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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1920
Page
19
Randolph Leigh leaves for Sheridan for several days of business. Alexander B. King returns to Casper after a brief visit. Real estate, insurance, taxi and painting services advertise nearby. Various residents and a coroner candidate visit the city as August primary looms.
Real estate men say office demand and new uptown growth drive hotel closings near 42nd Street. Holland House Sherry’s and the Knickerbocker have shut, with the Manhattan, reducing central rooms by about 2,200 while 4,200 new rooms rise elsewhere. Builders plan several new up‑town hotels and a California syndicate eyes about four sites.
City residents tour the countryside while visitors arrive for weekend business and leisure. Officials report university trustees and state land board members attended a joint meeting and returned home. Local projects include streetcar track leveling by Mexican laborers, Dodge car shipments, Fordson tractors delivery, and a hospital bond issue of 100000 by Carbon county. Elks play Union Pacific at Pioneer Park. golf tourney at the Country Club. city commissioners meet Monday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Nell Ward wife of H P Ward of 109 East Twenty second street were held this afternoon from the W W Dumm mortuary Rev J S Stubblefield presided Music was provided by the Presbyterian church choir Members of the electricians local union served as pallbearers H M Ward a brother arrived from Manville Wyoming to attend Interment followed at Lakeview cemetery
John A Magnus of Atlanta cotton planter leaves Cincinnati with twenty nieces and nephews aged eight to eighteen. He tours western states yearly to promote seeing America first and notes their recent trip through the west focusing on Yellowstone Park.
Scotland Yard weighs a full line-up approach using the French anthropometric method. Arrested suspects would have limbs and features measured and cataloged alongside fingerprints and photographs.
News notes profile Ann May born 1901 in Cincinnati with a brief career history including Little Playhouse days and roles in Marriage for Convenience and Lombardi Ltd. Also mentions a divorce case involving Robert Bien and Arline Bien, alleging alimony arrears and income. Hood River Democrats name William S. Hart for sheriff seeking cross state leadership and peace policy.
Wilmer Stevens of Cheyenne a University of Wyoming sophomore and ROTC cadet winning a place on the post national rifle team. The team will travel to Camp Perry Ohio to compete in the national rifle competition. Captain T B Daly Wyoming military commandant will accompany the team and stop in Cheyenne on the way east.
Unseasonable spring brings more coughs and colds as hay fever and asthma rise in demand for Too ley's Honey and Tar. The remedy is praised as healing the throat and easing breathing.
Reading of the Wilhelm and Carranza cases leads to the conclusion that Carranza was guilty of failure to get away. The inference centers on the lack of timely evasion in the implicated events.
Gates Oil Company extends control to 249 acres in the Virgil Field, Woodson County Kansas, after securing 320 total acres. No. 2 Kimbell well yielded 200+ barrels daily, flowing 11 minutes atop a 1600 foot depth, the district's only natural flow. Texas assets listed include producing wells with hundreds of barrels daily and 1929 first quarter value. Much of the note covers demobilized A A C members seeking rail-free Canada marriage opportunities.
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