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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
11
The notice promotes a renewal or new subscription plan where the Camera provides a year of service at 2.25 plus four monthly magazines including Home Life Woman's World and Better Farming. It highlights that the Camera can be obtained for 2.00 with the four magazines for a total of 2.26 and urges readers to act quickly.
First day of December breaks all freight bill records at Loral Station with 156 bills received, nearly 50 more than any prior day. Oregon Route Line freight business continues to rise, with local force handling over 1100 dollars monthly now versus 350 five years ago, a gain exceeding 200 percent, signaling likely need for more staff soon.
Prospective tenants in the Triangle area anticipate the new Lincoln Lumber Company building opening soon. Construction progresses as rooms connect via a stairway, forming a single building. Several current tenants including W. Pitt er and Dr. Bud Hocker plan to vacate their spaces.
Big Piney schools superintendent H H Moyer arrived in Kemmerer from Cheyenne where he attended the State Teachers Convention. He stayed until Monday morning then returned to Big Piney. Moyer says the Cheyenne meeting was successful in every detail and all visitors were royally entertained. He plans to spend Christmas vacation in Kemmerer.
Steve Bartek a Wyoming homesteader from near Cokeville visited Kemeter with his wife and family. He recently took up a homestead after years of seeing opportunity with Frontier mines background. Bartek, promoting European endurance, raises hay and cattle and plans to prove up his claim soon.
A community dance is planned for Saturday night at Cook's Park venue. Tickets and start time are to be announced locally.
A familiar Kemmerer figure, Chet Chrisman, visited last Saturday with friends including the Camera. A pioneer who came here over Perry, his views on public affairs are noted in his well known manner, with some supporting and some opposing commentary.
Edward Cheetwood about 45 of Jackson Hole was accidentally shot and killed by his companion Oscar Payne while hunting six and a half miles west of Ford Road house in Lincoln county. Payne, on a lave rock ridge above Cheetwood, fired as his gun discharged, hitting Cheetwood in the shoulder. A coroner's jury found the death accidental. Cheetwood had worked for U S R 8 at Me Park and for Mr Moore on Squirrel Creek Meadows. his body to be shipped to Kansas City for burial per a brother’s telegram.
Last Wednesday afternoon a cave in on North Front Street in front of the Grand Theatre cut off traffic in the area. The fifteen foot diameter, about twenty feet deep cavity sits over an old coal excavation. A passing fire truck may have triggered the failure, but no injuries were reported. This is the first significant street cave-in in Rock Springs in years.
The county clerk’s office records show land patents and warranty deeds filed in the past week. Entries include transfers in sections and townships with varied dates from 1905 to 1916, noting grantors, grantees, locations, and nominal sums like 1.00 and 2660 dollars.
Gregor Strucel becomes proprietor of the Miners' Exchange Saloon after taking charge on the first of the month. Martin Begush, who sold the saloon, moves to the Kemmerer bar the same day to run his saloon business. The deal was concluded several weeks earlier.
A high grade piano is sold at Kemmerer as advertised by The Camera, with a price of two dollars per year for the subscription.
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