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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
1
This piece argues town newspapers benefit businesses and communities by delivering local news and enabling advertising. It emphasizes that sustaining a newspaper is a collective, affordable investment. without ads or subscribers the paper cannot operate, harming local commerce and civic life.
United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany and faces a war climate as the Housatonic sinks after a German submarine attack. News reports detail American naval mobilization, protected ports, and seizures of German ships as public alarm grows.
Union Pacific plans 2 480 000 dollars in state improvements this year with Iowa and Kansas receiving more than Wyoming and Utah while Nebraska and Colorado get less. Total running expenses and improvements reach about thirty two million dollars. Projects include rail fittings sidings industry tracts fuel and water stations block signals interlocking plants bridges trestles and grade crossing eliminations. Four million is allocated for double track.
Roosevelt vows to back Wilson and offers his services and four sons. He says he asked the war department to permit raising a volunteer army division under his command. Hughes urges all to stay with Wilson as London expects U S entry into the war.
Washington reports the United States led as buyer and seller in global commerce with a final 1916 total of 7.473 billion dollars. Officials say 1917 may exceed this peak, indicating continued growth in foreign trade.
Robert Henry True, son of State Engineer James B. True of Cheyenne, won third prize at a Denver Baby Show held last week. He competed against many toddlers aged 18 to 24 months, and his表现 was praised by the Tribune.
Wyoming will receive 122308 dollars from a ten million dollar federal fund allocated for rural post road construction. Colorado gets 167880, South Dakota 161802, and Montana 106574 as part of the same program.
On January 30 nine bills were passed by the senate and eleven by the house. Of the total number, about one eighth is represented. Most bills pass unanimously as party lines fade. A dry list bill was killed by the legislature with Carbon county voting against it. County division measures failed to pass. Governor Kendrick signed bills on irrigation districts justice court appeals notaries banks state flag state flower and married women estates.
A letter found in a pocket reveals one thousand women and girls were killed and many injured in the Dresden Arsenal blast on the 30th. It claims the German government suppresses the fact, enforces strict censorship in Saxony, and orders secrecy for all local and external communications.
Will Thomas returned from Denver and met Union Pacific general freight agent Charles Lane. Lane said Nebraska shippers west of Kearney would be refused cars for hay to eastern points and Wyoming shipments would be preferred. Cars will be furnished and shipments expedited to Wyoming to relieve feed shortages and keep prices reasonable.
Theodore Stanford sues W. J. Bell over residence on a land claim near Chugwater marking the 61st land office contest this month. Stanford, via C. A. Paige of Wheatland, says Bell fails to maintain home. Bell, with A. D. Walton, says Yeemen duties keep him away from home.
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