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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
16
Kemmerer Blyth-Fargo-Hoskins J F Firepatrick and C A Christmas promote War Savings Stamps at Kemmerer Hardware and Furniture Co. Mountain Trading Co. Buy War Savings Stamps in Diamondville with branches in Evanston and Rock Springs.
County commissioners at a Thursday meeting pledged to advance the Hamsfork road project, the session focusing on data gathering for cost estimates. A boosters group led by Mickey Cavene y and Albert Parr pleaded for road construction while another delegation from Jackson's Hole secured a free Snake River ferry for autos with no further charges. The outcome hinges on surveyed data from coal maps and Uintah surveys to determine total costs.
Aboard a corporate unit, officials discuss restructuring and new accounting measures. The hotel office coordinates a double entry ledger while directors ponder governance changes and financial controls.
An OCR readout parodies a medical ad touting a complex complexion claim and a list of ingredients and products. It mentions a doctor and various vaguely described cures and a city drug store with scattered names and dates, all in a jumbled, garbled form.
Christian Vrang chief geologist for Associated Oil Company said the firm leased about 9 000 acres in La Barge Piney and Lincoln county markets. He called the field the wildest of wildcats and noted the potential for a local refinery using Lincoln Idaho crude with an expected 200 gallons daily output. Wrang travels to New York and Boulder to study the West flank of the Wind River range for further exploration.
The Kemmerer Day program features a student play titled Coming Up, led by Buna Scott. A Thursday high school commencement address by Editor F. J. Burridge will precede a musical program including The Two Millys. Ralph Rosenberg delivers the salutatory and Edna Scott the valedictory.
A benefit performance for the Children's Playground fund is set for Tuesday evening at Kemmerer theatre. Local talent will present a vaudeville bill, and Clara Kimball Young stars in The Road Through the Dark as the feature film. Proceeds from the night will go to the Children's Misyeround. Opal Shearing concludes with 22100 head clipped to date under Gearre Watta, but wool sales figures remain unreported.
In Omaha on May 12 two scientists Dr. Frederick H. Millener and Harvey Gamer pursue a wireless link to the god of war to seek explanations about the late hostilities. They work nightly beside a powerful wireless receiving setup in a small upstairs room of a Nebraska farmhouse. The item also notes Wyoming guardsmen, grazing fee deferrals, and a possible Standard Oil survey for gas prospects in the La Barge Dry Piney area.
Sheridan Wyoming May 12 A scathing arraignment of the present administration by Governor Robert D Carey was the standout at the Republican state convention. Carey criticized war home government and the Mexican tangle, disparaging the administration's record on each topic. The afternoon session featured broad resolutions on state and national issues as Carey urged Republicans to retain Congressman Mondell.
The Kemmerer Boy Scouts under Mr Brink organize four patrols to clean up the town and remove eye sores while Osage oil field shows high activity with new rigs. Upton notes Midwest leases 400 acres near the townsite.
City council delayed action on closing Emerald street amid strong pro and con testimony from owners and residents. Attorney Christmas warned the move would exceed authority, while Mayor Salmon backed the plan to create a park between two schools and urged replacing the street with a safer route and signs to curb speeding near the school.
People learn treating chronic muscular rheumatism with internal medicine wastes time and money. About 99 of 100 cases respond to external care. Apply Chamberlain's Liniment freely for relief. It costs 30 cents per bottle, large 60 cents.
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