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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
5
Jake Bashore suffered a broken leg above the ankle while hauling a 4500 pound hay load at the Al Anderson ranch. Dr. Burke set the fracture and Jake rests, with recovery time ahead.
Masons Encampment Lodge No 19 elected officers at a regular meeting on Wednesday evening. The initiatory degree was conferred on James E. Anderson. Officers elected include J It Rollman W M Byron Fillon 3 W A Sproat J W D F Crout treasurer W GO Burke secretary. Installation and third degree work set for December 17.
J J Wirth and sons Will and Harry with Dick Post return from Charter Oak where they have a wood contract. Storm forces them to turn back at Terwilliger's lane. They resume Tuesday but lose their way, wandering in the blizzard. Harry has a frozen face and the father a badly frozen heel from three weeks ago.
The Encampment area endures unprecedented cold with records of zero and below, wind snarling travel. Early week temps dipped to 13 below zero, with Monday night reaching 26 below as heavy snow blankets the country and snowshoes become the only practical means of movement.
Mr and Mrs Chas Terwilliger of Cow Creek celebrate the birth of a baby girl on Monday December 1. All involved are doing well though the father is slowly recovering.
The Saratoga Valley Stock Growers Association met in Encampment after a stormy week. Attendees from Saratoga joined a supper at the Bohn hotel and a city hall business session led by Vice President Andy Dahl. A late-night dance followed with music by R I Martin Raymond Ault and Mrs. Allen. Encampment ladies guild served a midnight lunch.
George O. Baker filed a 320 acre homestead east of town and just proved up his claim by three years of residence. He demonstrated dry land crops including Geliu corn feterita kafir corn and Grimm's dry land alfalfa thriving without irrigation. Other locals report successful dry farming of potatoes millet and winter rye on upland plots.
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