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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1908
Page
7
A vintage advert proclaims Cream It as the finest faced cream for banishing blemishes and keeping the complexion right. It claims absolute safety for all skin types under all conditions and positions the product as indispensable for fair women.
The Cheyenne Leader listing shows The Leader Publishing Co with WM A Bartlett and Charles Thompson as associates and T Joe Cahill noted as City Circulator.
The district court is in session and the state supreme court was in session yesterday. Final exams proceed in city schools while Cheyenne streams report flood height. Memorial Day plans are well advanced for next Saturday. Denver boxer Young Gana seeks a match with Magasy School of Cheyenne. Denver artist Charles Partridge Adams stopping at Inter-Ocean hotel. Indian witnesses in U S court draw street attention. County roads and the city Fort Rungell link are in poor condition. Rain delayed construction but work resumed yesterday morning. Henry Hecker’s new residence on Ferguson and Twenty Sixth nearing completion. William H Cuthbertson and Miss Anna D Knight, both of Denver, married in Cheyenne yesterday. Lt Tooms and Surgeon Wickes, U S N, arrived to examine recruits. Dr Alexander J McIvor-Tyndall gave a lecture at Atlas theater on the Message of the Swastika. Hugh McMillan resigns from John Harrington store. Charles Roy to succeed. Medical interne applicants for the state hospital for the insane to be examined in Cheyenne June 17. Washakie Hydro-Carbon Mining Co files incorporation papers with $500,000 capital, to operate in Fremont county and beyond.
This week will bring a greater crowd to our store with bargains on taffeta silk petticoats silk ruffie priced at 4 75 each and many fashion items including gloves ribbed vests tablecloths and waists. Yard goods and hosiery are offered in multiple colors and sizes by WM MYERS DRY GOODS CO.
Dineen and Priest reported three Buick cars two touring cars and a roadster Harold Pagland purchased one touring car The remaining two Buick touring cars are stock cars Wright and Lawson Capitol garage owners ordered two Great Smith touring cars one for Judge J A Riner and one for John Whittaker
The Worthing state fair commission met in Douglas Wyoming on May 25 to plan the September 29 event. Officers include Robert D. Carey president Cc H McWhinnie secretary Russell Thorpe treasurer B J Bell and Martin Schwab Jr advisory board J M Wilson J De Forest Richards T David. The plan features over 6000 in prizes, expanded livestock agricultural and mineral displays, special trains, reduced rail rates and nightly entertainment including polo bucking contests wild West shows and a large horse show.
William Conn, a millionaire Elkhart Indiana instrument maker, and his seventy horsepower car became stuck in a canyon near Mellor ranch while en route east. Ranchers built a way out, freeing the vehicle after rescue. The unknown man killed in a Gem saloon chair in Rock Springs is identified as William Stafford, a Rawhide gambler, whose fatal knife wound dates to a drunken Morgan Utah brawl. Stafford is buried at county expense.
Negotiations are under way for a first class street carnival company to appear during fall week with vaudeville acts dances pyrotechnic displays and more. The commission aims to stage the grandest fair yet seen in the state to draw larger crowds.
Cheyenne official Frank Bond, chief clerk of the general land office in Washington, inadvertently reads a Worland Grit obituary noting his death. The Wyoming piece praised his bird protection work and lamented his supposed demise while Bond carried on with duties in Washington.
Graduation program seats reserved for immediate relatives of graduates and for high school choruses. General public seating first come, first served. Program begins at p. m. May 28.
Mrs Julia Parker will be pleased to wait on you for Spirella corsets on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Phone 189 red, 1609 Warren avenue.
Palace Pharmacy Drug Co offers Man Zan Pile Remedy priced at 60 with guaranteed readiness. One application promises prompt relief to all forms of piles and aids soothing and healing.
A son was born to the wife of Ed Rapp a well known Union Pacific fireman who runs between Cheyenne and Sidney Mrs Rapp and the baby are reported progressing satisfactorily
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