High School Five Out For Big Win
The first admission basketball game of the season is tonight at eight. The high school five meet the Parish House quintet in a charity exhibition to raise funds for new basketball suits. Next Friday the team travels to Laramie to face University High School and then Rawlins High. Admission is ten cents for pupils and fifteen cents for outsiders.
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Parish House
Profector Merten
Laramie
University High School
Rawlins
Rawlins High
Cheyenne
Reed Donates 500 to Miners Union for Education Fund
Verner Z Reed of Denver gives 600 to the United Mine Workers of Wyoming for the union educational fund. The gift was sent as a Christmas present in recognition of the union effort to provide higher education for the children of workingmen.
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United Mine Workers of Wyoming
Verner Z. Reed
Denver
Midwest Oil Company
Convicts Build Fine Road Strip In Granite Canyon
A ten man convict crew widened a county highway strip from 10 to 60 feet in solid granite at Granite Canyon for 875 dollars. County and state officials praise the feat and plan a larger ten to forty man project next spring under Warden Felix Alston. The Granite Canyon crew returns to Rawlins Monday after delivering commendable work. Foreman George Mead received a diamond studded Masonic watch charm as thanks for kindness and fairness. County Chairman Richardson commends the high quality of work completed.
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Granite Canyon
Felix Alston
State Penitentiary
Laramie County
Rawlins
George Mead
Richardson
Captain Steever Transferred to Kansas City
Captain Edgar Z. Steever U S A originator of the Wyoming plan for high school cadet regiments is expected in Kansas City within a week. Maj. W T Johnson announces an officer and two NCOs assigned to Kansas City with general supervision by Captain Steever. He is well known in Cheyenne and across the state for his cadet work and is invited to help form companies in Denver.
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Kansas City
Edgar Z. Steever
Wyoming
Maj
W. T. Johnson
Adjutant General's Department of the Army
Stever
Cheyenne
State
Denver
Senate Debates U.S. Peace Note in Two Hours
The Senate debated the American peace note for two hours without reaching a vote on the Hitchcock resolution. President Wilson and Col. E. M. House work on next moves toward peace while aides expect another communication to the belligerents after the Entente replies.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Col. E. M. House
Pioneer Wyoming sheepman Fred Bragg dies at 51
A large Cheyenne lodge delegation will attend Fred R. Bragg's funeral in Denver at 2 p.m. Sunday. Bragg, a prominent sheepman from Wyoming, died of pneumonia at 51. Survived by wife from Lander and four children, he built a fortune in Ne'Wood and other Wyoming ranches and co-owned Noble and Bragg Sheep Company.
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Cheyenne Elk and Masonite
Denver
Fred R. Brage
Wyoming
Bragg
England
Lander Country
Lander
Willam Bragg
Denver Times
Robert Lander
East
Fred, Jr
Laura Lander
Fillmore Street
Cheyenne Lodge
Elka
Shriners of
Rawlins
Blue Lodge
Ne’Wood
Wyo
Washakie County
Noble and Bragg Sheep Company
Cheyenne
Charles W. Riner
Peter §. Cook
Wallace C. Bond
Edward W Stone
George Rafter
H. B. Gates
R. S. van Tassel
Frank Hadsell
Cheyenne Record: Six Marriages per Divorces in 1916
Cheyenne recorded 316 marriages and 64 divorces in 1916 giving a six to one marriage to divorce ratio. July led with 50 licenses, followed by June with 32 and November with 31. other months ranged from 28 down to 16 in April.
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Cheyenne
County Poor Farm Jail and Hospital Inspected by Board
The county commission inspected the county hospital jail and poor farm finding jail and poor farm conditions satisfactory and ordering minor hospital improvements. They will inspect Pine Bluffs road work next and noted daily bodyguard costs for Walter Johnson following a recent self harm incident.
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Pine Bluffs
Warren Richardson
Walter Johnson
Johnson
Examinations Protocol Issued By School Superintendent
School Superintendent Ira B. Fee has issued instructions to teachers on examinations and the first semester. He also released the proposed schedule for the examinations, outlining dates and formats for student assessments.
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Ira B. Fee
Funeral Reveals Wealth of Aged Misha in Box Home
Darwin de Wolf 76 died from burns after experimenting with a kerosene water burner. At his funeral it was revealed he lived in a piano packing box in a factory yard. He left $6000 in a Chattanooga bank and owned 27000 shares in Colorado mining properties.
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Misha
New York
Darwin de Wolf
Chattanooga
Colorado
Prohibition Battle Forecast From Salons to Legislature
Anti-Saloon League supporters predict swift passage of the submission bill with Salons leader Crebbe optimistic about victory. Some opposing lawmakers fear campaigning harms their cause while urging no fight unless a prohibitory statute follows. Park county figures deny fraud, while Edmonds Schwoob Dunn and Ward law entourage converge in the city as Turkeys 38¢ a Weat Bavideon decorating notes appear from Sherman Co.
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Crebbe
State Anti-Saloon League
H. D. Edmonds
Park County
Mill Hogg
H. H. Schwoob
Cody
Edmonds
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E. S. Johnston Grocery Co
Richelieu
Richelieu Maine
Jersey
Helieuw
Paar ' Aan
High School
Reed
Miners’ Union
Ellis Clearance Pee Neeteen
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Steever
U.S
Fred R. Brag
Brandegee-Kincaid & Co
Salons
Cotumsu
Ef Wardlaw
Thomas A. Dunn
Meercroft
The
Sherman Co
Jim Hatch
Maderna
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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