Kemmerer Urged to Seek Federal Building Boost
A call for Kemmerer to form a Chamber of Commerce to push for a federal building. The piece cites small towns like Cody Buffalo and Basin securing post offices and federal buildings, urging Kemmerer business leaders to mobilize, promote Lincoln County roads to the park, and not miss the opportunity to attract federal facilities. The writer questions why Evanston has a federal building and Kemmerer does not, urging activation and local booster efforts.
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Kemmerer
Chamber of Commerce
Evanston
Basin
Buffalo
Cody
Campa
GOOD ROADS Emery Visits Wyoming Pioneer of Lincoln Highway
KE L Emery traveling agent for Union Pacific Coal Company and known as Good Roads Emery returns to Wyoming to live moving from Boise to Cheyenne. He helped lay out Kemmerer in 1897 and to create the Lincoln Highway in Wyoming. At a county old-timers meeting he praised recent road legislation and said Wyoming will advance in road building with the highway commission.
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KE. L. Emery
Union Pacific Coal Company
Wyoming
Emery
Kemmerer
Boise
Idaho
Cheyenne
Mr. Emery
Kem- Merer
Rock Springs
Highway Commission
Cumberland
Eastern Capitalist Eyes Kemmerer Oil Boom in Lincoln County
A Wyoming oil prospect story says a Japanese section hand Kamiji Tongu survived a wreck after extra freight 2014 struck him near a tunnel, saved by snow on the engine. Kemmerer attracts Chicago capitalists planning rigs. Lincoln County touted as potential largest oil field with leases on 40,000 acres and 15,000 acres already leased in LaBarge Fosail fields.
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Kemmerer
Wyoming
Lincoln County
Kamiji Tongu
Wilcox
Tonga
Engineer Wilcox
Rines
Tongu
Railroad Hopital
Salt Lake City
Chicago
W. EB. Hudson
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Kemmerer Averal
LaBarge
Pioneers Wanted From Lincoln County for County History
Call for old settlers in Jackson Hole Star Valley Cokeville High Pine Green River and nearby Lincoln County areas. Submit a brief life sketch and the most stirring pioneer experience, with a limit around 100 words. Entrants whose manuscripts are strongest receive preference.
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Lincoln County
Jackson's Hole
Star Valley
Cokeville
Hig Piney
Green River Country
Con Pining
Public support plea for Wilson fund drive
A call urges readers to donate small amounts to Wilson campaign funds. It notes 175000 contributors, a national committee debt of 130000 dollars, and Lincoln County asked to raise 100 dollars. Donors may have their names published and contributions forwarded to the national committee.
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Woodrow Wilson
National Committee
Lincoln County
Wilson
Diphtheria Curbed in Dre BR Family Reopens Today
A diphtheria outbreak in a Dre BR family was curtailed after preventive measures. The patient Will, whose brother died last week, remains in isolation while other family members are quarantined. The household will resume activities today after eleven days of precaution.
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van Cottet
Wool Trade Talks Signal Looming Spring Clip Prices
Sam Stillman of Soda Springs refused an offer for 41 ponte for his spring wool, a sign of expected market levels. County wool men see this as a gauge for the coming season as buyers from Cokeville and Opal push for larger clips. Notable purchasers include Goodfellow and Flarria, with bids reaching into hundreds of thousands of pounds while many Mineola County growers wait at over 40 cents.
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Sam Stillman
Soda Springs
Lincely County
Frank May
Pete Olson
Stoner Brothers
Parley Bennini
Cokeville
Hill
Homer Caudick
Henry Marker
Curtis
Two Kansas City Firms Join in LaBarge Field Leasing
Kansas City firms Plains Oil Company and Brokers Oil Company filed leases totaling nearly 50 000 acres in Lincoln County LaBarge field. A $100 filing fee accompanied papers including assignments of leases from H S Hillyer to Plains Oil and to Brokers Oil. Development work in LaBarge now to be carried out jointly by both firms.
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Kansas City
LaBarge
Lincoln County Clerk's Office
Plains of Company of
Company
la Barge Country
H. 8. Hillyer
Plains Oil Company
Brokers Oil Company
TaBarge
Busy Ber cafe to be renamed The Opal Cafe
C. S. Verbeck, former head of the Combination Cafe, becomes proprietor of the Busy Ber cafe. The establishment will be renamed The Opal Cafe and run on a high class basis by Verbeck, a noted expert cook.
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Reaem
Ureddaat
Kemmer
E. Il
Pevenen Rivena
Nese Sro
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National Bank
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
The
First National Bank of
Plains of Company of Kansasity
LaBarge Country
Lincoln
Mehest
Kansas
Casper Fields
Casper
Coronews
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Kansas City Company
Homer Needles
Lincoln County Fleide
America
Kemmerer Savings Bank
Kemmerer, Wyoming
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