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Home builder urges quick action to lock in lumber costs before prices rise next year. Advertises many years of experience and offers ideas to save money on a home project.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
4
Home builder urges quick action to lock in lumber costs before prices rise next year. Advertises many years of experience and offers ideas to save money on a home project.
P. J. Black operates a yard at the intersection of 16th Street and Van Lennen Street in Wyoming. The notice lists property or business location details for public record.
Delegates from across Wyoming gather in the city for the twenty fourth annual Wyoming State Sunday School association convention. Marion Lawrence, International Secretary, presides with a full program of devotional services, reports, and lectures across today and tomorrow, including banquets and praise services.
F W Musselman of Luther visited Cheyenne to sell tickets for a School Days dance set for September 12. Proceeds will fund a school bell and bell tower at Luther public school, as Luther lies 26 miles east of Cheyenne.
The committee for the Industrial club outing met to arrange prizes for the events. Three prizes are set for each of more than twenty events and a full list will be published in the Tribune and Leader.
The Wyoming militia team finished thirty first among fifty at Camp Perry. Sergeant L C Bishop led with 249 aggregate, followed by Captain Otto Swoboda with 241. Also appears an advertisement for Wood's Liver Medicine in squid form by Palace Pharmacy Drug Co.
A.8 Owen and his niece Miss Ball depart Birth Ingham for Yellowstone Park in an automobile. They are joined by Mr and Mrs J T Burgaw who will accompany them as far as Rawlins yesterday morning.
Warns that kidney trouble is an insidious disease and may become fatal before detection. Recommends Foley's Kidney Cure at first signs to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease and diabetes. Sold by A. E. Roedel.
County jail nearing capacity warrants issued early. Young Men's Literary Club meets at Carnegie library. Board of county commissioners finishes September session. Revolutionary era children picnic at Lake Mahpaluetah. Salvation Army chapters hold nightly services in the business district. Ed Schoel family returns from Granite Springs outing. Gill block rising on Capitol avenue. A marriage license issued to Frank Agnew and Mamie Carmichael. Dorothy Naifer and Edward Putta wed in Cheyenne. Dismantling Cheyenne Light plant proceeds rapidly. George Rodgers and Nellie Sharon granted marriage license. Fort Russell soldiers with feet shackles work on post streets. J H Crouse visits Golden for newborn daughter. Engineering corps encamped near Lake Minnehaha march to Big Springs. Creed brothers sentenced for refrigerator car burglary to Rawlins prison. C. T. Bray commences extensive water system work on Twenty-first Street. Josephine Callwell granted divorce from Charles Callwell. Lake Minnehaha at peak. skeeters scarce. picnic crowds on shore. Union Pacific No. 6 begins stops at Luther and Pine Bluffs aiding shoppers. Park addition laid out with 40x125 ft plots and 60 ft streets, 80 ft near streetcar line. Free concert announced for Frontier Park next Sunday afternoon. Two Flags Mining & Leasing Company files Articles of Incorporation with $1,500,000 capital in Albany County.
Report from Willow Creek notes Harry Minor cut a cross cut tunnel in the Iron Clad group on the 100 foot level. Assays show 163 ounces silver, 18 dollars gold, and copper values around 110 dollars per ton in three metals. Observers say this high silver value may spark renewed interest in silver prospects in Copper Mountain Willow Creek. Nearby, Madole and Berkley of Thermopolis reportedly opened a rich free gold quartz lode three miles west of the Liberty post office, though verification is limited.
The Lander Journal notes Riverton Mayor E. H. Ryan’s 20 acres—once sagebrush—that now yield 100 bushels of oats per acre and crops of cantaloupes, watermelons, and tomatoes. He foresees $2,000 to $2,500 yearly, plus strawberries, alfalfa hay, chickens, and cows, proving irrigated land can support a comfortable life with careful farming.
From the Big Bend Bazoo a Riverton Republican note reports Old Mother Hopkins showing a potato sample that resembles a pigeon egg. It mentions a growing school population requiring a new desk and potential extra room. A local incident dismisses a man’s bid to join boys on a hunting trip amid a crude offer.
Chairman D. N. Stickney of the Democratic state committee has established headquarters in the Masten building at Ferguson and Sixteenth Streets. Three rooms are provided for campaign use with an entrance on Ferguson Street. In a few days the official banner will be hung across the street between the headquarters and Idelman block.
Mrs Hock was surprised when Capitol Rebeckah Lodge No 23 members visited her home and presented a fine Rebeckah membership jewel. Colonel R A Proctor gave the presentation speech and Mrs Beck thanked the group. Light refreshments followed.
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