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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1921
Page
9
A seven act picture and dance event is booked for next Saturday night titled Fair and Warmer starring May Allison. The comedy farce by Avery Hopwood has drawn wild praise in New York and features cocktails and morning-after scenes noted for both delicacy and punch.
The forest rangers record varying snow depths in the mountains at three scales with readings near 316 to 321 inches. While valleys show no snow, mountain areas remain snowbound and under measurement. Local figures include A A Wolford in Encampment on Beaver Creek and W R Boyd finalizing proof on a 640 acre grazing homestead. U S Commissioner W M Englehart presiding.
The 1920 income tax rules affect returns for that year. Exemptions vary by year end status and family events, with $200 per new baby and $1 000 for widows, widowers, or single filers. Married couples living together may claim $2 000. single or separated taxpayers get $1 000. Major earners with $1 000 or $7 000 thresholds must file and pay, and returns are due by midnight March 15, 1921 to the Collector of Internal Revenue.
A new cash only self serve grocery store opens Monday in Laramie. Mrs. Ashley will manage the Pyramid garage building at Third and Custer streets with no home deliveries, customers serving themselves.
Five room house on two lots with city water inside and in yard and multiple outbuildings. Barns fenced. adjoining lots available. Will accept milch cows or a cheap Ford in trade. Inquire at the Echo office.
A. D. Cook reports Wyoming animals on January 1 1921 show declines in horses cattle sheep and swine from year earlier with lower prices across the board United States totals and state comparisons are provided for horses mules cattle milch cows sheep and swine reflecting softer demand and earnings for farmers and ranchers.
Section 36 township 15 range 85 offers pasture land six miles west of town. Fencing possible by owner this year or a fencing deal with user. Timber nearby aids fencing. mentions James R. Livrce and M. B. McKillip of Saratoga in Engampment on land business last Wednesday.
In 1917 little girls formed My America League and sent Christmas boxes to soldiers. A 1921 letter from General Pershing thanks Mrs Ball for the gifts and apologizes for the delayed acknowledgment. The article notes Mrs Ball’s Encampment work and the delayed recognition.
The census director reports preliminary figures for Wyoming irrigation. Total state enterprises acreage rose from 2,284,298 in 1910 to 2,664,471 in 1920. Irrigated acreage in 1919 reached 1,209,527, up from 1,133,302 in 1909. Carbon county shows declines in both enterprise acreage and irrigated area over the same period.
Advert says eight or ten head of first class milk cows wanted. Leave a list of available animals at the Echo office.
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