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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
8
Telegrams to State Director Frances A. Davis show Wyoming meeting its share of a $1,000,000 library drive. The state is asked to raise $8,750 and 32 frame libraries will be built in camps with 8000 to 10,000 books each. Books will reach base hospitals and troops abroad. Each library will be led by a trained librarian.
A set of new oil firms was registered yesterday at the secretary of state office including Brown Oil of Riverton with $80,000 capital Powers Oil of Cheyenne with $500,000 Wyoming THvide Oil of Casper with $600,000 and Red Rose Oil of Casper with $1,040,000. Directors for Powers Oil are John T Powers Charles L Kirk Joseph J Clerk Arch Bean and F. J. Mullen.
A German inventor has designed clasps that fold flat when shoestrings are threaded and tightened, replacing conventional eyelets and hooks on shore footwear. The device aims to simplify lacing while maintaining security and ease of use.
Dean Knight returns to Cheyenne after ten days away as chair of the state council of national defense. Notaries named William D. Snow and M. D. Helbrook. The Douglas Realty Company incorporated with $50,000 capital. D. W. Gill moves office to 1624 Capitol Avenue. Various ads list transfer lines, tax service, taxis, furniture, ranch services, and varnishing firms. The bee paragraph closes with general bee types.
Cheyenne plans an auto polo and racing event at Frontier Park October 10 and 11. A committee led by R B Davidson Dennis K Gash William R Lee and Charles L Beatty will organize ten or more racing cars plus six polo cars. Events feature small cars with drivers and polo players, with mechanics ready for fresh cars if needed.
A Shu bert Fur Company display from Kansas City is shown at Gash and Pilon. Hal Brent, vice president, oversees the exhibit. A seal coat sold to Mrs. E. H. Morgan for 1000 dollars. Coats range from 175 to 1000 dollars with other furs offered at surprisingly reasonable prices.
Police seize champagne gin port California wine blackberry brandy whisky and beer from a 915 West Eighteenth street house after a complaint of beer sales to a negro woman. Dore Hope and Bessica McDowell among those arrested. A second bootlegging arrest follows at Blatz saloon where a soldier buyer was jailed. U S marshal weighs license revocation for selling liquor to a soldier.
Pete Roberts, identified by a large facial wart, was arrested in Cheyenne by Deputy Sheriff Ed Schoel and officers for allegedly looting a Casper rooming house. Accompanied by Ed Dubuque and Arthur Brown, the trio traveled in a roadster with a trunk of over $100 in merchandise. Sheriff Patton took Roberts back to Casper for burglary trial.
Representatives of United States Steel vice president Mitchell visited Powder River area with twenty-two rigs drilling rapidly toward depth. Duluth capital, with large crews, plans to acquire extensive Powder River acreage while also pursuing Salt Creek and Big Muddy fields. Salt Lake investors inspect Casper Embar holdings as Salt Lake arrivals excite over the region's potential production.
Funeral service for R H Scott to be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Masonic temple with body lying in state from 11 o'clock in the forenoon. Interment will be in the Masonic ground at Lakeview cemetery.
Chicago September 27. A resolution condemning Senator LaFollette as an unfaithful disloyal official unworthy to represent loyal Americans was adopted at a National Security League meeting where Colonel Roosevelt spoke.
Washington announces a virtual embargo on export of selected foodstuffs and feeds. The action aims to control supplies and prices while the government reviews agricultural trade policy and market impact.
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