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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1920
Page
2
The Chicago Tribune argues for a shift of labor from cities to farms, proposing agricultural training in schools and night courses to supply farm workers. It notes a longer term plan to attract city youths to open land life while suggesting immediate relief by repealing literacy tests to allow unlettered European migrants.
Principal Dean Worcester will address Cheyenne High School eighth graders in Chugwater Thursday. The High School PTA meets tonight. The high school baseball game with University High is canceled, with more games planned. Cadet tournament comes to the high school gym Saturday. Miss Valeria Bonnell was briefly absent. A S Jessup covered. Capitol lawn sprinklers and mowing noted. Judge Mentzer traveled to Wheatland for Platte county court. Denio case coverage continues in Cheyenne. A marriage license issued to Rowland Campbell and Margaret Nelson. Warmer weather boosts land office activity. township plats in demand. Porches regain popularity as drying streets ease. Mrs Henney closes fortune-telling shop. A boat sinks at Lake Minnehaha. stern submerges. Night Sergeant McFarland back on duty. Denio damage case fills court room. Cheyenne streets dry after rain and snow. crossings reopen. Carnival disappointed as not in operation. Concrete smokestack work at light plant to begin soon. Court room fixtures not yet arrived. Furniture deliveries seen for city-county building. Street department clears gutters.
Work on the city county building progresses with removal of old flagstone sidewalks along the east and south sides. A concrete sidewalk and curb will replace them and a patrol run will allow prisoners to be unloaded at the jail entrance. Trees on the east side will be removed to clear space and improve the clock view. lawn and flower beds will follow.
Cheyenne civil engineers formed a local chapter of the American Association of Engineers. At a Saturday luncheon at the Plains hotel the group adopted a constitution and by laws and elected F. G. Skinner president S. Epperson vice president H. G Watson secretary treasurer FF C Emerson and Z H Levison as directors. About 24 engineers attended and monthly meetings were planned.
Billy and Nanny abandon search for their children and later, on a warm moonlit night, recall the past. Two visitors arrive, Day and Night, with Day calling to her mother, leading to a emotional reunion as Thanksgiving approaches in November.
Construction starts on the Frontier apartment house at Nineteenth and WHvyans streets. Archie Allison holds the contract and expects immediate material delivery. The six teams begin excavation and tearing down existing structures, with completion anticipated before next winter and tenancy ready in the fall.
Cheyenne will gain about 35 000 dollars from the occupation tax plus further receipts from motion picture houses with a total reaching a few thousand dollars above the initial plan. Finance Commissioner John J. McInerney announced that 28 000 dollars has been collected so far and that delinquents are being contacted by police to resolve outstanding cases.
City commissioners met for a brief session and refused a building permit for a ten room frame house at Nineteenth Street and Pioneer Avenue because the site lies within the fire limits. Within the fire district such structures are not allowed.
After a poor showing in Cheyenne the merry go round, parked at Eighteenth Street and Pioneer Avenue, left town yesterday morning. The operators asked Mayor Taylor to run on Sunday but were refused. Children seeking rides were turned away as tickets were ten cents.
A La Junta Colorado resident reports kidney pills ease long standing trouble. Mrs L L Gibson says swelling fatigue loss of appetite and dullness improved after taking Foley Kidney Pills sold everywhere.
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