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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1920
Page
3
An active notice lists the High School Parent-Teacher Association meeting for 8 o'clock this evening. Officers urge good attendance as plans for varied classes and a successful program are outlined for the fall season.
Timovers Dyer who planted cottonwoods on Capitol avenue and Twentieth street about thirty years ago saw them felled to clear the site for Wyoming Construction No. 1 cathedral. Axemen chopped 14 to 16 inch trunks within the property line, ending a generation of shade and labor that blessed the Dyer home.
TORRINGTON WY Oct 18 Goshen County boards offer 100 a month for inexperienced teachers but 15 rural openings remain unfilled. Efforts are under way to recruit teachers from other states to fill positions across the county.
Cheyenne city water tested for bacteriological safety with chemists reporting no contamination. Reports show raw water with 40 total bacteria per cc and no colon bacilli, filtered water with 44 total bacteria per cc and no colon bacilli.
A five dollar prize is offered to the Wyoming boy or girl who writes the best slogan to secure votes for the proposed constitutional amendment letting school districts issue additional bonds to build new schools. Katherine Morton and Anna Dobbin urged all youths to create a short, snappy line showing why schooling must be funded.
The U S Department of the Interior records 1918 oil output for the Rocky Mountain district comprising Colorado Wyoming and Montana at 12 808 896 barrels up from 9 199 910 in 1917 Colorado produced 148 286 Wyoming 12 595 287 and Montana 69 323 barrels The piece traces growth from 1887 Salt Creek's rise and price fluctuations with Colorado peak and Wyoming catching up and Montana entering production in 1916.
The report shows Boulder Colorado output rising to 1 296 barrels in December 1918 from 229 in the prior month while 1909 figures fell to 43 196 in the following year. In Colorado total wells grew from 85 productive to 100 by January 1 1918 with 63 completions in two years. Wyoming productive wells increased from 457 to 931 between 1917 and 1918 with 750 completions, 635 producers and 165 dry.
A playful verse recounts a character who eats many grapes six apples and a pear then heads home claiming hunger as a bear. The simple scene highlights a quirky appetite and rustic family humor.
Mrs. Abigail Wilton, an American woman, has sung Lead Kindly Light to 60,000 listeners at night. The glowing display featured a white light seen far beyond the others as red lights faded, giving the performance a striking opening.
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