Red Cross Show Attended by Five Young Visitors
Five boys visited the Red Cross headquarters yesterday seeking information about charity activities and the work done by volunteers.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
11
Five boys visited the Red Cross headquarters yesterday seeking information about charity activities and the work done by volunteers.
Mrs. ik O Ahrens leaves for Chicago for an indefinite stay with relatives in Katteworth I awaiting orders in Cheyenne. Mrs. Ahrens laments leaving friends and hopes to return. Mrs. Hugh Conrey departs for Omaha to join Lt. Conrey. will visit Woodward before returning. Florence Snow arrives Monday from Nebraska to spend summer with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Best went to Laramie for the weekend. Charley Carey to return next week from a trip. Mr. ML King and daughter Georgia Miret return from Ogden. Mine Hunt travels to Boulder for a week with college.
Mra J R Lockridge and two small children from Lander are guests of Mr Lockridge in Cheyenne before resuming homeward travel Sunday night T OC Rhea accompanying. Lyman Gleason son of Mr and Mrs Ashley Gleason longtime Cheyenne residents spent several days visiting. the family plans to move to Douglas from Denver after a year there.
The College club hosts a musical tea this afternoon for the high school graduates. The Help One Another club met with Mrs James Morrison with attendance. Mr Hiram Sapp led the business session. A memorial to Mrs Delores Byron will fund a worthy young woman in Crevene. A blue and white patch work grill, to be sold for the América society, and musical selections with Master Irwin Morrison.
On Sunday evening Gus Larson left his car on a hill north of Lincoln highway with brakes on. Local boys who were playing released the brakes letting the car roll into Dennis Sherrod, 14, injuring him. authorities seek the youths to admonish them. The injured boy is recovering.
Mrs. Mary Goddard of Brunswick Maine, aged 107, is cited as the oldest woman preacher in the United States. She occasionally preaches to congregations of friends, defying usual expectations about age and vocation.
Two drunken traveling men, W R Butler and W E Carter, struck little John Pilen on 17th Street between Capitol and Carey Avenues at 4 p m. The car passed over the child as they fled. they were jailed, bonded $65, and to be tried for traffic violations. Pilen’s injuries include cuts and bruises to the head with a strained back.
Mrs A R Keenright of 218 West 18th street received a letter from her son Jack Keenwright saying he was released from quarantine and ordered to entrain with April draftees for Virginia. Measles outbreaks at camp led to a three week quarantine before departure. Keenright left Reyenne in the April 26 draft as men drill six to eight hours daily at American Lake Washington.
A 1918 letter from L Emery to Woodmen of the World and local societies in Cheyenne invites participation in Decoration Day events. It notes a procession at 10 o'clock a.m. from near the city center to the cemetery for memorial services and asks societies to respond by Monday evening for parade planning.
At a Grocers and Butchers Association meeting the abuse of free home delivery was discussed. A committee will create rules and educate the public on the costs and privileges of deliveries, with possible curtailment to one daily visit and banana sales by the pound.
District Attorney Haries Rigdon was a Denver passenger to attend a legal matter. The report notes the involvement of Rigdon as part of the travel to Denver for court related proceedings.
Salt Lake City May 4. Howard M DeWeesse shot by state officials after being convicted of murdering his wife Fannie Fincher DeWeesse. A silk handkerchief containing the bullet that killed him was sent to his wife’s first husband with a chilling letter from DeWeesse alias J FE Warren. The note warns H W Fisher in New York that time and power cannot alter justice.
First Church of Christ, Scientist Cheyenne announces a free lecture on Christian Science by George Shaw Cook of Chicago. Cook is a Board member of Lectureship for The Mother Church in Boston. The talk is Monday evening May 27 at 8 o'clock in the Parish House. Public invited.
The Cheyenne Trades and Labor Assembly urged city fathers to provide safeguards for residents during coming winter via a resolution presented to Mayor KW Stone and the city commissioners. Mina Rita Kinney was sworn in as Wyoming’s first deputy marshal, taking up her duties. Read more on listed crops including fruits and vegetables cultivated for years across the region.
Dansville New York village with four thousand residents shut stores banks and mfgs to secure the potato crop. The editorial says the only way to eradicate the pest is a full stop of it. The note reflects a strong urging action from Columbia South Dakota or Ohio based source.
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