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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1920
Page
8
The professional and business men of Kemmerer plan a Sunday ball game on the local lot to raise funds for a children's playground. William E. Pitt will captain the business men, Marshal ReynoldS will lead the professionals, and teams are still forming. Tickets are 75 cents, no rain checks.
County Attorney reports a robbery where 147 disappeared from a wallet during a motion in Diamondville Morlay involving two young boys used by A. Christmas. Pete Massa of Utah filed the complaint. Suspects were questioned, but no arrests reported. A man from Diamondville arrived to reconcile with his divorced wife, with poor results.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh claiming it cleanses the system and restores health. It promises relief through a lively health regime and offers a $100 reward for evidence of the remedy’s effectiveness.
Kemmerer beat Diamondville 17 to 3 in a nine inning Fourth of July game at the grandstand with Hartley pitching for Kemmerer and Nuranen for Diamondville. Acton hit the sole Kemmerer homer as Diamondville made four putouts to Kemmerer’s fifteen. Also noted were a bucking broncho exhibition and a large farming-area expansion report stressing grasshopper issues and county aid appeals.
The town council, citing depleted finances, decided to defer the comfort station at the children's playground until next spring. Mayor says the project is a heavy burden and will stall until 1921 with Paulson and Torquitt tasked to secure contractor agreement. A local benefit ball game may help fund the project.
Prohibition fighter known as Pussyfoot Johnson flies low in an airplane en route to Twin Falls, after a stop in Kemmerer and a prior briefing in Denver. The craft skimmed under 800 feet as he travels to make train connections for his next stop.
Lira A Hankshoe offers a $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of burglars who took furniture and household goods from the McMin ranch. The notice also seeks those who disposed of cattle or horses without consent. Reward for offenders.
The Star Valley region faces a serious grasshopper outbreak with hatching pests endangering crops. A local offer of 100 dollars for 100 measures of live or freshly killed hay is announced to curb the infestation. Authorities urge farmers to act quickly while prospects for haying remain uncertain.
The Camera editor faces a minor dilemma as scissors vanish from the office. Hope remains that an honest passerby borrowed them and will return the value clippers soon.
A convention scene described as fearful and lively records the uphill fight and the shift of Palmer delegates to Cox. Ballot tallies show Cox leading McAdoo with Palmer fading. Cox kisses his wife after learning of victory as Wilson and Hardling send congratulations. Wyoming backs McAdoo from start to finish.
The report highlights Governor Coxs strong Ohio record including peacetime handling of the steel strike without soldiers and actions against price gouging by cold storage operators. It notes Coxs support for business legislation, a state banking code, a budget system, a blue sky act, and women's suffrage. Also mentions ratification of the League covenant and cautions on racial unity versus territorial aims.
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