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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1912
Page
2
W. L. continues work for LaBarge Oil Co on a well in Kemmerer area. He returned from Laramie with an extension cable, started drilling again Friday. The well is 550 feet deep with indications of oil. he aims to reach at least 1000 feet unless a flow is found.
Judge Corn 8. I. Corn of Ogden, a renowned criminal attorney and former Wyoming supreme court justice, spent several days in Kemmerer last week as the guest of Colonel Christ mas.
P W Olson visited Kemmerer the latter part of the week and traveled to Omaha with Lige Christensen to undergo appendicitis surgery at Wise Memorial hospital. Dr. B A McDermott will perform the operation, an old friend of Olson, with the plan for the procedure on Tuesday.
The Relief Society of the L. D. S. church held a Saturday bazaar at the Lyceum theater with an afternoon supper and an evening dance. The Kemmerer orchestra played lively music while attendees enjoyed a pleasant evening. The bazaar Netted a nice sum above expenses.
Explosions mark excavations on the railroad grades with crews staying through winter. The company plans continuous work, sending crews to other points while new crews arrive to push ahead. A reward is offered for a missing 12 year old gelding near John Grant's camp four miles east of Fowlov.
A reward of 35.00 is offered by the undersigned for the names of the person or persons who, on or about October 5, 1912, took from a premises at an unnamed location the item described as a promissory note. The text names Blevine as a referenced party.
Miss Winnie Jones entertained the Bachelor Girls and gentlemen friends at Dr W A Hocker residence on Tuesday evening. Five hundred was played with Mim Adelaide LaFevre losing first prize to Carrie Elliott. Prizes were paintings won by Bessie Rathbun and Mrs Judd Witherspoon. Frank Curtis and Olaf Jeffson performed. Curtis won silk socks from Sheree Seemann Sr. Edna Sammon and Gumie Helbig sang, a lunch of oysters, rolls, olives, coffee, cake, sherbet followed. Laura Paine will host next on Thursday December 19.
Commissioner W A Hocker returned from Evanston after a routine county board session. The group reviewed election bills and approved a $50 check to the State Teachers association president to support continued school improvements. All warrants will be paid by month’s end.
A new railway line from Driggs Idaho to Riggs Hole area reduces the daily overland freight and travel to Jackson county. The route includes a morning train from Driggs to Ashton and the Yellowstone branch, with daily service except Sunday, arriving at Ashton at 6:00 am and returning from Ashton at 12:10 pm to reach Driggs by 4:00 pm.
Mark A. Manley of Ft. Bridger lies in Rock Springs hospital with a broken leg and severe exposure after a snowstorm forced him off the road while walking from Carter to Bridger. He was found around 3 pm after being stranded since 5 am, and once a prosperous Uinta county rancher he had run for water commissioner two years ago.
On Wednesday night Mr Whitney presented clever vaudeville acts. The Mans Entertainers drew repeated encores. Mr and Mrs Maw and their three children performed in Rawle with a special KaKen Temple show Friday night.
The Rev W N Pierson of Kemmerer Lodge A F and A M departed Monday for Cheyenne as a candidate for the Wyoming Consistory. The gathering began yesterday for a four day session. Pierson aims to reach the thirty second degree in Masonry and his friends wish him success. Also advertised a second hand sewing machine for sale by phone 116.
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