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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1920
Page
1
On November 1 a circular announced a 20 percent discount for renewals or new Echo subscriptions if received before November 25. Pay $2.00 to credit one year ahead from expiration. if in arrears, clear them at $2.00 per year plus $2.00 for one year in advance from December 1. CASH ONLY. after November 25 price rises to $2.50.
Encampment Stores devotes its ad space to Flavo flour made from home grown wheat in Saratoga. The Echo planned its own piece but shelved it after the ad, urging locals in southern Carbon county to use Flavo to boost regional grain markets and Saratoga mill capacity.
A 160 acre ranch on Cotton Creek one and a half miles east of town is for sale with farming tools implements six pure bred milk cows and heifers four work horses one two year old colt and one suckling colt wagons harness and related items. Price 3000 for all. Enquire at Echo office.
Crop data show favorable September and October weather, with corn yield averaging 24 bushels per acre and United States yield at 30.9. Wyoming reports minor crops like flaxseed, clover seed, and field peas, with sugar beets at 106 percent condition and total Wyoming production near 173000 tons.
Notice warns against shooting or fishing on Wig Ranch owned by W E Tivroxn and Klave Blour. The text mentions subscription rates and a person named Flohr living on an Anderson ranch, visiting Beha office to add his name to a subscription list at a special rate.
Bakers may win Flavo flour prizes for the best loaf baked with Flavo flour. First prize is forty eight pounds, second prize twenty four pounds. Judging occurs at Encampment Stores on Saturday November 27.
W C Condict brought a 300 pound cinnamon bear to town last Saturday. He killed the animal in the mountains southeast of his home on Brush creek a day or two earlier. The bear was an old one thought to have killed many young stock. Condict will have the pelt mounted due to its excellent fur quality.
This finishes the tenth week of school. The school observed November 11 by having a holiday. Harry Allison Tourtelot visited in the school Friday afternoon. Attendance has been unusually good in both rooms for the past week. Some entries mention Viavo Flour and Eucamp ment Slaves company. Jones left Saturday for Queenue to appear in federal court as witnesses in the Stallings case. Armistice Day dance at city hall by the firemen was well attended and enjoyable. Mosses Norn and Vineh of the Eneanpment valley furnished the music.
Local notes show Encampment Stores company pushing Flavo Flour with prices at 6.75 per hundred and 3.40 for forty eights. Numerous residents including Frank J. Lordier Harry Neis wender and Emery Miller are listed visiting, trading, or traveling to Cheyenne Rawlins and Denver for business.
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