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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
6
A Christmas themed society note highlights a cheerful girl and brave, helpful boy embodying Christmas spirit year round. It also reports the engagement of Harry A. Patten of Cheyenne and Edith Judy of Fredericksburg with a March wedding to be held in Cody, noting party details from Cheyenne and Park County Enterprise coverage.
Miss Judy shines as center of attention at a party while engagement news hints her spring wedding to Mr. H. B. Patten in Cheyenne. Holiday visits, kindergarten closure due to scarlet fever, and local social events fill the community update with names like Mrs. Bell, Miss Davidson, and Mrs. Theno.
R. L. Dutcher and other scarlet fever victims are improving. Dutcher, a mail clerk, is resting at home with his family and plans to resume duties once fully recovered. Friends expect a speedy and complete healing.
Tuesday Bridge Club resumes meetings at Fort Russell with Mrs. Baker hosting the group and a tea served after games. Mrs. Baade hosts a card party this afternoon. A dinner honors General Edwards with Captain and Mrs. Snyder presiding. Lt and Mrs Leslie J McNair and son return from Fort Lilly after three months away.
Mrs Ralph Robertson reports a most enjoyable trip after visiting Omaha Nebraska City and Kansas City over three weeks. She details the pleasant travels and experiences across three midwestern stops.
In Omaha a convention and banquet by film and moving picture men featured guest Mrs. Pitt Covert and Miss Forbes of Riverton. Governor Carey and wife returned from the east, presenting a silver service to the battleship Wyoming. Various locals and guests from Cheyenne Casper and Newcastle visited relatives and planned Christmas trips. A note promotes Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip as a home remedy. A southern aviator who jumped from a biplane proved the feat cannot be successfully done.
The Rev Henry A Atkinson spoke at a Avon luncheon with 40 leading business men and later addressed a church fellowship, outlining a program that centers religious effort on human need. He urged a well rounded church active in Bible study evangelism youth work missions and social service.
Denver protests a War Department order shifting the quartermaster’s department from Denver to San Francisco effective January 1. The Chamber of Commerce aims to halt the plan and seek reinstatement plus a $200,000 yearly increase, citing Denver’s $1,000,000 annual local spending and prior cancellation efforts sparked by Fort Logan changes.
A Denver department proposes extending influence to recruit the war department to reestablish a regional post at Fort Logan and shift commissary purchases totaling about 200000 dollars annually from Chicago to Denver.
Fred Lebhart of The State Leader breaks the state amateur bowling record with a 252. He also tops the season high, rolling seven spares in ten frames to reach 214 and finishing with a total above the former 243 mark held by Leichart and Luke Vollack. The record comes just days after his previous high.
Boston mayor advocates a six inch harp limit awaiting enforcement efforts in the county. The mock phrase about a stinglean tee and singlesy mosquito appears as a humorous or garbled line reflecting local color or OCR error from New Jersey readers.
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