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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
9
Washington issues instructions on new postage rates effective November 2. Regular letters pay 3 cents per ounce or fraction. drop letters pay 1 cent per ounce. postal cards prepaid 2 cents requiring a 1 cent stamp plus the card’s 1 cent imprint. private mailing cards with messages must carry 2 cents prepaid.
Word arrived Saturday of the sudden death of Clay Propst at Rawlins from a hemorrhage. Propst had long resided in the region and left many friends. The funeral was held Monday in Rawlins with several locals traveling to pay respects. Attending from here were Robt Hagerman W F Hopka Omar Dunbar Chas Tanner and Will White. Miss Mary Bohn was ill last week with a cold but recovered, narrowly avoiding pneumonia symptoms.
Swartz of Big Creek marries Miss Alice Boyd of caver creek Sunday October 7 in Greeley Colorado officiated by Arthur Yenney former Record staffer now Church of Christ minister. About twenty five guests attended including the bride’s mother sisters and relatives. Both bride and groom active in the Christian church and plan to live on the groom’s ranch east of Beaver Creek. The Record joins friends in congratulating the couple and best wishes for a happy married life. A letter from Denver reports Edgar Vane improving. doctor predicts rapid progress as he regains movement of arms and legs.
Village gossip items document visits and travels of residents from Encampment Beaver Creek and surrounding homesteads. Notes include illness travel school attendance Fort Collins and Denver trips and property transfers among neighbors and families with names such as Tennant Tilton Chidester and Crout.
The October crop report cites state and national totals for wheat oats and hay. State wheat production rises to 4 070 000 bushels from 3 500 000 last year while US wheat reaches 00 000 000 bushels. Oats state output is 480 000 bushels with US about 1 480 000 000 and hay state 1 257 000 tons with US 2 012 000 tons.
Beaver Creek notes report social visits and gatherings around Encampment and Beaver week welcomes newcomers. The W D Hayden sale drew a large crowd and prices ran high. A child died in a tragic accident when a load of wood toppled, and funeral services were held at the Beaver schoolhouse.
The six year old son of Mr and Mrs Philip Flohr was thrown from a log wagon on Beaver Creek last Thursday evening and died instantly. He climbed aboard unaware of the driver and fell into an irrigation ditch. Funeral services were held at Beaver school house and he was buried in Beaver cemetery.
Rawlins district court opens the October term with a criminal docket including Wesley Moses for concealed weapons, Lawrence Reed for assault and battery, and multiple cases from Medicine Bow Walcott and Rawlins for gambling liquor violations grand larceny embezzlement burglary and other offenses.
Last week Harry Neiswender purchased the Chas. 8 S. Goodaker ranch located two and a half miles west of town. The deal includes 100 acres of patented land, 160 acre relinquishment of the Doc. Cothern homestead, and about 1 1/2 sections of government pasture land. Mr. Neiswender plans to file on the 40 acre law under portion of this land. Goodaker family will move to Green River country after settling business affairs and arranging move.
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.
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