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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
3
A high school hosts a Smokeless Smoker Saturday April 12 at 8 pm in the gym. About ten bouts and three wrestling matches are planned with three two minute rounds per bout and up to ten minutes per wrestling match. Spectators will see readings solos and musical numbers. Admission is thirty five cents. Principal Worcester and Superintendent Jessup reportedly plan a two minute knockout exhibition.
Headquarters of the Red Grass asks women in Cheyenne and Laramie county to knit refugee garments. A shipment is to be completed by June 1. The appeal urges putting aside other duties to meet Europe's destitute need and to fulfill the quota in full. Mr. W R Weeks of Lander visited on business.
Mrs Arthur Forbes hosts Gertorie Art Club imenders tomorrow at her home 311 West Twentieth Street The Whither era meets this afternoon at 2 90 with Mrs Wite Kleinke 504 East Seventeenth Street Members to bring hoisting needles Also death notice for Mrs D I Kepler Long Beach California Mr Kepler longtime local bags agent remembered for years
The advertisement pitches a single phonograph that plays all makes at their best and invites readers to try a demonstration to prove its value.
The article notes Judge Cyrus Beard is improving in health and visiting San Diego California. It lists numerous local residents and visitors from Cheyenne Denver Pueblo and Lincoln on various travels and gatherings.
The Junior Auxiliary of St. Mark's plans a victory tea the Saturday after noon with costumes of the lilies. Miss Mary Crown leads hostesses Naomi Burdick Mabel Tillman Julia Williams Isa Bella Stephens Helen Nimmo Mary Puller Hilda Brown. A musical program is planned and a silver offering will aid missions. Westminster Guild meets at Mrs. A P Saunders 122 West Twenty sixth street. Mrs. R N Grace and Miss Clara Dodds assist. Mr and Mrs Henry G Watson announce the birth of a son Henry Griffith Jr born Sunday at Private hospital. Mrs Watson and son are progressing. Mr and Mrs Arthur Piggott return from Denver after a motor trip.
The friends of Mr and Mrs J Garvin will be glad to learn their daughter Katherine has been ill with pneumonia and is now convalescing after several weeks of illness.
Mr and Mrs Horace Jenkins hosted a ninth birthday dinner for son James Jenkins. Mr and Mrs J Carl Metcalf and family were honored guests at Yucata. Mrs Clyde F P Davis held a Kensington tea. decorations featured violets and sweet themes. Master Richard Forbes listed as ill with la grippe. John Suppliger and wife left for Denver after visiting Lincoln.
Mr and Mrs John Yedinak of Rock Springs report three sons in Europe two in France John again hospitalised with influenza health weak and eye wound. George located near Bordeaux. Paul back in New York after Brest trip. Mrs Hugh Robers of Neck Springs says husband arrived from overseas and is at Camp Merritt. Mr and Mrs George St lobbs returned from Fort Collins after death of Virgil O Strickler of Boston. Virgil O Strickler to lecture in Cheyenne. Miss Winifred Grady of Pino llatts accepts clerkship in U S land office. J Brough of Lyman on business. W W Young of Omaha visiting. L J Biler of Salt Lake visiting.
The Social Circle of the Methodist church will meet tomorrow after April 40 with Mrs. J. G. Grab as assistant hostess. Mesdames CG Newlin Hattont ALD Bostwick are listed as members. The date has shifted from Friday to Thursday afternoon.
Visiting nobles from Buffalo Newcastle and other cities attended the royal Shriners gathering in Sheridan on Saturday night. Despite a storm the event proceeded with a formal procession, entertainment including Abriquette Glack and Fat Arbuable, a performance by the Orphouns orchestra, and an informal dance after lunch. Local hosts Mr B C Murray and Mr C L Meyers, with T Williams of Kansas City, hosted guests.
A wedding mood fills the town as Ely Johnson hosts a party with guests including Harry Manbeck and Kilmer Johnson. Spokesman Noy Spurlock presents a keepsake to Billy, signaling the engagement to Milly. A handsome solitarie is placed on Milly’s left hand as dancing continues into the night with local attendees and out of town visitors noted.
General Pershing approved an increased magazine shipment to troops in France and Europe after a shortage cut monthly supply from ten to two tons. The Red Cross mountain division reports misinterpretation of one cent postage rules delayed sending. Soldiers overseas crave reading material to pass time between actions, and the allowance is urged to be doubled from prior levels.
Mrs Annie Yathias of leek Springs received a telegram from Camp Niadee stating Pvt John Yathas is critically ill. His mother and younger brother Henry traveled to Camp Dedew to be with him. He was seriously injured in the Argonne Forest last October and brought to the United States for treatment, landing at Newport News on March 20. The notice invites the public to attend a lecture at Poviah house at 8 o clock by Vir C Strickler of Boston titled Chirletion Seletioe.
Sheridan’s Junior Red Cross members contribute to refugee relief by providing garments for Hinthestiture children and shipping 400 refugee garments. Eleanor Godwin, six, from Goffeen school knits a scarf as part of the effort with high school Juniors aiding in the project. Delphian Club to meet Thursday at Gallingia Library at 3 PM.
Local notes list numerous visitors to the city on business from Cheyenne, Casper, Denver, and other places including W F R Lewis St. Louis and J M Oh Cheyenne. The column closes with a sociological remark that married women live longer than unmarried women and that girl babies show more vitality than boys.
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