600 dollars for a monument to the Fort Phil Kearney massacre site in Wyoming. The event marked the third major engagement involving Native Americans and U.S. troops in that region.
The annual meeting of the electors of school district No 1 held at Central School agreed to raise teachers salaries and to enlarge Johnson School on the south side. The board will seek state aid to fund the plan and recommends a two mill tax limit to cover costs including new rooms and site improvements.
Mr Dan Carroll of the Peerless Directory Company arrives in Cheyenne tonight to canvass the resident portion of the city. He seeks the correct names and addresses of every adult citizen for a new city directory and asks for generous assistance. no pains or expense will be spared to create the best directory ever issued here.
The Ladies Relief Association will hold its annual meeting at the home of Mrs. G. W. Rockafield, 522 West Twenty-first Street, Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
William Dubois reports the Unity Temple contract let to Henry L. Brenning for 26591 dollars. Competitors J R Grimes of Cheyenne bids 28680 dollars and Mr Perceval of Cheyenne bids 29060 dollars. Excavation will finish soon. total cost including the lot will exceed 30000 dollars.
Postoffice Inspector James B. Bennett is due in a few days to determine necessary repairs to the Elk building to ready it for post office quarters. The bid by the lodge was accepted by the Postoffice Department.
A shoe retailer explains a unique approach by bossing the making of shoes to fit customers. Unlike standard shops that buy unaltered models, this store emphasizes direct control over production, promising savings for both customers and itself due to closely fitting designs.
Samuel May to three years in the penitentiary George Carmichael two years six months George N Linnell two years William Doyle one year and a half John Smith one year and Richard Newport one year each The new convicts will bring total to 210 with capacity 199 plans to use the old Laramie prison as auxiliary housing
Celeste Veta an Italian worker was brought from the Sunrise mines Saturday night and taken to the Pueblo company hospital yesterday with a broken leg from a huge boulder fall at the mines Saturday.
A 2000 foot well will be drilled at a location near White tHo with encouraging indications of CAML 2h Oll. The site on 144 acres owned by Hur et al includes prior sand findings and a well already encountered at 700 feet. The complete outfit of machinery moves toward Fort Steele along property beside the Pacific railroad. Fifty cents monthly.
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