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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1919
Page
11
A columnist argues for a national budget by comparing government spending to a family home budget. They warn that since receipts are adjusted to expenditures, debt grows. a budget would reveal needs, guide taxes, and limit waste, citing 1918 spending and potential 1 percent savings.
Thie from a Japanese aredent ot amy other renetitution describes a 2900 budget for the University and year. It outlines 21500 secretary of experiences qualities of leadership and pep to show fellows how to find worthwhile work. It envisions eight hundred dollars for live-wire progress with physical activities. It calls for preserving the Y room and equipment and providing a thousand helpful services such as room and employment info. It stresses promoting social and religious meetings to unite athletes with literary men frat with barb and broaden college spirit.
Mayor John F. Leeper of Casper has organized the Scott Oil company to acquire KR K Scott holdings in the Lagee Creek field totaling about 4700 acres in township 36 range 63. Drilling contracts for the acreage will be let on Monday.
Sheriff A. Roach of Platte County has been critically ill with pneumonia for a week after returning from Cheyenne to Wheatland where he had secured a wanted prisoner. His condition was worsening before a last report indicated possible improvement.
The Wyoming Student and University of Wyoming faculty push for a permanent YMCA program funding to $2900, seeking support from men students faculty alumni and friends to maintain a statewide Y effort, with a budget modestly below but proportional to campus size.
At Senator Phelan's request the 40 member Columbia Park Boys vaudeville troupe sails aboard the S S Nanking from San Francisco May 10 to entertain American troops in Vladivostok Russia. They tour Japan including Yokohama to aid sailors and marines, under Major Peixotto with Australian government support and State Department sanction. Irman fiam Mulligan of the K of C war activities committee funded the Vladivostok ferry so servicemen there can enjoy entertainment and lift morale amid Bolshevik tensions.
The A. E. F. plans a Decoration Day relay of 250 picked soldiers. They run three miles per team, forming 20 man squads, to cover over 30 miles from the Chateau Thierry battlefield to Place de la Concorde in Paris.
A local YMCA Women’s Club of Cheyenne invites women to join with a free or low cost membership card. The drive promotes accessible activities, free swimming instruction during summer months, and programs at a lake project under YWCA authority.
Colonel Lebnaré Deltrick of the regular United States army arrived in the city yesterday and stays with his sister Mrs. Joseph Williams. The Cheyenne native entered the army in 1898 and has since served abroad. He heads next to California to visit his father Benjamin Deitrick, formerly of Cheyenne.
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