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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
11
The notice explains how to respond to blind ads by using given initials or numbers in care of the Leader office. It instructs not to call the office and to mail responses to appropriate parties, ensuring proper handling of mail.
Frank Borton son of Union Pacific dispatcher W A Borton sails from Philadelphia aboard the battleship St Louis with his parents and sister aboard. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis he serves on board during the Pacific voyage.
Only sixteen carloads remain in Rock River tanks and after they are loaded no further loading will occur. The Rock Creek field now feeds the Midwest refinery via a new pipeline, and the Rock River pumper will take a similar post in Laramie.
Casper Wyoming August 12 A G Cheney aged 65 a former county commissioner and longtime Natrona county rancher died at noon Wednesday at his home near Detland Wyoming He had been in poor health for years and spent seasons in California seeking health Funeral held this afternoon at 2 o clock
Thermopolis plans a bid to host the Hagles Home to be built in the west by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Officials will tout the town climate and local thermal springs as reasons for the site, offering inducements including site and grounds for the institution.
Beauty expert Barbara Burke explains avoiding sunburned streaked brittle hair from salt water. She recommends a loose bathing cap, gentle scalp massage after swimming, a hair dryer, hatless air exposure, light exercise, and glycerine and water rinse to replenish moisture.
Excavation has begun on the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company building on Fourth street in Laramie Wyoming. The project includes the new building conduits and plant equipment with an estimated expenditure of about a quarter of a million dollars.
The Lara mie Brick Company reports bricks produced yesterday at the new plant. Officials say the entire output for the season is nearly sold. Most brick will be common red building brick with plans to supply ornamental and face brick next season.
Highway report from Weather Bureau Office Cheyenne Wyoming dated August 12 notes roads in southeastern Wyoming generally good with graveling on the Greeley road and rough Fort Collins road beyond the state line. Showers in the Rawlins district made roads somewhat muddy with some construction on roads north and west.
Weather report for Cheyenne Wyoming covers twenty four hours ending 6 p m August 12 and details temperature 47 60 62 wet bulb 42 51 51 humidity 75 67 wind direction WB velocity 295 sky clear to cloudy point. normal temp this date 67 actual mean 55 change 3 cooler highest 64 lowest 46 average wind 10 7 mph since January 1 total precip 11 05 inches normal 10 40 inches
Broadway Echoes, an old time minstrel show with Billy Sharp and ten girls, headlines the Pantages program at the Princess today and tomorrow. Also on the bill are The Peace maker by Emmet De Voy, Dilly Small with violin, Jennings and Mack in a black-face act, and The Upside-down Millettes with head balancing.
Cheyenne seeks Cheyenne residents for the Community film “Girl From Cheyenne” at the Princess. No experience needed as director Charles La Witte trains actors. apply at once by leaving name and address with Mr. Williams, the Community company representative.
The 30 000 pound whale shark, the first ever captured, is exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution attracting visitors and scientific interest.
Articles filed show the Giv en Oil company of Rawlins with 300 000 capital stock divided into 8 000 900 shares at 10 cents par. Directors listed. Midland Bridge company of Maine qualified to operate in Wyoming with 37 000 capitalization. Logan Sheep of Douglas increases stock from 50 000 to 250 000. Illinois Oil Refining changes name to Cheyenne Oil and cuts capital from 500 000 to 150 000. Manewal Cafe of Cheyenne 20 000 stock. directors Brown Nicol Sanewal. Upper Green River Lumber of Pinedale 5 000 stock. directors Hagens tein Rickitt Cooper. Америкаs lamp output valued at 105 000.
Nellie Silva a 12 year old Buffalo Wyoming girl who had been missing since Saturday was found in a Billings lodging house by Sheriff Stevenson and Mrs Anna Beeman. She arrived here without influence and after care she asked to go home at once. Her suitcase held trinkets packages and clothing suggesting a long planned trip.
Cheyenne city commissioners refused two billboard permits citing current excess. A Denver firm sought a Pioneer avenue location between Nineteenth Street and Nineteenth Street while a local applicant requested a billboard at Highteenth and Russell streets.
Miss Katherine Jackson of Starksville Mississippi, later married to H Le Roy, is thought to be the woman whose body was found by express workers in New York inside a trunk that had been shipped from Detroit. Her identifications connect the New York discovery to a Detroit origin and to the Starksville resident named in the report.
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