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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1918
Page
3
Mrs Charles D Carey learned that Edith K O Clark former state public instruction head sails today on Cunard liner for overseas duty She leads her training class of 110 as root leader for the sailing party Her warm manners have made her popular among friends here Rosieou?
Mr. and Mrs. Harry P Hynde hosted an informal Christmas dinner at 7 o'clock on Christmas evening. Guests included friends and Mr. and Mrs 8 McGuire. Honored guests were Jack O Hearn and his son Jack Jr visiting from Bloomington Illinois for the holidays.
Mrs. O. K. Snyder leaves for six weeks in San Diego to visit her husband Captain Otto K. Snyder of Fort Rosecrans. Top Sergeant Paul T. Sullivan arrives from American Lake for a furlough. Captain Ray K. Olds and Mrs. Olds are ill with influenza. Anne Hansen recovers from pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. T. Joe Cahill return from a California visit.
Miss Mary Carpenter superintendent of Cheyenne Red Cross knitting reports five hundred pairs completed and forwarded to headquarters for the Denver base of supplies. Knitters are asked to provide four hundred more by January 20 and work will begin immediately. Headquarters is open each weekday afternoon for further needs.
Major General Mehonor, former commander, writes to General Pershing praising Brigadier General McArthur of the 42nd Division. He credits McArthur's leadership with the division’s resilience during the German drive at Champagne and the Marne period, urging a second-time promotion to major general.
Washington announces that all future ships will carry merchant crews and that naval manning of new cargo vessels ends with peace. It explains past wartime arrangements, clarifies who manned ships, and notes greatly increased recruiting needs for the merchant marine as peace returns.
Seventeen cities and eight states attend a Bureau of Education conference led by Dr. P. P. Claxton at 89th Street New York. Officials discuss how schools and industry can cooperate to address child labor, Americanization, and continue plans for flexible schooling for youths aged 14 to 18, including half day and continuation programs.
Washington officials discounted French Foreign Minister Clohon's claim that France will not intervene in Russia. They said his remarks appeared his own view, not government policy, and no policy decision had been made amid unsettled conditions.
Mrs Kathleen Koenig wife of Major Koenig commanding officer at Fort D A Russell died yesterday morning at the fort hospital after influenza. Her body will be shipped to San Diego California from Hobbs Huckfeldt Finkbiner undertaking parlors. She is survived by her husband their small child and her mother.
The funeral for James Fitzgerald will be held at 9 o'clock this morning from the Catholic church. Born May 9 1884 he died December 26 at age 24 7 17 after Spanish influenza. Known as Jimmie he helped with Frontier Days show and lived in Cheyenne and on local ranches. Survived by wife Minnie J Clay three sisters Mrs Bigelow Mrs Katie Richards Miss Margaret Fitzgerald and three brothers Miles Will and Henry. Interment at Mount Olivet cemetery.
Tokyo leader T Inukai urged the peace conference to display disinterestedness in territorial gains and to welcome open admission of aliens by the United States. He warned Japan must consider its future amid a global shift to republics while debates on compulsory part time schooling and work-study experiments continued in several cities.
London reports a British warship has captured three Bolshevik destroyers. One destroyer was bombarding a lighthouse when seized.
In Chicago on December 27, District Attorney Charles Kaine alleged a government letter vanished during the espionage trial of five socialist leaders. The letter, read by Private Schiller, was said to be from W. F. Kruse to Schiller, containing a German code. Kruse denied writing it and Kaine claimed the letter disappeared after defense inspection.
In Chaumont France the American headquarters staff at general headquarters AEF spend spare time studying the citys historic relics. The Hautefeuille tower and castle gardens. the 11th century castle remains. St Jean church dating to the 13th to 16th centuries with flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance features. notable monuments including an Alexis reliquary and a new Moly Sepulchre chapel noted in the text.
In a former convent on Rue Houchardon a grand residence hosts a public American guest house and officers club with a stained window claiming the signing of a 1644 treaty that reduced France to its 1789 bounds. The building allegedly marks Chaumont as birthplace of Phillipe Lebon, early gas lighting pioneer, with a bronze statue near a railway station. Lebon born 1767.
City news items list numerous visitors in Cheyenne including George Foland of Douglas, Col Gray of Wheatland, H C Young engineer of Glenrock, P Y Worcester of Boulder, C R Fairman of Encampment, and others. Attendees stay at the Plains Hotel, transacting business and calling on local interests.
An expert from Strawberry Valley Project Utah argues that crop diversification boosts irrigation efficiency. Study of old canals shows varied crops smooths water peaks, stabilizes flow, lowers maintenance, and enhances farm profitability while acknowledging limits due to cash needs and crop selection.
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