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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
4
Advertising rates listed include Display per column inch at 25 cents per week with minimum charge two cents and local readers per line per week with minimum charge twenty cents. Obituaries banks and all profitable notices charged at regular local reader rates. Cash with copy. Copy for display ads due by Wednesday for current issue. local readers by Wednesday afternoon. Ads run until discontinued.
The Lusk Herald is among the first newspapers to publish this year’s political notices announcing primaries. The paper notes its early availability and urges readers to review candidate information and election dates.
This week KH. Louke completed a sale of an Overland automobile to buyers named Chay and Torwilliger. The transaction details are limited in the fragment, but the deal is documented as a straightforward private sale. The names indicate two individual purchasers.
The Carbon County Journal calls for a swift push to attract dry farmers to Carbon county citing rapid land uptake in eastern Wyoming. It highlights 320-acre homesteads, potential tax gains, and successful dry farming in Laramie, Platte and Goshen counties as a model, urging applicants to use enlarged homestead acts and seek land near Rawlins.
A report from the Grand Encampment district notes Jos Riedl and John Svoda striking a rich ore vein two miles from the Ferris Haggerty mine. The lead, three feet wide, carries native copper and gold values up to 150 per ton, with gold around 30 per ton. The Charter Oak mine is hailed as the district’s richest producer, with a deep 250 foot vein of low grade ore that could pay once local treatment is available.
Last Saturday night a major mixup occurred at city hall featuring Charley Chaplin in a four reel comedy The Mixup This widely shown film drew theater crowds across the east and west A two reel drama accompanied it Next Saturday offers a three reel drama a one reel drama and two one reel comedies Also a subscription payment appeal and reminder to renew Record subscriptions are billed monthly and payment is requested promptly.
Miss Ruth Cornell spends the summer at Beaver Creek. Sunday school had good attendance last Sunday. Clyde Lowrey works at the Toothaker ranch for the season. A Beaver Creek group visited town Friday night. Miss Alice Toothaker stays in Rawlins this week and will visit Rev. Frank Boyve and Mr and Mrs Boyve in that city.
French notes show spring weather and busy schedules with visits to Saratoga by Fred H Healey and Maurice Healey family gatherings at Walker and Cook ranches. Easter events feature K H Leake with a new Overland Six, while land business brings My Warrell and Nelson from French Creek. A city caucus nominates W M Englehart for mayor and Gooherhart with D F Crout for council.
The ladies' aid society will meet in the Presbyterian reading room on Wednesday May 8. A good attendance is desired. Easter Sunday exercises by the Sunday school were enjoyed by a good sized audience. The Christian Endeavor service was well attended and a good meeting held. The next Sunday topic is Using Sunday for This World and the Next, with preaching at 8 p.m. A cordial invitation extends to all.
At a church meeting in the reading room the consensus favored morning services and noted no evening service due to the Presbyterian congregation welcoming a new pastor. Sunday school meets at 4 pm and a sermon with baptism at 5 pm next Sunday. Home baptisms offered on weekdays for country families. Wa, H, Haven.
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