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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1921
Page
5
Kemmerer residents host and visit in town in a busy week of personal travels and civic updates. Notables include Paul Comer returning from California via Salt Lake City, Charles Lackey from Big Piney with oil ties, and Victor Mouritsen visiting from Montpelier. The paper notes numerous meetings, church activities, and upcoming events such as a Glee Club performance, a union Pacific booklet promotion, and a May 10 bond election.
Mr L L Paine manager of the J C Penney Co received word his father died at Manhattan Kansas He left at once to reach Manhattan for the funeral services in the old home town.
The many friends of Mr and Mrs Henry Crabtree of Jackson are pleased by the couple’s return home from Rochester Minnesota where Mrs Crabtree had an operation at the Mayo Brothers hospital.
Kemmerer Post No 17 of the American Legion held a Monday meeting electing Bud Rosenberg as adjutant succeeding Paul Acton. William Whitcomb was elected to the vacancy on the executive committee. Other business was routine.
The Ladies of the Altar and Rosary Society will distribute awards to contest winners tomorrow evening at the Kemmerer Theatre.
The church outlines monthly Mass times with First Sunday masses at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. in Kemmerer, Benediction after high mass, Second Sunday lows and highs, Third Sunday low masses with Benediction, and no Kemmerer mass on the last Sunday. Cokeville mass at 9 a.m. Evening service in Kemmerer at 7:30 p.m. Rev. W F Short is pastor.
Mesdames Hocker Jefferson and Comer entertained about thirty guests at the Bud Hocker home Saturday evening. The party featured dancing followed by refreshments and was described as one of the season’s most pleasant social events.
Western Union filed tariffs with the local manager and expects many to resume cable service after a long outage since September 1918. The restoration returns transatlantic communications to prewar basis for customers previously unable to obtain service.
At the Methodist church on Sunday April 17 the pastor preaches Christianity its name origin from Jesus Christ and its distinction from outward observances. The sermon titled Things that will remain discusses how Christianity enters the soul not by water or membership but as divine power and how it is retained through action. John E Williams pastor.
The LC hospital board met in regular session Sunday. The superintendent’s report praised the hospital’s condition. The board adopted resolutions thanking the local American Legion post for road improvements leading to the hospital.
Robinson of Afton was chosen to head the Star Valley schools for the next year at a recent school board meeting in Afton. Principal W. E. Morrell was offered his position again but has not yet accepted it. Both salaries were reduced by the board.
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