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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1920
Page
6
The Chicago Tribune suggests a program to draw city workers back to farms by adding agricultural training in schools and night courses. The idea aims to boost farm labor while educating citizens for life’s challenges. Repealing the literacy test and allowing unskilled European agricultural migrants could offer immediate relief.
Dean Worcester will address Cheyenne High Eighth graders in Chugwater Thursday. The High School Parent-Teachers Association meets tonight. High school baseball vs University High was cancelled while efforts for more games continue. Cadet tournament slated for Saturday at the high school gym. Miss Valeria Bonnell missed classes. Superintendent A S Jessup covered. Capitol lawn sprinklers and lawn mowing noted. Judge Mentzer traveled to Wheatland for Platte county court. Whitlingon reports on the Denio case in U S district court. Marriage license issued to Rowland Campbell and Margaret Nelson. Warmer weather boosts land office work and township plats demand. Umbrellas set aside as winds dry streets. Front porches regain popularity. Mrs Henney closes fortune-telling shop near Elks Home. Boat sunk at Lake Minnehaha. stern submerged. Night Sergeant McFarland returns to duty. Denio damage case draws witnesses in crowded U S district court. Cheyenne streets dry after recent rain. crossings passable. Carnival crowd disappointed as carnival not operating. Concrete smokestack work near light plant to start soon. Court room fixtures not yet arrived. city-county building furniture arriving elsewhere. Street department clears gutters of debris.
Contractors tear up the old flagstone sidewalk along the east and south sides of the new city county building. A concrete sidewalk and curb will replace them and a patrol runway will allow direct access to the jail. Trees on the east side will be removed for space and a clearer view of the clock.
Cheyenne civil engineers formed a local Cheyenne chapter of the American Association of Engineers after a luncheon at the Plains hotel. Officers elected include F. G. Skinner president S. Epperson vice president H. G Watson secretary treasurer FF C Emerson and Z H Levison on the executive board. About 24 engineers attended and monthly meetings were planned.
In a warm moonlit pasture Billy Whiskers and Nanny recall their missing children as two strangers arrive. The white ghostly daughter Day reunites with her mother, revealing a heartfelt family reunion on a November Thanksgiving day. Night’s return promises further adventures.
Work started yesterday on the Frontier apartment building at Nineteenth and WHvyans streets. Six teams and a force of men began excavation and tearing down existing structures. Archie Allison holds the contract and expects ready materials for immediate delivery. The large project aims for fall completion and next winter occupancy.
Cheyenne will collect about 35 000 dollars from the occupation tax plus additional from motion picture houses. Eighty percent of expected revenue is in, totaling around 34 000 dollars after current receipts. Delinquent notices prompted several thousand dollars more. police will interview remaining holdouts at the finance commissioners office.
The city commission denied a building permit for a ten room frame house at Nineteenth Street and Pioneer Avenue because the site lies within the fire limits where such structures are not permitted. The brief session produced no other major actions.
A fluttering profit scheme ends as a Cheyenne merry go round departs after a slow week. The device, parked at Eighteenth Street and Pioneer Avenue, sought Sunday operation but was refused by Mayor Taylor. Tickets were ten cents. riders were turned away.
A Colorado reader reports kidney trouble with swelling fatigue and loss of appetite. After taking Foley Kidney Pills she says she feels fine now. The product is sold everywhere.
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