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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1918
Page
16
Community appeal invites residents to donate books for soldiers. Readers are urged to send novels tales detective stories engineering and technical texts travel history poetry and war literature to Kemmerer Hardware City Drug Store or the town post via Mary Eggree. space donated by The Bear Maiker Canara.
A terse report notes a figure linked to Juntiess agent and Ute Teal circle aiming to profit from Liberty Bond purchases. The man travels from Kemmerer to Cannes and Caled four years ago, courting investors while urging sponsorship through camera advances.
Deputy United States Marshal Warlaumont delivered three young women from a Cheyenne mobilization center to Sheriff J J McMinn for confinement in Lincoln county jail. Each received sentences of thirty to sixty days in district court, with county jails preferred for shorter terms. Jails in Wyoming, including Lincoln-Evanston and Sheridan, are among the few equipped to hold female prisoners. Warlaumont, a Cheyenne native for 30 years, previously served in local police and sheriff roles.
Publicity director Josiah Maloney and Denver Post editor Robert Gill visited Kemmerer to learn about Lincoln County off field prospects and the town’s future. Maloney highlighted Kemmerer’s climate and altitude as attracting factors, suggesting potential as a major Wyoming town amid oil, coal, livestock, and ranching industries.
A dated note from Washington outlines a November livestock meeting organized by the American National Metork Development showing preparations for a gathering in Kemmerer. Local leaders expect attendance from eastern and northern regions, with plans for events in a western area and discussions led by Mr. Tenkine.
J Parker Thompson, an early Lincoln County oil field pioneer, has flown to San Francisco to seek California capital for large oil lands. He helped organize Lincoln Securities Company and Lincoln Wyoming Petroleum Company, sold Polaris Petroleum, and plans to return to Kemmerer by late April with land agreements to woo investors. Mrs Thompson and the children remain in San Francisco.
Fossil News notes a Red Cross event on March 20 with hopes for large attendance. Local traffic between Fossil and the county seat has been good this week. Names of visitors to Kemmerer include Mrs. Auer Mina Madsen and several Miller, Henderson, O Connor and Snyder households, plus Ralph Snowball of Garden City on business. Local residents Arthur and Mrs Peckinpaugh visited with Mrs Baoder. Steinhour spent the weekend with his mother. Rye farm work and field hauling for Cronin and Wood continue. Mud and improvements mark the recent days as sprawl of activity continues.
Local notes recount visitors and illness. Herman and Otis Christensen visit family, Whitcomb of Ogden stops by, and Frank Kennedy returns from Camp Lewis on furlough. Mentions of pneumonia hospital transfers and neighbors Lutie Franklin and Maggie Magny appear in unsettled schedule.
Claude Hamilton announces purchase of Lincoln Securities with Dr Francis J Buss and E L Smith as advisers. The firm will only market stocks fully investigated, funds directed to development, and supervise expenditures. It endorses Polaris Petroleum, Lincoln Wyoming Petroleum, and Kemmerer Big Piney of and Refining stocks as prudent pre sale and pre organization offerings.
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