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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1919
Page
8
Local baseball recap details Kemmerer and Rock Springs games with errors, disputed plays, and heavy scoring. Kemmerer led early but drifted as Rock Springs piled runs, while box score notes performers and pitching turns amid a rough series.
Rock Springs edged Kemmerer 4 to 2 as 27 runs of earned hits were recorded. Williams and Marietta split pitching duties amid a Oklahoma dust storm that limited visibility and caused scattered errors in a 2 hour 10 minute game.
Wes notes league-wide faults as players near 75 with little life in action. Kemmerer stands out with an AE and Campbell’s fair decisions. Brown, Rock Springs, urged to study rules. Francis, Green River, and Trowbridge, Montpelier, show uneven form. Kemmerer leads attendance. call for less talk and more baseball.
Sergt Dean Palmer visits his sister Mrs. Fred Humevick this week while recently discharged after nearly three years in the service. He served seven months at Fort Douglas Utah with the 20th Infantry then Camp McArthur Texas and Camp Funaton. He was transferred to the 4ard Infantry at San Antonio and is well known in Kemmerer where he attended school before a two week visit. He plans to return home in Idaho.
A forest fire burning for about a week near Piney opened in heavy timber and spread across several acres. Local officials received an informal report by phone yesterday noting firefighters had to contain the blaze. Charles P. Butt reported a seven mile stretch of burn in the area.
Jesse Gilkison longtime Noblitt Implement Company manager and Cokeville Land and Livestock clerk died at his Cokeville home after a long illness. Born August 11 1889 in Grand Island Nebraska he moved to Oklahoma as a child and later returned to Cokeville. He served as assistant secretary and held clerical roles before marrying Maud Sparks in 1917. He leaves a wife a daughter and several relatives in Oklahoma Texas and Dallas. Funeral services were held Friday in the L D B church.
John R. Whiston of Kemmerer celebrates realizi ng his spring plan for an ice cream factory. After delayed shipment and long wait, he personally retrieved the machinery and transported it to Kemmerer. The plant is erected with an experienced ice cream man on staff and promises superior product. Whiston plans extensive wholesale business after July.
Lieutenant Thomas Sneddon of Diamondville arrived home after overseas duty. He landed at Newport News on June 6 and was discharged in Washington, D C two days later. He served in the Alsace and Toul sectors and earned a promotion from private to lieutenant within a year. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Sneddon. J B Smith and W Smith, both from Salt Lake City, spent several days in town on business.
Royal A Young arrived in Kommerer after discharge from the service. He plans a stop at Lava Hot Springs to visit his mother, then visits friends in Big Piney before heading to Baggs to resume managing a local business. He recently completed ten months in the Medical Corps in France.
The piece comments on policy failing to match the surge of new cars, noting strained roads and slow traffic. It highlights limited communication methods and frequent auctions, with transport congestion rising as two way roads and double tracks are stressed by moving vehicles.
A 19-teens road progress comparison argues for vast highway expansion. It notes 1910 road improvements at 15 percent of mileage, and motor vehicle growth from 400000 cars in 1910 to about 4 million in 1918 with forecasts beyond seven million by 1920.
A brief note highlights a policy or program allowing nine months for repayment of premiums. The fragment references a camera prompt to read the news but provides no additional context or names.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mantle J Sunday on Hamafork trip. Jack had claimed top fisherman title for Kemmerer but last Sunday he yielded the honors to Mrs Mantle after landing 31 fine trout.
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