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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
4
The Encampment Record is entered as second class matter on August 12, 1915, at the Encampment Wyoming post office under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Display rates set at 25 cents per column inch weekly and 25 cents per 1000 impressions, local reader charges 20 cents per line weekly with minimum. obituaries and paid notices billed at local reader rates. Cash with copy. Copy must reach office by Wednesday forenoon for current issue. local readers by Wednesday afternoon. Advertising runs until discontinued.
Public notice states political announcements will run continuously through the August primaries with prices set at 25 dollars for state officers 10 dollars for county officers and 5 dollars for precinct officers. Cash must accompany the order and the rule will not be deviated under any circumstances.
I announce my candidacy for the office of County Supervisor in Carbon County with a cast dialect, subject to Republican primary approval. The candidate is B. T. Cannots, based in Sarainga, Wyoming.
The data shows state and national price averages on May 1. State prices include wheat 110 versus 126 cents, corn 70 versus 80, oats 49 versus 60, potatoes 85 and 4, eggs 20 and 20 cents per dozen. United States figures list wheat 102 and 189.6, corn 72.3 and 77.7, oats 42.6 and 53.4, potatoes 94.9 and 50.5, hay 12.20 and 11.52 dollars per ton, cotton 11.5 and 9.1 cents per pound, eggs 14.1 and 17.1 cents per dozen.
City Hall presents a picture show Saturday night featuring two reel comedy An All Around Mistake, three reel drama Her Three Mothers, and one reel comedy One on Mother. Rex.
Sunday services at St James Church feature Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning prayer with a sermon by Rev F C Smith dean of the Rawlins convocation. The rector will cover Rawlins duties during this time and attendees are urged to come out.
The Beagle boulder mystery is solved with the rock traced to a defined vein. Col. D. Frank Powell of St. Paul owns the ground containing the valuable ore. Nearby, the Hillside copper prospect may yield a rich gold mine after a brown quartz crop was revealed along the former Hillside ground.
A replevin suit filed Monday by James R. Little against H. D. Ashley to recover the city council minute book was withdrawn Wednesday evening after the defendant delivered the book to the plaintiff. The plaintiff paid the costs of the suit. Mere, E HW Lonke is visiting at North Park this week and Frank Jones arrived from North Park.
City records recount a May 15 1916 canvass of Encampment Wyoming ballots for mayor and council in a two-session meeting. May 9 election results show Englehart Foster Kearns for mayor and Crout Thwa Glee for council. certificates of election issued after adjourned afternoon session. notes include minute-book protest and staff motions. G. W. Culver plans for Fort Collins law practice. Varkison visited Bowling Green on business. town officers organized appointments remain deferred.
Busy week for gardening and social visits as Martin Farrell returns from Encampment Saturday. Fred Boynton visits the Cooktsanch. I M Sanger, Chas H Sanger and family, Fred Healey, Maurice Healey and wives attend Encampment to see the movies, returning Sunday. Mrs I M Sanger travels to Saratoga to visit daughter Mrs Wiegand and will then visit niece Mrs A E Adcock in Windsor Colorado.
Beaver creek ranchmen are irrigating. The Anderson family spent circus day in Rawlins. Miss Ruth Platt will be absent from Beaver creek for a few weeks. There are two brand new Schmidt saddles on Beaver. The owners are Clyde Lowrey and Edwin Hayden. W N Toothaker left May 11 for Atlantic City New Jersey. He will join Wm Platt, formerly of Beavercreek, at St Louis. The two will attend general assembly to which they are delegates at Atlantic City together.
Walter Leake returned Monday from McGill Nevada where he and several Encampment boys sought employment. He reports little work available with many men for each job and none of the boys from here had secured work when they left.
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