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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1919
Page
8
New Potatoes and Honsatt's Sweet Potatoes offered with 2 BE nats .25e. Mrs Yeager's home-made Cakes on sale Saturday. Apples Northwestern Wanesaps 2 ths drenees. Grapefruit Fancy Floridas 10¢ 12:44 15¢ and 20¢. Bananas Fancy yellow 14¢. Fresh coconuts 15¢ and 20¢. Seed varieties include Sweet Pea Nasturtium bulk, Blue Grass and White Clover Seed for lawns and Onion Sets.
Kate Richards O More, a national Socialist speaker, will surrender to authorities in Fargo to be sent to the federal prison for women at Jefferson City Missouri. She is to serve a five year term for violating the Avra Act. O’Hare has long led Socialist movements and will not seek individual pardon.
A group of twenty or more House members will sail from New York to Porto Rico for a two week visit. They aim to study political and economic conditions to aid future legislation in the new congress.
Northern Wyoming capitalists were informed that the proposed corporation must limit its activities or split into two. The articles claimed engagement in brick and tie manufacture and oil land development. State law requires a corporation to devote itself to a single business, so the charter was denied.
The Union Pacific yards were where a car loaded with lumber caught fire from sparks while standing on a siding near the master mechanic's office. The blaze was extinguished with virtually no damage to the car or its contents. A fire department hose directed across the tracks and into the depot archway tested the truck’s ability to navigate the yard with rails standing as obstacles.
LARAMIE April 11 Five new members joined the Baxter lodge of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen last night. Officers claim the lodge now holds 98 percent of trainmen in Wyoming division six on the Union Pacific with only three nonmembers in that department.
M. P. Keefe, head of the Chamber of Supply Company, has recovered enough to visit his office. His wife, Mrs. Keefe, who fell ill as he was stricken, remains bedbound and confined to her bed.
Archie Allison, a Cheyenne contractor, handles two major projects at Dix Nebraska east of Cheyenne. One is the erection of a new high school building and the other a large church pending progress.
Wheatland, Wyoming, plans a large potato facility including a fencing wirehouse and potato flour mill. The plant is owned by Colorado Potato Milling Co with Albert Miller & Co of Chicago as affiliates. Executives have surveyed local fields and will announce plans soon.
Hogs receipts 7 400 market up to 20 25 for heavy and mixed hogs cattle receipts 10 000 market lower with native steers 14 17 75 cows and heifers 8 14 25 western steers 10 15 00 Texans 9 14 00 calves 7 13 75 sheep receipts 1 400 with wethers 15 16 ewes 12 15 25 lambs 18 19 75 feeder lambs 17 18 00 yearlings 16 17 00 old papers for sale at Leader office
Reports from ONELLEY Colorado describe leases of livestock from recent storms. Carr and Grover district homesteaders lost up to six cattle each, with larger cattlemen facing proportionate losses. Roads to Stone Keota Raymer and Nuckingham remain impassable, autos stalled between Kersey and Fort Morgan. No deaths from exposure reported.
Kylie from the Denver forest reserve telephony office will lead a ten day training course next week at the Medicine Bow supervisor’s office. Employees from Medicine Bow Hayden Colorado and Arapahoe reserves will attend to learn telephone use for forest reserve administration.
Cheyenne high school hosts a smokeless Suiche event at the gymnasium tonight inviting all students parents and the public. Admission is 35 cents. The program features ten boxing bouts three wrestling matches and musical numbers interspersed with athletic displays.
Asmus Franzen of the Rock River area in Albany county long known as a leading hay producer may soon become a multi millionaire through a venture connected to the adjacent Hoek Creek oil field. Mrs Franzen accompanies him as he moves into oil related business in the city.
The sixth well of the E. T. Williams Company in the Salt Creek field flowed 00 barrels in the first twelve hours. The field’s other wells average about 225 barrels, and the new well is expected to match or exceed that production.
President Thomas G. Powers of the Wyoming Senate, who arrived from Fort Collins, departed for Torrington after noon yesterday. He remains under the effects of a recent illness.
Three car loads of soldiers from the 344th B. N. brigade journeyed through Cheyenne yesterday en route from overseas to the Presidio in San Francisco. The men, veterans of deployments at St. Mile and in the Argon he forest, reported seeing fighting en route.
Steel work on the central section of the new Union Pacific machine shop is in place and roof construction began yesterday. The east bay roofing was started several days earlier.
A Union Pacific track gang laid new steel in the main line in front of the depot, connecting the recently laid rails west and east of the depot.
Casper plans a deep test well project with Timbera activities moving to a nearby location for drilling. Officials say the facility will test subsurface conditions and may influence local energy prospects.
Local report notes the remains of a Lander man pass through town as authorities conduct checks and prepare for burial. The event draws attention from residents and county officials. Further details on cause and services were not disclosed.
Senator Kendrick urged action on Wyoming lands under the Stock Raising Homestead Act and was told the process is moving fast. Last week the Survey designated 90,894 acres in the Lander district and more than 4,000 acres are expected soon in the Buffalo Land district.
William Folkle a miner from Coalmont Colorado born in Germany was fined fifty dollars and costs after loudly declaring his pride in being German to an Englishman in a Laramie saloon. The keeper intervened and knocked him down Folkle carried ninety dollars in his pocket after twenty two years in the United States and claims many injuries kept him from citizenship.
LARAMIE Wyo 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 but dropped the word German at the outbreak of the war The Rev J G Wickmann now of St Pauls Denver is pastor and will conduct services in English
New York April 11. Many leading Democrats will attend the annual banquet of the National Democratic Club honoring Thomas Jefferson. The event is set to be spread tonight and will feature prominent party figures and speeches reinforcing Democratic ideals.
The event marks the 476th anniversary of Jefferson's birth at the Hotel Astor with speakers including Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D Roosevelt The text notes that under the Roman empire women could engage in medicine law and other professions.
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