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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
4
Obscure OCR snippet outlines newspaper notice terms for second class mail, rates and deadlines. Mentions Encampment Wyoming and local advertising guidelines, display rates, deadlines, and payment conditions. The fragment lacks clear events or individuals to identify beyond place and service.
The bank announces a Christmas Club requiring a dime entrance, a few cents weekly deposit, with the third week noted. a rough guess suggests a fifty week rate around 127 dollars and 50 cents. The Cookeville Register notes a loop Year dance and supper in Cookeville with ladies and partners invited, a dollar for dancing, and 0 cents per plate for supper.
Sunday evening services continue with a 7 30 sermon titled Go Forward and a 6 45 Christian Endeavor service. Last Sunday’s Sunday school offering for Wheatland's children's home totaled 3 50. Hosts and guests share Christmas dinners and gatherings at numerous homes. The Woman's Magazine Club and Ladies Aid meet in early January as residents look to the new year and local news in the Record.
In Los Angeles on December 14 a unique funeral procession carried Jim Kidd to Salt Lake station en route to Cheyenne. Doug Fairbanks Al Jennings rode behind the hearse drawn by horses, followed by a battered stage coach pallbearers and about a hundred cowboys and cowgirls employed in motion pictures. Kidd, famed broncho buster and friend of Buffalo Bill, died a week earlier. at the station his lariat bridle and six-shooter accompanied the casket.
Cheyenne Wyoming December 18 A report by state geologist L W Trumbull now before Governor Kendrick condemns federal policy of withdrawing oil and gas lands from entry The interior department keeps promising changes while imposing segregations upon promising territories forcing secrecy among operators and delaying potential bulletins by state officials
In New York on December 19, a Smithsonian scientist and the American Museum of Natural History team head to the French Congo in Africa with gorilla skins and skeletons for mounting at the American Museum. Prof Richard Lynch Garner, a former Africa resident, will act as decoy using a twenty word ape vocabulary to lure gorillas. The party sails aboard the steamship Chicago to collect specimens for the exhibit.
In Hutchinson Kansas Judge R P Wilson reduced an existing $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 age of the defendant influenced the decision.
The annual report by Henry Graves, chief of the forest service, shows that over eight million acres were removed from national forests and more than 1100 tracts opened for homestead entry in the last fiscal year. It stresses permanent land classification to determine lands retained by the government versus those available for settlement and highlights a policy of considering future consequences in timber sales.
The document discusses fire protection to preserve timber, encourage young growth, and promote natural reproduction on damaged lands. It highlights grazing, government-private land consolidation, and land exchanges for national forests, plus road construction and eastern forest expansion under Weeks Law. It also includes a Notice for Publication for William S. Kuykendall’s homestead claim in Wyoming with witnesses listed.
For sale or trade one Remington typewriter wood bargain if you need a typewriter Record Office If your mortgage is due or if you need money at the right rate of interest We can Accommodate you Stallings Realty Company It is reported that one of the worst storms on record swept the country near Walcott and vicinity which was the cause of the U P and S and EB being snow bound The outgoing passengers on the S and who left there on Tuesday were transferred from Overland to Walcott horseback on sleds and any way available
Lodge directories list Encampment Lodge No. 19 A F and A M meeting first and third Wednesdays in the Masonic hall with W M Excienartz and Secretary Burke. Encampment Chapter No. 17 C E 5 meets second Tuesdays in the Masonic hall with W M Freeny and Secretary Sproat. Platte Valley Lodge No. 341 O O F meets Saturdays at the I. O. O. F. hall with N G Fiswer and Secretary Livre. Women of Woodcraft Encampment Circle No. 510 meets first Thursdays with G N Heaton and Guncer M Baker. Royal Neighbors Sunshine Camp No. 5064 meets second Thursdays with Many A. Wintn and Recorder Hora.
Parsavrewian Cavech Services every Sunday at 8 PM Sunday School at 10 40 AM and Christian Endeavor at 7 PM Rev C W Cioven is the Pastor named in the notice.
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