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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1920
Page
13
Local and personal notes recount visitors to Kemmerer from Cokeville, Ogden, and Big Piney, along with oil operators and ranchers checking fields. Prices, cleaning discounts, and business notes at Wyoming Cleaning & Pressing Club and other local services are mentioned, plus travel to Salt Lake and San Francisco events.
La Barge News reports Doc Sims and family camping on Conway creek for several days and Kemmerer visitations. Neighbors carry on routine business and social calls, with several locals visiting relatives in Kemmerer and Sublet. Ranchers near La Barge note oats sowing near completion and praise a favorable spring for farming.
Dr Huff of Jackson was summoned to the Van Vieck ranch for Mrs Edna Robinsons illness. John D Wertz resumes mail duties in the basin after May 16 schedule change. P O Bondurant plans oil-field trip once roads permit travel. Faris leaves for Daniel on business and contemplates summer ranch improvements. Butch Norris cattle return, signaling spring. Hills turn green, cattle to be driven. Cede Johnson works Bondurant ranch for bumper hay crop on share. Shel E Baker visits post office. Police Chief Embery and Officers Rounder and Ball in China face arrest warrants. Rumor of a book peddler offering How to Be Honest.
Do Your Best Everyone should do all he can to provide for his family and in order to do this he must keep his physical system in the heat condition possible. No one can reasonably hope to do much when he is half sick a good share of the time. If you are constipated bilious or troubled with indigestion for a package of Chamberlains Tablets and follow the plain directions, and you will soon feeling all right and able to do a day's work.
The Wyoming Public Health Association praises the State Board of Education for adopting the Modern Health Crusade as a standard in schools. Commissioner A. A. Slade is credited for presenting the matter and securing the adoption. The Crusade will be integrated into the year's hygiene work and tied to reading, language, driving and community civics.
The Jackson Hole Courier reports repeated mail delays as carriers cannot ford Snake River. Impatience grows toward county for ferry action after a Jackson delegation was assured maintenance once installed. State Engineer says the state nearly secured a deal with the Oregon Short Line for two steel bridges across Snake River.
Messrs Porter and Simpson set the ferry in shape yesterday enabling traffic and mail to resume. Chester Simpson and Claude Simpson, assisting to install the ferry and to lead it this summer, barely escaped drowning Tuesday when a strong wind drove the ferry under water. The craft submerged about twelve to fifteen feet, then reappeared after a docking, broke its cable fastening, drifted downstream, and lodged on a bar before crews could recover it.
Master of Ceremonies Alexis Scott warns of a Saturday rasslin match at Kemmerer theatre featuring Carl Dutch Anderson of Montepliev and Lyman Brown of Evanston. Each wrestler weighs about 145 pounds and both are evenly matched according to Alec.
The sale between K Hill et ux and James E. Penfold et ax covers Section B, Township 43, Range 118. Penfold paid $10,383.38 for the property in what is described as the most important realty deal in the past week.
The Boston Transcript sifts quirky items from New York and beyond. It cites jokes about bandits and revolutions, gossip on Water P. Tinian and Garnet Helen Clarke, plus a court case with Grant Clarke’s divorce and a song titled Tired of Me. Also noted are a New York halfback’s stair-climb wager and assorted light items.
Readable items show a Wednesday Thursday program with Stan Drury or Blanche Sweet in Fighting Cressy and An Eastern Westerner listed. No clear plot details, but the page lists double bills and actor names for June shows.
Andrew Morrow president and F A Jennings secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Lincoln County attend the biennial convention of the State Federation of Labor opening Monday in Cheyenne.
Ivan Nichols and Fred Perry of Cokeville and Allie Carrington a Kemmerer railroad man were initiated into the first degree of masonry Friday evening in Kemmerer Lodge No. 38 A F and A M. Newspapers tout old fashion newspaper man jokes while offering a life subscription with a sunds sack and a devil's line gauge as a bonus.
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