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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1917
Page
8
The funeral for Hugo Ohenstein of the Wyoming Oil Broker will be held today from the Ohenstein home on Twenty seconds street in this city.
On Thursday August 23 the entire proceeds from races at Frontier Park will be donated to the Red Cross. Tickets for Red Cross day are on sale at Fred Roedel's drug store Capitol Avenue Pharmacy George Daiber A E Roedel Ben's Clothing store Sands Falls Drug Company Boyd's No 1 Cigar Store Kelley Mercantile Company and at the Plaines Hotel.
Captain Max Garber of the United States regular army leaves Wyoming for Fort Leavenworth to teach at the Army Service School. He has aided the Wyoming regiment’s formation and training, and will join instructors shaping lieutenants from the officers reserve corps in a program of intensified training.
A night time report from Dildine's garage describes foreman panic over a stolen car. Deputies traced a matching vehicle to a local farmer Bramer near Chevene and Elisabeth Brown's barber shop, where Bramer claimed the car as his own overcoat title.
County Clerk Ida R. Graham released details of the draft results. Fifty men were found fit and did not file exemptions while thirty eight were deficient. Twenty aliens filed exemption claims with two pending investigation. most will be granted. Seventy eight percent of Laramie county’s quota now met.
After the parade Cheyenne women hosted a royal feast for 124 members of G company Third Wyoming Infantry at 6 pm. The men praised the home made cake ice cream fruit and cigars and thanked Mrs Jack Meyer and her helpers for organizing the event.
A man complained his coat vanished within minutes of arrival. Investigators traced the coat to Bramer’s car at the garage. The man had mistaken the foreman’s vehicle for his own and driven away in it.
Officials list overnight entries for August 20 featuring claiming races at six furlongs and one mile. Purse amounts range from 200 to 300 dollars. age groups include 1-year-olds and up through 3-year-olds and older, with several named horses and jockeys in sixth and seventh races scheduled to start at 3 08 p.m. local time.
Sergeant D. C. Breckenridge, one of seven survivors of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry from the Ypres battle, spoke at the statehouse Red Cross room about trench fighting. He described German bayonets and liquid fire, noted French designs, praised Red Cross efforts, and spoke of bravery before returning to Cheyenne to continue talks.
Bertha Collins and Julia Wilson were arrested five miles east of Cheyenne on robbery and vice charges. Police say the camp ran as a house of ill repute with many visitors including soldiers. amounts stolen were $225 from ONeill and $20 from Cashman. Preliminary hearing planned.
In Copenhagen on Aug 18 a rediscovered December 1914 article by German chancellor Dr. George Michaelis denounces parliamentary rule in Germany while criticizing conservatives for seeking franchise reform and taxes to shield their power and wealth.
Officer Christensen arrested the Mosart saloon bartender for selling Mquar to women after legal closing hours. The case follows an enforcement action under the prescribed law.
A charity baseball game at Pioneer Park in Cheyenne features the waiters versus bartenders with proceeds to the Red Cross. The 3 pm start includes a 25 cent admission and promises a lively, rivalrous, fair contest under umpire Thomas Mahan.
General rain fell over a wide belt east of Cheyenne, according to trainmen arriving from the east. The showers are expected to bring substantial benefits to the grain crops in the region.
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