Club and Church Events Highlight Wartime Community
War homefront notes include orange marmalade instructions, Mrs. Anna Lafferty’s knitting record of twenty pairs and helmets, letters from Sgt. Dwyer Smith in Frahe with Pershing visit mentions, and plans for a charity savings stamp drive. A Con verse School group stages a play to fund stamps, while Lieut. Guy Jensen and family move into Cavalry quarters at Fort Russell.
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Sawyer Smith
John Smith
Dwyer
148Th
Frahe
Sergeant Smith
General Pershing
Baker
Jensen
Guy Jensen
Cavalry
Fort Russell
Cheyenne
Detroit
H. Jensen
White Elephant Sale At Eagles Hall In Cheyenne
Travelers seek Odzis in desert terms as Cheyenne residents plan a D A R white elephant sale this Friday and Saturday at Eagles hall. The event features a Shetland pony raffle and includes clothing furniture jewelry silver and miscellaneous items for sale to curious crowds.
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Cheyenne
Eagles' Hall
Daughters of the American Revolution
Garden peas guidance for early and late sowing
A detailed home garden note on peas covering varieties dwarf climbing smooth wrinkled and timing. It advises early cool weather sowing double rows with sticks between rows and spacing two three feet apart. It notes sow depth 3 inches every two weeks for continuous harvest and cautions on seed quality and spread of planting.
Cadet Entertainment Delayed and Donation Collection Planned
The committee led by Mesdames L. C. Ainkle Carlinte and F. H. Vaughan will collect donated items including pictures, monic, victrola gear, books, rugs, carpets, china and crockery. Items must be at the hall Thursday evening for classification and arrangement. The Cadet entertainment set for Friday night April 19 is postponed to May 4.
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Monic
Victrola Reeto
China
Plaudh Prag
Oned
Mesdames L. C
Ainkle
C. Carlinte
F. H. Vaughan
Cadet Entertainment
Visiting Guests Arrive in Cheyenne for Brief Stays
Mrs Arthurs Black of Grover Colorado visits as a guest at Mr and Mrs P J Black's home. Miss Georgia Merrill of Embar passes through Denver and Cheyenne en route home for a ten day stay with Mr and Mrs BD Preston before leaving Monday night.
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Arthurs Black
Grover
Colo
Mr. Black
P. J. Black
Georgia Merrill
Embar
Denver
Slater
Sunshine Society Women Host Social Gathering
The Sunshine Society met yesterday afternoon at Mrs. Richard Henke's home with eighteen members and four visitors. Guests included Merdames Brace Black of Grover Cole Ralph Mackley and A J Miller. Mrs. Henke and Mrs. Fred Miller assisted. Sewing knitting and visiting concluded at five with a Hoover treat and a silver offering collected. The Church school Parent-Teacher association announces a Friday meeting with an upcoming May session remaining for the year.
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Sunshine Society
Richard Henke
Merdames &. FE. Brace
Arthur Black
Grover, Cole
Ralph Mackley
A. J. Miller
Henke
Fred Miller
Hoover
Temperance Meeting Highlights Patriotism Readings
Frances Willard W C T U met at Mrs. Thomas's home with 25 temperance workers. Miss Winona Reed Jewel of Colorado spoke on Patriotism and Prohibition, gave readings, and Mrs Benson performed solos while Master Griffith Thomas sang. Tea followed. Anna Gordon union guests attended. A statewide campaign event looms with Rose Davison speaking on The Most Dangerous Submarine at Carnairy.
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Frances Willard W
John Benson
Griffith Thomas
Ron
Win Hanesworth
H. A. Griffin
Anna Gordon Union
Ieeeham
Carnairy
Rose Davison
Winona Reed Jewel
iMes Favioon
Vilet
Cheyenne
Carpenter
Miss Davison
Westminster Guild meets at Ahrens home on reviewing African Trail
Mire G Ahrens and Mrs Carl Metralf hosted the Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church last evening with large attendance. Mrs Robert Jeppe presided as Mitw Kama Hofmann reviewed a chapter from The African Trail. Mrs Edne Young and Mrs Fox performed vocal numbers.
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Mire
G. Ahrens
Mra
Carl Metralf
Honteases
Westminster Guild
Ahrens
Robert Jeppe
Mitw Kama Hofmann
Mins Edne Young
Mra Fox
Mia
Gleason Pioneer Rancher Dies After Long Wyoming Life
William Wallace Gleason 77, longtime Wyoming ranch owner and Warren Livestock co founder, died at his 842 Past Eighteenth St. home. Survived by wife and three sons Frank H. of Denver Ashley L. of Douglas Herbert D. of Scott City Kan. A Massachusetts native who came to the U.S. at Senator Warren’s urging, Gleason helped form the Warren Livestock Co. and later retired four years ago. He will be buried in Massachusetts with Senator Warren hoping to attend the funeral.
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William Wallace Gleason
Wyoming
United
F. EB. Warren
Eighteenth Street
Prank H
Denver
Ashley L
Douglas
Herbert D
Scott City
Kan
Gleason
Consense
Massachua
Senator
Parent Teachers to Take Up German Study Question
The High School Parent-Teachers association will discuss whether German should be taught in the schools on May 7. Governor Houx and Mrs. W. C. Monteer will address the meeting, which marks the term’s last session per president Will Reid.
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Parent- Teac Association
Houx
Mra. W. C .Monteer
Will Reid
Association
Two Soldiers Killed in Long Island Train Wreck
Two soldiers were killed and ten seriously injured when a troop train derailed at Central Islip on Long Island. About twenty-five others suffered minor injuries as five cars left the tracks. cause of the wreck was not yet determined.
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United Press
New York
Long Island
Central Islip
St. 1
American Soldier Prisoner Reported by HMS Relief
General Pershing reported forty five American casualties yesterday in a list including one killed in action three dead of wounds seven of disease one of cause unknown four severely wounded twenty seven slightly wounded and Col Rolling presumed missing in action during relief operations.
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HMS
Washington
Pershing
R. C
German Shell Destroys Yankee Soup Kettle at Front
A German shelling near a crossroads on the Lorraine front hits a dugout where American soldiers shelter for supper. The shell tears through a soup kettle, leaving the floor splashed with soup but no injuries as a sergeant quips that one boy was lucky to be knocked in by the blast.
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Lorraine Phront
Classification of lands is completed in Douglas district
Douglas Wyoming April 17 After a long delay the classification of lands in the Douglas land district will be completed soon. Dr Wright of the geological survey is in Douglas and will make this his headquarters until classification work is finished.
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Douglas, Wyo
Douglas Land District
Perris
Wright
Geological Survey
Douglas
Hie
Wright to Lead Office Work Expanding Regional Force
Mr Wright will head office tasks and soon deploy a forty man force to operate from this office. They will cover Converse Niobrara Natrona and Fremont counties with blanket northern county designation. He notes winter work in New Mexico and Arizona is on track and expects rapid completion with no retardation of development for settlers.
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New Mexico
Allied airmen engage in 120 combats during day
Allied aviators conducted more than 350 expeditions over enemy lines and fought 120 combats, according to official dispatches. Enemy planes were downed, twenty three driven within their lines, and five hostile balloons burned with five forced to descend after hublets were damaged.
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Washington, D. C
Zeppelin Plant at Manzell Destroyed by Fire
Zurich reports a blaze Saturday night destroyed the Zeppelin factory at Manzell. Fire crews battled the flames but the plant suffered complete destruction and damage to adjoining structures. Authorities began assessing the cause and extent of the loss.
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Zurich
Manzell
Wood Ships to Be Launched Amid War Time Shipbuilding
Eighteen wooden ships totaling 3000 tons are scheduled for launch May 1 as expedited timber supplies move across the continent. The Shipping Board and Railroad Administration plan to boost Atlantic and Gulf yards to meet the program amid the war effort. Elbert H. Gary of United States Steel says a government built ship will be launched in Newark by mid May with Mobile and Newark yards ready to produce a complete ship every ten days. A Minneapolis visitor, W. Nautine, was in Cheyenne today.
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Washington, D. C
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Trefoe
Pacific Lumber
Railroad Administration
Atlantic and Gulf
Hoboken
N. J
United States Steel Corporation
Newark
Mobile
Ala
Elbert H. Gary
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William E. Mullen
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David Nimmo
Helen Nimmo
Nancy Haggard
Gladys Tyson
Anna Nelson
Neva Kitchen
Jean Nimmo
Cywrchill T. A
Young
Gileago Vieker-A
Rehards
Chicago
Tila City
Chum
Senator Warren
Sherman Co
Eagles’ Hall
Yankee
Fred
Ferguson
Zeppelin Plant
Drsthoved
Chathman
Dy United Press
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the Fashion Shop
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