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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
5
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Mrs. A. W. McDuffie hosts the West Side bridge club with Mrs. Frank Ottman and Mrs. Ed Kelso among the guests. The Mystic Delta Delta holds a meeting. plans for a Frances Warren Pershing Memorial hospital room proceed with local donations. A Wayside Piper production at the Princess Theatre and a seventh birthday party for Miss Ann McDuffie are featured among numerous local social notes and notices.
Miss Helen Reid presided over a Sunday eve dinner for the senior rifle team at the Plains, where the squad received a roving cup as a tournament centerpiece. Guests included Bill Woolston and Paul Bentson, captains, Arthur King, Lyman Erikson, Howard Erickson, and Earl Marsh. Mrs. Will Reid and Mrs. W. W. Hale hosted. eight covers were set.
Man o War, the 1919 champion, dominates the Preakness at Baltimore in his three year old debut. He defeats Upset in a dramatic photo finish, setting a new record pace for the mile and a furlong with a 1 51 2 5 time.
Queen Esther Circle members plan a June party at the parish house with guards and dancing as entertainment. Miss Madge Gill chairs the arrangements committee and Miss Ann Hanson is elected vice president replacing Mrs. John Hunter who goes to Europe. Hostesses Mrs. G. P. Christensen Miss Myrna Crane and Mrs. James Niswander served refreshments to about 40 members after the meeting.
“Gindy's Chance” by the missionary society of the Presbyterian church drew a pleased audience Sunday evening. The skit was entertaining and engaging, presenting a gentle moral tale through simple, homey dialogue and stage action.
An advertisement claims nine of ten women suffer constipation and promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a mild cleansing laxative. It asserts pimples, dull skin, and bad breath result from constipation, and that relief improves complexion, appetite, and well being. Package price is 85 cents.
The event featured Granny Porter and a cast including Mrs. Garretson Lake Porter Haggard Reese Metcalf and Dorothy Hale. Audience members praised the performance as well as the high school girls double quartet. The play stressed the need for mission work in the southern mountain regions.
The Forest Service reports poor angling in Wyoming with high muddy water across multiple streams. Big Greek Encampment Big Goose Creek Encampment Creek and Shell Creek show poor fishing with rainbow and eastern brook trout, bait only and sluggish fish.
Water on Tongue River at Dayton runs high and muddy slowing sport angling. Fishermen report poor catches of small fish including eastern brook and rain bows, with anglers using bait and helgomites amid the rising conditions.
Cheyenne residents attended polo at Fort Russell to watch two games. The Reds defeated the Purples nine and three fourths goals to four in the first match, while the Greens beat the Browns ten and three fourths to one. Winners meet again this afternoon as a free band concert accompanies the events.
Citizens are invited to hear Dr Frank Divine at the First Baptist Church from June 2 to 6 about caring for the city's youth. The event urges community involvement and outlines a series of talks during the dates.
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