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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1920
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a stolen item or theft report involving an education or school entity in Shelby and Pioneer areas with unclear names and dates. No clear event, persons, or organizations emerge to identify a concrete item or outcome.
A large crowd including many notables attended the dedication ceremonies of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre in Arlington Virginia. The monument honors America's soldier dead and serves as a dignified site for future memorial exercises in the national cemetery.
Auto top making and complete line of baby carriages at Hobbs Huckfeldt and Finkbinder. Sloan's Lake fishing reports good catches. YW Benner and J Kirkpatrick advertise services. Merry-Go-Round opens 4 PM daily near Post Office. Gas sales dip with better highways. Union Trust Co advertises savings. Telephone linemen work on underground cables downtown. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance at First National Bank Building. Taxi and express number 984.
Local youths attempted a swim in Second Lake but found the water too cold and did not stay long. New potatoes arrive in Cheyenne market selling at a record price while residents monitor weather and city life.
Paul Edward Truckey, 24, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Truckey of 2017 Evans Street, died yesterday morning at his parents home. Funeral arrangements not set. Survived by parents, one brother Lawrence Truckey of Los Angeles visiting Cheyenne, and two sisters Mrs TH Yeager of Toppenish Washington and Glara Truckey of Cheyenne.
Miss Rivka Aaronsohn, prominent member of a pioneering Jewish family and cofounder of the Jerusalem Daily Mail, is in the United States to purchase modern equipment and printing paper for the paper which began less than a year ago with circulation exceeding two thousand.
Police were alerted by the Weld County sheriff to watch for wandering campers accused of killing John Wilson of Greeley. No details were released. Walter Wilson reported his son’s death to the sheriff, who relayed the case to Cheyenne authorities.
CG B Googer, president of Wyoming Typographical Union No 4184, says Wilson would be all right if he followed policy. Googer claims he has no policy but was elected president of the printers union for a third term. The printers elected officers and delegates for the upcoming year last Wednesday.
President C. B. Googer with vice president Harry G. Purcell and secretary-treasurer Ward Studson lead the lineup. J. F. Burnett serves as sergeant-at-arms. The executive committee includes H. C G. Purcell Charles Aney and J. I. Burnett. Auditing committee members are Charles Aney J. F. Burnett and Craig Lewis. Delegates to allied printing trades council A. B. Lewis Roy E B Laughlin and Charlie Nichols. Delegates to the state federation of labor convention W. N. H. Reid and to the International Typographical Union convention Ward Nudson.
Charles L. Bristol, son of Mrs. BE Bristol, was hurt late Thursday night when his bicycle bumped and he fell without holding the handlebars. He suffered skinning and lacerations to both forearms but the injuries were not serious.
The Salt Creek Producers association reports a flowing well in the Salt Creek oil field. Drilling on the serial section has reached a depth of 600 feet and shows productive flow.
The shallowest well in the district yields about 300 barrels daily from shale and will be drilled to the second sand as planned. Several additional wells are under construction to alleviate crude shortages at the Casper refinery.
The report notes a normal average temperature of 53 degrees for the date with an actual mean of 60 degrees, eight degrees warmer in the last 24 hours. Highest temperature reached 77 degrees at 1 p.m., lowest 47 degrees at 6 a.m., and winds up to 24 miles per hour from the south at 5 p.m. Precipitation since January 1 totals 7.55 inches with no rain in the last 24 hours.
Cheyenne to Laramie stretch noted with few rough spots and occasional chuck holes. The May report highlights the Lincoln Highway Hast route conditions and cautions travelers about surface irregularities along the Cheyenne corridor.
Road notes describe impassable telephone line area from Canon to Laramie, rough sections near Point of Rocks Springs, fair to Hyans ton and Ogden, good stretches along Yellowstone to Fort Collins, Cheyenne to Chugwatee with rough spots at Pole Creek, good to Wheatland and Glendo, Douglas section fair with deep ruts near Platte River bridge.
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