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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1912
Page
16
W. who holds the sinking contract for the LaBarge Oil Co. well in Kemmerer returned from Laramie awaiting a new extension cable. The cable arrived and drilling resumed Friday. The well is down 550 feet with oil indications and may reach 1000 feet unless a flow is encountered.
Judge Corn of Ogden and former Wyoming supreme court chief justice spent several days in Kemmerer as the guest of Colonel Christ mas. Known as a criminal attorney, he earned broad recognition in the western legal world.
P W Olson visited Kemmerer the latter part of the week and left for Omaha on Sunday. He accompanied Lige Christensen who will enter Wise Memorial hospital there for an appendicitis operation performed by Dr B A McDermott. The operation was planned for Tuesday of the week.
Relief Society of the L D S church held a bazaar and dance at the Lyceum theater on Saturday. The afternoon bazaar featured a supper and the evening dance with the Kemmerer orchestra providing lively music. The event reportedly raised a tidy sum above expenses.
Dynamite charges echo in dirt as excavation continues on the railroad grades. Company plans to extend work through winter with crews shifting along the Short Line and new crews expected to join ongoing efforts. A reward is offered for a missing bay gelding near John Grant's camp four miles east of Fowlo.
A reward of 35.00 dollars is offered by the undersigned for the names of the person or persons who, on or about October 5, 1912, took from the premises of Blevine.
Miss Winnie Jones hosted the Bachelor Girls and their gentlemen friends at Dr. W. A. Hocker’s residence last Tuesday evening. Fifty prizes were awarded in games and a fancy prize for Mim Adelaide LaFevre was defeated by Carrie Elliott. Prizes included silk socks won by Frank Curtis. The evening featured vocal and instrumental solos by Gumie Helbig and Edna Sammon, followed by a lunch of escalloped oysters hot rolls olives coffee cake and sherbet. Miss Laura Paine will host the club next on December 19.
Commissioner W A Hocker returns from Evanston after a county meeting with no major issues. Iva Toomas-Irish is sent to Sheridan for the State Teachers meeting and a $50 check is approved to support the association, with all warrants to be paid before year’s end.
Trains now run from Driggs Idaho to Riggs Hole with connection to Jackson via stage at Wintance after about miles. The new mile branch opened February 10 links Driggs with Ashton and Yellowstone branch. Daily trains depart Driggs at 6:00 a m to Ashton and Yellowstone and return from Ashton at 12 10 p m arriving Driggs at 4 00 p m.
Mark A. Manley of Ft. Bridger lies in Rock Springs hospital in precarious condition with a broken leg and severe exposure after being overtaken by a snowstorm while walking from Carter toward Bridger. Found by boys at 3 p.m. after lying in the open from 5 a.m. to then. Once a prosperous Uinta county rancher and a former water commissioner candidate.
On Wednesday night Mr Whitney showcased clever vaudeville acts described as the Mans Entertainers, drawing repeated encores from a Kemmerer crowd. Mr and Mrs Maw with their three children impressed before returning to Rawa where they performed Friday night at the Kaen Temple.
The Rev W N Pierson of Kemmerer Lodge A F and A M left Monday for Cheyenne to stand as a candidate at the Wyoming Consistory which opened yesterday for a four day session. Friends wish him success in reaching the thirty second degree in Masonry. Also advertised: second hand sewing machine in good running order, phone 116.
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