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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1918
Page
5
Local notes from Kemmerer detail arrivals and departures, visits, and small business. Oscar Wright visits from Ogden for ten days, Eastlicks and Bailick relatives travel, and several residents plan hunting trips or relocations. Sales ads for surveying gear and lambs appear, plus staff changes at Kemmerer Hotel and local rail duties.
A Denver Music Company notice offers a high grade piano stored in Kemmerer for immediate sale at sacrifice with flexible terms. In Cumberland, Bob Swift resigned as deputy sheriff after about a year. Dave Boyce was appointed and confirmed by the County Commissioner. Boyce also serves as a watchman for the Ion Pacific Coal Company in Cumberland.
A call was received Monday morning at the Loew draft office for twelve men to entrain for Fort MacArthur Calif on the twenty first of the month Notices have been sent by the draft clerk to entrants Favelle Hf Rich Afton Clement F Dalley Driggs Idaho John Broad bent Thayne August 4 Jarvie Frontier Hughie Roberts Frontier Wilford A Porter Cokeville Bruce L Gardner Aston Harvey H Steed Auburn Henry P Willis Coke ville Louis Roberta Flemming Te fous Hromst Foss Thayne
Season ticket sales for the Redpath Lyceum Course will be held Saturday October 12 at the City Drug Store starting at 10 a m.
Preparations are under way for the United War Work drive from October 1 to 18. The federation unites YMC A YWCA Jewish Welfare Board American Library Association Catholic War Council Salvation Army and National War Camp Community Service under one campaign. Governor B H Brooke named state chairman. county committee elected with Mrs Mason Mrs Whitten and Mr Rose in key posts. County quota set at 16000 with precinct chairmen appointed to lead efforts.
Ranch near the border ten miles north of Cokeville offers 175 acres irrigated with improvements. Price 22 per acre with 1000 down, balance at 6 percent. Includes cattle, 175 head of Cottewald Ewes, horses, machinery and tools. Contact Coboritle Wro Tapeh via mail.
A telegram to T C Russell of Diamondville says his brother Lieutenant Horace Russell is very ill with Spanish influenza. He formerly lived in Diamondville and is in training at a Dallas camp, Texas.
Five Kemmerer boys—Cliford Bell Mahlon Quealy Frank Christmas George Easton and William Hunter—traveled to Salt Lake City to enlist. Navy enlistments were closed so they tried the Marine recruiting office and were enrolled among Uncle Sam's Fighting Devils. They returned home awaiting a call within two weeks.
Telegram from Arthur Long reports the death of his brother Claude Long aged 18 from Spanish influenza during military training in Texas. Claude left Kemmerer in July, lived with his mother and brothers Burt and Arthur between Sage and Fossil, and his body will be brought back to Kemmerer for interment.
Lincoln County Garage manager Hiatt Wilson plans a rapid move from the old fortroyed site to the former Kemmerer Steam Laundry on Pine Avenue. Within three or four days the garage will open with Chandler and Dodge cars, offering general repair work. Front office and showroom will face the street. rear houses the repair shop as plate already holds several new cars for prompt delivery.
Mrs. William Bell of Loganaport expresses strong thanks for Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She states a severe attack of ill health three years ago was relieved by the medicine, calling it the only remedy that helped.
Mrs Elizabeth Delaney who has lived on the Green River ranch for fifteen years sold 42 head of cattle 14 horses and extensive machinery to Henry Battisti in Kemmerer. She has leased the ranch to Batuall for five years and moved to Diamondville.
The Stars and Stripes declares that any peace without victory is a betrayal. It likens enemy peace aims to German machine gunners and urges Americans to stand firm for a victory driven peace through continued wartime resolve. The Fourth Liberty Loan is framed as a test of this stance.
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