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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1919
Page
2
Sheridan Wyoming will stage a racing meet from June 25 to July 5 featuring top national horses. The Sheridan Jockey Club will lease county fair grounds for two years and invest about 7000 to 2500 in track upgrades and stables for about 100 stalls.
In a planned circuit the group will stop at Cheyenne first then Sheridan and Reno Nevada. The flat stop will be at Cheyenne with Sheridan as the second aly Vieite and from there the changes will be moved to Reno. The tithe association will double back from Suri Gan for a fall racing meet and thence to Cheyenne.
Casper Moose plans to spend 95 000 for a lodge home on North Walcott Street. The unfinished basement exists on the site and construction of a 695 000 building is expected to begin this summer.
Drillers report progress at Jupiter oil well in the Big Muddy field. The Hilenburnt well, located one and a quarter miles northeast of Jupiter, lies about 4200 feet down with signs of promise.
An old advertisement touts E W Groves patent medicine offering Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets to stop cough headache and cold. It claims a quick cure with the signature on each bottle.
The March snowpack bulletin from the U S Weather Bureau shows water content at end of March 1919 far below prior years. Deepest snow in Carbon County reached 143 inches, with several areas around six to five feet, and overall regions report 24.0 inches average depth at high elevations.
In Sheridan Wyoming on April 17 F W Lindquist pleaded guilty in district court to a statutory offense involving a 15 year old girl in his home and was sentenced to two to three years in Rawlins penitentiary. His wife is charged by the girl with being in another man's room at the Lindquist home and fleeing with that man.
By month’s end about 2000 to 2600 troops will be discharged at Fort Russell demobilization center. The 1st division veterans from New York and other units arrive after hard service in France. A train from the east formed Union Pacific No. 10 with sections sent to Fort Russell and Pacific coast points. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Dakotas are among origin states for the 91st division and 157th regiment veterans en route to discharge at Fort Russell.
In Wheatland Wyoming on April 17 Miss Ellen Oakley of Omaha a nurse at the Wheatland hospital saved a patient by giving about a pint of her blood in a desperate effort to save his life The patient was a stranger to her until he was admitted a few days before The unnamed patient is identified as William A Taylor if he recovers he will owe the debt to the nurse's action.
Officials and employees of the Western division of the Union Pacific met yesterday at the office of Superintendent Workulf to discuss the forthcoming Story Liberty Loan.
A.V. McDuffy, superintendent of the Western Division of the Union Pacific, arrived in Cheyenne on Thursday. The visit marks his first since recent changes within the Wyoming division.
W. A. Packer, a mail carrier at Mc Kinley station near Orin Junction, was struck by a Burlington train after the wind blew a mail pouch from the crane end onto the track. He rushed to retrieve it, stumbled, and was struck before he could escape. The engineer saw the man but could not stop in time.
In Manville Wyoming on April 7 Harry Uswery a printer attempted suicide by leaping from a moving train and slashing his wrists. A physician endured hours of snow and winds to reach him and save his life, while the storm hampered the rescue.
The Bessemer-Domino oil interests expect patent approval from Washington for Salt Greek holdings tied to their initial well. Securing Lille to the land will allow continued development and bring a capped well into production.
Horace D. Beemer a prominent Wyoming Odd Fellows leader and city official died in Scranton Pennsylvania at age 69. He served as past grand master of Wyoming Odd Fellows thirty second degree Mason Shriner and Elk and was a longtime director at the First National Bank. Beemer also chaired the Carnegie Library board and worked as a painter for Union Pacific for five years. He leaves a widow.
The Lincoln Highway between Cheyenne and Laramie is now passable by automobiles this week though Sherman hill and the Dale Creek crossing remain snowbound. Two teams have crossed the crossing this week and lighter cars are expected to tackle the route before week’s end.
Postmaster Walter L. Larsh was notified yesterday that the parcel restrictions for American Expeditionary Forces in France have been lifted. No distinction remains between parcels for soldiers abroad and other parcels.
A promotional note for a language guide describes 15000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kreiser. It touts practical expressions for dictating letters and social conversations and notes the book’s value for workers in words. The ad lists price and publishing details.
Denver merchants plan a four day visit to oil fields and towns in Wyoming. The trip, first of its kind in years, aims to be educational commercially and geographically with 25 to 50 participants. It will travel by special train with diners and a comfortable coach, tentative for early May after the 157th parade.
An old advertisement promotes a constitutional remedy for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It warns sprays and inhalers may irritate air passages and risk deafness, endorsing a four ounce Parmiak mixed with hot granulated sugar as a preferred formula.
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