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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1915
Page
11
The piece urges adults to greet and encourage children with kind words and smiles. It argues that small acts of warmth uplift youths, improve their spirits, and help cultivate better men in the community.
Labor day activities are planned with locals and visitors from nearby areas to join in Kemmerer celebrations. A finance committee reports funds raised and promises totaling up to 210 as work continues, with committees formed for transportation parade decorations and prizes. A big dance, sports events including tug of war, races, and children and adult contests are scheduled across Kemmerer and Frontier, with carriage and hose-cart activities and a series of baseball games among Cumberland, Sublet, and Frontier teams.
Cokeville editor and Mayor Noblitt lead a delegation to inspect the new Cokeville Afton road to the divide, select a half way station site, and review a possible forest service telegraph link. The group toured the scenic route, praised Mead’s rock work, and visited a Rawlins penitentiary camp with 16 inmates well treated and paid.
A report notes an escape from jail involving Davie county and Kayport area figures. Deputy Sheriff George Phillips of Salt Lake escorting a group indicates a police response. Details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text.
Fragmentary report states R A Ramsey accused of passing two hundred dollars in bad checks in Montpelier last Friday. Details scattered show alleged actions near Diamondville and Moar Livery, with authorities noting a detection or confusion surrounding the case.
Harry Hynda of Cheyenne, visiting Casper, extols good highways as essential to municipal prosperity. He cites Rome and California as examples and urges Wyoming to authorize county road funding matches, claiming state constitutional changes could return money to taxpayers many times over.
United States Senator Clarence Clark of Evanston is spending a week in Star Valley visiting friends and acquaintances. He arrived from Cokeville with Alute and plans to tour different sections of the state while enjoying the valley’s beauty and his vacation. He reports good health and long previous visits here.
Reports claim attorneys seek venue change amid alleged misconduct by Justice Carnahan. Affidavits accuse incompetence and unfaithfulness as cases involving legal liquor sales, Colletti and Udicky, face dismissed charges. Local corruption alleged. observers note protection rackets in Diamondville and Cumberland. City Drug Store advertises ice cream and soda.
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