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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1912
Page
4
The piece notes increasing female participation in politics during the election year. It lists suffrage status across six states and tallies voting age women, highlighting Colorado Utah Wyoming Washington California figures including counts of Negro women and other groups, all from the Rock Springs Rocket.
The younger girls in Kemmerer organized a club named the G A C choosing Alice Calverley as president Marion Scott as secretary and treasurer The group plans monthly parties and occasional dances but will not reveal the meaning of the letters G A C
Work advances at United States Coal Co Conroy with main slope at about 1100 feet and entries turning. Rooms breaking off, steel tipple construction underway, other buildings progressing, and railroad grade nearing completion on the Moyer end though laying of steel will be delayed.
In Japanese Hospital B Itaya, manager of the Kemmerer Steam Laundry, is due back from Ogden the latter part of the week after a three week stay as an inmate. He sustained a broken leg years ago while working in the mines and recently required another operation to reset the leg.
Mrs Martha Law mother of Mrs Wm Roberts died in Kemmerer last evening. She will be buried from Montpelier on Friday. She leaves a family of eleven and had been in poor health for about twelve years due to age. She was 72 years old.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a sinking project with uncertain timeline. Mentions well depth, pumping progress between specific dates, and transportation of water. Details are garbled and names unclear.
The Big Piney Examiner notes a thriving townsite with building under way and ample lumber. New streets are Miney Driveway, Smith Avenue, Budd Avenue, Black Avenue, Quealy Avenue, Mickelam Street, Fish, Nichols Street, and Dodge Street. Coolidge oversees Budd Avenue work despite weather challenges.
Fire at the Short Line shops in Vocatello destroyed the coach house mail and paint shops and damaged rolling stock including two dining cars and eight coaches. Loss is estimated at 160000 with reconstruction planned near 200000. Superintendent J F Dunn surveyed the scene and immediate rebuilding was expected.
A letter from Idaho informs that Ben Lowrie killed in an Idaho railroad crash was not the son of D. F. Lowrie, once an agent in this city. The mistaken report caused readers to believe a Kemmerer death involved the same name, but the Idaho Falls casualty is a different individual.
Special pictures to be shown at the New Keromerer theater Friday evening for St Patrick's church. Local talent will perform specialities by Memore Fred Jennings Raymond Cvera and Morgin Kavanagh. Regular prices apply.
A switch accident occurred last week when a switch engine threw a car onto a warehouse siding. The derailed car damaged two cars and wrecked one full of potatoes, scattering the produce across the yard and damaging nearby equipment.
A burst of town items includes theater listings at the Kemmerer venues, masquerade and annual balls, book notices, found items, and local business promos. Also noted are travel plans, visits, hospital work progress, a new produce market, insurance and banking mentions, and weather-affected road conditions.
The Kemmerer Goal Company established a diamond drill west of Frontier to determine coal quantity by sinking a hole about 100 feet ahead of No 1 slope face. The opening lies roughly 5,000 feet from the entrance to No 1 mine main slope, which will be extended farther west. The drill will reach about 1,000 feet depth. Coal in No 1 mine is high grade.
The bulletin notes Suttons plans to visit Denver to see his sister after recent cattle sales yielding near five dollars per cow and five fifty for Atoors. It also mentions local visits, illnesses, a few campaign stops by candidates, bakery ads, and various residents traveling or shopping in Kemmerer and nearby towns.
Early returns indicate Republicans winning Lincoln county by about 200, with Cranney and Jensen possible in doubt. Mondell leading in Congress. Roosevelt congratulates Wilson. Wyoming appears in Democratic column though Utah Vermont show Republican and Progressive results elsewhere. Jackson Hole foresees Democratic majorities for some tickets. several county officials projected as Republican winners.
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