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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1917
Page
12
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Urges timely mailing of Christmas parcels to soldiers in France on the 17th to ensure the ship with bundles for the Mmedies reaches them. Appeals to readers to remember the boys in muddy trenches and offer gifts and cheer, noting their sacrifice and the need for support this Christmas season.
A town map shows Kemmerer with a planned city park below the Miners' hospital. The fenced site will serve as a summer outing spot for families and children. By next year, the tract could become a garden, thanks to the city administration and donor Mr Queasy.
City authorities advance plans for a fine city park and playground. An iron fence ordered months ago has arrived and been installed. City Clerk Rosenberg holds a plot showing walks lined with trees and extensive playground equipment for children. A future boulevard will grace the park’s drive.
Contractor Charles Hutt began work on two new houses between the county jail and the city park. One home will be brick and the other frame, both planned as five room bungalows.
Yesterday afternoon light white flakes fell across Kemmerer covering ground three to four inches before melting. The sight gave residents a welcome taste of real winter and prompted local notice.
After a ten day delay for cars, a group including Frank Ball and others visited officials in Salt Lake City to press the OBL for the car situation. 43 carloads were shipped from Ops yards late last week. Names of those involved in the shipment include John Budd Fred Beck H J Budd James Chrisman Harry Munn and Dan Budd. Al Onterhout and Frank Ball still had cattle shipped and waiting at the yards but relief was expected within days. Cattlemen believed the long wait did not much reduce weight due to ideal weather and ample hay.
C Watt Brandon completes a sale of his Kemmerer residence consisting of three lots and three houses to Abner Davis for 6000 dollars. Davis plans to improve the vacant land with a large modern apartment building and to sink a water well. Brandon and wife have spent summer and fall at Lava Hot Springs Idaho and intend to return to Kemmerer, with Brandon considering future Wyoming newspaper work. Delos Brandon attends school in Long Beach California.
A Ford stands out with torpedo-shaped white wheels and a bright red enamel coat. It was fixed up in the mechanical rooms of the Wpeto-Date Auto company and draws admiring glances for its stylish look and well crafted details.
A reception by the Vestry and Guild of St James Church is planned in Guild Hall tomorrow evening to honor Rev and Mrs Morton Joslin. All church members and friends are invited to attend.
Mrs teasisuag and Mrs James Jeneen led pledge efforts in Tig Piney last week focusing on conservation of food. They organized volunteers and collected pledges to support local food conservation initiatives.
Aiken forester Johnson heals from a canyon fall in western Wyoming under Norson cabin care. Lenora Norson, eager to attend music school, serenades him, sparking mutual attraction as a romance unfolds during a summer recovery. The nurse suggests a continuing exchange of evenings for songs.
Reports from the Piney fells describe a promising oil discovery on a Cretaceous dome near La Barge. The Guffy Interests field superintendent Charles Lackey led investigations, drilling wells showing indications of a large, high grade oil district with parasine bane and strong market excitement.
The Food Administration enacted new rules effective November 1 prohibiting manufacturers wholesalers and handlers from selling to retailers that set excessive prices or speculate with food. Smaller retailers are exempt from licensing but subject to other provisions. Violators cannot obtain supplies and will be watched by state Food Administration offices which report to Washington. Most honest dealers are protected. the行动 targets only hardened violators during the wartime emergency.
The Charlotte News reports no arrests among northwest troops from Camp Green during their southern stay. Horace Moore lauds the western sailors as courteous and law abiding, noting only minor provost guard actions for staying out late. The piece also mentions Kemmerer visitors and a local theater crowd enjoying The Wizard of Wiseland, plus a wry note on orators promising a nutshell.
Enthusiastic crowds packed the New Kemmerer theater with long lines down the block for screenings of Mothers of France on Monday and Tuesday November 14 and 20. The film, praised for its graphic depiction of fighting France, reportedly received broad civil and military cooperation and showed Poilus in trench-stained uniforms.
Former Golden Rule employee Steorge Linton came back after a brief California draft and a leave. About fifty carloads of stock owned by Al Onterhout, A. W. Smith, and Frank Ball left Opal yesterday for market.
A local note highlights Olive Thomas in the production Broadway Arizona a romantic cowboys tale about a kidnap plot of a Broadway queen. Written and directed by Lyno FP Reynolds the show runs at the New Kemmerer theatre on Gunday.
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