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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
11
The Laramie girls play Cheyenne in a curtain raiser at the gymnasium Friday evening. Miss Clements will referee the girls game.
A San Diego visitor returns home as Mrs. Morton comes back from Green River on state health business. Casper group led by Dr and Mrs HH Lathrop and others stops at the Plains en route to California. Judge and Mrs. Matson end a two month Hawaiian trip and seek housing in Cheyenne. Mrs. Peabody returns from San Diego as Major Hume Peabody arrives with her. Miss Clements from Laramie comes to Cheyenne to meet local class and departs Saturday.
The Coterie Art Club meets with Mrs. Sam Asher at the Art Association. The Cheyenne Art Association holds a four o’clock session at the Carnegie Library led by Mrs. T B McDonough. The Woman’s Club of the R M A gathers at Mrs. F A M Stuart’s home with twelve members and one visitor, voting a cash donation to the Wyoming Federation of Women’s Clubs. Mrs Hinrichs reviews the Russia war situation. a letter from Charlie Stuart to his mother is read, dated December 22 with a postscript December 27, aboard the transport for France.
Mr. Stuart in medical corps among volunteer nurses caring for measles patients during the voyage. He calls the voyage pleasant with smooth tea and notes land in sight with disembarkation to follow within hours. A letter carried by a sailor mailed from New York postmarked January.
The Methodist foreign mission society meets Friday with Mrs. E R Bretsch and Mrs Blau's home for the Methodist Aid Society. Westminster building of the Presbyterian church held a delightful social after the annual meeting led by President Mrs Robert Jerne. The official board includes Anna Hansen and Grace Emerson among others, with a piano salve by Emerson and a pantomime featuring Misses Lundin derwood Kuntee Anderson Winifred Starr Una Nighe wand er and Young. Refreshments were served by Mrs Jenkins and Miss Etta Robbyn.
Shriners from across the state gather at the Masonic temple in Cheyenne Fel for a seven member initiation class of about seventy novices. The ceremony runs 10 AM to 6:50 PM with a concert and dance to follow led by P S Cook and a committee including C B Morgan and Judge W C Mentzer.
Lincoln's birthday will be observed by a 400 member 100 Per Cent American club mass meeting at the high school gymnasium in Cheyenne Tuesday night. Members urged to bring a friend. Bishop P A Mesiovern will deliver the main address. Children will perform Lincoln Day songs and recitations. No funds or memberships will be solicited at the event.
The Union Pacific railroad is unloading coal in its shop coal yard at about 1000 tons daily to guard against shortages. This marks the first coal unloading in months with twelve to fifteen carloads discharged each day.
An ad touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use mixture that darkens gray hair naturally. The copy claims one application hides gray strands and another deepens the shade for a lustrous look without curing disease.
Capt. Ray Olds 18 RA issues new physical exam regulations to local draft boards in Wyoming. No definite start date set for examinations. registrants expected to be called within a few days.
Sam Chitchard and Lena Bleheart were arrested last night on a charge of maintaining a house of ill fame. They face trial in Police Judge Swainson's court today. A W O W card social and dance is planned for Thursday evening at the fraternal ball with admission 25 cents, ladies free.
Governors from sixteen states back prohibition and urge a governors conference to speed ratification of the federal amendment. The piece lists supportive governors, states ratifying progress, and notes thirty-four legislatures to meet by January 1999 with others in spring 2000.
Of thirty seven replies, six favor holding the suggested conference, thirteen oppose the timing, and only one governor, Charles Henderson of Alabama, opposes the federal prohibition amendment as a state issue. Sixteen governors favor the national amendment, one opposes, and the rest are non committal as Houx did not seek opinions.
Fair Thursday with little temperature change. westerly winds increase. Northwest portions may see rain with cooler afternoon in the west. strong westerly winds from the southwest to southeast. Shipper forecast indicates 20 to 25 degrees above normal across east, west readings 25 to 30 degrees below. Temperature around 41 degrees today, humidity around 80 percent, wind velocity around 44 mph, precipitation since January about 0.647 inches.
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