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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
5
Local Owls club calls a special meeting with business of importance to be transacted and members urged to attend. The notice appears amid a flurry of city briefs including arrivals, residential notices, and social updates from Cheyenne and nearby towns.
An evening event announces admission for couples at 50 cents with an extra 10 cents for a Terry or Todd party. The notice is brief and lacks full details.
The body of William Nottage, a union packer at Laramie, will be sent to that city by morning. He died of blood poisoning at St Johns capital yesterday after being injured at work two weeks prior when crushed by a switch engine. His wife and children were at his bedside and will accompany the remains to Laramie.
Mrs. E. J. Peckham returned home from the Philippines with her infant granddaughter, daughter of Captain C. G. Lawrence. The five month old had been seriously ill at Nagasaki and Magtangas. On the voyage home the baby recovered from stupor and resumed health. The child has traveled 26,000 miles.
Nine homesteaders completed final proofs at the U S land office yesterday. Names include Claude F. Palmer Edward C. Reed James H. Townsend Wauneta and George L Wetzel Fort Laramie Rose B Dorsey Morrill Neb Thom as Van Benthuysen Wauneta George R Fuller Harry R Stevens Burns James D Roberts Sunrise plus seven original entries listed for Alex Blanton John Cruse Torrington Clarence M Rickard Chas F Stobnaw Alfred Weldron Jr Mills E Greenlee Charles F Nestel and Charles R Meyer of Frederick who applied for an isolated tract.
Readers seeking legal study under competent guidance are advised to request the catalogue and full particulars of the Sprague Correspondence School of Law located at No 401 American Building Detroit Mich. The school has an established reputation and can reference successful graduates nationwide. Tuition is affordable and may be paid on an easy plan.
Martin Krueger and Elmer Francia pleaded guilty before Justice Houseman to stealing a watch from George Madman. They were sentenced to 20 days in jail.
Licenses to shoot birds available from Justice of the Peace Houseman or Justice Ed wards at $1, not including chickens. Large and small game licenses cost $2.50 for residents. Vermin such as prairie dogs and coyotes require no permit. no license needed for fishing. Nimmo's market, 318 West Seventeenth Street.
Miss Minnie Gunnell, stenographer for Union Pacific at Ryans ton, travels east for vacation. Miss Ida Sanders of Ogden becomes stenographer for the signal supervisor’s office at Green River. Mrs. W. J. Nolan of Green River visits Cheyenne with Mrs. Sam Wilson. Union Pacific team from Green River to play in Morgan Utah Saturday and Park City Utah Sunday. Robert Mullica, Oregon Short Line conductor from Green River, and his wife welcome a daughter born last week.
Akin is hospitalized in Chicago for an operation. Union Pacific workloads include 250 000 ties at Millea for loading to Laramie and other plants. Brick delays slow Evanston roundhouse work. Wilkes’s wife returns from Denver. A box car fire is extinguished at Rock River. A foreman John Moe Cabe faces a misread admission and a prank from Irwin Bros, leading to a tense chase over tickets and a planned confrontation at an outdoor show.
An artist seeks a face to embody nobleness and paints a typist as a symbol of inner virtue. The model later becomes the philanthropic figure he inspired, recognizing the resemblance but unaware of its identity while the portrait influences his work helping the poor.
The Canadian polar expedition led by Vilhjalmar Stefansson sails from Victoria aboard the Karluk with ten scientists and a crew of 15, bound for three years in the Arctic. Stefansson plans to join at Nome around July 20. Dr. R. M. Anderson leads the southern party aboard the Alaska.
A young man claiming mason status was hired to build a henhouse. Observed he raised walls two feet high and attempted a four corner funnel plan without a level. The observer urged proper plumbing of corners to ensure the wall’s stability. Lipplantt's
The audience enjoyed an afternoon lecture on Law Love and Habit followed by a large evening show by Kilas Day whose impersonations drew roaring laughter. The program featured Symphony Four musicians, and a night with the Italian Marine band before Dr. Mitchell’s lecture on Job or the World’s Ash Heap.
The Peddycoart Garage in Cheyenne showcases the Mighty Michigan, a 40 horsepower auto finished in rich golden brown with brown Spanish leather upholstery. The firm, newly organized, also sells the Mete car famed for a rapid Cheyenne to Euruses trip, 28 miles in under 50 minutes. Owners L Wilson and John Peddycourt are trusted local figures, with the shop at Eighteenth and Thames streets.
Dr John A Witherspoon of Nant Ville Tenn presides at the American Medical association annual address urging a national health board. He calls for centralized government backed power to prevent epidemics and reform medical practice, defending preventive medicine against accusations of selfish motives.
Hotel arrivals list includes Tra Miller and wife Torrington Chae Bartholomew Thor Iowa H F Traealer Casper Paul Ogburn and wife city A Osborn and wife city J Winn Jennings Lal Mrs B Shielde Sterling Colorado Stella Tradbury Chicago J Knott Omaha Jus Wilson Omaha B Quinn Omaha Ger Campbell Denver FP W Nelson Casper D Irwin and wife Mouglan I Allen Keyte Salida WR C Smith Denver.
A fragmented roster lists guests and destinations including Plains Hotel, John Eyre in Green River Wyoming, Arthur Kunff and W. J. Gova of Denver, J. D. Horton Denver, Lander, Miss M. Welsh, and many others across Denver, Chicago, Des Moines, Omaha, Philadelphia, and more, with numerous names and cities nationward. The piece reads like an in/out guest-entry column or hotel register excerpt with scattered city references and personal names.
A scattered list of individuals and locations appears in a regional notice, including names such as Alice Coughlin Silver Plume Olevia Burch Lauder and Carl Schultz Vencer. Mentions multiple towns like DeFord Buckingham and Denver plus others across Colorado and adjacent states.
President Wilton held a three hour Washington conference with Secretary McAdoo and Chairs Owen and Glass on banking and currency. The talks aimed at finalizing details before the currency bill's readied passage, with no changes to core ideas. Representative Olan doubted Friday readiness as no date for the president's message was set. The president planned to consult Senate Leader Kern and House Leader Underwood for timing.
Snippet shows romantic declarations and a plan to ask a girl about money in the chicken business. The text includes a torn exchange about examining a girl’s home and her address, with a dismissive line about romance and a stray mention of house painting by The Sherman Coa.
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