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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1912
Page
16
The State Federation of Women’s Clubs holds a Cheyenne venue in October with committees preparing for the convention. Fellow members gather for a social at Mrs. F. H. Vaughan’s home and attend a series of club meetings at several local groups.
In church circle news the Congregational Sunday school primary department hosts a 2:30 to 5 pm picnic at City Park this afternoon inviting all its children. A large delegation of nearly fifty delegates from Wyoming will attend the Baptist state convention in Cheyenne September 24 through 27 with home hospitality and social events planned. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will resume activities.
The auto polo event features drivers C.F. Jackson and Walter Sterling delivering nonstop action from start to finish. Spectators crowd the streets, eager to see the daring maneuvers of the polo cars today and Sunday.
Mr Westgaard and Mrs Westcord prepared for 1915 overland travel aiming to map an official transcontinental route via Wyoming Utah and Nevada. They planned tours Minneapolis to Seattle and New York to San Francisco with stops in Fort Collins Longmont Loveland as supportive meetings. They depart for Oni and expect New York City arrival by Oct 4 barring accidents.
The War Department plans a multi mile track expansion at Fort Russell to connect government lines with the Union Pacific system. Estimated cost near 40000 dollars, bids to be advertised within days. Government seeks ownership of tracks to avoid rail charges and improve troop movements and logistics.
The Big Horn County Pair runs September 17 to 20 with an alfalfa palace display and baled hay ready for shipment to the state fair in Douglas. A strong premium list and special prizes totaling hundreds of dollars entice producers, while daily airship demonstrations by Glenn Curtiss add spectacle.
Edwin Hawkins left eighteen houses to his eighteen oldest tenants after his death. Fifteen families were made owners of homes they had rented for years. The properties were valued between two and three thousand dollars each.
Petitions were filed with the secretary of state today nominating a full state progressive ticket for the November election. The slate will appear on the official ballot under the name Roosevelt Ticket.
An unsettling moment unfolds at the dining table as a guest mutters about sharing food, prompting astonished reaction from others and revealing underlying strain among the guests. The scene hints at family or household conflict and social pressure in a tense domestic setting.
A. C. Dalley, a Pennsylvania oil operator, has leased about 10 000 acres along the Big Laramie river near Laramie Wyoming and will start development work at once. He believes the valley contains abundant oil and plans extensive drilling despite prior failures in the area.
Stater Stepline known as the factory workers’ good angel was burned to death after striking a match to a gas jet in a Bayonne New Jersey convent room. She ran to the yard with flames clothing her, knelt in prayer, and died minutes later after rescuers reached the scene.
The U S navy submarine F-1 reportedly reached a depth of 283 feet near Point Diablo in San Francisco Bay and held that depth for ten minutes while cruising at six knots before surfacing gently.
Paris a heated clash erupts after a dinner at the Hotel Royal when Ernest Schiff of New York and Captain Wood son of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood clash over a woman. Wood strikes Schiff, prompting talk of a duel.
Washington holds primary elections in all counties to nominate delegates for the state progressive convention to be held September 10 in Seattle. Nominations must be ratified at the convention under state law.
The Richmond Washington series starts tomorrow at American League Park Washington with a doubleheader. A second doubleheader is planned next week in Richmond. If a third game is needed a joint committee will set details.
A Fort Collins girl 19 enticed by soldier Wilbur Westlake of Battery B Fourth Field Artillery was found with a young man posing as her husband in a Cheyenne rooming house. Westlake faced a city court, fined 50 dollars and sentenced to sixty days in jail. The girl was released. her mother reported the disappearance.
Four people died when a trolley car derailed at Marble quarry in Glenwood Springs Colorado. Three men and a girl were killed and another man and girl were injured as the car jumped the track and struck a retaining wall along the Crystal River.
Salt Lake City Utah September six two men R L Booth and Simeon Hazalton were killed and William McGinnis seriously injured when the automobile they rode in collided head on with an interurban street car two miles south of the city tonight.
Fifty waiters and cooks strike at the Hotel Georgian in Park Square halting dining room service. Leaders warn strikes will spread to three more city hotels unless agreements are reached, demanding a $5 raise for waiters and shorter hours for all workers.
Mme Heck the gifted clairvoyant located at 322 E 19th St offers readings from 10 am to 8 pm weekdays and Sundays 10 to 5. Prominent Cheyenne clients report locating lost papers uniting estranged couples and renewing engagements.
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