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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
18
A brief notice notes that a rival paper ran a full bridge reconstruction story a week earlier, criticizing the Republican publication for reprinting racy slave‑story details and accusing it of duplicating existing coverage from the Camera before exposing new details on Snake River bridge aid controversy.
The town salutes spring as the most beautiful season bringing fresh viewpoints and joy. It contrasts with brutal winter and grim autumn, noting spring’s clean air, energy, and renewal for both adults and children despite poverty in other regions.
A compact Emersonian riff on individuality urging each person to cultivate and express their own gifts rather than imitate others. It argues that every great man is unique, impossible to fully teach by others, and that one should do what is assigned, living in simple noble regions of life and daring, to reproduce the Foreworld.
The Central Federated Union of New York City instructs members not to join the American Legion citing Legion members aligning with the public against striking workers. They claim the A E F went to France to fight for rights to strike rather than American interests. The Kentucky publisher retires with 50000 from industry and an inheritance of 49999.60 amid questions of the extra 0.50.
Governor Robert D. Carey designates May 28 to 29 as Forest Protection Week urging citizens to prevent and suppress fires in mountain forests. Churches schools and civic groups to disseminate information through talks and addresses during the observance. Done at the Executive Office April 28, 1920 with Great Seal of Wyoming.
Herbert Hoover and Senator Hiram Johnson lead Wyoming in the Literary Digest poll of eleven million voters for the presidential race with Johnson in front locally. The Digest national tally shows Johnson atop the Republican contenders with Lowden and Hughes following. McAdoo leads the labor vote. Local figures cite Johnson 240, Hoover 220, Lowden 196, Wood 190, McAdoo 112, with national delegates: Wood 90, Lowden 75, Johnson 10, Harding 42, Poindexter 14.
May 12 Washington D C The War Department has returned unclaimed discharge certificates for nineteen Wyoming soldiers and one travel pay back. Senator Kendrick, citing Colonel Fred W Hoschen, seeks current addresses for listed veterans Adams Shannon J Charles J Hyland Frank W McDonald Ernest G Steepleton Eugene J Wendel James B Billups Joseph Hermann Jacobs Johnston Robert M Osborne Russell P Swain Gueil Vinant Wilson James L Coyle Martin O Hulburd Arthur D Kyser Ora B Packer William Tabera Jack Wilson Thomas B and Edward N Johnson.
Twenty five thousand dollars is the indebtedness sortificata recorded in Pannell County. The county treasurer notes the action on the eleventh day, with the No. 1 percent salted mi and withheld oe mi Mt, per official filing.
The National Sheep and Wool Bureau reports over 1.265 billion pounds of virgin wool stored in world storehouses since World War I, with 700 million pounds in U S stock last September. It urges passage of the Truth in Fabric bill to reveal wool content, aiming for honest cloth and cheaper wool and meat. The piece also notes a real estate sale description and court clerk signatures dated May 8, 1920.
Sheriff D. C. Oakley traveled to Cheyenne on Sunday to testify before a federal grand jury regarding the seizure by county authorities of a complete moonshine outfit at Frontier last February. The raid revealed that the mine camp was run as a thriving white mule operation, drawing wide local interest in Lincoln County.
Notice in the Wyoming district probate court that J T Van Kinks administrator has filed a return of sale of real estate of James W Fleming deceased No 454 with a hearing set for a Saturday in 1920 at Evans ton county state to review the return and approve the sale
A notary public J A Christmas swore to an unspecified balance as of May 1980.
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