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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
11
The readable fragments show publication details for a Wyoming paper including post office notice text, advertising rate hints, and misc classified items. It references encampment Wy, regulatory acts, display ad pricing, deadlines, and general office procedures for notices and payments.
Th irst National Bank of Rawlins introduces a Christmas Club with a dime entrance fee and weekly deposits. If continued for fifty weeks at the stated rate, a rough guess suggests a total around 127 dollars and 50 cents. Cookeville Register notes a loop Year dance and supper announced in Cookeville with ladies to arrive with partners and pay a dollar for dancing plus 0.50 per plate.
The town announced a 7 30 p m sermon Go Forward and a 6 45 p m Christian Endeavor service. Sunday school offerings for a Wheatland children’s home totaled 3 50. Mrs Blackhall and son hosted Christmas dinner with several families attending. Numerous households hosted Christmas Day meals and visitors, with club meetings and guest visits planned into January.
A unique funeral march escorted Jim Kidd famed cow boy and Buffalo Bill ally from First Methodist Church to Salt Lake station. Douglas Fairbanks Al Jennings rode beside the hearse drawn by horses. Cowboys and cowgirls in motion pictures followed as Kidd’s lariat bridle and six shooter accompanied his casket in a wooden box. No service was held at the station.
Cheyenne Wyoming December 18 State geologist L W Trumbull reports to Governor Kendrick condemning federal withdrawal from entry lands with oil and gas. The interior department keeps a segregation policy hindering exploration and press access, prompting delayed data publication by the state geologist.
A Smithsonian and American Museum team, with professor Richard Lynch Garner acting as a decoy, sails from New York aboard the steamship Chicago to the French Congo in Africa to obtain gorilla skins and skeletons for mounting at the American Museum. Garner studied ape language for seven years in Africa and speaks a twenty-word vocabulary.
In Hutchinson Kansas on December 19 Judge R P Wilson commuted a $100 fine for 81 year old G T Empey to a bath in water after raiders found eighteen quarts of whiskey in his home.
The annual report by Henry Graves details that over eight million acres were eliminated from national forests last year while more than 1100 tracts became available for homestead entry. It emphasizes permanence of the forest system and stresses defining lands to be retained versus those open to agricultural settlement.
A federal report emphasizes protecting forests by preserving young growth and promoting natural regeneration, aided by grazing and public investment. It details land exchanges in multiple states, road funding, eastern forest expansion, and Weeks Law land purchases to ensure permanence of forest lands. A notice from Cheyenne, Wyoming, lists Kuykendall’s 1913 homestead claim in Rawlins with final proof set for January 5.
For sale or trade one Remington typewriter and wood bargain are offered by Stallings Realty Company. It mentions mortgage needs and fast financing options. A severe storm near Walcott left the country snowbound, stranding U P and S and EB trains and routing passengers by horseback or sled from Overland to Walcott.
Lodge Directory lists Encampment Lodge No. 19 A F and A M meets first and third Wednesdays in Masonic hall Visitors welcome. Encampment Chapter No 17 C E 5 meets second Tuesday in Masonic hall. Platte Valley Lodge No 341 O O FP meets every Saturday at O O F hall. Women of Woodcraft Encampment Circle No 510 meets first Thursday afternoon. Royal Neighbors Sunshine Camp No 5064 meets second Thursday each month. Visiting members invited to attend.
Parsavrewian Cavech Services every Sunday evening at 8 00 o clock Sunday School every Sunday forenoon at 10 40 Christian Endeavor every Sunday evening at 7 00 Reverend C W Cioven is the pastor.
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