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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1920
Page
11
Se Runyan of the York Athletic Club clears a twelve foot bar in a melee event during the club meet at Island HY. The photo captures Runyan in mid stride as he powers over the height.
Miss Wyoming toured Independence Hall in Philadelphia and posed with the Liberty Bell, delivering invitations to Mayor Moore and other notables. She arrived after a Atlantic City convention, reported kidnapping incidents, and will proceed to New York to stay at the McAlpine hotel.
Sam Scoville of Greybull Wyoming returns for the Frontier celebration aiming to reclaim the world bucking contest title he has won twice. He enters five events including roping bucking contest wild horse race and change horses on the range race carrying two Union Pacific saddles as his credentials.
City notes report a bright electric light outside police quarters but the doorway remained dark. The W C A employment agency notes more job seekers than openings. A vacant lot beside Underwood apartments on East Twenty-first Street becomes a cement court. Frontier celebration ads spread across Cheyenne. State veterinarian B F Davin departs for northern state business for several days. Frontier Days fairies begin arriving as fishing trips form for Saratoga and other streams. Ex-chiropractor W W Quinn returns from the East after funeral attendance. Riverton notary public William J Verall appointed by Acting Governor Chaplin. Nightly motorists travel despite threatening weather. no trips spoiled. A P Cornell of Wee Wee Lodge visits Cheyenne. Mayor Ed P Taylor named honorary vice-president of Old Indian Trails Association. Debate if carp will control weeds in Lake Minnehaha. letters discuss carp weed control. Frontier Days window cards go up in Cheyenne. Rotary Club members busy at Second Lake camping ground. Tank excavation work proceeds at Lincoln Highway and Mouse Street for Wyoming Filling Station. Union Pacific yards at the point show few cars. movement of equipment continues and right of way overgrown and littered.
The twenty fourth annual Frontier celebration in Wyoming promises a large purse of 12000 dollars, with extensive program changes to showcase both expert ranch hands and professional performers. Fort D A Russell barracks will host performers at reduced costs, and two roping contests and several running events are highlighted.
A regional fair will host events such as relay rope, a timber road, and tug area on horseback to allow Wyoming cowboys and their stock horses to participate. No entrance fee for roping bucking and bulldogging, though fees for those events are retained.
On Thursday June 24 the Cfilan Novelty Orchestra performs with a two person limit per couple, priced at $1 per couple for admission.
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