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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
3
Informal gatherings at the governor's mansion and the Kendall home host notable guests. Red Cross benefit lunches at the True residence raise funds, with prizes for efficiency. Visitors, new homes, and residents moving or traveling are listed with partial family and local ties.
Mrs. A Andersen wife of Major Andersen of the Wyoming regiment has returned to Cheyenne to make her home while the major is in service. She traveled with Major Andersen at Charlotte North Carolina and in New York during the troops stay at Camp Mills. They then visited relatives and friends in Omaha before arriving in Cheyenne on Wednesday.
A flurry of gatherings: Daughters of the American Revolution meet at 122 West Twenty-fifth Street. College Club convenes at Mrs. Ira B. Fee's home. T. Club plans a Parish house dance. Women of Woodcraft installation to follow at K C hall. Johnson School P T A meets at 8 15 in the assembly room with an original program and parliamentary drill.
Winter outdoor sports draw crowds as skating and skiing peak. Girls seek warmth with furs while the Mere fur skating cap offers a Russian style beaver cap with silk braid buckle and a corporal’s guard of buttons.
The record notes an affirmative decision on a project with a blue gown garment length set. Mrs R B Forsyth spoke on wartime evacuation progress for five minutes and Mrs Clifford Hummer performed two piano solos. Next Wednesday Bishop P J Mc Govern will discuss Education in the Middle Ages.
Presbyterian Aid society hosts in church parlors this afternoon with Mrs Beard and Mrs Fox among hostesses. Congregational Aid and King's Daughters plan social sessions later. Home and Foreign Missionary society hosts a jal meeting at the home of the first hostess. Altar and Rosary society sews at K C hall with Mrs McDonough, Mrs Lyhne and Mrs Duff. St Mark's Guild meets at the Parish house this afternoon. Girls Friendly resumes meetings at the Parish house with Mrs Huston directing to plan Red Cross work. Methodist Aid Society with 30 members meets at Mrs Floyd John home and discusses Red Cross work and a trip to the capitol. Cheyenne WOTU meets at P A headquarters with Mrs Lowery hosting. final arrangements for silver medal contest January 24. Time rules to pay monthly dues for YPHs room remains open for soldiers and Cheyenne youths.
In Douglas Wyoming more than 200 prominent sheepmen attend the fourteenth annual Wyoming Woolgrowers convention at the Princess theater. Dr J M Wilson opens with a critique of wartime drafting for sheepherders and laments loss of experienced herders. Dr W McClure lauds Wilson and notes national meat supply trends amid food administration campaigns.
Oil stockholders celebrate Ohio discovery as Worland activity surges. Lander area fields see rapid buildout with material arriving weekly, new wells under construction, and plans for a Worland refinery. Pilot Butte well in section 21 resumes drilling in tough shale to 2175 feet amid cap rock delays.
Six wells have been brought in on the Pilot Butte field in six months with three in Section 21 near Center of Production yielding 100 to 400 barrels daily. Midwest Refining doubles capacity to handle 20,000 barrels. third largest refinery in the nation, aiming to lead gasoline production. Nearby Greybull Aladdin holdings show depth of 1600 feet and potential. Hoye Oil operates between Basin and Greybull advancing winter work. Virginian Oil, led by Frank G. Curtis, aims to strengthen Wyoming operations and boost New York Oil stock.
A long OCR list chronicles declarations of war between nations from 1904 to 1917 and beyond with scattered dates and misreads. The fragment mentions Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Serbia, Greece, Italy, Japan, the United States, and others in various declared hostilities and severed diplomatic ties.
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