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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1920
Page
2
The piece argues against blue law campaigns to remove the sun from Sunday arguing government cannot make people good. It says Sabbath rest is a personal conscience issue and that Sunday leisure like beach time and baseball fits the American view of rest without legislation. It laments broad efforts to enforce virtue and notes varied religious attendance.
In Geneva the League assembly unanimously invites President Wilson to mediate between Turkish Nationalists and Armenians to halt Armenian slaughter. The body also clarifies Article X limits and notes Argentina’s delegate exit was a protest, not disintegration, as disarmament progress continues.
The Wyoming election cost analysis shows Republican expenses at 44 807 38 versus Democratic costs of 4 016 12. The Republican committee posted a small surplus while Democrats face a deficit. Major contributors include Jas Mickelson and John Hay, with Governor Carey and Congressman Mondell also pledging thousand dollar gifts.
George Adams of 52 Maple Avenue Los Angeles foreman at the Los Angeles Paper Box Factory credits Tanlac with restoring his health after two years of weakness kidney pain and fatigue. He says he now rises strong works well and has a good appetite. Sold in Kemmerer City Drug Store and Afton Drug Co Adv.
The vacancy caused by J. B. McDavid’s resignation is filled by James E. Gibbon. Gibbon, a former high school instructor who left to enlist in the army, arrives from Wisconsin where he had been employed since discharge. He will lead the basketball team and teach at the high school.
Mr. R. W. Robertson, the instructor in the high school carpentry shop, has declined a position offered by the Wisconsin State Normal School at Gikosh. The note suggests the institution employs 800 to 900 instructors, underscoring the Kemmerer schools’ high teaching staff standards.
Jas. Monroe was brought from Opal in custody of the sheriff after pleading guilty to petit larceny. He was sentenced to six months in the county jail for stealing a considerable amount of clothing from a black laborer on the Opal section road.
Deputy Sheriff William Conroy and his fiancée Mollie were married in Chicago while returning from Pennsylvania where he had accompanied a prisoner. The couple will reside here after arriving on No. 4 Sunday morning.
George Easton of Kemmerer Hardware & Furniture Co brought a new motor hearse from Ogden Utah for use with the undertaking business. He traveled to Ogden with Od Wright who had been here months on business.
Albert Winn of Glencoe died Sunday night at LC M Hospital from a rifle discharge at his home on December 2. The bullet entered the abdomen and penetrated the lung after a typhoid illness. Remains were shipped to Pocativil Idaho for burial in the family plot with the funeral ruling place today.
Tuesday afternoon firefighters responded to a blaze on the roof of Marshal Potter's residence. The fire department arrived promptly and found the fire already extinguished by nearby residents using water pails.
The St. Margaret's Guild holds its annual meeting Thursday afternoon in the Guild Hall. No refreshments will be served and the session will focus on important business, including the annual election of officers.
For sale complete furnishings for a four room house including range and electric washer. Price at Penney Store or call at house near the skating rink.
Notice states the annual stockholders meeting of First National Bank of Kemmerer Wyoming will be held in the directors room on January 11 1921 at 10 a m for election of a board of directors and other business. signed P J Quealy president and F Pfiffer cashier. Notice also lists probate action for Minnie Miller Weyeneth with petition for administration with will annexed set for hearing before Marshall Reynolds district court commissioner in Lincoln County.
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