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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1919
Page
11
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church will meet in the church parlors this afternoon with a large attendance urged. Miss Mamie O’Connell will depart soon for a Colorado trip visiting Denver and Colorado Springs.
An old newspaper ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female health. It claims the product helps women feel better and manage daily work, urging readers to publish their experiences as well.
A community note list of social visits and events in Cheyenne and Lander. The Bishop Randall hospital dinner honored Bishop and Mrs N S Thomas and guests, with Grace and Lois Seavill of New York among attendees. Various residents arrived or departed, including Miss Dora Page, Miss Margaret Lacey, and Governor Carey.
Mrs Wilmeth of San Francisco visits cities to recruit and organize about 400 "one minute girls" for War Camp Community Service. The volunteers, over 18 and of good character, welcome soldiers, usher theaters, march in parades, and assist dances while drilling twice weekly. Mrs Wilmeth aims to make the program permanent as War Camp transitions to community service. She departs tomorrow for Des Moines, Iowa.
The Ladies of St Marys and the War Camp Community Service held a dancing party at post headquarters with about seventy guests including soldiers. Henderson orchestra provided music and refreshments were served. Patronesses included Mesdames Hugh Coffman John W Hartney and J Keakel. Various locals and visitors were noted in attendance or traveling through Cheyenne.
Funeral services for Mrs Norah Van Dyke will be held at St Marys Cathedral this morning at nine oclock. The remains will be moved from the Early Mortuary to the cathedral at eight thirty oclock. Interment will be in Olivet Cemetery.
Riverton Wyoming July 9 The Chicago Northwestern Railroad companys tying preserving plant here has been closed for the season after treating 343000 drosaics. Ninety thousand of these were shipped from Oregon and the mainier cut near Dupois Wyoming and fell down the Wind River to the plant.
County Agricultural Agent M. Wilkins notes fifteen tons of poisoned oats distributed this season with additional supplies ready. Archersville state station reports eradication on scattered plots and crop success, rancher J A Albin endorses results, and Glen Towns cites owls as helpful. no adverse reports yet. Poisons use strychnine and sweeteners to lure rodents, killing via jugular entry and rapid digestion.
Chairman Bla Lee of the Democratic National Committee will travel to Cheyenne on July 21 and invite state committee members and other prominent Democrats to a meeting with the national leader. The visit aims to coordinate party activities and extend invitations for the gathering.
Local handyman A W Strand advertises paperhanging services at 390 West A Avenue offering wall coverings and decorative wallpaper work for homes and offices.
Soldiers at the Army and Navy club run by War Camp Community Service crave home style cookies. Executive secretary F H Forsell says the cookie jar empties quickly and urges Cheyenne's good cooks to donate more often. A few Mowers are present, and more would be appreciated.
Two additional carloads of horses arrived in Cheyenne from Sidney and Phoenix for August races at Frontier Park. Owners include T. B. Waters O. Tugele BE BE Buchanan and John Greenhow Harve Cooper plans to enter two horses. John C. Talbott heads the Cheyenne Thoroughbred Breeders office and received news of a Clarksbury Virginia owner sending a carload.
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