Local and Personal Items From Encampment Area
Local notes list residents and visitors: W Nicol in Cheyenne for Frontier show. Mrs RM Boyd and daughters from Beaver Creek. Miss Dolly Hopka of Rawlins visiting parents. Minnie Corum and boys from their homestead east of town. Iver Strand and the Little family on the west homestead. E S Walek from Calf Creek for J O OF installation. J A Robinson of Kokomo Indiana visiting property interests and owning the P KH Davis ranch. R H Pember and wife from Trenton Nebraska on fishing trip. Mrs James Blackhall recovering at Encampment. Bert Rose from Beaver Creek reporting a good crop on his dry farm. Ira O Wolford sold the Encampment dairy to Charlie Hunter who will move stock and ship cream. Harlan Nickell and Eleanor Clough wed in Walden, Colorado, returning to Encampment. Joe and Wil Hunter driving new Fords. Royce and Earl Boyd briefly in Laramie for enlistment exams but returned after failing due to weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira
Wolford
Charlie Hunter
Drafted Men May Yet Join National Guard
One hundred Wyoming drafted men may still join the Wyoming National Guard as volunteers, per Cheyenne officers, with a week likely before official notification. Major Cavender says those drafted will fill existing company ranks. after notice, drafted men cannot enlist elsewhere. Wyoming press praises national defense efforts and pledges united support to the administration in the war against Germany.
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Wyoming
Wyoming National Guard
National Muard
Cheyenne
Cavender
National Guard
Wyoming Tribune
State Council For National Defense
Las
Wyoming Press Association
United
Union
Germany
United States
To Red Cross Subscribers
Monthly subscribers to the Red Cross War Fund are requested to bring or send in their July subscription at once to Dr. W. C. Burke, Treasurer. If you have your card, bring or send it so due credit may be entered upon it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross War Fund
W. C. Burke
Carbon County Men Drafted for U S Service in 214 Batch
Two hundred fourteen Carbon County men were drafted for U S service last Monday. Ten from Encampment, including Morgy Johnston Fred Nickell Ellsworth Wolford and others, were listed. The Wyoming Tribune detailed several county draftees with numbers and hometowns, plus Rawlins residents Rose Harold Alcorn editor and Leslie Cleo Stallings editor of local papers among those drafted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Carbon County
United States Service
Morgy Johnston
Fred Nickell
Ellsworth Wolford
John Delaney
Dave Bashore
Carl Ashley
Claud Thompson
Wilbur Toothaker
Alfred Mainer
Ed. Francis
Wyoming Tribune
Morgen Lynch Johnston
Riverside
Arthur Alexander Kincaid
Saratoga
Lonlinned William J. Mannahan
Weed William Holeck
Richard Angus Inland
Marl Dewindt Penn
Hvun Paul Howard
Swanlown
Robert Melberin Cattier
Peter Andrew Nelsos
Viiu.k
Ros Oe
Harold Alcorn
The
Ladies' Guild Meeting at Mrs Marr Home
The St James guild met at the home of Mrs James Marr on Wednesday afternoon July 1s. After a successful business meeting the hostess served a delightful luncheon. Those present included Mesdames Hopky Parkison Tennant Kuuteman Baker Wirth Rhoades Crout Sutthes Carver and visitors Mesdames Evans Weston Niford plus the hostess Mrs Purr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James Guild
James Marr
Mesdames Hopky
Parkison
Tennant
Kuuteman
Baker
County News Skim Lets Readers Catch Rovers and Visits
County Correspondence recounts a week of social calls and travel. Howard Larkin, Charles Hayden, Bert Rose, Mrs. Metcalf, and many local families are listed with Sunday school attendance, trips to Rawlins, Encampment visits, lodge openings, and a car breakdown tale on a pushy road.
Jay Boy’s Body Found Near Platte River
The body of 12 year old George Day, who drowned with his father and Garland Gross on June 17 in the Platte River, was recovered last Saturday at the same spot. His head was under a cottonwood root, body exposed on the bank, and he was badly decompose. Interment followed Sunday at Saratoga Cemetery with Rev. C. W. Clough presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Day
Robert A. Day
Isin
Garland Gross
Platte River
Sar Toga
C. W. Clough
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. Nicol
Rm, Boyd
Alice
Lockie
Beaver Creek
Dolly Hopka
Minnie Corum
Mrs. Iver Strand
E. S. Walek
Calf Creek
J. O. OF
J. A. Robinson
Kokomo
Idiana
Mr. Robinson
P. KH. Davis
R.H. Pember
Trenton
Nebraska
George Eberhart
James Blackhall
Bert Rose
Beaver
Bert
Harlan Nickell
Eleanor Clough
Walden
Colorado
K. P. Nickell
O. W. Clough
Encampment
Joe
Wil Hunter
Laramie
Royce
Earl Boyd
Uncle Sam
Aviation Corps
Earl
Navy
Wyoming Press
Red Cross
Paul Sandin Pilon
Eneampment
James Harry Canary
John William Delaney
George H. Peck
Orlon
Ladies’ Guild
Beaver Creek News
Howard Larkin
Charles Hayden
Franci Stone
J. F. Metcalf
Mrs. Clough
Eleanor
Sam Fingerley
Mrs. Hayden
Mrs. Metcalf
Ruth
Fred Cummings
Fort Collins
Foothaker Ranch
California
Oregon
Wo Angelen
Walcott News
Walcott
Karl Stevens
Kirby Austin
Hunter
Martin
Jay
Walcett
Rawlies
Andy Nelson
Nate Doggett
Ralph Campbell
Medicine Low Lodge
Brush Creek
Wm. Stewart
C. A. Cook
Jiormerly
S.E
U. P
Stewart
Earl Stevens
S$. M. Trimmer
Medicine Bow Lodge
Overland
Jay Boy
Englemart’s
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