Burns District Annual School Meeting Draws 100 Votes
The Burns district held its annual meeting with over 100 votes cast. A five mill levy was approved for the coming year, two new school buildings ordered at Egbert and near Salem, and the Pine Bluffs area elected BE C Bellows to join the board alongside existing trustees. The district noted three new schools built and fully paid, with all salaries settled and a comfortable treasury balance.
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Burrow
Semill Levy
Ami J. i. Dwiggnes
Campstool
Fellows
Pineluffs
Burts
Heslieg
Golden Prairie Herald
Burns
Harrimon
Golden Prairie
Laramie County
Egbert
Salem
J. R. Dwiggons
Campetoo
Samper Miller
Pine Bluffs
McCarty
C. W. Johnson
EE. C. Bellows
the Bluffs
BE. C. Bellows
A. A. Bellows
J.C. Nash
James McGregor
J. R. Iwhegans
BE. C. Heljons
Ed Jacobson
H. Sibley
Carpenter
Robert
Board of Trustees
Wyoming Babies Win Prize in National Show
Sheridan May 7 In competition with babies from across the United States twin brothers John and James Spear of Sheridan won the first prize in a Long Beach California baby show held last week. Other competitors included three other twin pairs and a triplet group, but the Wyoming infants captured top honors despite California judges favoring local entrants.
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Sheridan
United States
John
James
Dee Spear
Long Beach
Cal
Wyoming
California
Suitin Basin Firms for Ten Thousand Dollars
Acting for F D Matteson attorneys Hyde Collins and Enterlineg Laflelsch filed a $10000 suit in district court against the Big Horn Oil and Gas Big Horn Drilling and Big Horn Supply companies alleging damages for breach of contract. Papers served on BE A Durham as he arrived in town this week.
Local briefs from Basin and surrounding areas
In Wyoming news items a Penn Wyoming case proceeds with evidence taken at Encampment. Milk wagon driver Thomas Goddard is jailed in Laramie for not returning receipts. Basin boosters tour Hyattville and Paintrock. Sheep herder Louis Spitler is arrested in Rock Springs for forging Elmer La Pash’s signature. Basin hosts marriages of Robert Mitchell to Elsie Linebaugh and Myrtle Tolliver to Clarence Kinney. Burlington plans a new depot at Lingle. Basin sends Titanic sympathy telegrams to Taft. Mrs Frank Conlin of Sheridan injured from a fall on a slippery plank during home repairs. Gordon Cameron, earlier arrested in Denver, is sent to Laramie to face wife desertion charges.
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Thomas Goddard
Laramie
Basin
Hyattville
Paintrock
Louis Spitler
Rock Springs
Elmer la Pash
Robert Mitchell
Elsie Linebaugh
Myrtle Tolliver
Clarence BE. Kinney
Burlington
Lingle
Frank Conlin
Sheridan 6
Gordon Cameron
Denver
Cameron
Albany Hotel Denver Markets Private Bath Rooms at Low Rates
The Albany Hotel of Denver offers rooms with private bath or private toilet and lavatory at former rates after extensive remodeling. Private toilet and lavatory rooms are 1 560 per day, private bath 1 50 per day, larger bath rooms 2 50 and 3 00 per day. The hotel promotes newly furnished rooms and emphasizes the value and comfort of these accommodations.
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Albany Hotel
Denver
Albany
State Leader Seeks Ade To Middle Man Role
Ambiguous note references a state leader seeking a middle man position aiding both ends. Mentions three lings three limes and a 36 conta phrase unclear in context. No clear persons or organizations identified.
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Ade
Possibilities of Oil Found in California
A preliminary report by Robert Anderson of the US Geological Survey outlines geologic features and oil potential at the south end of California's San Joaquin Valley. It notes non continuous oil-bearing areas near Wheeler Ridge and along the valley edge, with two promising zones and a map included.
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San Joaquin Valley
Calif
Robert Anderson
United States Geological Survey
Temblor Ridge
Sierra Nevada
Bakersfield
Anderson
Buena Vista Lake
San Emigdio
Foothall
Wheeler Ridge
Pleite Creek
Santiago Creeks
San Emigdilo Creek
The
Geological Survey
Washington, D. C
Wherless declines to be delegate to prohibition convention
Burns Wyoming May 7 1912 letter from J R Cortner chairman State Prohibition Com shows H Wherless declining to serve as alternate delegate to the National Prohibition Convention at Atlantic City July 10 1918. He explains loyalty to Democratic and progressive Republican principles and cites reform wave against ring rule and trust combinations.
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William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Monator Cummins
la Féduette
Man from Manitou selects coffin in Colorado Springs
Alfred D. Jones of Manitou enters Fuller and Boons in Colorado City to choose a coffin for a man with tuberculosis. He visits with a wife and friend, pays a deposit, and plans to buy a cemetery lot soon after. Jones came from Chicago, Window Glass, seeking relief and a final arrangement amid illness.
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Colorado Springs
Alfred D. Jones
Manitou
Fuller & Boons
Colorado City
Campus Musical Comedy Stirs Cheyenne Crowd
Walter De Leon brings The Campus to Capitol Avenue theater with Fer ris Hartman company and full original cast. The musical comedy blends youth, college atmosphere, and clean humor across three acts with eighteen song hits. De Leon stars in approachable roles, plus Miss Davies and the freshie girls perform in numbers like Spooks and How de do.
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Walter de Leon
Cheyenne
Capitol Avenue
Ferris Hartman
Mr. de Leon
Tim
Miss Davies
Freshie Girls
Mies Davies
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State of
McMillan & Shepherd
West 17Th Street
Penn-Wyoming
Encampment
Taft
James Allen
Brooklyn
Vinci
A. B. Roedel
Wherless
Prohibition
Sherman Ce
Wyoming Fuel & Feed Co
Nagle Transfer & Storage Line
Young Transfer CO
Carey Ave
A. T. Hale
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