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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
11
The Cheyenne column notes a Hiawatha family visit from Dacona Colorado with Mr and Mrs Harry Mitchell and relatives including Donald Charette and Zoe Mitchell. Dr Mitchell and bride return to Cheyenne. other guests, births, health updates, and road repairs are reported along with visitors from Wheatland Omaha and Greeley Colorado.
Mrs. John Morrison hosts a nineteen member family gathering at her Cheyenne home after twenty years apart. The event features a formal dinner with garden bouquets and a blessing for mothers. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bristol and children Frances Jack Merwin Charlie, Fay Walker, Morrison relatives from New York Junction Wye Lafayette Indiana, and Dr. L. B. Mitchell.
Mr and Mrs John H Burnside and two sons plan to attend the Frontier celebration with family relatives from Cheyenne and Garden City. L J Lateen and daughter Arline return from Laramie. Miss Dorothy Jones visits sister in Nettford before going home to Springfield Massachusetts. Mrs J L Mills visits Loramie parents Dr and Mrs W A Wyman. Mrs C W Cronter of Wheatland visits Mrs BE Sturdevant. Mrs Irene Cahill returns from New York trip combining business and pleasure. Mr and Mrs Charien M McMillan of Winterset Iowa visit their son Hugh McMillan. Postmaster G W Hoyt hosts a large house party with guests from California Texas and Minneapolis.
Miss Eva McIntyre of Des Moines visited her sister Mrs Charles Cunningham and was guest of honor at a Tuesday card party. Mrs Cunningham organized games and solos followed by an elaborate pink and white supper at the Robinson with mint ices and candles, attended by Mrs Freund Miss Melntyre Miss Jack Miss Griswold and others.
The Parish House lab invites members and friends to an informal subscription dance on Thursday. Lieut and Mrs BH Steever host Frontier guests Captain and Mrs Daley and Col George W Slifey. An informal reception honored Mr and Mrs Roy Johnston newlyweds from Edgar Nebraska who now live in Cheyenne with guests including Johnston Hanna Guthrie Ella Johnston Seaman Praybyski and others.
The Cavalry Card Club met Monday evening at the Cavalry club for a social evening of bridge and five hundred with a supper afterward. Hosts included Mrs Behultz Mrs Raborg Mrs Snyder and Mrs Finley. Guests Captain and Mrs William H Noble arrived from New York. The cavalry plans a subscription dance Saturday at the post gymnasium.
Snyder will entertain Saturday evening at the Upper Party in honor of guests. Captain and Mrs. Samuel Pear son will spend a month camping and fishing in Fox Park.
Mrs Hart presents a pipe organ recital Friday evening at the Methodist Church under the Women’s Missionary Society. Admission is free with a silver offering. Frontier visitors invited. hot meals served in church parlors.
Miss Ane Bussert faces police objections over a boy's bathing suit on the New Jersey Atlantic City boardwalk. She planned to swim at the Battery in defiance, arguing legs are natural and should be visible. Atlantic City officials enforce an ankle covering ordinance. New York authorities echoed caution, drawing crowds and discomfort along the beach.
Leave of absence for five days granted to First Lieutenant Channing B. Delaplane of the Eleventh Infantry per Special Orders No. 169. George Shannon of the Cavalry relieved from Field duty to subsistence detail. Private John Walden of the Ninth Cavalry detailed to extra duty in the subsistence department as laborer. Also mentions Mantouring and Hairdressing services at Clara A. Ligier’s Beauty Parlors, 411 West 19th Street.
The Stanley steel trust committee report details alleged wealth of George W Perkins and links to the Roosevelt era. It describes monopolized wire nails pricing and long shifts for steel mill workers, plus Perkins as aide to J Pierpont Morgan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A historical ad claims Morain and associate partners control directors of railroads banks trusts and utilities, building a corporate empire valued at over 995 trillion. It promotes Chadberlain's Liniment for pain and claims broad nationwide sales through the Sherman Co.
Frontier headquarters in the old Burlington depot offers tickets for Frontier Per Formances. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Daily admissions not specified.
A party of Des Moines business men totaling seventeen arrived in Des Moines to attend the Idlewild private war show yesterday morning. They are guests of Superintendent Jeffers of the Union Pacific and viewed the afternoon performance. They plan to depart today for Denver for sightseeing before returning to Des Moines. W. S. Ayres praised the Frontier Days show as the greatest of its kind.
The W. Q. T. U. held a large, active meeting Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Cotchell’s home. New members joined as business matters and a program filled the time, followed by refreshments.
In Dallas a playgrounds committee hosted a Toothbrush Day with a health talk on decayed teeth and sold one thousand five cent toothbrushes. The effort aims to integrate dental hygiene into the annual school program, praised by local women.
C. O. Richardson of Parsons Kansas registered at the State Leader office yesterday morning on his first visit to the city. He is a brother of C. A. Richardson, a well known local man.
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