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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1917
Page
16
Our canned fruit sale says prices are 25 to 40 percent higher market value but three fourths of cans are at last year's figures due to early buying. Featuring Richelieu Tea Garden and Griffin & Shelley brands. Sale ends Wednesday January 24. Also advertising Imported Swiss Roquefort Edam Camembert and apples selection with Florida grapefruit offer.
Prof E A Cuchel of Kansas Agricultural College urged cattlemen to study grass production and feed storage to boost beef yield and lower costs. He said business methods can reduce production costs and stressed estimating costs to move cattle feeding from speculation to a solid business basis.
Ten cents a day buys 2000 coverage at age 21 and 1000 at 45. Ed J. Klove of 2521 Evans St. represents Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee Wis urging readers to insure now. Les Varnishing The Sherman Co. t?
A joint senate house committee tentatively approved a bill to form a state highway commission of three or five members appointed by the governor, who would name a highway engineer with no salary cap, supervising state and federal road funds. The Good Roads Association press for faster action and a comprehensive measure to improve Wyoming roads.
Leo Laythe a 1915 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College has been named agricultural agent for Park county and visited Cheyenne yesterday en route to Cody to assume duties. The appointment brings Wyoming to ten counties with county agents, nearly half the state.
Sam Finch, an elder resident of Cheyenne, was transferred to Pri Vale hospital for an operation. He has passed the critical point and is reported to be recovering as expected, though still very ill.
The brakeman Otto B. Jones killed at Kimball Nebraska in a travel accident will be honored Sunday at 1 30 pm from St Marys Cathedral. Eagles lodge members plan to attend. Families receive a year s pay under Union Pacific Equitable Insurance plan with potential extra month s pay for Cicero Allen s family as well.
The fifty first land contest to be filed this month in the local land office was heard yesterday. Theodore Stanford sues W. J. Bell. Stanford’s attorney C A Paige showed Bell did not reside on the claim near Chugwater Wyoming as required by the homestead law. Bell, field manager of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, claimed the claim is his established residence. He is active in Yeomen work across the state and eastern Nebraska. Bell’s attorney is A D Walton. No decision was reached.
A Mexican worker named Pedro Padiez fell before a passing U P switch engine in the local yards and lost a leg. He was taken to St John hospital. This is the second similar accident in a month. the prior victim, J J Stanton, had his arm mangled requiring amputation.
Will Reid, register of the local land office, explains the 640 acre homestead act. Applicants may seek 640 acres of non timbered land chiefly valuable for grain, with original entries limited to under 160 acres in any state.
Railroad men join the twentieth annual convention of the American National Livestock Association in the city. A private Burlington car arrived today bearing F. Montmorency for the event.
Freight agents and officers from the Burlington Union Pacific Northwestern meet at the convention. OC J Lane general freight agent Union Pacific arrives with W Bassinger traveling agent and others including John J Cravon. W H Jones represents the Northwestern.
Jim Jackson, a Black man, was turned over to the county jail by city authorities after robbing a man named Smith of his watch and a small amount of money in the Bletz saloon yesterday.
An outbreak in Douglas leaves many pupils home ill. Mrs Wade HM Fowler and four children suffer, four cases in Mayor Anthens' home, five in Maurice Gilbert family, and several households report all children sick while adults mostly spared.
Sothern, born in New Orleans and son of the late E B H Sothern of Lord Dundreary fame, stars in the Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature The Man of Mystery at the Lyric theater. He rose to Shakespearean prominence in 1903 with Julia Marlowe under Charles Frohman and later worked under the Shubert and director Frederick Thomson.
A defendant was convicted a few nights ago and yesterday sentenced by Judge Edwards to 45 days in jail.
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