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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1919
Page
16
A recap of yesterday’s NL and AL results with battering lines. Highlights include Philadelphia and New York games with noted pitchers and fielders. Pittsburg and Chicago also tally runs and outs. Karl Warren, a prominent Hiverton resident, was seen in the city on business.
Local notes record a Cheyenne resident plan to move to Chicago after fifteen years in Cheyenne. A Hobba Huckfeldt & Finkbeiner ad announces baby carriages and sulkies. Mrs Charles Farthing visited from Iron Mountain ranch district. July 8 Plains Hotel tire and auto services listed with Agnes Wright state librarian returning from Asbury Park and New York City.
Three alarms were sounded Monday as fires struck the city and the Union Pacific supply yards. The largest blaze, at the UP yards, involved timber stacks and endangered over $1,000,000 in inflammable materials. it was suppressed with three hose lines, aided by the UP fire department, with about $150 in damage. Earlier, Henry Barnum’s residence on East 12th Street burned a small amount from a roof spark, causing about $50 damage. A false alarm from box 25 at 12 Russell and Twelfth dawned when residents reported a bonfire smoke.
The Young Woman's Association of Cheyenne filed articles of incorporation with Wyoming's secretary of state becoming the state's first such chartered non profit. Trustees for the first year include Ellen M. Carey and John A. Riner among six, with twenty five women on the board of directors led by Isabel Draper and Maud Mentzer. The group will operate from a new three story building prepared by former Governor Joseph M. Carey featuring rooms for young women recreation and a cafeteria. completion date pending.
Associate Justice Blydenburgh, who had been incapacitated by illness for nearly a year, sat with Chief Justice Beard and Justice Potter as the Wyoming supreme court held routine business. The session adjourned to July 14 for expected decisions. Albin visitors in Cheyenne included George Rabon Joe Nurred B Tower and Reybon Collins.
The meeting records financial reports from the city marshal police justice fire chief and city engineer for June and the second quarter 1919. Claims against the city totaling numerous salaries and expenses including parks cemetery and maintenance were approved for payment.
Judge John A. Hiner presided as fourteen naturalization applicants gained citizenship in U S district court. Examiner Wright quizzed each candidate on residence and former allegiance with nations including Russia Norway Sweden Italy Turkey and England listed among the fifty plus persons naturalized. The report notes several hearings lingered for others seeking American status while local arrivals Fridwin A. Pith and Frank Peight were mentioned. The piece ends with details about a new Y W C A building project valued at about 30 000 dollars, the first of its kind in Wyoming, noting the absence of a Y M C A in the state.
Abstract of the Cheyenne Wyoming city council minutes from July 4 1919 detailing treasury expenditures for water department salaries labor and services. Includes lists of contractors like Nicolaisen & r and Ruth Murphy and notes on city service and gambling related items.
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