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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1920
Page
11
Classified listings show various sale notices including a drop head song machine, two electric irons, a Buick six touring car, canary, and a high grade player piano offered at factory price with substantial savings and strong guarantee. Phone and location codes L28 and L238 appear in listings.
The thirty third annual Laramie County teachers institute runs August 30 to September 8 at the high school. Instructors include Dr. Herbert Patterson Miss Florence Flanagan T O Ruch A S Jespus Miss Serafina Facinelli Miss Edith Fowler and Miss Claire Avery. Facinelli speaks on Standardization Fowler on Hot Lunches In Rural Schools Avery on School Health. Theresa Jenkins will present My Journey to the Maine after recent travels to England and the continent. A special invitation is extended to American Legion members to attend. Jenkins’ humor and description are praised by listeners.
The secretary of state announces six proposed amendments to the state constitution to appear on the November 2 general election ballot. Three were from the Thirteenth legislature and require voter referendum. Proposals include increased city tax levy, school building indebtedness, highway construction and maintenance debt, county debt up to seven percent for bridges and roads, state debt beyond tax limits for highways, and a special livestock tax for inspection and protection.
Governors Day in Senator Harding front porch campaign will be marked at Marion Ohio August 31 with fifteen to twenty governors expected to call on the Republican nominee. A group of lieutenant governors and gubernatorial candidates will join. Governor Caley of Wyoming has accepted.
Local talent film The Girl From Cheyenne, produced by Director Charles LeWitt, has its first finished reel delivered from San Francisco and screened. LeWitt edits it for a full three day run starting Thursday September 2 at the Princess Theater with five daily shows to handle expected crowds.
Caroline Rankin plays Alvina Smith an eccentric old maid in the Paramount Artcraft comedy drama What Happened to Jones shown at the Princess today The plot centers on a mail engagement to a fake reformer and a mistaken sweetheart causing comic complications The play by George Broadhurst adapted for the screen was scenarized by Elmer Harris featuring bootlegging and reform in a dry town.
A brutal sea captain leads a primitive crew and interacts with a captive romance aboard a turbulent ship. After port arrest for assault the tale follows his escape from prison, battles on the shore, and a daring rescue, then romance amid Latin American turmoil. Also noted is a Japanese wedding bonfire toy tradition.
Fatty Arbuckle stars in Rough House at the Lyric today only delivering pure Arbuckle humor without pie throwing. Wallace Reid appears in The Love Burglar, a bright comedy farce, as part of the program.
New York August 27 The Marquis of Blandford and Lord Ivor Churchill inherit 1 000 000 dollars each from grandfather William K Vanderbilt. The two are sons of the Duchess of Marlborough formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Dublin officials consider replacing English origin street names like Queens Square Townsend Street and Brunswick Street with names honoring Sinn Feiners in a move to assert Irish identity.
Charles M. Schwab announced a new two cycle internal combustion engine for ships and stationary use. The engine, described as a product of American skill, has had a successful tryout aboard an ore carrying Bethlehem Steel ship.
Paris reports a new automated time recorder for pay-station telephone calls installed at a Paris exchange. The device is part of government trials of several modern methods and equipment aimed at modernization.
An effort to modernize France's telephone system includes restringing copper wires and greatly enlarging facilities throughout the country. The plan also calls for installing modern switchboards to improve nationwide communications.
Carl Paulson and his wife arrive from Copenhagen with fifteen children to run a Minnesota farm. He says if more help is needed he will send for reserves including two married daughters three married sons and nine grandchildren.
Perth Australia Aug 27. A bill to remove the disqualification of women offering themselves as candidates for parliament is set for the forthcoming session. The proposal marks a step toward greater female participation in politics.
President Pessoa sent a special congress message stressing the urgency of solving the housing problem in the federal district. He deplores the current pace of house construction and calls for immediate measures to accelerate building.
Advertising agent W. D. Shank of Kansas City tours Montana Utah Colorado and Wyoming for the Wyoming Tribune State Leader and Stockman Farmer. EH Katz Special Advertising Agency covers the United States with O M Smith and C B Emery to visit next week. A man named Gus Feters a Mexican man was arrested Friday on a drunken charge. bond set at 25 dollars.
The text notes a government recommendation to provide direct assistance through low rate loans to private building companies and individuals, aiming to stimulate construction and home ownership.
Paris August 27 telegram reports the Armenian republic now has grain on hand expected to last eight months. The note cites stocks and imports as securing staple food for that period amid regional disruption.
United States grain corporation executives report from Colonel William N. Haskell allied high commission to Armenia that he has left for Paris with American officers. The telegram notes that grain will largely come from the harvest with a small 40,000 ton remaining flour shipment from America.
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