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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
1
Wyoming official G. Hopkins chairman of the Democratic State Committee toured northern and central areas promoting state land sales and President Wilson. He spoke of 400 acres offered near the upper Ham Fork and noted state lands remaining after ceded acreage.
A big Cokeville celebration last Saturday featured a ball game Cokeville vs Soda Springs with a 7 4 Cokeville loss. Contests in roping and riding excited the crowd led by riders Marney Sueer Hi Hansen and Joe Miller. An Ander son Orchestra from Salt Lake City played at the Town Hall dance. Kemmerer attendees included Dr.ter Editor Baker and wife Dr. R A Hocker Robert Christmas and others en route to Star Valley. The Cokeville team then lost to Soda Springs on Sunday by a small margin.
W. W. Peck, a laborer repairing the tunnel roof with a crew near F. A. Cham, fell about twenty feet to the rock floor. He clutched a piece of wood fastened to the tunnel roof to break the fall. no bones are believed broken though injuries are serious.
Fragmentary notice urges attendance at Kem Worser Market with a call to come early and indicates a local event or market day. Details are unclear due to garbled text.
A joint Kemmerer Labor Day celebration plan outlines a two day program September 3 and 4 with free train service from Sublet and Cumberland. Over $200 will buy refreshments for children. a committee plans children's sports dances and a Lyceum Hall dance. Attorney General D C Preston is booked for a main address at Triangle Park.
The annual Lincoln County Teachers Institute will convene in Kemmerer on August 8 for four days. Prominent lecturers include Miss Matilda Peterson of Orden Utah and several county educators such as EB Ht Davie and Joseph B. Supt. of Diamondville. The full program will be printed in next week’s issue.
A motor party led by Mrs J J Queaty Reginald Smithwick and Miss O Boyle returned from an extensive Yellowstone Park tour via Cheyenne and Cody. Mr Smithwick enjoyed the trip while visiting the Quealy home for the summer fellow party members also shared in the success. Bennie Bell W W McDonald Tony North Miss Ida Hell Miss Im ma Hunter and Miss McDonald formed another auto party that went to Evanston last Sunday. Miss McDonald then took a train from Evanston to her home in Lake City where she has been visiting her brother in Kemmerer for weeks.
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Dick Fearn and Charles Hate, both minors from Glencoe, suffered severe arm injuries when a shotgun left cocked between them exploded while driving to hunt sage chickens. Fearn faced possible arm amputation, but doctors hoped the limb could be saved as infection risk remained.
The Metropolitan Orchestra, led by Harry Marauls, will present a pleasing program in Sublet next Saturday night with able dance to follow and the orchestra’s music promised to delight Sublet residents.
A number of sheepmen plan to dispose of sheep on the range this fall with buyers offering 8 cents per pound for lambs. Many flockmasters expect to ship their stock to eastern points or commission men in Omaha for sale.
Miss Dorothy Durham of Sioux City Iowa arrived in Kemmerer Tuesday to stay a couple of weeks with her sister Mrs Lawrence Miller. Durham is an ex employee and serves as private secretary to the superintendent of the Northwestern Railroad.
A letter from Joe Roberts serving with the Scotch Highlanders describes a severe wound in the left thigh from German shellfire during a major Allied offensive on the West Front. He notes rescue by a hospital corps, hospital hospitalization since, and reports censors opened the London‑sent message.
About twenty couples enjoyed a private dance at Lyceum Hall last Saturday night in honor of Miss Roberta McDonald sister of W W McDonald and Miss Tad Parry guest of Mrs A J Hogan. Fred Jennings provided music for the event. Charles Edgwood was arrested Saturday in Diamondville by Deputy Gudmundsen on a disorderly conduct charge and jailed for a hearing after drunken disturbances on the streets. Mr and Mrs J Bernstein of Salt Lake City and Mrs L Kern of Tulsa were honor guests on a fishing trip up the Hamafork hosted by Mr and Mrs Ben Bagnell.
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