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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1912
Page
6
Mr F R Dildine and Nick Petry of the Laramie County Good Roads association visit members to boost road building efforts. They report collecting $44 and aim to recruit at least 500 boosters, with dues of 25 cents monthly or three dollars annually to treasurer David Nimmo. The drive continues to energize local roads projects.
Wyoming has 260 male inmates at Rawlins. Two women are serving sentences for manslaughter and are kept in Colorado's Canon City penitentiary female department. Wyoming has not created a separate women’s unit due to low female convict numbers.
All Royal Neighbors of America are asked to attend the lodge Thursday evening to meet state deputy Mrs Woolems. A social hour follows the meeting. Recorder. 22
In honor of Washington's birthday the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution plan a meeting at the Carnegie Library Auditorium with an address by W A Richards of the Cheyenne Sons of the Revolution. The program includes tableaux by Daughters of the Revolution, period costumes, music, and a social with refreshments. The Song of the Revolution annual meeting is postponed to March with officer elections and annual reports.
Agnes Scott invites friends to support her entry in the Leader’s 10 000 club contest and expresses gratitude for their assistance.
Johnson school upper grades gathered in Mrs Listons room to honor February birthdays of Lincoln Washington and other great figures. Students performed selections and biographical sketches from Edison Dickens Longfellow Willard and others. The program featured readings songs and tributes by seventh and sixth graders with visitors present.
On April 10, 1912, at the Federal building in this city, the United States Civil Service Commission will conduct an examination for weather service positions. Applicants must write to the commission in Washington, D.C. for details and eligibility.
James Keough civilian post tailor died at 2:10 AM Tuesday February 20 at the hospital with carcino ma listed as cause. He served twenty seven years as a old soldier under General Miles in the Indian War and leaves a wife and four children. Remains to Denver for interment at Fairmount cemetery at 3 PM. Fort Russell hospital notes report transfers and medical updates including operations on Mrs Dowell and Sgt Schumacher.
The Fourth Field Artillery Band will provide music for a Wednesday concert and banquet benefiting the Jewish Ladies Society to fund a synagogue in Cheyenne. Chief Musician D Alotelo and his ensemble prepare for the Washington's Birthday event. The unit recently promoted six new non commissioned officers and two corporals to sergeant. Corporal Davis of battery B and Corporal Geering are among the sergeants.
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