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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1919
Page
6
City items report arrivals from Rock River Pine Bluffs Douglas and Lusk. Advertisements note barbers and piano lessons. Notables include A J Denny Art Carpenter and soldiers from Denver. Also mentions divorces and business travels and a move of a frame house in West Cheyenne.
A church census will begin today in Cheyenne under captains from five denominations. Mrs Dugals Whitaker leads the Episcopal team, Mrs Fred L Crabbe heads the Methodist Episcopal group, Mrs D M Carey the Congregational group, Mrs J T Stimson the Baptist team, and Mrs D C Hudson the Presbyterian unit. Enumerators will interview residents to ascertain religious affiliation. Mrs Judson was elected president of the provisional organization.
Wartime women supported troops through knitting and surgical dressings while many suffer health strains. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is cited as restoring health and strength to these dedicated home workers, a standard remedy for years.
Cadserio Astrada a Mexican man arrested days earlier on a charge of slashing Manuel Valdez twice with a knife was arraigned before Justice Edwards and bound over to the district court on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder.
W C Dumm, father of W W Dumm, will assist in the Cheyenne service department. The veteran undertaker, one of Kansas' first licensed undertakers with over 35 years in the business, joins to assure personal service day or night. Carey Ave location.
The Monday incident at the Wyoming Trust and Savings Bank marked the first attempted robbery in Cheyenne in fifty years. R S Van Tassell recalled the 1869 break in by three men at H J Rodgers Co bank and noted Cheyenne’s long bank robbery history.
Hogs receipts 18 700 head. prices 15 to 35 cents higher with heavy, mixed, light, and bulk sales ranging from 12.00 to 25.90. Cattle receipts 6 200. native steers 13.00 13.76, cows and heifers 7.50 14.25, stockers and feeders 6.50 16.00, calves 8.00 13.75, bulls and stags 7.00 11.00. Sheep receipts 14 500. culls 7.00 11.00, ewes 12.50 13.76, lambs 12.50 20.25, yearlings 16.60 18.00.
Commodity prices in Omaha Nebraska show corn with No 3 white at 1.46 to 1.47 dollars per bushel and No 4 white at 1.43. Oats read No 3 white at 62 to 63 cents and No 4 white at 62 to 62.5 cents.
Contractor John Howard leads iron workers placing the final steel frame of the city and county building. Large steam girders stored on Nineteenth street are hoisted into position for completion.
Knight Campbell Music company converts the former Biaty saloon at Seventeenth Street and Carey Avenue into a demonstration and exhibition quarters. Wilseck oversees remodeling with steel ceilings maple floors soundproof booths and a glass front. The project signals Wyoming’s shift from wet to dry territory as saloon space is repurposed for commerce.
Burt Wells, copywriter for Knight-Campbell Music, earned a bronze medal in a national Music Trade Indicator contest for the pest music store advertisements. Judges praised his firm’s ads for strong individuality and literary quality, noting Knight-Campbell’s consistent, effective phrases.
County Agricultural Agent Erle G. Reed delayed his planned departure for Afton to assist in organizing a Lincoln county farm bureau. He will instead visit the Vil ar Valley at a later date after receiving a telegram stating the farmers meeting had been postponed.
PAZO OINTMENT claims relief for piles including itching bleeding protruding piles and skin irritation with a refund if not cured. Advertises a quick cure window of six to fourteen days and asserts restfulness after use.
Ida Hollister wife of F W Hollister died yesterday at her son A A Buckingham 615 East Seventeenth Street after long illness. Services set for Thursday at 2 30 PM at the Hollister home. Survived by husband son and siblings Jurleigh Pollard and Mrs V S Glafee both of Cheyenne.
Acting Governor W. E. Chaplin refused Idaho’s request to extradite Frank McDonald of Casper. McDonald, once a Wyoming banker, faced elluding charges of obtaining money under false pretenses after two Wyoming banks closed, was tried in Casper and acquitted.
The Industrial club appoints Charles W. Hirsig T. Joe Cahill John Bell John C. Thompson Jr. and Clyde Early to run Cheyenne’s twenty third Frontier days to be held July 21 to 26 1919. The group aims to prove a dry town can host a Western celebration without liquor.
Three transients arrested at Pine Bluffs Monday evening as suspects in the Wyoming Trust and Savings bank robbery case, were liberated yesterday. There are youths who are beating it across the country.
Dr. French owns 160 acres in the Rock Creek oil field near a recently tapped Ohio Oil company gusher. His busy veterinary practice is disrupted as suitors seek leases to drill on nearby land within section 12 and near section 11, where proximity suggests likely success.
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