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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
5
Lodge No. 19 A F and A M meets every Wednesday evening at 8 o clock in the Masonic hall. Visitors invited. Worshipful Master Exchemart and W C Burke, Secretary.
Encampment Kencampment Chapter No.17 meets second Tuesday evening monthly at Masonic hall with visitors invited. Platte Valley Lodge No. 341 meets Saturdays at I.L. hall. visiting brothers invited. Women of Woodcraft Encampment Circle No. 510 meets first Thursday afternoon. Royal Neighbors Sunshine Camp No. 364 meets second Thursday of each month.
Pressuretran Church hosts Sunday evening services at 8 o clock with Sunday School at 3 and Christian Endeavor at 7. Rev R R Marquis is pastor. St Jamis Couxcu offers Sunday services at 11 and 1 am with sermon at 11 am. Wat Hauvs presides. winter services in reading room.
Local brief listing residents visiting from various ranches and towns across Cow Creek Beaver Creek and nearby areas. Mentions include Ira Casteel Harry Pantie Jack Finch Frank Jones Dad Propst Len Muston and many others with routine visits and weekend trips. Notice prohibits hunting shooting or trespassing on Canyon ranch holdings controlled by Wilcox and Son Teff.
Walcott residents welcomed visitors including Judge Aukland and travelers J G Dettinger and Henry Fiohr en route to Rawlins. The 8 E passenger train was due at 5 30 but arrived around 1 30 Monday morning. Della and Laura Dinger returned from Fort Steele via Saratoga after visiting friends. A dance last Saturday drew a large Rawlins crowd with music from Rawlins orchestra. Ed Woods now lodges with Earl Brown and Bill Stewart, showing weight gain and hair growth.
Snow and cold weather fill the week as Miss Pearl Jenkins and Miss Hattie Tilton visit Brush Creek. Frederick Baynton travels from Los Angeles to the Healey brothers. cattle move to Conness ranch for winter feed. A Sanger ranch gathering includes fishing and dancing with many neighbors. Frank Schoonmaker skis twelve miles for mail. The community notes a mail order subscription, a desert claim proof, and a Lyceum lecture set for February 15 at city hall with tickets at Londior's drug store.
Encampment Wyoming on Monday February 7 1916 the town council met at E C Rhoades barber shop with Mayor Ed H Parkison presiding. The January 3 minutes and the treasurer’s report were approved. Licenses and credits for Mr Baker were discussed and approved for four months plus a difference credit of 322.35. Various bills for snow shoveling coal medicine salaries and city expenses were read and allowed totaling 147.55. The council adjourned.
Department of the Interior notice states Alfred Williamson of Encampment Wyoming has filed for a five year proof to establish his homestead claim on the lands described in sections 25 and 26 township 15 north range 84 west with the 6th principal meridian. The hearing before U S Commissioner James R Little will be held March 16 1916 in Encampment. Witnesses include John J Williams Harry Wirth Charlce T Fair and John Wambaker all of Encampment Wyoming. WILL Rew Register.
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