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Plenty of Potatoes and Tomatoes at market price. C. W. Anderson, Cowley FOR SALE-6 Reg. Poland Chim pis, 4 months old, at W. J. Hareton. L. J. Willis ia the proud owner of new Overland touring car purchaser early last week. It's a beaut. WANTED AT ONSCE—Quantity of ‘best grade crab apples for preserving. At the Progress office, Will pay Cash. F. E. Judkina, an Al carpenter from Basin, ia one of the men working on the new Tolman acquisition In this city =the Lyman property. We failed last week to mention that Golden Welch was among the number who shipped sheep to Omaha, he going with Mann and Taggart. L.C. Jensen and sons have complete ly remodeled and repainted their Stude baker car and this week gave it a try out, taking the family to the Midland Empire fair at Billings. Mrs. Frances Crosby returnd home on Wednesday from a very pleasant two months’ visit to her former home in Southern Utah and reports having had a most delightful time. She says dry weather conditions down there are practically the same as here and in some localities much worse. Walter Simmons, who has been moot faithfully serving on the U. S. 8 S. Neb raska in the navy for considerable over a year, arrived home Tuesday morn ing, having just been mustered out of the service at Salt Lake City. He is looking and feeling fine and is mighty glad to once more stand on tera firma. We bid him a hearty welcome home. Among those who went to the Mid land Empire fair at Billings this week were the following: Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Johnson, L. C. Jensen and family, B. M. Willis, Toward Crosby, Wilford and Leslie Waterlaus, Leland Safford, Ted Meeks, Orin Mann, Vern March ant, Atha Mortensen, Leland ,Wilcock and possibly a few whose names we did not get. Jack Welch is taking a well earned vacation, and is putting in his time in, putting out fence paste from the Big Horn mountains with which to fence a farm he recently purchased, and saw dust for his ice house. Jack would drop dead were he to avoid work for one day. He sure would. Come in and price our Men’s O'Don nell Shoes with those of the same brand at other stores. You'll be surprised and pleased at the saving you make by com ing to this store for your shoes. Cowley Mere. Co., the store of show comfort and living prices. oe “a Al E. Johnson and family have moved up from Himes for the winter in order that the children may take advantage of Cowley's excellent school facilities. He said to a Progress reporter this morning: We are camping out until the new addition to our residence is finished. We are glad to see them back to Cowley again. We desire to call special attention to the statement of Cowley State Bank as it appears In this issue. Deposits of $57,000.00 in 1917 have swelled to $106, 394.23 in 1919. This is an extraordinary gratifying statement, and those who predicted that a bank in Cowley would not pay, have had to revise their opin ion mightily. Those of our citizens who have con crete cisterns will do well to fill them for the winter as the city water system cannot be depended upon to furnish water even for domestic purposes, to say nothing of water for livestock. It is an unfortunate condition. We know that our city dada will go the limit in an endeavor to furnish city water, but even they may not be able to remedy the defective system, since the advent of cold, freezing weather is too near to attempt to install the new waterworks system this fall. Bishop Frank Tolman, of Tensleep, one of the wealthiest ranchers of the Big Horn Basin, has purchased the C. R. Lyman residence in this city and has a force of carpenters at work mak ing substantial improvements thereon, building poreties for both stories, both front and rear. Sewer connections, gas and electric lights and every known modern convenience will be added and Mr. Tolman and family expect to occu pay their Cowley home in the near fu ture. We shall be pleased to welcome the good people to our midst, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. West were over from Byron yesterday on business, Mrs. Weat has entered the Casper Her ald’ subscription contest and is working like a Trojan for the first prize, a Max- Well Louring car. Oh the day she was here she was leading all competitors by many hundreds of votes. She is aask ing the aid of the people hereabouts to asviat her in her ambition for the first place and the manner in which she is tackling the job ought to insure her ancceas which she deserves. The work at the new dehydrating plane is moving along satisfactorily, notwithstanding the fact that they are, working short handed.
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Cowley Progress
Cowley, Wyoming, US
Fri, Sep 19, 1919
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