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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1917
Page
4
The page lists advertising rates by month and by the inch per week and includes a trading notices section. It also provides Cumberland train times from Kemmerer daily except Sunday with morning departure at 7 a m and return at 5 46 p m. notice indicates second class mail status.
The Kemmerer city election drew heavy turnout in both precincts signaling strong public interest and support for the Citizens ticket. The piece expresses optimism about the outgoing administration and calls for national unity and wartime efforts, highlighting the president's choice of a diverse commission to study conditions in Russia and strengthen U S and allied ties.
Thomas Grvon led the Safety First Bureau unit at the Union Pack lines spending several days last week at the Cumberland mines. Mr Clheon organized the Safety First group and kept a steady presence at the camps on track with active safety steps. The initiative drew strong interest from miners and their families alike.
Mr. Gibson led a program focusing on first aid including stopping bleeding and handling suffocation and live wire burns. The effort now includes a Cumberland camp network with No 1 officers Andrew Bohn and William McClean and No 2 officers Dougal ArcWilliams and Lyman Fearn. A ladies first aid team meets Mondays and aims to provide Red Cross training for women who may become nurses in the current war.
Four locators in the Elk Basin oil field sold their interests for 100000 dollars each after months of royalties up to 51800. Original holders included J T Hurst and wife Mary E Hurst of Greybull Wyo and several Worland Basin investors. The 2000 acre property was first leased to C L Woods and Ed Good with nine in the deal. Total sale for the nine partners neared 277000 dollars as royalties surged during winter.
The Wyoming State Highway Commission approved about 60,000 dollars in federal funds for county road projects under a dollar-for-dollar plan. Counties must match federal money, and several districts including Natrona, Albany, and Lincoln are slated for bridge and road improvements, with surveys coordinated jointly and planned work set to begin immediately.
Oil notes describe Salt Lake City tied investment interest in Wyoming fields. A Hill Basin Wyoming Oil Co representative, based in Salt Lake City, visits Kemmerer this week to discuss stock sales. Machinery bound for Plaine Oil Co. arrived in Opal last weekend and is being unloaded. Cretaceous Oil Co. of Big Piney invites many of its trio to Dry Piney for company meetings amid drilling activity renamed after a winter’s rent.
Land transfers listed with names buyers and sellers, locations, sections and towns in Kemmerer Piney Drive Big Piney and surrounding areas. Dates range 1915 to 1936 with amounts from 1 to 1500 dollars. Transactions involve Farrow Ames Luman Downey Brooks Wilson and others in section township ranges.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Liniment as a great remedy for rheumatism. It claims rapid relief and asserts the product's value exceeds its cost for the user.
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