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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1916
Page
6
Encampment Lodge No 19 of A F and A M meets Wednesdays at 8 o clock in the Masonic hall Visitors invited W M EnGiesart W M C Burke Secretary.
Encampment Chapter No 17 meets the second Tuesday evening monthly in Masonic hall with Mae Ferry W M and E E Sproat secretary inviting visitors. Platte Valley Lodge No 341 O O F meets Saturdays at I O O F hall with E B Watck N G and Englemart secretary. Encampment Circle No 510 Women of Woodcraft meets first Thursday afternoon monthly led by Mary C Heaton G N Grace Bagick clerk. Royal Neighbors Sunshine Camp No 3064 meets second Thursday monthly led by Mary A Wirth Oracle Jennie Hora recorder.
Church directory lists Presbyterian and St James services and Sunday School times. Rev R R Marquis Pastor at Presbyterian site. St James offers morning service and sermon, winter use of rear room, Wa Haupt in charge. Everyone invited.
Daily southbound service from Walcott to Sarsiggs and Encampment with intermediate stops. Train departs Walcott at 10:30 am and arrives Encampment at 11:55 am before continuing.
Local items recount moves and visits by residents and visitors to Encampment. People from Cow Creek, Denver, Laramie, and Saratoga are noted arriving or passing through. Barbers, ice storage, stock shows, horses, cattle, and a fish fry planning thread through daily life with notices of land business, health, marriages, and local rules.
French Notes recount visits to the Sanger and Healey ranches with Mr Forney laid up by neuralgia Chas Sanger and Rowdy McCormick haul poles from three feet of snow. Guests from Brush Creek and New York City share a six o clock dinner, music and games with the Healey family. An Indian war dance ends the night with Sage Brush band providing music.
More snow fell Monday and Tuesday. A 14 or 15 year old boy sought to learn the printer's trade and could work before and after school this winter. Encampment Record notes Jim Dettinger attended lodge here last Saturday night and stated he would traverse snow drifts higher than his horse's back coming from his ranch. Last Sunday was sunny with the thermometer at zero most of the day. Town folks enjoyed sleighing and snowshoeing. Charlie Sahoonover, in town nearly a week, left Tuesday for Denver and then Steamboat Springs to reach Columbine by stage, due to heavy snow making passage via local routes impossible.
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