Tractor Train Is A Success In Wyoming Casper
In Casper a Reed Exploration company project introduced six Caterpillar hauled freight trains between Casper and Salt Creek fields. Starting with one tractor and fifty ton loads, a second tractor joined the service as the venture proved safe and efficient. Three weekly trips now run, with plans to add more trains and increase loads as roads improve.
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Casper
Ltt
Reed Exploration Company
Salt Creek Fields
Comn
Salt Creek Field
Fort Fifty
Salt Creek
Casner
Spreading Rails Cause a Wreck Near Lowell
Burlington passenger train No 39 going west derailed after a heavy engine struck a soft roadbed causing rails to spread. Cars toppled into a ditch but no passengers were hurt beyond a severe shaking. A passerby was killed in a Ford at a Lovell crossing en route to the scene. Blame not yet determined.
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Casper
Burlington
Lowell
Lovell
Johnson
Missing Fort Collins lad believed lost near Marsland
Sheriff reports Donald Lee, about 12, missing for several days, possibly north from Marsland. Described wearing blue overalls and a scout hat, last seen riding a sorrel mare with a roan colt, believed seen in town around noon yesterday. Father asks for any sightings and urges immediate contact with Sheriff Cooke.
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Ned
Bhoy
Sheriff Cooke
Spindle Top Oil Co Delays Drilling Near Laramie
Laramie August 1. The Spindle Top oil company holdings about six miles from town near the Hollow are delayed by a broken gear wheel last week. The firm reports excellent indications and expects to strike off soon. They are ready to drill as deep as 700 meters if needed.
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Laramie
Bechtelheimer Family Moves Into New Home
Pine Bluffs Wyoming August 1 Mr and Mrs E E Bechtelheimer move into a new bungalow on Blair avenue John Carson and family to occupy their former residence N C Hemphill and wife return from Colorado State Teachers College Greeley and plan to stay on.
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Pine Balupas
Wyo
ER. E. Bechtelheimer
Hungalow
Blair Avenue
John Carson
Bechtelheimer
Re. C
Nannine Hemphill
Colorado State Teachers’ College
Greeley
Colo
Town Notes and Moves in the Jackson Wyoming Area
Section Foreman G. Erickson and family moved into the west section house as the old downtown house is slated for demolition. HM. D. Kauffman and wife visited daughter Mrs. Frank Bloom in Raymer, Cole. Opera house and Masonic hall repainted this week by the Masons. James Mitchell is ill. Newton Shoup and wife from Kansas visited Geo. Reed and family, old friends of the Reed family. Walter Bengston, Louis Bengston’s son, joined the Marine Corps in Denver and sailed to Mare Island, California.
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G. Erickson
HM. D. Kauffman
Mrs
Frank Bloom
Raymer, Cole
Newton Shoup
Kansas
Geo
Reed
Shoups
Kan- Has
Walter Bengston
Louis Bengston
Denver
Colo
Marine Corps
Mare Island
California
Gillette Man Has Close Call When His Horse Bolts
George Cates, supervising for the Burlington railway at Sparta, was thrown when his horse bolted after a passing auto near the Burlington stock yards. He clung to a line and steered the horse into a fence, stopping it with no injuries to the animal. Cates suffered bruises but no broken bones and plans to be more cautious with the “old boss.”
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Gillette
George Cates
Burlington Railway
Sparta
Burlington Stock Yards
George
Sugar Firm Expands Support for Greeley Beet Worker Kids
Greeley Great Western Sugar increases its grant to the summer school for beet workers children from 400 to 800 dollars. The extra funds allow five to six teachers for about 140 admitted students. Estes Park Transportation may run a third auto route to extend the program.
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Greeley
Colo
Great Western Sugar Company
Estes Park Transportation Company
Three Year Old Gooples Elope From Greeley
In Greeley Colorado on August 1 a three year old boy Junior Rogers and three year old Zoe Forward eloped using six pennies and a theater ticket mistaken for a railroad ticket. Police officer Carl Hart reunited the children and returned them home after a two hour disappearance.
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Greeley
Colo
Junior Rogers
A. S. Rogers
Union National Bank
Zoe Forward
Harvey Forward
Greeley Gas Company
Carl Hart
Junior
Zoe
Fifth Street
Basin opens free camping grounds for tourists on court house square
Basin chamber of commerce announces a modern camping ground on the court house square. The facility offers free water, gas, lights, and use of the grounds for tourists. No charge for any amenities, with the aim of attracting visitors.
Small Girls Take Possession of House in Rock Springs
Aug 1 in Rock Springs as Mrs Tilly Johnsons daughters vanished overnight. Fire alarms alarmed residents who searched until marshals found the girls asleep in a newly vacated East Flat house at about 5 AM Monday.
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Rock Springs
Tilly Johnson
East Flat
Heart Failure Claims Victim While Bathing in Wheatland
John Blose twenty year old Wheatland resident died after a sudden plunge into an irrigation ditch while overheated. He was found in eight feet of water, body recovered in ten minutes, physician summoned, but resuscitation failed. Blose was son of Mrs Rosina Blose and had ridden to the ditch with two railroad friends.
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Wheatland
John Blose
Bloses
Blose
Rosina Blose
Motorcycle racer Floyd Clymer's escape near Loveland
Floyd Clymer driving a sidecar attached motorcycle fled into Loveland from Greeley to avoid a pursuing auto. He, his wife, and baby were thrown from the road. the baby lay unconscious but recovered with no injuries after a swift doctor visit. The family continued to the mountains.
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Fort Collins
Floyd Clymer
Loveland
Greeley
Clymer
Cody Man's Team Drowned at Ford
Miles Decker of Painter narrowly escaped as Dead Indian creek washed the ford away. Two leaders fell and were drowned, a fine stallion and a gelding belonging to Willard Higan. Bert Marvin survived Sunlight creek a week later when his team ran the wagon into the river. a hinge log helped the horses reach the bank while he cut the harness to free them.
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Cody
Miles Decker
Painter
Dead Indian Creek
Willard’ Higan
Bert Marvin
Sunlight Creek
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Catermillar Tractor Halt
Long Thail
Jasper
Corporation
Traila
Ft. Collins
Dhoken
Pine Bluffs
Jackson
Masons
James Mitchell
Goople
Ford
Carey Avenue
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