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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1919
Page
2
Dr and Mrs P M Cunningham of St Louis arrived Monday. He will open a dental office in the First National Bank Building after his honorable military discharge. They reside at the Plains Hotel, as Mr J H Pearson of Omaha stays briefly.
Mrs Avery Haggard welcomed seventeen ladies to her home Tuesday afternoon for a Presbyterian Missionary Society meeting. With Mrs Lyons absent, Mrs Charles Wibeck led a debate on home versus foreign missions, favoring foreign missions by the judges. Officers elected: President Mrs W C Mentzer, Vice President Mrs Charles Wilsock, Secretary Mrs Ed Kelley, Treasurer Mrs Colin Hunter, Secretary of Literature Mrs J F Jenkins.
Miss Agnes Wright has appointed Mrs Charles Pimer Lane to chair the scout book committee. Scout scrapbooks at 10 cents each will aid convalescing soldiers at Fort Russell and fund a new supply. The War Mothers group organized with officers Mrs A K Weaver president and other officers named. Meetings set for Tuesday afternoon at Carnegie Library.
A quiet noon ceremony at 502 West Twenty-second Street united Mrs Ruth Shirley and Mr Oron Lea Jackson. Rev E B Brace officiated as immediate family attended. a breakfast followed. The couple heads to Colorado then plans Cheyenne as home. guests included J W Shirley and various Shirley family members.
Mrs J S Stubblefield and Miss Anna Dobbin entertained the Westminster guild at the Stubblefield home Tuesday. About 19 members attended and discussed the Y W C A movement. Members Marlan and Eunice Anderson were noted among those presenting the association’s scope.
A fragmentary notice for a W. O. W. meeting on Thursday at 7:30 is unreadable in parts but mentions a committee and attendees Ries Kelley Loatic and others.
Attorney N. E. Cortell returned to Laramie after completing duties as legal adviser to the Fifteenth state legislature. Representative Carl Jackson also came back to Laramie after several weeks in Cheyenne. William Harden of New York passed through Cheyenne to visit his sister Mrs. Arthur E. Bellis in Laramie. Harden, connected with the government telephone administration, will depart for New Orleans shortly.
The Kings Daughters will meet Friday night in the parlors of the Congregational church with Mrs. Katy Wade, Mrs. Lillian Leach and Miss Katherine as hostesses. Visitors include Mr. J. C. Van Male of Denver and Mr. M. Lattonne of New York on brief stays, with Mr. R. M. Jossin of Omaha and Mr. George A. Field of Denver also in town. Mrs. G. W. Larson of Elk Mountain is at the Plains hotel.
Dr A P Johnston and wife depart for Chicago with son Phelps and Mrs G P Johnston. J N Bell of Winterset Iowa visits the city. Vera and Elsa Lund return from Chicago to Cheyenne. Eugene Crowley goes to San Diego to join his wife. Dinneen relation in San Diego expects return early next week. Rev J W Kingsley of Sheridan tours from Denver for a few days. A J Evana of Denver makes a brief stay.
Sergeant Barnes is now stationed at Camp Dix New Jersey after landing from overseas. Verna Keays departs for Fort Collins Colorado to visit Mrs P J Metugh. Mr and Mrs Kennedy go to New York for a month. Elizabeth Burkholder heads to Johnson City Kansas for several days. Mr and Mrs Homer of Gidney serve a brief stay in the city. Mr and Mrs A G Fonda and family visit the Plain hotel in Guernsey.
Chapter of the P E O sisterhood met with Mrs W C Mentzer Tuesday afternoon. After business the program focused on current events led by Mrs W C Kinkead. Attendees included Mrs Ralph Goodrich who has been away from the city. Refreshments were served.
Sergeant Maurice Dinneen arrived home Monday evening after a year overseas. He was wounded in France and spent months in a hospital there. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dinneen and arrived from abroad in early January.
Mrs. Wil lard J. Herring wife of a Union Pacific engineer died at 3 30 Sunday morning from bronchial pneumonia after four days of illness in Laramie Funeral details show she left behind husband three children Julia 12 Wil lard 7 and Virginia 4 all ill or recovering at home The family had lived in Laramie nearly seven years with Mr Herring employed by Union Pacific and friends send heartfelt sympathy
The Knight and Ladies of Security meet at the I. O. C. F. hall tonight at o'clock with President Ralph McN Arr presiding A class for installation and a social hour follow Carl Christensen departs for Peoria Illinois after attending to her mother Mrs Elisabeth King who is seriously ill
The Cheyenne Delphians will assemble this afternoon at the Carnegie Library. T G Phelan has returned from Laramie after a short stay. Miss Julia Coolidge of the state engineers office in Cheyenne returned home after visiting her parents in Laramie. Mr Fred R Trumbull and Mr W J Trumbull of Valley Nebraska left for Laramie to visit their brother RK J Trumbull.
Coach Corbett of Laramie known as the Cowboy Meteor has written to Montana coach Bennion seeking a fall game in Casper. Wyoming has not yet met a Montana college, and locals hope the plan materializes after war delays blocked last year. A reply is expected soon with odds on the matchup.
A Saturday nursery party hosted by Miss Gertrude Parmelee in Sheridan featured games and tableaux from Virgil, including The Death of Cassandra and The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, followed by a luncheon with a Mother Goose themed pie. Guests included Zoe Condit Maurine Hollo Orlene Chester Ruth Staples Olga Moore Dorothy Whedon Martha Whedon and many travelers visiting Cheyenne.
The Anna Gordon union will meet this afternoon at 2 20 oclock with Mrs John Benson 411 East Ninth. Mr F W Topping of San Francisco Cal is in Cheyenne on a brief business stay. Mr J H Stndish of Casper is there on business. Mrs J D Matheson of Salt Lake City is here on a brief stay.
Mrs Thomas Hunter and Mrs Colin Hunter will entertain at 1 oclock Saturday at the Plains with a bridge luncheon. Elizabeth Durk holder spoke on Cheyenne Y W C A plans at the Industrial club meeting, noting 500 girls employed and 200+ attending schools and the need for recreation and democratic impulse.
Mina Evelyn Jensen of East Twentieth Street hosted a Tuesday evening gathering for eight guests in honor of Miss Verna Keays. Daughters Elizabeth and Evelyn Jones, of Dr. F. K. Jones, are recovering from influenza. Mrs Claude Daly returned from Fremont Nebraska. Mr N Phillips of Denver and Mr M Latterine of New York visited briefly. Mrs Edward Left learned her husband in France will sail for overseas Sunday March 2 after shell-fire service. Mrs Joale Inter, head of circulation, received word her daughter Dr Earl Burlingham of Cedar Rapids has word her husband Geral Burlingham will sail for the U S Army soon.
The Congregational Aid Society will meet Friday afternoon in the church parlors with three October November and December circles chaired by Mesdames Westcott Gans and Ireland. All members and church ladies are invited. Mrs Elsie Splecher left yesterday for Salt Lake City after visiting with Dr and Mrs John B Shingle.
Missouri advances a broad child welfare bill known as the Missouri Children's Code. It covers support for children born out of wedlock, raises marriage and consent ages, bans common law marriage, and creates a state home for dependent children. The code tightens child labor rules, expands school attendance, and establishes health and education safeguards with state boards supervising child welfare.
Army officers and uplift and public library associations request details of the code. Government bureaus seek information as proposed laws are studied by special committees in both houses before action.
London reports demobilization prioritizes essential industries such as coal mining with pivotal workers first and men over 41 plus hospital patients demobilized. Projected to boost business by autumn, the plan aims to fill jobs via employer agreements while noting vast wartime tobacco output and a nod to Roman road scale and Indian poppy variations.
In the main street of the principal town on Kos Island a famed ancient tree stands. The tree is massive with an eighteen yard circumference and more than two thousand years of age. Beneath its branches a tradition arose that St Luke and St Paul rested there.
The Pekin bell cast in 1415 weighed fifty three and a half tons, stood fifteen feet high with a thick nine inch wall and a rim circumference of thirty four feet. Historical bafflement over its hanging method persisted for centuries until today.
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