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Newspaper

Cheyenne State Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Apr 05, 1918

Page

16

23 Divisions Are in Big Parade

R B. Davidson will act as marshal directing divisions to form for the parade. The route runs from Twenty sweet and Capitol avenue Seventeenth street east to Warren avenue south to Sixteenth street east to Carey avenue north to Nineteenth street and to the gymnasium for the mass meeting. Muddy streets forced the meeting from the city park to the gymnasium auditorium. Greeley visitor F D Randolph was in Cheyenne on business from Greeley Saturday.

R. B. Davidson

Wounds Not Much Says Man with 96 Wounds

A veteran French colonel with 96 wounds and 10 shell fragments praised medical care at the front and cited surviving severe injuries. Dr. John Calhoun in Montgomery, Alabama, saved a badly injured Private Harry McKenzie, sewing up his lung and repairing damage, enabling a return to service.

Kuller Dercle Clinical Congress of Surgeons Chicago John ©. Calhoun Pittsburg Hoapital Montgomery Ala Uncle Sam Sarkerr Harry McKenzie Ohio Calhoun Sam

Storm Over, Weather Office Reports In Cheyenne

From the Cheyenne weather office the storm is declared finished across the state with moisture reports. Park observatories log Yellowstone 0.44 inches, Sheridan 1.26, Lander 1.46, Cheyenne 1.10 inches, and snowpack peak at 4.7 inches, total snowfall since onset 10.6 inches.

Cheyenne United States Weather Shore Yellowstone Park Sheridan Lander

Star women swimmers vie for world record at Hit Nolo Club

Thelms Darby of Indianapolis Olga Dorfaer of Philadelphia and Mme Claire Galligan will swim tonight at the Hit Nolo Athletic Club under the Central A. A. C. to challenge a world record. The meet gathers three of the era’s top women swimmers in a bid for glory and a new mark.

Hy United Press Chicago Pil April S.aquatic Huge Hit Nolo Athletic Club Miss Thelms Darby Indianapolis Mises Olga Dorfaer Philadelphia Mme Claire Galligan Central A. A. OC

Gordon Funeral Saturday for Buford brakeman FE

Funeral services for Gordon, the brakeman killed Tuesday morning at Buford, will be held Saturday afternoon at the Barly undertaking. The body will be shipped to Latham Kansas for burial. Relatives arrived Friday to take charge of the arrangements.

Gordon Buford Barly Latham Kan Hwy

Meatless meals burden railroad firemen on early shifts

Railway firemen face tough mornings as meatless breakfasts slow stamina on long runs from Sidney to Cheyenne. Crews report eight to fourteen hour shifts with coal shoveling between breakfast and lunch and little to eat before reaching terminal. Some advocate exemptions to meal rules amid fatigue.

Estretch Sidney Cheyenne

Wires Snapped by Sleet Cut Cheyenne to West Links

Long distance service between Cheyenne and Laramie and Rawlins was out from 10:10 p m Wednesday to 5 p m Thursday due to sleet on Sherman hill. Wires, frozen to an inch thick, broke in seventy five places as crews trekked through three foot snow drifts to repair. Two men remained at the company cabin to maintain service until thaw. Communication was restored.

Cheyenne Laramie Rawlins Local Telephone Company Sherman Hill Telephone Company

Mexican pool hall manager fined for gambling games

John Accruso, manager of a pool hall at 418 West Lincoln Highway, was fined $100 in police court for allowing gambling games. The case arose after a Mexican man won $5 at Twenty-one, was attacked in the back room, and robbed of his $1 plus all his money.

John Accruso West Lincoln Highway

Worth a Crow He Has 6000 Hens

Irv ing A Sherlock Burbeth Cal began poultry studies with a few chickens. Now he owns 6000 laying hens across three acres of land. He uses the land to grow feed and buys 15000 to 50000 baby chicks each spring to raise in brood houses.

Irving A Sherlock Burbeth Cal

Local Notices and Visitors Highlight Cheyenne Scene

Public notices list notaries appointed Philip Harr F E Lucas and Charles H Wunn iche Friday. Cheyenne welcomes visitors J H Reed from Ann Arbor W H Huntley from Sheridan W J Doyle from Casper E Arnold from Lusk and R M Ferguson from Fort Collins. Snow melts leaving muddy streets as many officers register at the Plains hotel.

Philip Harr Kirby F. E. Lucas Buffalo Charles H. Wunniche

Theaters in Paris Postwar Receipts Mix Up

Paris theaters show varied box office fortunes for 1917 against 1913. Odeon receipts totaled 871 557 francs in 1918 vs 1 153 264 in 1917, Ambigu 676 071 in 1917, Antoine 1 202 7438 francs in 1917, Opera Comique declined from 3 948 732 francs in 1913 to 2 50 744 in 1917, Comedie Francaise at 1 711 997 francs, Chatelet 649 676 francs, with other houses and performers listed.

Paris Odeon Ambigu France Antoine Opera Comique Comedie Francaise Chatelet

Missouri's Last Hanging Reported In 1916 Case

Missouri's last legal hanging occurred today. Ora Ote Lewis, 21, joined by two Lewia brothers, was executed for the slaying of Patrolman McKeenna tied to robberies yielding nearly 200000 in loot. The crime dated April 4, 1816, marking two years since the murder.

Hy United Press Louis Missouri Ora Ote Lewis Lewia Brothers Hin Ife McKeenna

What You Pay For Is Buying Flour

Washington dispatch explains how wartime regulation of flour drives the price and distribution from farmer to consumer. It details how the Food Administration fixes wheat usage, mills profits, and store costs, contrasting with prewar open markets.

L. Harper Leech Washington Richard Jone America Food Administration Drs. Jones The Jones Hoover Cnat Millex

Transfer of W D Clifton to Connell Bluffs Iowa

W D Clifton general freight agent of the Union Pacific is transferred to Connell Bluffs Iowa to replace J J Sherlock who retires after long service. Coarlen D Triumph livestock agent is named to succeed Clifton. Clifton will leave Cheyenne immediately and the office moves to the new hotel site. railway personnel shuffled amid reorganization.

D. Clifton Union Pacific Connel Bluffs Iowa J. J Sherlock Clifton Cheyenne Connell Bluffe Coarlen D. Trwip Suctead

Charles Smith pays in full for war savings in Wyoming

Charles Smith of Horse Creek Wyoming, an Alsatian immigrant, becomes one of the first to invest $1000 in war savings certificates and Liberty bonds. The notice praises his patriotism, notes his wish to help in shipbuilding, and describes wartime thrift efforts across Wyoming including schoolchildren and four minute speeches.

Charles Smith Horse Creek Wyoming Laramie County Strasburg Alsace France Alsace-Lorraine America Smith Michigan Germany Irvine United States Wyo Europe Liberty Loan State Council of National Defense Maurice Gresham Anson Higby Pougina William C. Irvine Wyoming State Fair Commission Douglas School

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