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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
1
Nelson Brothers closed the deal for the Carl Timmreck meat business and now operate at the old place. Alterations have expanded the shop and more room is provided for customers. The brothers plan to offer a full supply of fresh and cured meats.
P. J. Quealy of Kemmerer slipped on icy pavement and fractured his wrist. The injury is painful but not serious, and he is tending to business affairs.
Miss Francis Whiston, formerly confined to Kemmerer Hospital for pneumonia, returned to Cokeville yesterday. She is much improved and expects to resume her school duties for some time.
Elmo Haggerty stopped in Cokeville on the way to Salt Lake City where he will spend about three weeks receiving jaw treatment for a fracture from an accident a year ago. Errol Bagley returned to Cokeville after spending New Year’s in Kemmerer.
The Event of The Season at the Opera House on New Year’s night drew nearly all locals as guests. Mrs Lige Christenson won a prize dressed as an Indian Squaw with papoose while Chas Stershc wore a Chinaman outfit. The Firemen’s Ball is planned for next week and Elk’s Ball is set for February 22, hoped to rival the wool growers convention.
The Wyman Hotel closed at the start of the year and will likely stay shut through winter during the dull season. The scarcity and high price of coal is cited as a principal reason for the shutdown.
Curtis of Kemmerer repairs watches for Cocaine Cokeville Mere Co keeping time reliably.
Readable notes recount visitors and residents across Cokeville Geneva and Kemmerer from New Year’s through January. Mentions include Ivan Nichols, Mrs Collett, C Watt Brandon, Claus Kruger, Elmo Haggerty place work, Bear Lake church speakers, J EF Watt trips, Poca Tell optical visit, mask ball standout, measles cases, and many local moves and travels between towns and states.
South African agricultural societies and government officials discuss war effects on trade and new routes for exports. Committees study Cape Colony competitiveness with Argentine and Australian ranching, experiments test shipping goods to London, and efforts aim to standardize inputs to boost output while the war reshapes colonial markets.
The text notes the Nate Baptist and its relations to English separatists, detailing modern restorations of ancient duilierelon practices circa 16M and referencing older Baptist bodies such as the Arninivis founded by followers of Jolsuiyth, with ties to a General Baptist church in London 1611 and a Calvinistle or Parthealir church formed in London 1610.
Excerpts emphasize robust health as superior to other energy sources and warn against quackery and superstition. The piece argues general distrust of lentil remedies and calls for careful public guidance on physical health, noting few topics provoke more widespread concern.
The Kemmerer Camera reports about six measles cases in Cokeville with most mild. Arthur and Tressa Olson have recovered. Less and Nellie Olson have complications but improving. Lillian Stoffers was misidentified as measles with typhoid but had pneumonia after measles. About 99 percent can be up and active, suggesting no townwide outbreak.
Dr T N Roberts arrives from New York City this week to join Dr Campbell in Cokeville. Campbell has built a local practice and will be away about ten days visiting friends, leaving Roberts to manage the Cokeville office in his absence.
Thomas Blyth of Evanston Lyman Fargo of Pocatello and A D Hoskins of Kemmerer, directors of the Cokeville Mercantile Company, spent yesterday in Cokeville. They found the local store thriving and were well pleased with conditions in general.
Local publication from Mooseheart Illinois shows Kieth and Kenneth Hickman, sons of a barber who ran a shop here before his death, now listed among dependent children of Mooseheart members. Photos suggest the children are well provided for.
The readable lines reference the North River boundary and a contract boundary with the Dohiware, noting 94 cites and disposal dates. The fragment hints at a boundary survey between New York and Philadelphia areas but lacks coherent facts or a clear event.
A distorted OCR note describes artificial SHK derived from timber and wool pulp used mainly to evacuate to the amount of TWW000.00 pounds. It mentions utilization in tanumettive products like liners, awaters and hosiery.
A fragment quotes Kansas City Stu on limitations and wealth with phrases like after all in no evilwty be poor and Maybe pet but we poo man can af ford to hire a hunger to prove that It isn't. The context shows a jocular or satirical voice.
Fragmentary text references discipline, duty, and labor as divine law. The excerpt appears as moral guidance urging action and condemning indolence within a desertion context. Specific events, names, or locations are not present.
A terse verse fragment contrasts love and patriotism, naming Guy and Byron. The lines suggest a judgment that affection for country should outshine personal love.
Marshall G. Twiss infant son of Mr and Mrs Olsey Twigs died Tuesday afternoon after weeks of pneumonia. Funeral at Presbyterian church Tuesday at 2 pm attended by many mourners. The seven month old child was laid to rest as the family receives community sympathy and thanks to neighbors for assistance during illness and death.
O T Papworth visited Afton after Kemmerer commissioners meeting signaling the last meeting of the old board. Afton State Bank T R Roberts and Papworth plan a brick two story building with 98 foot frontage three storefronts bank meat market and a third space. Front brick from Salt Lake City while rest uses Star Valley produced materials.
A L Sweeney visited Kemmerer for New Year festivities and attended a dance at a local venue. Marge Fuller, recently in Sage for the holidays, plans to return there tomorrow. Db D Lynch, an Afton banker, passed through Cokeville en route to Kemmerer. Sublet item for sale and Alladee Wyman has been on the sick list this past week.
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