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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
9
Encampment community leaders and business men met at the city hall to launch plans for the Fourth Annual Fish Fry on August 28 and 29. A temporary finance committee was formed and preparations are underway with early subscriptions already in place.
Charles Hayden owns a Ford car and hosted J R Rollman at an En campment on Wednesday. Hayden was a Sunday dinner guest at the Toothaker ranch. Nels Anderson and son Charlie are preparing a crop on Beaver creek. Mrs W N Toothaker returned from Rawlins after ten days and spent an afternoon with Mrs Clough. Jessie Lea Cunningham Alice Toothaker Emery Miller and Harry Anderson were guests at Adrian Wolford's Sunday for a sumptuous dinner.
Brush Creek locals Mr and Mrs John Yoakum were Saratoga visitors early in the week. Mr and Mrs W E Tilton returned from Denver after a week away. Miss Bessie Sites came back from Colorado where she spent the winter. Youngs, Tiltons, Condicts and Cooks attended the stockmen meeting and dance in Saratoga last Friday. W C Condict was elected vice president and Chas Young secretary. Mrs Geo Herring learned of her youngest brother Eugene Fleming’s death in Nevada. he had long lived in Encampment and Riverside and leaves a brother Dell Fleming of Encampment and sister Mrs Anna Hickok of Saratoga.
Evening service at 4 o clock with a sermon on What Lack I Vet topic Sins of the Mind. Children’s Day exercises planned for June 17. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meets June 14 at Mrs Clough’s home. My America League forms as Red Cross volunteers under Mrs EB Ball. Officers include Eleanor Clough president Katherine Hopka vice Catherine Jacobison secretary Ada Cunningham treasurer. News items must reach the office by Tuesday evening for Wednesday publication.
Local residents visit friends in Eroampment and Denver. Registrations for the United States tally over thirty at city hall. Encampment and Saratoga play two ball games with Encampment winning 11 to 5 and 14 to 6. Bonnie Magor graduates Cheyenne High. Samuel Morgan dies in Riverside after months of illness and is buried in Rawlins. James Blackball and Joe Mung serve as registrars. G W Plummer visits from Cheyenne. Mr and Mrs W Johnson take charge of Plummer cafe kitchen and dining.
John A. Reynolds heir of Elmer L. Reynolds, deceased, filed notice to make final five-year proof on a Homestead entry in Township 15 N Range 84 W sixth principal meridian. The hearing before U.S. Commissioner Leslie C. Stallings at Encampment Wyoming is set for July 9, 1917, with witnesses from Encampment.
Pearl Jenkins of Pregeh Wyoming filed intent to make final three year proof to establish a land claim for Lot 2 Sec 4 T 14 N R 1W Wyoming. Proof to be presented before L D Peck U G Commissioner at Saratoga Wyoming on the listed claim with witnesses named from Baratoga Preach and Saratoga sequences.
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