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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1920
Page
2
The first birthday of Katherine Jeanne Swainson was celebrated at the Tallmire home with a pink rosebud table setting and a three-diamond ring gift from her grandparents A. P. Swainson. Family guests included Clarence Swainson, Hugh Coffman, J. D. O’Connell and others as out‑of‑town relatives joined the event.
The Cheyenne chapter executive committee met Monday at 4 PM in W. B. Mullen’s office. Reports showed 96 of 225 active families received attention this month with 35 disabled men aided and relief spending at eighty five dollars forty two cents.
A Evansville clerk recalls constant thigh muscle pains after rheumatism treatment failed. He reports immediate relief after using Foley Kidney Pills for backache rheumatic pains and stiff joints.
London reports American manufacturers are funding new Canadian branches to export goods under British trade benefits and to manage orders from the United States for shipments to the United Kingdom and empire markets. Chemical, automotive, welding, toiletry, medicine, tools, engines, and wire product firms lead the move, driving Americanization of Canadian industry.
Cheyenne city commissioners voted to buy a Seagrave triple combination fire truck for 42000, with half funded by the city and half by Union Pacific. Debated against an American LaFrance bid of 14500, the Seagrave won after ties to rail and fire department opinions, despite Mayor Taylor’s earlier preference for the American LaFrance.
Plumbers were busy in the new city jail yesterday installing plumbing in preparation for the installation of cages and other steel work.
Rev. Richard P. Maxwell former pastor of the Upton Methodist Church fled to Dade City Florida in custody to face charges of embezzling funds from the Methodist Church South and wife desertion. He allegedly seduced a 47 year old member of a prominent family and disappeared after her wedding. Local kin compelled disclosure and arrest followed while he served as pastor in Upton. The accusing family fears for his safety before trial.
SHERIDAN Wyoming March 1 Coal shortages or high fuel prices hold no fears for Jt G Rasmussen of Barber Wyoming for he has a backyard coal mine all his own On Rasmussen s ranch there is a small deposit of high grade coal and in the fall he turns from farming to mining and gathers in his winter s supply The vein is not large enough to warrant commercial exploitation and Rasmussen is content to mine it for his own use His ranch is located 30 miles from a railroad so the private mine helps him avoid transport difficulties
The Presbyterian church trustees and elders discussed enlarging Sunday school facilities at a Sunday meeting. A committee of Avery Haggard Judge William Mentzer II Wenderson Thomas Hunter and Fred Porter will study two options an annex addition or selling the church to rebuild elsewhere.
Subscriptions of stock and applications for the proposed Cheyenne apartment project flood in. Leslie Miller says the building may be enlarged from 34 to 50 families and a basement ball room parlor for women and billiard and smoking room for men are under consideration.
The Roxana Petroleum company’s January issue publicizes Cheyenne with two Cheyenne photographs. It notes Max W. Ball leads the Rocky Mountain division while Tom Harnsberger fills in. The piece mentions Roxana employees backing a Y M C A in Cheyenne.
Burglars entered the Ridgeley residence at 200 East Seventeenth Street through a basement window Sunday night while the family was away. They stole several articles, revolver among them, with a complete list unavailable due to the family's absence from the city.
Bishop Nathaniel S. Thomas of the Episcopal Church declines transfer to the Delaware bishopric. He will remain bishop of Wyoming after receiving word from Wilmington, Delaware, where he had gone ten days earlier to consider the offer.
Mrs. W. S. Wills died Sunday morning at her home in the Tupper apartments from pneumonia. She leaves daughter Olive Wills, art teacher in Cheyenne public schools, and son Ira Wills of Keokuk, Iowa, who arrived before the funeral. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
State Attorney General W L Walls, legal advisor to the governor, was summoned to police court yesterday over a city ordinance requiring snow removal from sidewalks. He failed to appear, and Police Judge Clarence Swainson announced a warrant would be issued and the attorney general would be brought to court this afternoon.
The statement notes that Judge Walls holding the attorney general position does not grant immunity from municipal arrest or prosecution under local ordinance.
O. Stiles, executive secretary of the Credit Rating Exchange, has returned to Cheyenne after organizing branches in Wheatland and Douglas. Seven counties in the state now host exchange branches.
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