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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
17
Railroad notices show Westbound Fastbound No 19 and No 6 and 17 and 18 and 1 and 4 with times 3 5ham 2pm 6 9 pm and 7 08am. The Cumberland train leaves Kemmerer daily except Sunday at 7 am returning to arrive 5 45 pm. Entered in Kemmerer post office as second class matter.
A local plea urges immediate formation of a Kemmerer home guard amid wartime, warning of about 200 alien enemies in the area and asserting citizens must organize for safety and detection. The piece presses the Chamber of Commerce or a leader to act quickly, fearing covert disloyalty and urging public discussion only as needed.
The Provost Marshal General announces that under new elective draft rules every registrant is restored to original status and all exemptions prior to December 15 are void. Registrants must know their order number and June 5 entrants are charged with knowledge of the selective service law. failure to comply is a misdemeanor with up to one year in prison and possible loss of rights and immediate induction into military service.
A historical brief notes a world wary of a fourth war Christmas and hints at public calls to Henry Ford during a era. The piece contrasts public sentiment with the ongoing struggle and references a public meeting.
The article notes Italy's crushing defeat as Austrian forces, reinforced by German aid, drove the Italian army back nearly a hundred miles and seized a quarter of a million prisoners and over a thousand guns. It questions whether defeated powers can rally or withdraw from the conflict.
A wartime rallying message urges citizens to back Congress for sound war conduct, save for Liberty Loans, and oppose slackers and conscientious objectors. It stresses hard work, prudent spending, fair eating, and reading Mr. Hoover on food use, with a warning about price increases and a push to support allied efforts.
In Salt Lake City this morning prominent mining figure Stumpf arrived with a伴 a mystery spouse while his associates anticipate his wife. Monday night at 8 30 pm Justice Tom Holland joined Stumpf and Mrs Shimmin of San Francisco in marriage at the latter’s office. The bride, a Salt Lake property holder, hails from the Pacific coast. Friends staged a playful deception around a supposed wedding official Charles Budd and Lackey helped pull the joke. The couple and guests Dr Buss A G Burritt and J F Bunker later departed for Salt Lake City.
Lincoln Wyoming Petroleum Company led by president J Parker Thompson negotiates with two parties to drill the first shallow Fossil field well. Thompson reports strong stock sales and ample treasury, aiming to finance several wells before spring. Larger Dry Piney district plans are under way.
At a Monday meeting in Diamondville led by County Demonstrator Miss Winters, a Home Economics Association was formed with officers President Mrs. E. R. Van Cott Vice President Mrs. Kauffman Secretary Miss Flossie Smith Treasurer Miss Jessie Sneddon. The first meeting will be at Mrs. Van Cott’s home.
W N Wood and his wife traveled to Kemmerer and nearby to visit relatives. They brought Mrs Tom Clemenson, who recently had an operation at Rock Springs hospital.
The Wood Oil and Development Company is incorporated in Cheyenne Wyoming at 1:25 p m December, 1917. It plans to acquire leases and develop crude oil wells and products, with two million dollars capital divided into two million shares one dollar par. Operations will be in Kemmerer Lincoln County Wyoming under seven directors led by John W Frohm Olaf Jetson and others. Principal office in Kemmerer. agent Olaf Jefson. attorney H R Christmas. Date ope 28
Notice is hereby given that Kem merer Brokerage Company was incorporated by filing its certificate of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State at Cheyenne Wyoming on the 7th day of December 1517 at 205 o'clock in the forenoon. The objects are buying and selling of stocks bonds shares and debentures and the general business of brokers and financial agents in every form and the investments of funds to not as agents in the creation and provision of companies and corporations to print and publish financial...
A proposed Wyoming corporation with capital stock of 10000 dollars in 100 shares at 100 dollars par value seeks to operate in Kum merer Lincoln County with a 50 year term. Seven directors are named for the first year William Monay Thomas Sneddon C Watt Brandon Plow Comer Olaf Jetson RK M Turner and R A Hocker. Principal office listed as Kum merer Wyoming agent in charge Wat Brandon Olaf Jetson Secretary Olaf Jepson and Ivan Jones attorney. DL2-26
Notice states Slate Creek Oil & Refining Company was incorporated in Cheyenne Wyoming on November 20 1917. Objects include buying leasing selling developing oil and gas lands drilling retiring oils marketing forming transportation networks. Capital stock 100000 divided into 400000 shares. Principal office Kemmerer Lincoln County with offices potentially elsewhere in the US Canada or Mexico. Five directors named C D Stafford L E Kindall A Christmas C M Whitney and Ivan S Jones. Agent in charge A Christmas. Ivan S Jones attorney for the corporation.
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