Local Society Notes Highlight Charity Events and Socials
The Methodist Missionary Society bake sale at Olsen's on Evans Street next Saturday begins at 9 AM to aid deaconesses in Rock Springs. W. R. G. invites a card party at K C G Hall at 2 30 PM Wednesday with Mrs Schbridg Johnson and Swanson as hosts. The Win One class plans an oyster supper and toast program Friday the 13th in the church parlor for about fifty. The Francis Willard W C T U chapter holds a 2 30 PM meeting in Carnegie library. First Presbyterian hosts a 6 PM banquet for about one hundred. A Cheyenne couple welcomes a son. Mrs Phelps of Bridgeport is remembered as Eva Couch of Douglas. Ramona Bergman visits Cheyenne. Jewish Circle meets at 4710 Evans Street. Mrs Pritchard and Mrs Sheriff host the Lady Maccabees 500 Club at 2217 Van Lennen Street this afternoon.
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Methodist Sunday School
Pritchard
Municipal Bathing Beach Is Wrecked
A high wind wrecked Ter ry lake bathing beach facilities including the women’s dressing room and diving tower. A committee of young men will seek repairs by next season and may raise funds if the city declines. City Commissioner McInerney will decide. Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce will review the matter.
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Terry Lake
John J. McInerney
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Flu Gains in City by Lake Edge
Chicago February 2. Deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the last 94 hours rose from Sunday's tally while new cases climbed by more than 800. The surge indicates a worsening outbreak in the lakefront city.
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Chicago
Jury in sight in Montesano trial
Twelve jurors sit as adjournment ends the trial of 14 alleged I. W. W. for the murder of Oscar Grim, a Centralia armistice day victim. Six of 48 peremptory challenges have been used by both sides.
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Montesano
Wash
Oscar Gri Nm
Centralia
Stanfield Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon
The funeral for Dean Stanfield, age three, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Stanfield, who died Saturday morning of diphtheria, was held privately at 4 o clock Sunday at Lakeview Cemetery. Rev. Bruce Jackson presided. Early-Bricker Brothers arranged the services.
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Dean Stanfield
Frank T. Stanfield
Lakeview Cemetery
Bruce Jackson
Early-Bricker Brothers
Kansas Flu Epidemic Prompts Nurse Volunteer Call
Kansas reports over 41 thousand influenza cases with hundreds more daily. State health board issues statewide call for counter nurses as twenty deaths and 4 494 new cases since Saturday are logged.
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Topeka
Kans
Kansas
State Board of Health
First Hudson Bay Building Built on Brick from Britain
Victoria British Columbia February 2 The 250th anniversary of the Hudsons Bay Company will be marked May 2 with focus on two Victoria buildings. A small brick store carried around Cape Horn from England was the first on Vancouver Island. Nearby a four story terra cotta clad department store nearing completion contrasts the pioneer shop with the modern chain now expanding across western Canada. The company began as a fur trader and now operates eleven department stores in the region.
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Victoria
B. C
Hudson's Bay Company
Cape Horn
England
Vancouver Island
Little Pioneer
Pacific Coast
Canada
Vancouver
New York Man Returns with Million-Dollar Shakespeare Collection
G D Smith of New York returns to the United States with one million dollars worth of Shakespeare works including a rare 1699 edition of Venus and Adonis. The two by three inch volume weighs two ounces and was purchased at Sotheby's in England for the stated sum.
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G. D. Smith
New York
U. S
Smith
Sotheby’s
England
Fort, Trading Post, and Klondike Echoes in Vancouver Island
The 1848 Fort Camousun Harbor, built by Chief Factor James Douglas, marked the start of British Columbia’s rule under the Hudson’s Bay Company. The fort faded after 1867, but the brick store remained as a miners’ outfitting hub for gold rushes from the Cariboo era through Klondike days, now a warehouse amid modern towers.
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Putea
Vancouver Island
James Douglas
Sir James
Camousun Harbor
British Columbia
Canada
Cariboo
Omineca
Cassiar
Klondike
Murderer of John J. Corbett at Caspar area still at large
Fresh evidence links the missing horse to the Corbett ranch murder suspect. A six mile Glenda rancher identified the horse and the purchaser, J. B. Helberson, describing the buyer as small, sandy, wearing black chaps. Rewards total about 4500 with possible rise to 2000, as pursuit widens across Natrona County Casper Wyoming.
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John J. Corbett
Casper
J. B. Helberson
Glenda
Corbett Ranch
Wheatland
Pat Royce
R. J. Livingston
Richie
J. F. Reishcher
Condon
Ore
Stevens
Livingston
Natrona County
Wyoming
Printed Chiffon Frock For Wear At Palm Beach
A summery beige georgette frock with pink accents, short sleeves, and a short skirt features a satin girdle and a tiny white belt and collar. Described as ideal for Palm Beach wardrobe packing.
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Palm Beach
Bellegle plan to alter climate by Pacific rail dam
Ottawa report says British capitalists want a Quebec to St John’s railway. A masonry dam across the Belle Isle Strait would divert the Labrador current and allow the Gulf Stream to temper eastern Canada and New England. Some skeptics doubt the ocean current would cooperate.
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Labrador
Virginia
Ottawa
Ont
Canada
New England
Quebec
St. John's
Newfoundland
Strait of Belle Isle
Arctic Ocean
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Atlantic
North Atlantic Seaboard
Ocean
Tropics
Great Lakes
British Columbia
Rocky Mountains
Climate shifts could redefine eastern Canada and Newfoundland
The article argues that if Gulf Stream dynamics change and draw warm water toward the American coast the climate of northern America would alter. Canada might gain a milder climate while Britain could grow colder. Engineers warn of vast economic shifts with land value gains, new industries, cities, and population, reshaping eastern Canada and New Ireland and boosting Canadian commerce alongside the United States with Montreal rising as a major rival.
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Newfoundland
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Great Britain
Canada
England
Labrador
America
New Ireland
United States
Montreal
New York
Irish opinions echoed by Labour delegates in parliament session
A circulated Labour Party statement, signed by a delegate, notes observations and impressions of the Irish people. Though personal, the views align with the delegation's overall stance as reflected in accompanying correspondence.
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Ae Teer
Labor Party
Army Awards Delayed Pending Medal List Submission
The investigation into army medal awards will be postponed until the War Department provides Congress with a complete list of officers who received distinguished service medals or crosses. Chairman Johnson of the House committee announced the delay today during the inquiry into War Department expenditures.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Johnson
House Committee
Labor deputation to Ireland unlikely to ease Irish plan protests
London February 2 there is reason to believe the British labor party delegation's visit to Ireland will not win favor from labor leaders in Parliament for the government's Irish scheme to be elaborated.
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London
Associated Press
Ireland
Handsome Boots for Ladies at Large Sale
A local ad touts a large sale on women’s boots in desirable shades and styles. Shoes ordered over a year ago, not available wholesale at these prices, promise significant savings per pair.
General Wood's Aides Complete Organization
The national campaign committee for Major General Leonard Wood was named at Wood headquarters. Key appointments include William C. Proctor of Ohio as chairman, J. J. McGraw of Oklahoma as vice chairman, Fred Stanley of Kansas as vice chairman and western manager, A. A. Sprague of Illinois as treasurer, and H. C. Stebbins of New York as eastern treasurer. An executive committee lists Norman J. Gould as eastern manager, Thomas W. Miller as assistant eastern manager, and George Moses as Washington and southern manager.
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Chicago
Leonard Wood
Wood
William C. Proctor
Ohio
J. J. McGraw
Bargain South Side Homes Offer Quick Sacrifice
Three room house on South Side with large lot and easy terms. Owner will sell at once for a bargain. Also a two room house on a South Side corner lot with $400 improvements included, priced at $900. Additional two three room houses on W. 24th and other listings from $700 and up. See us today.
Remains of Mae Myers Sent to Dakota
The body of Miss Mae Myers who died of pneumonia was shipped to Ardmore South Dakota for burial by Clyde Early-Bricker Brothers. Her father rests in Ardmore while her mother lives in Edgemont. Brother-in-law R. S. Blakely of Denver accompanied the body to Ardmore. Miss Myers was a clerk in Freed's store and formerly at the Toggery.
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Miss Mae Myers
Clyde Early- Bricker Brothers
Ardmore
S. D
Miss Myers
Edgemont
R. S. Blakely
Denver
Freed
Toggery
Carpentier to Sail for United States
Paris reports George Carpentier will depart soon for the United States alongside his manager M. Des camps the announcement says Carpentier is currently touring the provinces before the voyage and will join Nereamus in the U S, detailing plans for a forthcoming stay.
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Paris
George Carpentier
M. Descamps
United States
Nereamus Carpentier
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Society News
Ladies of the
Methodist Missionary Society
Olsen's
Evans Street
Rock Springs
K. CG
Schbridg
Swanson
Francis Willard
Carnegie Library
First Presbyterian Church
Cheyenne
Clarence Phelps
Bridgeport
Conn
Phelps
Eva Couch
Douglas
Wyo
Guy Tayor
Iva Dunn
Inez Crag
Vesta Springfield
Ramona Bergman
Sam Bergman
Amelia Adamsky
Stanfield
Hudson Bay
Britain
Oregon
Rockies
Spain
Fort Vancouver
Columbia
Williamette Rivers
Pr. Whitman
Venus and
Adonis
Aes
Norge Otolen B. Corbett
Glendo
Ranch
Bellegle
Dominion
ARMY
Hildren
Vicks Vaporub
Sor
Stark
W.L. Douglas
Western
Dakota
Carpentier
Fashion Park
Sam Stark
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