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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
9
This short notice lists Clara R. Dodds as editor with office and house phone numbers. It notes contact details for correspondence and mentions the exchange of information through designated lines. The item serves as a masthead style attribution segment for the publication.
Cheyenne lingers in social whirl with Mrs Sackett guest at Carey avenue bridge games winning prize. Senator Warren heads to Riverton for Fremont county birthday celebration. country club hosts Saturday bridge tourney with prizes and refreshments.
Karl Rk. Welsch of Warren and Charles A. Nicholas of Niles, tellers at Dollar Savings Bank, were charged with embezzlement, misappropriation, and false entries after a bank audit. Embezzled funds totaling $50,000 were spent on real estate, stocks, and autos. both pled guilty and were bound over to the September grand jury with $10,000 bonds.
The bond was set at 25000 dollars. With the bond furnished and the real estate turned over to examiners, the entire shortage to the bank will be covered. Welsh is in Warren and Nicholas in Niles, recovering from a car accident that cost Nicholas sight in his right eye.
The Rotary Club of Cheyenne decides to raise a $2,000 budget for next year to support six Boy Scout troops in the city with 142 scouts. A campaign runs August 18 to 21 led by A. B. Jessup and the social service committee, aiming at business and mother donations. Troops plan camping trips to Buford in late August and early September.
W. Baker Barton former Vernon first baseman alleges charges against 27 players from the Pacific Coast league last year. Barton spoke in Los Angeles on Wednesday after being released Tuesday for the good of baseball.
Riverton Wyoming outlines a three day celebration August 13 to 15 featuring baseball between Riverton Cavalry and Standard No. 1, boxing bouts with Gorman versus Doyle and Waugh against Myers, air plane leaps, a free barbecue, band concerts, Indian dances, and a wild west program with 15 events and $1,600 in prizes.
Emma Williams now Mrs. Jess Martin, wed Tuesday afternoon. police court heard she watched her husband from jail bars as William Harris and Emma clashed over belongings at his house during the celebration. Officers arrived to find all quiet except for the trio's excessive liquor fueled scene.
In police court yesterday afternoon Harris and Mrs. Martin were each fined 26 dollars for disorderly conduct. They remained jailed last night unable to post the fines.
Edward Aldrich a Denver painter working on the Union Pacific fell from a water tank near Cheyenne Wednesday morning and sustained a leg fracture. He was brought to St. John's hospital where he rested easily last night.
Two Essex stock cars racing coast to coast set new records from San Francisco to New York in 114 hours and New York to San Francisco in 119 hours. Cars carried United States Mail signs to claim priority. drivers swapped at each stop, with local Essex dealers providing replacements.
Glendo Wyoming, August 11. Mrs Chris Christianson was found dead on her homestead twelve miles from Glendo by neighbor J Brownley. She had been dead several days and died of natural causes. Survived by her husband. Funeral services were held at Glendo and interment made there.
Princess Theater signs with Community Photoplay of Los Angeles to film The Girl From Cheyenne here. Local residents may audition for leading roles as director Charles Le Witte plans the production. Leave name and address at the box office for tryouts.
Miss Abby Roys has accepted a position as instructor in community civics at Jersey City New Jersey with a salary of 2400 dollars a year to start and a liberal increase each year. She taught celgics at Cheyenne high school for ten years and earned a master's degree at Columbia University after a leave of absence last year. Her resignation from local schools this spring is noted.
Mayfield Kentucky man James Oarman says he is well and feeling fine after using Foley's Kidney Pills. He claimed back pain and inability to straighten up have disappeared and his health has improved with no further trouble.
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