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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1918
Page
3
The Woman's Relief Corps hosts a benefit card party Tuesday evening at the F O F hall with prizes and refreshments. Proceeds go to the Red Cross as Red Cross News notes donation of two gauze bottles by Mrs P S Cook. rooms reopen daily at 1 20 for work with high attendance hoped.
Airs of June 20 marked the first birthday of Edgar Zell Steever III in Cheyenne with a family gathering at the grandparents General John Charles Thompson and wife. Relatives and cousins attended, cake was shared, and Colonel Errington visited with plans about his wife joining him. The event featured a planned concert by the Plains orchestra and a series of social engagements surrounding the Steever family.
Colonel Walker, recently promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the 312th Cavalry, will remain at Fort Russell with his family instead of leaving for the eastern front. The Friday Night Hop at Post headquarters drew a large crowd with the regimental band and punch, featuring Misses Julia Palmer, Lola Marble, Lucille Ridgely, Georgia Hirst, Josephine Mullen, Hazel McGuire, and Frances Sfistol from Cheyenne and Casper.
Mrs James Gilmer wife of Sergeant Gilmer 83d field artillery will return home this week after weeks with her husband. Several families visit in town including Mr and Mrs John Gilland from Denver Mr and Mrs Frank Gleason and children at Judge and Mrs J A Blier and Mrs Gleason’s mother Mrs W W Gleason. Mrs F W Snyder and daughter Mrs Carl Sheriff travel to Palo Alto to visit Mr Sheriff hospital corps 83d F A. Mrs Sheriff Naomi Boyd er formerly Miss Naomi Boyder home with her mother since regiment left California. Mrs Mason returns to Chillicothe Missouri. Miss Biesie Spents of Independence Kansas summer guest of Mrs P C Lyons. Miss Spents a vocalist to sing at Presbyterian church morning recital.
The Methodist Aid Society meets in church parlors Thursday with large attendance urged for important business. Various Sunday services and programs are listed for Congregational, First Methodist, First Baptist, Mt. Mark's Episcopal, St Marys Cathedral, and Presbyterian churches including sermons, cantatas, and prayer meetings. An interruption note mentions no services today at Mt. Mark's due to the rector's absence.
Notices report all government controlled railroads will operate on a strictly cash basis from July 1 with no credit or error corrections before shipment. Co V Omahundra moves to Fort Collins to oversee C and W and U P lines under the new system as C and W take Fort Collins business and U P handles local operations. Special Agent Carl Christensen of the U P tours west lines reporting little trouble from hobos and little for officers to do as U P train No. 20 runs from the west.
The U P and Co S lines merge under one management today. W A Wirt returns to Laramie after attending a safety meeting. Two new American flags replace worn ones at Union Station. Summer excursion rates to parks are known but not advertised. Conductor W H Parker from Rawlins is in Cheyenne visiting friends on vacation. The C P S and U P consolidation affects all trains except the Sterling accommodated service with offices moving next week.
Contracts awarded to Pacific Tank and Pipe of San Francisco for 5877 dollars to install 85 feet of steam pipe for a government power plant south of here. Barbers in Powell raise haircuts to 50 cents amid customer pushback. shaves mostly unchanged at 25 cents. Basin appoints Royd W. Osborne as first paid secretary of Basin Chamber of Commerce. Greybull edges toward funding a grain elevator and flour mill with construction likely before fall. Casper sees 30 new houses started in 10 days, many costing around 5,000 dollars, in North Casper addition. Keeline gets electric light from Delco system in main houses and garage. Greybull reports women employed in Burlington roundhouse at 22 cents per hour with more applicants anticipated. progress hints at broader hiring.
The 6 a.m. weather bulletin shows a high of 72 degrees at 3:45 p.m and a low of 54 degrees at 9:15 a.m. The report notes total precipitation since January 1 of 9.38 inches, normal 7.40 inches, with recent rainfall totaling 0.81 inches. Wind max 24 mph from the NNW, and temperatures and humidity are provided.
Buenos Aires registers 120,000 foreigners for city voting under a new law extending municipal suffrage to aliens married to Argentines or with Argentine-born children or paying housing tax. Italians lead with 6447 registrants, followed by Spaniards and others. critics accuse foreigners of limited city interest.
Geneva dispatches report Budapest admits heavy grief over Italian sunk warships, with Hungarian papers listing dead and black borders on notices. Italian naval tanks are feared more than submarines, and most papers call for renewed drives against the Adriatic coast and air raids on Rome and Naples.
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