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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
10
The article prescribes summer outfits featuring silk and wool combinations. It highlights two skirts with matching sweaters, a pleated silk sports skirt in gray and blue plaid, and a black novelty silk plaid skirt with a tuxedo weave sweater. A Palm Beach suit with a white crepe de chine blouse and a gray felt hat completes the town look.
Weather Bureau reports a week ending June 7 in Wyoming with cool first half and overall favorable conditions. Day temps averaged 68, nights 45, highs 86 lows 25, light eastern showers. vegetation growth satisfactory with rye heading, wheat improving, oats emerging, corn acreage rising, rainfall needed in some southern areas. Livestock conditions improve with good range. calf crop varies by winter stock feeding.
Mr Worcester announced numerous scholarships for local high school graduates. A notable $50 Alumni Association of the University of Wyoming award went to Elizabeth Moore, presented by Stanley Greenbaum, president of the Cheyenne UW alumni chapter. The University of Wyoming Honor Scholarships include top male and top female in the class.
Beatrice Stepp and Mary Garlock led the valedictorian and salutatorian honors as Cheyenne high school awarded diplomas. Scholarships paid all university fees for top students. Colorado College honors went to Stepp and Garlock. Cheyenne College Club also donated $50. Diplomas were presented by A. S. Jessup and William Storey.
The Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce will host Dr. J F O Donnell of Casper at the Masonic Temple Tuesday night. He will discuss a full time paid Wyoming state health department as a wartime health leader. Colonel M O Bigelow will discuss aviation progress and possibilities in Cheyenne. Light refreshments will be served and the session will be open to all members.
Report notes No 1 continued from Page 7 describing a poker game bust where a man with $290 in cash entered the scene but could only post a small bond after authorities intervened. Other arrestees named were Johm Garey John Miller and Enoch Regle as the investigation covered the gambling operation.
College girls advise against skirts for hiking and mountain climbing and suggest bloomers breeches and puttees or stout trousers. An illustration group from the University of Utah showcases explorations in New Zion National Park recently opened to the public with students such as Catherine Levering and Nell Creer among the pictured eight.
Police court fined two individuals $25 each yesterday afternoon and released them after payment. Goddard remains on a $150 bond for Monday appearance. Officers declined to reveal how the moonshine liquor was obtained. A quart bottle and smaller containers were seized during the bust, which coincided with the breakup of a gambling operation. Police described the liquor as part of an old trick associated with tron horns.
Indignation rose among negro delegates as speakers used the term nigger to describe freight hands and station employees. The act ing chairman sustained objections to such remarks. A circular urged workers to desert the federation and join One Big Union, marking the first public attack on American craft unions in Canada.
Construction on the Cheyenne apartment building foundation progresses about half finished. Carpenters form concrete foundations while cement flows into forms. Large brick piles and other materials arrive daily as trees are cleared. Contractors aim to complete exterior work before cold weather.
Monday night the Frontier committee discussed decor for Cheyenne streets at night. Carl B. Luscombe of Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power was invited to the meeting. The plan keeps last year’s lighting style but with two diagonally crossed strings to cover intersections. Colored lights will be used in each street cluster, with a red top globe and blue lower lights on Capitol avenue, while two other lower lights stay blue and the rest white.
Thomas Kelly and Thomas Clark were fined $50 each in police court for regal possession of liquor. Kelly claimed the liquor came from Clark, while Clark withheld any supply details. Internal Revenue Department investigations found no liquor at two searched locations.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fred D Roberts will be held at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon at the Sharry Bricker Brothers funeral parlors. Rev Newton M Temple will officiate and interment will be at Lakeview cemetery. Mrs Roberts resided at Federal and died in a local hospital last Tuesday. Her husband and her father are both in Cheyenne to attend the funeral services.
Washington June 10 bids for the Leviathan the largest ship in American merchant marine will be opened June 30 by the Shipping Board. The announcement notes the sale may proceed if bids meet conditions and a purchaser is found.
A miscellany by Roy Moulton and others includes verse on love and earthly dwelling, a quip by Gen Zachary Taylor, a physician’s quirk about eye drops, a humorous sausage metaphor, and social commentary on drink, gardens, and monuments.
Daniel Donahue Sr a well known ranchman of the Little Horse Creek region died yesterday morning in Bayard Nebraska from cancer. The funeral will be in Cheyenne at a date to be announced. Survived by seven children Dan Jr Clinton John Frank on Little Horse Creek Mrs Frank Case Mrs L G Leach of Baird Neb and Mrs Charles Johnson of Fremont Neb and by his wife Mary Donahue.
About 38,000 barrels of oil flow daily from Salt Creek to the Casper plant via Midwest Refining pipelines. Production from three wells released by the interior department and field storage contribute to the total, with one well in section 15 yielding over 1,200 barrels daily and an estimated total near 8,000 barrels as full production plans proceed.
A fragment notes Colonel House described as the most joyable after-dinner speaker in America and silent in speech. The text appears from a period sketch about public or social events and critiques.
A tired suburbanite misses a train and, in a comic exchange, the station roaster asks if he was trying to catch it. The man snaps that he only wished to chase it out of the station.
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