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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1918
Page
2
Noted agriculturist Thomas Shaw explains sweet corn varieties, planting methods, and cultivation. He compares Leopold ODay and Golden Dantam for northern and southern regions, notes soil preferences, and discusses sowing in hills or rows, thinning, suckers, and the possibility of a year’s supply in large gardens.
A catalog of vegetables and greens available for sale including asparagus, spinach, cauliflower, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, radishes, celery, turnips, beets, new potatoes, rhubarb, and carrots. Items presented as a shopper's quick reference for daily produce.
In Casper Wyoming a first aid class under Dr J O Donnell completed its advanced course on April 15 with twenty of thirty members graduating and earning certificates. Graduates enrolled for extra lectures to receive bronze medals from the American Red Cross. Dr C W Thomas contributed lectures, aiding the program and expressing gratitude for the instructor’s capable guidance.
Sher idan Wyoming authorities led by Sheriff Ole Mosa berg and County Attorney J L Graver with about thirty deputies conducted a dawn search in mining camps to confiscate firearms from aliens and alien enemies. About 37 guns were seized from camps in Carneyville, Diets, and Monarch. A Mexican civilian had a United States Army automatic Colt never used. Firearms will be sold at a streetside sale to fund the game fund. names of permit holders recorded for disposition.
Firemen announce a relief fund dance at the fire house on April 40 to raise money for Liberty bonds and thrift stamps. After purchases depleted the treasury, organizers aim to restore funds and continue buying more bonds and stamps. tickets are on sale at the fire station.
Members of the 100 Per Cent American Society are told to assemble at the west end of the Union Pacific depot at 7 pm tonight to join a patriotic parade. A special train carrying Vice President and General Manager William Jeffers and Union Pacific officials will arrive shortly before the march, ending at the Gymnasium hall for Third Liberty Loan speeches by Jeffers and others.
The war industries board considers standardized liberty suits and war shoes at low cost, with fixed retail prices, to shield civilians from rising wartime costs. Officials stress a sweeping price fixing policy from raw materials to finished goods, while industries prepare for conferences with Chairman Baruch.
Amsterdam reports Berlin telegram saying new taxes may raise 3.162 billion marks, with 1 billion from business turnover, 60 million from spirit monopoly, and five year personal taxes to curb evasion. New York notes Germany faces grim debt path of 124 billion marks and warned of painful reckoning.
An American unit in France faces poor firewood during winter marches. A sergeant recalls a trooper sneaking back after fleeing to join his squad and asking if the fire had been extinguished, underscoring humorous but tense wartime conditions.
A Saint Paul style report notes four hundred convicts supposedly tarred and feathered and fed a dog during an incident at the state penitentiary. Maj Don M Birkner of Camp Cody is held as a federal prisoner over violations of the espionage act. Birkner, a former adjutant general of Nebraska born in Germany, has his Lincoln home listed.
United Press dispatch from Washington reports Representative Madden urging opposition to a measure aiding farmers. He argues lawmakers cater to farmers who do not need it while wheat prices rise from 2.20 to 2.50 per bushel. Opposition pushes further to 2.65, with mentions of 2.60 or 2.65 in market talk.
Washington April 18 report shows a casualty list with 48 names. Categories include killed in action died of wounds died of accidents died of other causes wounded severely and other classifications. The fragment notes 1 in other causes and eight wounded severely among the names.
Neighbors urged to meet at theK of GC hall at 7 00 p m or Union Pacific freight house at 7 20 p m to join the Union Pacific Liberty parade committee and participate in this local civic event.
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