High School Five Out for Big Win Tonight
The high school basketball team hosts Parish House quintet in the season opener at eight o clock. Admission is ten cents for students and fifteen cents for outsiders as the public is invited to view the team and raise funds for new uniforms. The next interscholastic games include a trip to Laramie and a game at Rawlins. Principal Merten urges community support.
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Parish House
Profector Merten
Laramie
University High School
Rawlins
Rawlins High
Cheyenne
Reed Donates 500 to Miners Union Educational Fund
Verner Z Reed, Denver capitalist and Midwest Oil principal stockholder, gives 600 to the United Mine Workers of Wyoming for the union education fund. The gift is a Christmas present honoring the union work to provide higher education for workingmen’s children.
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United Mine Workers of Wyoming
Verner Z. Reed
Denver
Midwest Oil Company
Convicts Build Fine Road Strip in Granite Canyon
Convicts widened a county highway strip from 10 to 60 feet in Granite Canyon, using solid granite at a cost of 875 dollars. Officials plan a larger project with forty convicts next spring, after the current gang returns to Rawlins. Foreman George Mead received a diamond studded Masonic watch as a Christmas gift from the crew. County Chairman Richardson praises the work as excellent.
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Granite Canyon
Felix Alston
State Penitentiary
Laramie County
Rawlins
George Mead
Richardson
Captain Steever Transferred to Kansas City for Cadet Regiments
Captain Edgar Z. Steever U S A originator of the Wyoming plan of high school cadet regiments is due in Kansas City within a week. Maj. W T Johnson says an officer and two NCOs are assigned to Kansas City and Steever will supervise. Steever is well known in Cheyenne for pioneering cadet work and may 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 for Two Hours
The senate debated the American note urging peace terms for two hours but did not vote on the Hitchcock resolution. It will be reconsidered tomorrow as President Wilson and Col. E M House work on the next move toward peace. Officials expect a further government note once the entente replies.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Col. E. M. House
Pioneer Wyoming sheephpan dies in Denver funeral plans
A large Cheyenne Elk and Masonite lodge delegation will attend the funeral of Fred R. Bragg a wealthy Wyoming sheepman. Bragg 51 died after pneumonia two days earlier. Survived by wife four children and a Denver home. Bragg active in Elks Shriners and Blue Lodge with holdings across Washakie and other counties. Burial in Denver.
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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
Six to one marriage to divorce in Cheyenne 1916
Cheyenne reports 316 marriages and 64 divorces for 1916 with July leading at 50 licenses. June had 32, November 31, and other months ranged from 28 down to 16, setting a six to one ratio of marriages to divorces for the year.
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Cheyenne
County Inspects Farm Jail and Hospital Part of Routine Work
The county board toured the county hospital jail and poor farm. Jail and poor farm conditions were satisfactory with minor hospital repairs ordered. They will inspect Pine Bluffs road work today. Chairman Warren Richardson noted $10 daily for bodyguards for Walter Johnson, who cut his throat and stabbed himself and remains violent.
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Pine Bluffs
Warren Richardson
Walter Johnson
Johnson
School Examinations Schedule Issued by Superintendent
School Superintendent Ira B. Fee issued examination guidance to teachers and outlined the proposed first semester exams schedule. The notice details timing and the approach for assessments across classrooms.
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Ira B. Fee
Funeral reveals wealth of Burns victim in New York
At Darwin de Wolf 76 laid to rest in New York after dying from burns from an improvised kerosene water burner. The deceased, who lived in a piano packing box in a factory yard, left $6000 in a Chattanooga bank and owned 27,000 shares in Colorado mining properties.
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Misha
New York
Darwin de Wolf
Chattanooga
Colorado
Prohibition Prospects Stir State Officials and Legislators
Anti-Saloon League figures project an imminent passage of the submission bill with optimism. Legislators vary from backing to avoidance, while Senator H. D. Edmonds and Park county colleagues dismiss fraud claims as unfounded. The Park county delegation is in the city with Cody and Ward representatives and Meercroft’s Dunn arriving to weigh the race for Edmonds’s seat.
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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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