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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1912
Page
8
The Mount Mellick Club will meet this afternoon at 2110 House St with Mrs Ray Olds and Mrs James D LeCogn. The note that the Mu Beta Club will entert ain Friday afternoon, with a change of host home from Mrs Hardman to Mrs Le Cron.
The Capitol hill club will meet this afternoon with Mrs Urban. The Wednesday bridge club will meet this afternoon with Mrs Billy Walker.
The Thursday bridge club will convene this afternoon with Mrs. C Y Beard instead of tomorrow guiding the session.
The Help One Another Club at 418 W. 22nd St will entertain at their annual birthday party tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Charles 5S. Thomas and Mrs. Hiram Sapp assist. Ladies are asked to come early and to bring their thimbles.
The Congregational Ladies Aid Society plans a picnic at Pioneer Park tomorrow afternoon with invited gentlemen arriving in time for the supper and any ensuing festivities.
The Methodist Aid society will gather in the city park tomorrow afternoon and share an outdoor supper at five o'clock with the gentlemen invited. Mrs C J Nagel will host the Presbyterian Aid society tomorrow afternoon replacing the regular Friday meeting at 417 Batel Street.
The Baptist Willing Workers meet Friday afternoon with Mrs Hellmer and Mrs Tyson at Mrs Tyson's home 922 EB 18th for a guild gathering. Mrs Y K Hart and Mrs FW B Kerr entertain the Guild of St Mark's on Friday afternoon at the Parish House. The Altar and Rosary Society meet Thursday at Mrs Stapleton 1818 Thorn Street.
Mrs J W Piper of 600 East Broadway will entertain the South Side Ald Society Thursday afternoon with a social gathering and light refreshments for members.
In old days gentlemen who carried swords showed no treachery by offering the weapon hand, the hand used to draw the sword, as a sign of trust. After swords faded, the custom continued in some form, signaling peace between men. The text reflects on how the gesture persisted beyond its martial origin.
The State Leader endorses the Want Ad medium in Wyoming urging readers to Try It for local notices and classifieds.
A Brains article urges merchants to boost summer sales through advertising and proper attire for seaside and mountain recreation. It warns against vacation dullness and promotes hygienic, region appropriate costumes, highlighting sea shore bans on bathing suit rentals and the value of targeted campaigns to capitalize on travel months.
A twelve year old Chinese girl Ah Yok Ying from a tea garden in San Francisco sent a dollar to the Women’s Titanic Memorial in Washington. Her note praises Captain Smith’s bravery and her contribution reflects the memorial’s appeal to save women and children. Another gift came from twenty two girls at an orphanage in Milford Connecticut, showing that even the poor contribute to the memorial fund. The piece notes the memorial’s growth into a major Washington institution near the Treasury.
A humorous exchange shows an employer rebuking a new clerk for lateness while the clerk quips that the boss previously claimed not wanting a man who watched the clock. The captioned moment reflects workplace tension.
In Sheridan Wyoming on July 9 prisoners in the Sante Partition area worked together to cut away a window frame using a knife. Deputies halted the plan before the escape could proceed as the brick partition was partially dug away and an opening near the window edge was nearly complete.
Buffalo Wyoming July news notes Winslow J Davis and Willard West secure a contract with Mountain States Telegraph and Telephone to move 500000 pounds of poles copper cable and supplies to intermediate points for the Casper via Salt Creek wells Kaycee Buffalo to Sheridan line. Four wires to start with poles prepped for ten as demand grows. Mountain States company pledges large expenditure signaling future development along the route.
Worland Wyoming July 9 At the Buffalo Basin Land and Water company annual meeting promoters advance the project to extend irrigation. Capitalists will visit soon to review surveys and English capital will fund part of the venture. The plan adds 100000 acres to the 60000 already irrigated and tributary to Worland, promising a larger irrigated area than any other town in the region.
In Laraime Wyoming on July 9 two university professors Dr Creager and Dr Burris discovered a human skeleton near Chugwater creek. The bones showed clothing remnants but no violence or identity clues. Sheriff Frazer and Coroner Fitch investigated with Burris guiding them. The remains likely belong to a sheepherder who perished in a storm.
Lander Wyoming July 9 A brother of S H Allen the Casper hunter who lost his life in the mountains north of Rubble last fall passed through Lander en route to Dubos to take up the search for the body of Harve Burringham hunter and trapper who perhaps knows the Wind River country better than any other living man has been employed in the search
In Laramie Wyoming on July 9 Wi Broadhurst of West Laramie barely escaped death while trying to stop a runaway team hitched to a mowing machine. He leaped toward the horses as they charged a barb wire fence, was knocked down as they jumped the fence, and a barb snagged his temple severing the temporal artery. He rose and walked five miles home bleeding, and is expected to recover.
A fragment from the Florida Times-Union quotes a confident young man claiming honesty intelligence and industriousness as he searches for employment. The piece notes skepticism from a Senator figure about repeated job interviews and the chance of success.
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