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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1920
Page
7
Susannah Piearson and Family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy and floral offerings after the death of their son and brother C. W. Piearson.
A civic urging residents to ensure they are counted in the upcoming census. The piece stresses personal responsibility, warns of losing status if Cheyenne falls in population rankings, and explains how to request enumeration by calling 240 for an enumerator to visit.
Railroad workers at the old Burlington station at Capitol avenue and Lincoln are partitioning the southeast corner and preparing the western section for Cheyenne Fruit company. The main fruit company space will become the Colorado & Southern station when rail assets return to private owners. The Railroad Men's club and the Railroad Men's Arcade clothing store vacated to make room.
A marriage license was issued yesterday to James D. Austin and Miss Frances Gorman of Fulton Wyoming. The notice mixes casual local ad copy about a beauty remedy and a drug store delivery offer, reflecting the era’s small town newspaper tone and advertising alongside civic notices.
Grain prices show May corn at 4.35, July corn 4.75 with oats around 0.83. Livestock receipts and prices in national stock yards and Omaha include cattle, hogs, and sheep with mixed to steady market, noted ranges for beef steers and heifers, cows, calves, sows, and lambs.
Neck Springs Wyoming January 28 1920 editor of Cheyenne Leader announces candidacy as a delegate to the national Democratic convention in San Francisco and endorses Herbert Hoover for president T S Taliaferro Jr January 30 February 5
Seattle reports fifty five influenza cases as an emergency hospital opens. The Woman's club of the R. M. A. will meet at 3 o clock Wednesday afternoon at Mrs F A M Stuart's home on East Eighteenth street. All members urged to attend.
Copyright notice from International News Service dated 1919 cites patent registration in the United States and rights for Bringing Up Father comic strip.
An exhibit of captured German and Allied weapons and oddities opened at the America National Bank in Cheyenne to promote Army recruiting. Major C. J. Nelson and Sergeant J. J. Coone oversee the display, which includes machine guns, a light Brownings gun, a sawed off pump shotgun used in trench warfare, a 387 millimeter gun, a Paris parade helmet, and German paper goods used for makeshift gear. The exhibit will stay all week and travel to other cities.
William J. Smith pleaded guilty in district court to selling a quart of whiskey for 42.50 to Vernon Leroy Nelson. Judge Mentzer fined him 200 dollars after the guilty plea.
The University of Wyoming announces the revival of its annual lecture course featuring four events including Florence Macbeth in concert and Sir John Foster Frazer in a talk on modern international problems. The program also includes the Ernest Gamble Concert party and the university music faculty. A state farm bureau federation was organized at the recent Extension Workers conference, with officers elected and aims to coordinate county and community programs for joint solutions.
The university will for the first time compete in intercollegiate baseball this spring. Coach Corbett arranged a tentative schedule with Colorado Agricultural college Mines and Denver on the road and at home and the team expects to build on strong material shown in prior inter-class games.
Claude A. Rossignol directs the Union Pacific Military band planning a concert in March. It will be the band’s first regular appearance with 30 members, well balanced instrumentation. The Hillsdale band, also led by Rossignol with 25 members, plans a later concert.
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