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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
1
Instructions from Postmaster General Burleson detail a new letter postage schedule that becomes effective November 2. After November 1, letters for delivery require 3 cents per ounce, drop letters pay 1 cent per ounce, postal cards 2 cents, and private mailing cards with messages must carry 2 cents prepaid.
Word arrived Saturday of the sudden death of Clay Propst at Rawlins due to a hemorrhage. Propst had long resided in the region and left many friends. Funeral services were held Monday in Rawlins with several locals traveling to pay last respects. Those who went over Sunday included Robt Hagerman W F Hopka Omar Dunbar Chas Tanner and Will White. Miss Mary Bohn was sick last week with a bad cold but recovered, narrowly avoiding pneumonia.
Swartz of Big Creek and Miss Alice Boyd of caver creek were married last Sunday October 7 in Greeley Colorado. Arthur Yenney performed the ceremony with about twenty five attendees including the bride’s mother and siblings. The couple will reside on the bride’s homestead east of Beaver Creek and begin a new life joined in the Christian church. The Record notes the bride’s local stature and groom’s respected character and extends congratulations. A second note reports Edgar Vane’s improving condition in Denver with arm and limb movement returning and doctors optimistic for rapid recovery.
The October trap report shows State and United States preliminary wheat and oat estimates. Wheat State 4,070,000 bushels. last year 3,500,000. U.S. 00,000,000 bushels. last year 1,98 000. Oats State 480,000 bushels. last year 5,575,000. U.S. 1,480,000 ee. last year 1,251,402,000. Hay State 1,257,000 tons. last year 1,200,000. U.S. 2,000,000 tons. last year 10,780,000.
Beav er Creek notes cover last week events with a rise in auction prices at W D Hayden sale. Visitors include Mr Crane and Joe Munz at Toothaker residence and Nels Anderson family at Toothaker ranch. Emery Miller and Butler ranch tenancy announced. Funeral for a one year old son of Mr and Mrs Philip Flor held at Beaver school. A rider was killed Thursday evening when a load of wood collapsed.
The six year old son of Mr and Mrs Philip Flohr was thrown from a wagon loaded with logs on Beaver Creek last Thursday evening and killed instantly. He climbed onto the wagon without the driver's knowledge and fell into an irrigation ditch. Funeral services were held at the Beaver school house Saturday afternoon and the remains were interred in Beaver cemetery.
The October term of the district court in Rawlins began on Monday with a criminal docket listing Wesley Moses for concealed weapons. Other cases include Lawrence Reed for assault and battery, gambling offenses in Medicine Bow and Walcott, liquor license violations, grand larceny, embezzlement, unlawful sale of liquor to a convict, escape from penitentiary, and burglary in Elk Mountain.
Last week Harry Neiswender bought the Chas. 8 S. Goodaker ranch located two and a half miles west of town. The 100 acres are patented land, plus 160 acre relinquishment of the Doc. Cothern homestead and about 1.5 sections of government pasture. Neiswender plans to file under the 40 acre law. Goodaker and family will move to Green River country after settling business affairs.
Misses Marguerite Rhodes and Edythe Dunbar and Messrs Earl Christensen and Earl Waite formed a batting party Sunday that went out to Beaver. They failed to get a game, however.
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