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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
8
Local market notes ripe tomatoes available now with Colorado champions suitable for table use and Elberta tomatoes from Oregon for preserving. Boxes priced around $1.20 to $1.35 depending on variety and market.
Fruits not very plentiful this season. Leave your orders and wall fill same on arrival of the fruit.
Vendors advertise produce including dill cucumbers gherkins peppers and Rocky Ford crates plus muskmelons watermelons and cabbage. Specials list dill weed white and green peppers melons onions and yellow onions with prices such as 1.25 per cwt and 25 cents per unit.
More than 200 Elks leave the Cheyenne home for Douglas amid a happy sendoff. The depot scene was crowded as couples watched Dinneen lead in a bizarre hat and the lodge members waved flags and cheered.
The Cheyenne Elks are listed for a bfg time in Dongeles according to the station’s reading.
Eighteenth Street and Capital Avenue saw a Fort Russell sergeant on a motorcycle collide with a delivery wagon. The rider blames the wagon driver for stopping and causing the crash. The motorcyclist escaped with minor injuries and torn clothing.
A compact note lists a model titled a00 7 pass enlisting touring cars with seating for seven and a capacity of five to twelve passengers. It reads as a catalog snippet showing a 5-170 variant.
Laramie County lists the second group of about fifty men forming forty percent of the draft quota. They depart September 19. It remains unclear if all fifty head to American Lake or how alternates are designated. The published list includes Rom Bullard Fred Feld Jesse James Carlyle Jose Arvell Russell Fraker Ephraim Halli Saly and others.
James Howell of Rawlings escaped from a jail where he was confined after a murder trial. Plans for a new state asylum wing to replace the damaged structure are on file with the state board of charities and reform. The rebuilt building will cost about $100,000. the destroyed portion was valued at $40,000.
The forty third annual assembly of the grand lodge of Masons opened in the Masonic temple Cheyenne with routine business after a welcome by Cheyenne lodge. About fifty visiting delegates from every lodge in the state toured Cheyenne by car and later joined Cheyenne lodge No 1 and Acatia lodge No 11 in exemplifying the first degree for visiting delegates.
A coroner's jury including George Kiet and William Vanderhoof failed to reach a verdict on the death of Patrick J. Delaney, the miner mortally wounded in a police patrol incident. Witnesses conflicted on a West Fifteenth Street fight timing, delaying conclusions as Burne remains detained and Delaney's body is sent to Philadelphia for burial.
A letter from William J. Keating reports Cheyenne soldiers arriving five strong at American Lake Washington on September 8 1917 assigned to Company G 362nd Infantry in the new national army. The party joined Wyoming Montana and Utah men and received two hours of drill with praise for railroad officials and transport service before noting quarters and electric light delays.
Early frosts and cold weather in the northern half of the country have damaged corn and slowed the maturation of wheat and other crops. The report notes notable effects in Washington area fields and broader northern regions.
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