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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1918
Page
7
A call to move wheat directly to consumers and through local mills to reduce waste and transportation. The piece stresses conservation, increased production, and sharing flour with allies, noting mills lack capital and storage. It argues every car of flour now harms seaboard food shipments for soldiers and allied nations.
Lew than two hundred of the nine hundred men expected at Fort Russell have arrived so far. A detach ment of a hundred arrived from Oshkosh, made up of volunteer workers under draft age. Another detachment of about eighty arrived Wednesday from Fort Logan. The strenuous drill has not been started yet. Cent Attorney Here-A. G. Campbell, a Casper attorney, attending to business in the city.
Bertha Mae Newell age 4 dies from a skull fracture after a team of ponies bolted and overturned a wagon near her ranch home in Douglas. Her sister Sadie Newell was also thrown but escaped serious injury. Donald Calhoun of Buford visited here yesterday.
Wanted salesmen to cover Wyoming and nearby territory with advertising campaigns. Earn commissions several hundred monthly, expenses paid during training. Address B E Harris G S M Monroe Ridge Chicago. Also wanted experienced live-wire salesmen to sell aluminum cooking utensils along Pacific coast with exclusive territory and commission pay. Aluminum Products Co Oakland California. War demand claim and opportunity for protected territories through Jerome Grandt Organization Chicago Illinois.
A for sale notice describes a roller top office desk and chair a combination book case and desk a library table and a baw ing machine located at 2422 House Phand 626. A pocketbook with $32.00 a Greenley bank name on the book and cards Y MC A membership were found. Return to Thompson Motor Co. for reward.
Provost Marshal General Crowder calls 288 Wyoming selective service registrants who are grammar school graduates with mechanical aptitude for specialized training at Utah Agricultural College Logan Utah. Report June 15th. White men physically fit eligible. Training covers auto mechanics driving machinery blacksmithing gas engines concrete work radio operation and more to prepare for army and civil life. Voluntary induction allowed until June 7th. after that only remaining allotment fill.
Notice of hearing before the Public Service Commission of Wyoming on Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company toll rate changes and service connection charges. Hearing set for June 14, 1918 at 10:00 am in Cheyenne. Also mentions Edith Hancold and Margaret Hildreth visiting Cheyenne from Fort Collins.
In Fort Collins Denver reports say Mrs Mary Luthe drew her will under suspected spiritualist influence. The district court denied a retrial after heirs won probate admission, while the mediums press onward with an appeal to the state supreme court.
Hans Rudolph of 116 East Sixteenth Street Cheyenne Wyoming earned a commission as lieutenant in the national army and will be assigned to Fort Nam soon. A Schleswig-Holstein native and longtime U S citizen, he served twelve years in the regular army including time at Fort D A Reed with the Eleventh Infantry. He worked for the Union Pacific machine shop in Cheyenne until May 1917 and trained for an officer’s camp at the Presidio before returning home. His wife and son remain in Cheyenne.
Joe Cahill of the Capitol Coal Toe and Storage company purchased from Paul Halley the former residence at No 2014 Capitol Avenue along with his family.
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