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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1919
Page
16
Advertises new potatoes and Mrs Yeager’s home made cakes on sale Saturday. Also lists apples grapes bananas coconuts and fresh produce including extra Northwestern apples and Floridian fruit with per item prices. Includes a full line of sweet pea and nasturtium seed plus lawn seed and onion sets.
Kate Richards O More a noted Socialist speaker will surrender tomorrow to begin a five year term at Jefferson City Missouri for violating the act. O Hares long activism and recent Supreme Court denial of review leaves no option but to serve the sentence. She rejects personal pardons and calls for general amnesty for convicted Socialists.
A group of twenty or more House members will sail from New York for Porto Rico for a fortnight. The mission aims to study political and economic conditions to aid future legislation in Congress.
Northern Wyoming capitalists were notified that their proposed corporation cannot proceed as drafted because it would cover too many activities. The articles listed brick manufacture, tie production, and oil land development, violating state law that a corporation must devote itself to a single line of business. A charter was refused and alternatives include restricting scope or forming two separate entities.
Fire department answered at noon to a blaze in a lumber car on a siding near the master mechanic's office. Sparks from the fire caused limited damage to the car and its contents, and a test run showed a hose could cross tracks and exit via the depot archway, proving truck access despite rails.
Five new members were added to the membership roll of Baxter lodge, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in Laramie. Officers claim the lodge now has 98 percent of all trainmen in the sixth district of the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific on its relay and that only three employees in that department do not hold union cards.
M. P. Keefe head of the Chamber of Supply company returns to his office after a severe illness. His wife Mrs Keefe remains confined to bed though she had fallen ill at the same time.
Archie Allison, a Cheyenne contractor, has two major jobs in Dix Nebraska. One is the construction of a high school building and the other a large business structure. Both projects represent significant local contracting work near Cheyenne with the contractor overseeing crews and materials.
Wheatland in Laramie County plans a large potato processing complex. The project, labeled a potato cellar and flour mill, is associated with the Colorado Potato Milling Co in Wheatland and Albert Miller Co of Chicago, major potato receivers. Witte owns the plant, with investigators from the company in Wheatland this week to confirm next steps.
Omaha April 1 market report shows hog receipts 7400 with prices up to 20.25. cattle receipts 10000 with native steers to 17.75 and cows 8.00 to 14.25. western steers 10 15. Texan stockers 9 to 15. calves 7 to 13.75. sheep receipts 1400 with lambs 18.50 to 19.75 and wethers 15 to 16. feeders 17 to 18. old papers for sale at Leader office.
Reports from ONELLEY Colo April 11 describe losses of livestock in Carr Grover and neighboring areas due to a recent storm. Leases of cattle and large herds were affected while road conditions remained hazardous with autos blocked to Stone Keota Raymer and Nuckingham.
Kylie of the Denver forest reserve telephony unit will conduct a ten day training course next week at the Medicine Bow supervisor’s office. Employed staff from Medicine Bow Hayden Colorado and Arapahoe forest reserves will attend to learn telephone use for forest administration.
Cheyenne High School to stage a smokeless Suiche at the gymnasium tonight. All students, parents, and the public are invited. Admission is 35 cents. The program features ten boxing bouts three wrestling matches and musical interludes with athletic numbers.
Asmus Franzen of the Rock River section in Albany county, long a major hay producer in Wyoming, may become a petroleum millionaire as his property adjoins the Hoek Creek oil field. Mrs. Franzen accompanies him in the city.
The sixth well from the E. T. Williams oil company in the Salt Creek field’s southern end flowed 0 barrels in twelve hours per a Casper report, while nearby wells average 225 barrels. the new well is expected to match or exceed that rate.
President Thomas G. Powers of the Senate of the Wyoming legislature left Fort Collins on Wednesday and departed yesterday afternoon for Torrington. He remains affected by his recent sickness.
Three car loads of soldiers en route from overseas to the Presidio in San Francisco passed through Cheyenne yesterday. The men of the 344th B N brigade saw service at St Mile and in the Argon he forest.
Steel work in the central section is in place and roof construction began yesterday. The east bay roofing was started several days earlier as part of the large Union Pacific shop project.
A Union Pacific track gang laid new steel on the main line in front of the depot connecting with tracks laid earlier west and east of the depot. The work advances the railroad’s track renewal program in the yard area.
Casper plans a deep test well project with Timbera hauling materials to a local site. The initiative aims to gauge subsurface conditions and determine feasibility for future drilling in the town area.
A Lander man’s remains go through a routine processing at the local crematory. The event marks the latest in a series of family services and public notices recorded by area authorities.
Senator Kendrick pressed for swift action on Land Designations under the Stock Raising Act. The Interior Department reports rapid progress with 90 894 acres designated last week in the Lander district. Over 4 000 acres expected soon in the Buffalo Land district.
William Folkle a miner from Coalmont Colorado born in Germany was fined fifty dollars and costs after declaring his German pride in a Laramie saloon to an Englishman. The saloon keeper intervened and felled Folkle who carried eighty nine dollars. Folkle has 22 years in the United States and cited many past surgeries and injuries as why he has not naturalized.
LARAMIE Wyoming April 4 The Rev William Schmidt of Tioga Illinois has been called to the pastorate of St Paul Evangelical Lutheran church here The church formerly German Evangelical church dropped the word German at the outbreak of the war Rev G Wickmann now of St Pauls Denver is pastor and conducts all services in English
New York April 11 leading national Democrats attend the annual banquet of the National Democratic Club honoring Thomas Jefferson. The event will be spread tonight with worship at the shrine of Democracy's patron saint.
At the Hotel Astor attendees celebrate Jefferson's 476th birth anniversary with speakers including Governor Alfred B. Smith of New York Secretary Carter Glass Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D Roosevelt. The text notes that under ancient Rome women could practice medicine law and other professions.
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