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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
8
R B Davidson will act as marshal and direct divisions for the parade. The procession starts at Twenty aweet and Capitol and follows Seventeenth to Warren, then Sixteenth, Pi C, Seventeenth to Carey, to Nineteenth street and the gymnasium. The mass meeting moves indoors due to muddy streets.
A French officer with 7 wounds and 10 shell fragments in his body notes wounds are less serious for healthy soldiers. Dr John Calhoun of Pittsburgh, now base hospital officer in Montgomery, saves Private Harry McKenzie in a daring chest and lung operation. A Montgomery surgeon praises base hospital care and faith in American soldiers.
Weather bureau in Cheyenne says the storm is completely over with moisture reported across the state. Recordings show Yellowstone Park 0.44 inches, Sheridan 1.26, Lander 1.46, Cheyenne 1.10 inches. snow on ground peaked at 4.7 inches while total snowfall since the storm began reached 10.6 inches.
Three top women swimmers Thelms Darby Olga Dorfaer and Mme Claire Galligan prepare to compete tonight under Central A. A. U. auspices at the Hit Nolo Athletic Club in Chicago hoping to topple the world's record.
Funeral services for Gordon, the brakeman killed at Buford Tuesday morning, will be held at the Barly undertaking late Saturday afternoon. His body will be shipped to Latham Kansas for burial. Relatives arrived Friday to arrange the arrangements.
Firemen on railroads struggle with meatless breakfasts as early starts and long shifts force coal shoveling for hours. Reports claim some crews work four to five hours, while others endure eight to fourteen hour trips from Sidney to Cheyenne. Exemptions to food rulings are urged by supporters.
Long distance service between Cheyenne and Laramie Rawlins was down from 10 10 p m Wednesday to 5 p m Thursday as sleet froze to wires making them inch thick. The Sherman hill storm caused seventy five breaks. Crews fought three foot snow drifts to repair then returned to service once sleet melted.
John Accruso, manager of the pool hall at 418 West Lincoln Highway, was fined $100 in police court for allowing gambling games to be run in his establishment. The case stemmed from a man who won $5 at Twenty-one, was led to a back room, and robbed of his $1 and the rest of his cash.
Irving A Sherlock Burbeth Cal began studying the poultry business after getting his first chickens. He now owns 6000 hens laying eggs year round, keeping more than 100 per hen yearly. His three acres include houses yards and feed plots. Each spring he buys 15000 to 5 baby chicks and rears them to maturity.
A jumble of local notices and arrivals fills Cheyenne as J H H Reed visits from Ann Arbor, W H Huntley stays from Sheridan, W J Doyle drops by from Casper, and other residents arrive. Officials register at the Plains hotel while public notaries are appointed in Kirby, Buffalo, and Wun niche.
Paris theaters show mixed fortunes in 1917 with Odeon earning 1 153 264 francs down from 1 871 557 in 1918, Ambigu up to 676 071 francs, Antoine up to 1 202 7438 francs, while Opera Comique drops from 3 948 732 francs to 2 50 744 for 1017. Comedie Francaise records 1 711 997 francs, Chatelet 649 676 francs.
Ora Ote Lewis, 21, youngest of the Lewia brothers, was hanged for the April 4 1916 murder of Patrolman McKeenna. The robbing spree linked to nearly $200,000 in loot ended with this execution two years after the crime.
Mrs. Richard Jones buys a 24 pound sack of four under wartime regulation. The article explains how food administration controls transfers from farmer to consumer, showing that price, wheat use, and mill costs determine the flour price and who profits, with a detailed figure table.
W D Clifton general freight agent of the Union Pacific is transferred to Connell Bluffs Iowa to replace J J Sherlock who is pensioned after long service Clifton will depart Cheyenne immediately Coarlen D Trwip livestock agent is named to succeed Clifton and will move to Cheyenne
Charles Smith of Horse Creek Wyoming, an Alsatian who settled here over a quarter century ago, has paid the full $1000 in war savings certificates. He subscribed early in the war savings drive and now also holds Liberty bonds. He hopes to aid shipbuilding in the United States and has built wealth in stock raising. The piece notes his family loyalties and long journey from Alsace to America.
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