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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1918
Page
10
At Rawlins big stone prison 175 inmates toil in the shirt factory turning out 200 shirts daily for the public. The plant, overseen by the state board of charities and reform, features skilled labor and overtime pay, with guards patrolling above benches while convicts work.
The Wind River reservation executive committee calls all committee members to Riverton on Feb 8 to elect officers and address business. Superintendent Mutchingen mails permits discussion to interested parties for ceded Shoshone reserv tion privileges and issuing permits. Forty to fifty stockmen and their ladies are expected. a banquet in honor of visitors is planned in the evening.
Men are under way to open a spring road from Riverton to Sweetwater via Sand guidh Lone Tree ridge and Myersville. The 38 mile route cuts about 20 miles, promising a premier county road with low cost and wide use for Riverton district residents and Sweetwater country visitors.
In Arapahoe forest near Ranger Colorado a fire damaged a seed processing plant. Twenty four hundred pounds of lodgepole pine seed valued at 5600 dollars had been saved from the blaze while buildings and equipment worth 1500 dollars and 2500 bushels of cones valued at 1125 dollars were lost. The cause is not yet known.
Evanston Wyoming February reports Lieut Constant Irwin the first American officer to distinguish himself for bravery in France tells his mother of a delayed letter recounting his rescue of a fallen comrade in a shell hole under German fire. He crawled 300 yards on his stomach and wormed through danger to save the man.
Irby Lum the newly appointed justice of the peace and Jay K Smith the town night marshal led raids on two Glenrock gambling houses. Inmates were arrested and equipment hauled to the square where it was burned after being smeared with oil. The crowd cheered as the destruction proceeded and the county attorney was telegraphed to pursue action against the owners.
Upton Wyoming February 5 Charles Wulff secretary of the Buffalo Creek Road club reports $200 in subscriptions and plans to improve and maintain local roads to boost business. The club urges cooperative efforts from Upton residents to repair roads leading into town and ready them when ground thaws.
Riverton plans a four story 745 by 140 foot hotel with basement and electric elevator, costing around 150000 dollars. The project aims to surpass Fremont county rivals and serve growing spring and summer traffic, with site on Main Street yet to be decided. The hotel will be run by an experienced operator once completed, and its opening is hoped for by next spring.
Casper to get a modern Metropole Turkish bath house in the O and S and S building on Second Street. The facility will offer Turkish and steam baths massage chiropody and a plunge pool with separate men and women sections and forty rest rooms in oriental style. Opening is set for February 10 under manager W E Brown of Denver.
Casper Wyoming reports Hon Patrick Sullivan of Cooper deposits 3000 in gold at Casper National Bank to award 1000 to the first American aviator dropping a bomb on Berlin with 2000 for Wyoming flyers and 5000 for Casper natives. The offer follows praise at a Wyoming Mining Congress banquet and may not last long as Allied flights operate Berlin to Riga in 34 hours.
Washington reports, based on British war office sources, that Germany’s food crisis worsens despite a large potato harvest. The food dictator warns of further ration cuts, reduced livestock, and price subsidies while butter and sugar climb, and transport limits hinder imports from occupied regions.
An old advertisement promotes Pinex cough syrup as a home remedy. It claims quick relief for coughs, throat and chest congestion, and even whooping cough, offering a pint supply for about one dollar.
I Robertson and M Black enrolled in Kahe's automobile training school in Kansas City Missouri to study mechanics. Many local men delay draft calls to educate themselves for transport department work in the army. Rahe offers reduced tuition with refunds if called before completion.
Emma Goldman, the Russian anarchist, is returning to serve a two year sentence for conspiracy against the draft. Alexander Berkman, convicted on the same charge, will be taken to a federal prison in Atlanta on Wednesday.
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