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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1916
Page
11
Fire Department responded to four calls yesterday including a blaze at Huff furniture store where a pile of excelsior burned. Additional calls went to the viaduct and to the Pacific freight yards for small incidents.
In Cheyenne the roofs of a box car and a stock car caught fire but damage was not serious. Judge Mentzer travels to Lusk for court with Cheyenne sessions postponed to July 11 and resume September. Mrs Alice Sleet McNair seeks jury trial against the late Richard Whalen estate over property valued near 25 000. Dr J A Devine and Dr Peter Appell depart for Louisville to attend a national dental convention. Mrs A M Mitchell leaves for Los Angeles.
American and National League results from various cities including Chicago Pittsburgh St Louis Cincinnati New York and Boston. Batters Perritt Pfeiffer McCarthy Gowdy Doak Chalmers Killifer and others appear with multiple games extended to eleven and fifteen innings in places like Des Moines and Lincoln.
Bishop McGovern Father Hartman and Father O Laughlin depart for a diocesan clergy retreat at St Stephen's in the Shoshone reservation. Father James Sidson will oversee St Mary’s during their absence. Alice Brady stars in a Lyric theater program featuring a World film drawing on La Vie de Boheme.
Obituary recalls the life of James Whitcomb Riley born 1848 in Greenfield. The Hoosier poet, performer and author, famed for his dialect verses, died after a violent attack in July 1919 and left a library site valued at 75,000 dollars to Indianapolis for public use.
Young men and women urged to enroll in stenographic and bookkeeping courses. The advertisement promotes open enrollment, limited positions, and immediate start as the school offers training to qualify for jobs.
Dr. M C Campbell of Purge N who recently passed a dental examination has been notified he is licensed to practice in this state. Liv Camp will likely locate in the western part of the state. The State Leader Mite plans a new 10 point plate and updated Matrixes.
Obituary notes the death of Thomas Mooney at 52 in Missouri last Tuesday. Former chief pack master for the U S Army at Camp Carlin and longtime city figure, he served as civil engineer and pack master from 1885 to 1891 and aided expeditions in Alaska Cuba and the Philippines. He is survived by a wife four daughters a son his mother and four sisters. Funeral was held at St James Missouri with burial in Catholic Cemetery.
Rev George Van Winkle to preach at First Baptist on Nineteenth Street and Warren Avenue. Lt Turner to preach at St Marks on Central Avenue and Nineteenth Street. Lutherans hold services at 0:30 AM 10:30 AM and 7:46 PM at Swish Lutheran Church. Rev E E Brace to lead at First Methodist on Central Avenue and Eighteenth Street. Elks initiation and smoker on Monday evening July 24 at 8 o'clock, J J M'Inerney, Secretary.
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