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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
1
Encampment district notes describe social visits by Mayor Englehart and others, moving of town buildings to a ranch, upcoming fishing season opening March 15, and local residents arriving from La Salle and Denver. Produce market reports, farming preparations, and land clearing progress are also reported with names and locations in the Encampment region.
The Echo announces a June special development edition with 10 000 copies to showcase opportunities in Carbon county communities. It seeks able local agents in each town and promises substantial pay for handling material via mail solicitation. Also noted are updates on Mr and Mrs Ralph Polemus, Billy Mayne, and mining plans, with rough weather delaying travel as Loft Hiwood reports.
Clarence Hunter of Madrid Iowa, formerly of Encampment, has been appointed to West Point through Congressman Dickinson. The Madrid Register-News notes his high school success, football and basketball letters, and the town’s pride in his achievement, with the physical exam slated at Camp Dodge next month before June reporting.
District engineer R V Newcomb of Rock Springs and a crew of highway engineers arrived with equipment to survey the Saratoga to Walcott route. The team will map south to Midway, then north to Encampment, with Walcott as headquarters, weather permitting. Meanwhile De Wy Bingham and family split time between Beaver Creek ranch and Casper, and Gilbert couple move into Ullimner residence, renovating and furnishing the home.
Miss Pearl Bowers celebrated her 18th birthday with a large Friday night party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bowers. Guests included Tilton Corlett Boyd Ferry and many others. music and lunch were featured and gifts were given.
The piece presents the Country Weekly as a home centered, inclusive narrator serving as chronicler of birth, love, and death, linking readers to community life, markets, and commerce. It notes Roy Gould and family visiting Encampment to see Mrs Gould’s brother Krank Boyd and family.
Items from the old files include Mike Kalgar resuming shaft sinking on the Evening Star on February 10, and Mary A. Bohn improving the Bohn hotel during spring cleaning. Trout season opens after repeal of the fish law. Encampment fishermen report good catches as snow melts and Walcott stage returns to wheels. Dissolution of Smith & Tillou Encampment Mercantile Co. announced with T. R. Smith remaining in possession. An old timers dance for those landed before 1894 drew crowds March 1–2. Mrs BH of Beaver wreck hosted by Mrs J R Bowers for several days.
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