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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1918
Page
12
The text announces that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to use and republish all news despatches credited or not credited in this paper. It also reserves rights for republication of special despatches published within the issue.
Washington National Geographic Society notes Compiegne on the Olne river near the Aisne, fifty miles southeast of Paris by rail. The forest and palace grounds host historic royal ties, Napoleon and Marie Antoinette legends, and the 1450 Joan of Arc episode. The town, later a German HQ in 1870, is famed for boat building, rope making, distilling, and chocolate, with Georges Guynemer born there in 1894.
The U S Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a detailed survey on civilian food conditions in 1917 across Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria Turkey. It notes Turkey’s starving plight amid corrupt governance and German Austrian struggles, with Hungary better off and Bulgaria least affected.
A collection of quips and satirical lines on politics war and media. The Sheridan Post notes focus on public concern with winning seats and the misinterpretation of wartime messaging. It includes historical references and pithy statements about publicity and leadership.
The quip comments on Anglo American wartime alliance as England and France, previously isolated against the Hun, welcomed stronger American involvement and a shift in the old saying to reflect unity with the United States.
Census figures from twenty five states list 3,878,998 women registered for service under the women’s committee of the Council of National Defense. Most are in registered industries and agriculture as state committees complete the returns.
An American film morale effort reaches French camps with stars Charlie Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks and others creating a patriotic mood. The scene shows volunteers and military audiences reacting warmly as stars express support and urge soldiers to “get ’em.”
W O Wade and J D Jones of Casper visited Cheyenne at the start of the week. James Corbin of Laramie and Archie Allison headed to or from Cheyenne on business. Numerous residents from Laramie, Lander, Rock Springs, Savery, Basin, and other nearby towns were noted in Cheyenne for business, shopping, or visits.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South plans a five year 35 million dollar drive for missionary and war relief work at home and abroad. Secretary Rev E O Watson says 1.9 million yearly will fund war work, including chaplain outfits costing about 1000 each. Bishop Walter A Lamberth chairs the war work commission with headquarters in Washington DC and will travel to England and France to coordinate aid for soldiers.
Camp welfare committee reports soldiers in numerous camps organize Christian Science meetings. Readers are drawn from service ranks and sessions occur in Y rooms, officers tents, or outdoors. Members receive a pocket size textbook, quarterly, song book, and subscription to patient aid.
The Monitor is issued daily in M C A huts camps libraries and officers and men barracks about 10 000 copies are distributed daily in camps per the camp welfare committee report.
The Catholic Ladies Aid of Dallas, a 400 member group, aids war relief through Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, funds rebuilding of French churches, provides clothing and fuel, runs a Catholic club for business girls, and supports food conservation efforts amid the war. Father Smyth notes its early Red Cross work since 1917.
In Middletown Connecticut a council of defense shows twenty six church groups, representing twenty one churches in total, overseeing organized women’s war work for English speaking and foreign citizens except Red Cross tasks. The council’s members are available at all times to render demanded services, per the announcement.
Hogs receipts 14 500 in St Louis with mixed prices and gains. Cattle receipts 11 000 and varied quotes across classes. Kansas City reports lower hogs with mixed cattle and sheep prices. Omaha shows steady to lower hogs and varied cattle and calf values amid light demand.
Morning cattle sale featured forty nine fat steers from Thomas W. Frantz Wheatland Wyoming averaging 1982 pounds selling at 17286 the highest price yet for fat steers on the Denver market. Beef cattle ranged from 16.00 to 16.66 for good stock from 15.00 to 15.75 for fair. Cows killers 11.60 to 12.50 fancy 12.75 up. Hogs steady with late trade around 16.16 to 16.60 and 19.56 for a single load. Sheep fair demand with quality only fair.
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