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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
3
The public schools of Topeka Kansas run a program teaching girls hat trimming and economical dress. Lessons cover mending furniture, economical cooking, and buying. Boys learn manual skills for home use and repairs to prevent deterioration, a program praised by students and teachers.
The senior class of the convent presents its close play this evening in Convent Hall marking the conclud ing event of the term. The Taming of the Shrew will be staged as the main performance for attendees.
Mrs Otis Hymer returns from Denver where she saw Everywoman. Mrs Carl Axford of Omaha visits Cheyenne en route home via Central City Neb and Elk and Miss Stella Draper travel with family to California for summer. Verling Hart Jr returns from Washington DC while Dorian Luminis comes home from Boulder. George and Laramie visitors, Brewsters sail east for months in Europe then fall Cheyenne visit. Mary Congdon to Rock Springs to join Union Pacific auditor Herbert Congdon. Jeffers party to Saratoga fishing trip returns Friday. Myrtle Foust returns from Potter Nebraska. Mrs Frank Holliday of Laramie visiting. Mrs Ashley Gleason leaves for Los Angeles. Gleason health trip with Mrs Draper family to California.
The Becker Athletic Club invites all to a large Thursday night ball at the Coliseum. Managers King Kelley and Eddie Footrell promise joy and value, with White's Orchestra providing music and dancing lasting into the holiday dawn.
The Wyoming publication The State Leader runs a want ad section featuring local personals jobs and services. Community listings include housing opportunities and miscellaneous sales notices across Cheyenne and surrounding counties.
Miss Jewell of Whitalland's Children's Home reports three young Wild children from Hartville under court order to be placed in care. Eldest Louie, 12, remains in city for whooping cough recovery while a 9 year old girl and a younger boy go to Laramie to join the Ep home. The mother Luella Wild is deemed unfit and custody granted to the home. father deceased served church ties.
E. B. Mitchell, formerly trained as a trainmaster with the Colorado & Southern at Trinidad, is appointed to succeed J. S. Smith as assistant superintendent in Cheyenne. Mitchell arrives Monday night to assume duties immediately and plans to relocate his family to Cheyenne soon. His long railroad career spans Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado & Southern through Boulder Cate.
An advertisement promises freckles will fade with ethine double strength applied nightly and morning. It claims even stubborn spots disappear and guarantees results or money back. The note lists Fritz chiro practitioners at 181% Thomes street.
Spaulding Manufacturing of Grinnell Iowa fights a law requiring itinerant vendors to obtain a license. Through attorney A C Lyon the firm seeks to have the statute set aside as unconstitutional. A. Bylew, Sheridan county agent, was fined for peddling without a license. Spaulding argues its agents only take orders, not deliver, and that licensing would hinder its large western trade.
San Jose May 27 Superior Judge Gosbey rules in favor of Mountain View rancher S M Smith in a damage suit filed by Irene Sabin Merritt daughter of a San Francisco magnate. Merritt sought 250 damages plus 1000 punitive for shooting her imported Russian wolfhound while pursuing chickens. The court held dogs are dogs even when chasing poultry regardless of pedigree.
A diagram shows two possible routes for Stefansson to the North Pole. A dotted northward line indicates the path if waters are clear for his sailing into unknown seas, while a line west from the first base of operations marks the retreat path. Shaded regions illustrate unexplored Arctic areas and the dark area suggests the Arctic continent.
Valdemar Stefansson announces selection of Captain Bob Bartlett to command the ship on the Arctic voyage of discovery for the Canadian government. The plan aims to sail north from the eastern seas toward the northern polar regions, seeking new passages and claiming routes for exploration.
The description notes winds from the west forcing a trek across ice and snow with sleds and dogs from a location referred to as the first base of operations. The passage emphasizes travel conditions and route starting point for such a mission.
A concise weather summary covering a 24 hour period ending at 6 p m Mountain. Observations include temperature highs and lows, precipitation notes if any, wind directions and speeds, humidity levels, and any notable changes from the prior period. The report highlights regional conditions and overall weather trend for the Mountain time zone.
Thunder showers expected in Wyoming on Wednesday with likely Thursday activity. Cooler conditions anticipated in the north and west portions on Thursday.
Wisconsin Governor Mollovern vetoed a bill that would have ordered a 1914 referendum on extending suffrage to women in Wisconsin. He argued the prior election results show the measure would be unwarranted and could deepen opposition rather than correct past issues despite calls for reform.
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