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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
3
Community notices highlight a charity ball January 23 with Christmas colors and calls for church greens and loaned decor. Also reported are recoveries from illness, cooking with electricity demonstrations, Eastern Star elections, council praise for ice and lake care, and a busy schedule of minstrels, cadet drill, tea gatherings, and a successful charity concert featuring Mina Morgan's work.
Captain and Mrs Pearson of the Ninth Cavalry are expected to return from a deployment. The item notes their anticipated homecoming and the unit involved, with emphasis on their military service and family reunion.
Mrs. P. Arnold of Laramie guests of Mrs. Pitt Covert while St Laramie Woman's Club president attends Cheyenne club meeting. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jeffers plan to Denver for Ben Hur, and W. A. Riner returns from Denver with relatives. Mrs. Mamie Wefferon visits Torrington for teacher exams. Mrs. M. H. Spiegelman of Denver visits Mrs. J. A. Miller. Mrs. A. A. Clark of Sidney Neb. visits daughter Mrs. Alva O. Witters and sees Clark at Thanksgiving. Junior society at Baptist church hosts a Victrola concert run by Miss Nell Morgan with children selling trinkets to a packed crowd.
George Honey Boy Evans and his minstrel company bring a new production to Capitol Avenue theatre tonight. The show features costumed performances, songs, and the farce De God hightly Guarde Reception. The cast includes Cicero Didimus Jones and Seminary Days, with Jack Kling, Sam Lee, and Raymond Maxson delivering notable acts. Two youths were arrested after breaking into a home to steal chloroform in a late night incident related in the article.
Two teen boys were arrested in Jersey City after planning to chloroform widow Mrs. Mary Schroeder to steal money from a mattress. William Gumpel, 16, and John Bemanditeh, 16, learned from a moving picture film and a girl, Eth el Schroeder, about banklike money under mattresses. They confided to police, detailing a plan to recruit another boy and execute the theft.
A mother shares a thrifty kitchen trick to bake potatoes using a tin cover asbestos plate and a heated old pan on a range. She turns the potatoes to avoid burning and ensures even cooking. Also noted is a Presbyterian ladies event next Friday with bays of fancy work home cooking and candy in church parlors.
Long paragraph outlines farm chores for winter from chicken houses to feed and barn maintenance. Minnesota notes football practice begin for 1913 with over twenty candidates reporting to the university armory for weekly drills and lectures to prepare for outdoor work next fall.
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