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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1916
Page
1
A statewide discussion outlines school funding in Wyoming, detailing sources from land rents, the permanent school fund, forest reserve revenues, and county distributions. It notes taxes, bonds, and indebtedness mechanisms used by districts to support teachers, facilities, and schooling.
In Kemmerer the Republican and Democratic county central committees meet Tuesday May 2 to select delegates for the state convention in Cheyenne on May 7. Debate over district ties and time away from home deters attendance, with a proposal to hold conventions on Saturday and the state on the following Monday or Tuesday to improve rural representation. Lincoln county has fifty precincts, each eligible for a delegate and proxies.
A message urges residents to improve civic life by cleaning streets alleys and vacant lots. It lauds women for maintaining homes and calls men to match efforts by keeping surroundings sanitary and orderly. Citizens are urged to loudly demand better roads.
Judge Jona R. Arnold presided in Kemmerer as the Third Judicial District ordered the May term jury list. Clerks and local officials conducted the drawing from a box with 800 names, with representation from Lincoln county districts including Jackson Hole and Green River Valley. Notable attendees and remarks focused on road movements and the Lincoln Highway, emphasizing branch lines and future state highway bonds.
The Lyceum bar hosted a week long pocket billiards tournament with Kid Sanders the northwest champion and C Tanaka Utah Japanese champion as main rivals. Sanders led early, Tanaka scored 47 in a high night, and Sanders finally won with a final tally of 64 to 265 in the last night as crowds watched at the Lewers venue.
Smallpox reappears in the Kemmerer mining district prompting quarantine and camp closures at Sublet and No 6 mine amid ten cases in three families. Wyoming law requires bonding and full county records. Lincoln County Abstract and Realty Co plans a complete transcription of rolls and court records to secure titles, with nine and eleven book sets detailing parcels and towns.
The Hadsell Livestock Co contracted their 1916 wool clip with W. R. Adama of Fremont Nebraska for 27 cents per pound the highest price ever received by Hadsell. Several local firms are negotiating sales this season but only Hadsell has closed a deal. Hen Smalley of Coke River Mercantile Co visited Kemmerer last week and reports recovery from rheumatic trouble after a trip to Lava Hot Springs.
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