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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1916
Page
8
Local churches announce August Sunday union services each week at 8 o clock. The Comaregational church led by Rev. G Van Winkle hosts the first service with music by the church choir. Episcopal and Shingher churches will also host the series at alternate Sundays.
Railroad worker Geanite or Mark by RR McGafferty noted 6151 in the ledger and associated marks. The fragment suggests a listing or identifier linked to track or property records. Further context is unreadable but indicates archival notation.
Prof Maynard Shipley of Seattle will lecture tonight at the Parish House on Evolution As Seen in the Solar System. The talk uses over a hundred photographs of heavenly bodies taken with powerful telescope lenses. An excellent speaker, he is described as a leader in the Washington Socialist movement.
Mr and Mrs Richard Warren return to Cheyenne from California after an absence of about two months. They were away briefly for travel and plan to resume local activities in the community.
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President Wilson and William J. Chambers meet as the federal government delays formal action to avert a railway strike. Managers and workers will hold talks next week while Congress faces a stalled resolution on railroad labor hours. The crisis outlook remains unsettled into early next week.
Mrs. W. D. Ascough of Hartford and Miss Margery Ross of Pittsburgh lead the Union’s fall campaign. Miss Hows has moved from Pennsylvania. Mr. Ascough lived in Washington state and gained marriage after losing her vote as the wife of an eastern man.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors postal clerks and all who assisted during the illness and passing of their wife and daughter. Wm H M Sad W R G K A CINEMA
Mrs. Frederick, widow of a German Lutheran couple from Cheyenne, died a week after her husband. They had shared nearly fifty years of marriage. Funeral is Monday at 4:30 from 2529 Warren Avenue. interment Lakeview Cemetery. The couple moved from Nebraska to live with son William at 2623 Warren Avenue.
Police launch a campaign to curb bicycle riding on sidewalks. Eight boys were arrested and fined 1.50 each in the police court for violating the ordinance. Chief Emberg says a plainclothes officer will continue patrols citywide to stop the practice.
Elmer McEwan William McDonald and Helen Gates were found guilty of immorality in a downtown rooming house case. They were fined $15 each and sentenced to thirty days in jail.
Autoists report a Maxwell motor truck in the ditch about twenty miles south of Cheyenne. Police say the machine was stolen from Denver and the thief, trying to reach Cheyenne, met with an accident. Sheriff Armstrong of Denver notified police of the theft yesterday.
The Atlas today unveils a complete refresh with new settings costumes and songs. New members join the company and the bill features fanciful stunts queer grips and up-to-date music at popular prices. Do not miss this clever production.
In Detroit on a August afternoon, two bandits halted a Burroughs Adding Machine pay car as frightened pedestrians fled. The robbers seized $97,000 before vanishing, with affidavits confirming the extent of the heist.
The Duplex Transportation Company Casper with 10000 capital stock lists L R Steele W R John A J Zelnowk A L Hoench J Zel noski Geo W Campbell R C Nichola as directors. Mahoney Dome at Rawlins with 10000 capital stock lists John Mahoney Frank M Johnson Geo B Brimmer as directors. Cottman Company Casper with 10000 capital stock lists Fred W Cottman H C Turner A B Cottman B J Turner. Wyata Copper Company Evanston with 10000 capital stock lists Simpson L Huffaker Victor Q Jackson Gilbert L Smith as directors.
The Indians depart for Greeley to face the Spuds for the fourth time this season. Manion leads the Cheyenne battery with Schmidt and Cummings ready to step in if needed. George Schmidt may pitch if Osborne struggles while captain Geo Schmidt directs from the bench. A full lineup and travel party accompany Manager Gerrans as fans head to Spudville. A Indians win would settle superiority in the series.
Robert Edeson, star of Fathers of Men, shoots a major scene across ice and snow with Bobby Connel. The crew endured extreme cold as the sleigh push and hotel return left the star exhausted and carried to his room.
Parish House hosts a solar lecture with Yerkes Observatory telescope views of the solar region. Doors open at 7:90, lecture starts soon. admission 25 cents. Limited to 200 attendees, be punctual. D A Hastings promoter.
The annual picnic of the Young Men’s Literary club will be held next Friday. Members with their wives will go on an excursion into the hills. At the last meeting no paper was read and members discussed the Frontier celebration and the new city filter plant at length.
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