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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1916
Page
10
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington spoke to hundreds at the Iris theatre in Casper denouncing the Wilson administration and its foreign policy. He urged Republican reforms and criticized the Mexican and European policies while praising Republican strength and leadership.
GREYBUTA Oct 18 A standard rig for the American Oil Company of Great Falls Montana arrived this week and is being unloaded for preparation. The company, led by prominent business figures, holds large tracts near Greybull and Elk Basin and plans extensive development. The rig, brought from Canada, can reach 3000 to 3500 feet and will drill the first well west of the Greybull refinery hill tanks. Two affiliated companies are mentioned in the development plans.
At a special county board meeting in Sheridan on Oct 18, officials planned to apply for twenty convict laborers and a cook for next year. The crew would work on the Dayton Mountain road and help ready the Red Grade on the Dome Lake road, with a Pow der river bridge at Arvada project also discussed.
Stores in Laramie announce a citywide agreement to clone closing hours at 6 p.m. on Saturdays, aligning weekend hours with weekday closings. The change applies to every shop in the city, standardizing shopping times across the board.
Wilts tract just west of town will host drilling within 30 days with three wells planned on Greybull land. Greybull Oil & Development and Lamb Drilling will begin operations within 60 days, with one lease on 20 acres southwest and another on the northwest. George Gilbert of Midwest Refining surveyed Greybull refinery needs and will return for follow up.
Casper October 18 Northwestern has laid a spur to two wells on the Elkhorn lease owned by Midwest and the original Elkhorn company. Monday evening two cars of oil were shipped to the refinery for treatment. The company expects to continue marketing the product this way until more wells justify a pipeline. The oil is reported to be of high gravity.
Ben Wood returned to Casper on Tuesday after stump speaking for Wilson Kendrick and Clark in northern Wyoming. He reports large meetings and rosy prospects for Democrats as Republicans express disgust and pledge voting for the Democratic nominees. Wood will lecture along the Union Pacific and in east Wyoming before the election.
Prof. G. I. Miller of Los Angeles visits his brother E. M. Miller in Casper. The pair had not met for a decade. Miller, here for the California institution, notes Casper’s business stability and renews old ties.
An old home recipe for darkening faded or gray hair uses Usal Sage and Sulphur, now sold as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. A bottle costs about 60 cents and is applied with a sponge to restore natural color and shine.
In Dubuque Iowa a prominent German born citizen Rev W Heineke criticizes the Republican Party for exploiting German Americans to oppose President Wilson. Heineke admits misjudging Wilson’s position in the world conflict and urges reassessment of motives behind anti German sentiment and policy among GOP leaders.
Sheridan begins its second sugar campaign as the factory whistle blows at 7 am. Beets fill sheds with about 6000 tons on hand and arrivals pace at roughly 700 tons daily. The plant runs with lime kilns active and boilers steaming as 150 day workers and 100 night workers man the shifts under manager O. H. Thatcher.
The fragment notes a person named Monae requesting contact with BR McCafferty and provides a phone-like string 618J, suggesting a late 19th or early 20th century brief notice style.
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