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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
3
The Encampment Record from En campment Wyoming outlines advertising rates and deadlines while urging civic action and park planning. It emphasizes community improvements, such as lighting, loop roads for tourists, and establishing public parks with flowers and decorations to attract visitors and enhance town life.
A mixed, aphoristic collage critiques commercial clubs civic growth and personal virtue. It contrasts wasteful time with honesty, notes syndromic social mores, and comments on generosity, diligence, and the costs of inaction amid a town’s progressive instincts.
The speaker laments lack of civic pride and urges residents to plant shade trees and flowers. By beautifying homes, they can enhance the town’s charm and raise property values, noting water flow and favorable climate as assets.
W N Toothaker was in town en route to Rawlins, with several residents visiting from Beaver Creek and Saratoga. Multiple locals including J J Wirth, George Peck, and Bert Rose were noted, along with court attendance by Art Ferry and Bill Stewart in Rawlins and business trips by others to Encampment and Rawlins. A death in Rawlins was reported, and national oil land policy discussions in Washington were noted, plus a House investigation resolution into newspaper subsidies.
Johnnie Magyar visited Mrs. W R Hunter on Sunday. W N Toothaker left for Rawlins last Friday to serve on a jury. Mrs. Mary Hayden and son Arthur visited the Toothaker ranch. Mary Miller and J Henry Isidler ground grain at the Anderson ranch last week. No church services were held on Beaver Creek last Sunday. Mr Clougi could not make the trip.
Metz children and Dee and Irene Hilliard were ill with colds last week. Mrs. W. T. Peryam and Mrs. George Justin were on the sick list. Alice Cunningham had a bad cold for a week. Chan Forney shared news of his mother’s serious illness in Dakota, and Pearl Madden, lately from Nevada, is visiting Mrs. Wall Garowth. Jimery Miller passed through Saturday night with his guiding outfit en route to camp, grinding grain for Mr. Parkison.
Hudson residents weigh four options for a municipal water system as voters debate construction, costs, and long term impact. A representative group examines the plan, with past elections casting doubt on issuance and local officials facing questions about feasibility.
Secretary today ordered further investigation of evidence that extensive land frauds are being attempted under the new stock raising homestead law. Investigations target claimants and cattle interests amid mounting concern in the Idaho legislature, with vigorous prosecution promised for fraudulent claims. The issue also notes local ads comparing store prices to a leading mail order house, urging residents to trade locally.
Local residents ask if the Record is reaching home readers and request prompt delivery. Community members emphasize timely hard copies for updates and civic notices.
The Lordier Drug Company touts a simple remedy named Aklerika that claims to relieve sour stomach, gas and constipation at once using one spoonful of buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients. It is presented as an appendix preventive.
F. M. Johnston of Howard, New Mexico, suffered a severe finger injury after leaping from a haystack in Newcastle Wyoming on February 13. He caught his ring on a pitch fork prong, tearing away the first finger joint.
Washington reports the United States can place 264 ships into service immediately, with eleven first line battleships, twenty-five second line battleships, armored cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other units. The fleet includes dreadnoughts like the Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and ships under construction exceed power, while personnel authorized reach 6,156 officers and 74,700 enlisted. A shortage of men to fully man the force is noted.
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