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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1918
Page
9
In a rallying call Lincoln County pledges not to slacken in the current Liberty Loan. Officials warn of danger the loan may fall short and urge every man and woman to subscribe generously within three days. Meetings and bank visits are planned to place names on subscriber lists.
Star Valley mourns the loss of LeRoy Porter of Fairview, killed by Spanish influenza while stationed at a New Jersey camp before overseas service. Porter, auto mechanic trainee from Kemmerer to Logan, married June to Mellie Parker of Lanark Idaho, died as his brother also fell to the illness.
Mrs Wallace Salmon died this morning at her parents home in Diamondville after a brief illness. Doctor Tucker diagnosed pneumonia. Her husband, in France training with the 46th company, left Kemmerer last April. They had married about a month before his departure. she was 18, he 21. Survived by her husband and T Hunter Salmon as a brother.
Mine Superintendent John Faddie says Cumberland has forty influenza cases, eight with pneumonia. No deaths yet, several in critical condition. Two nurses and Mrs Hunter and Mrs John Faddie have tended patients with limited sleep. Rumor of Olen Blackler's death is false. both men are recovering.
Erroneous notices in the Kemmerer Republican and the Cokeville Register delayed official registration. Registrars failed to hold five days beginning the fourth Tuesday before the general election and two days starting the twelfth day before. Voters without registration by the 24th or 26th risk missing the election. Registration is required in all incorporated towns and railroad line precincts with over 100 votes cast previously.
A near fatal fight broke out Monday morning at Jadot Hotel when three Japanese guests argued through the night. One man sustained a neck wound requiring ten stitches at Dr Marquis's office. The other two were jailed. A preliminary hearing is set for the afternoon on the charges filed against Liem. All men are strangers in Kemmerer.
Dr D Stafford was called to attend Frank Hosenstein's son of Kemmerer yesterday. The boy rode an Elkot with a meat peddler, started the auto, could not stop it, and sustained a broken leg. Hospital treatment followed and the boy is getting along nicely.
Three Liberty Loan teams did effective work Saturday soliciting subscriptions in Kemmerer. Kemmerer Savings Bank offered a $4.15 thrift stamp to the team with the most subscribers. Joe Pia and Andrew Morr won the prize, though they were second in total money subscribed. Jan Rosenberg and T. Hunter Salman raised about $10,000, Big Koi Dan Sullivan about $0, and Joe Pir and Andrew Morrow gathered about $3,860.
Bill Langriilal paid off his debt last week after spending months on Harold Moon’s ranch in the Upper country and arriving in Kommerer on Monday.
At the request of the Liberty Bond Loan Committee of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank this paper will publish next week a complete list of subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan with the amount of each subscription opposite the name Subscribe an amount you will be proud to see in print.
Kemmerer imposes strict quarantine along with Diamondville Oakley Glencoe Ethol Conroy Frontier Sublet and No 6 mine. Guards on roads block entry from infected areas and rail tickets to Kemmerer are no longer sold. Nearby Evanston reports vary on cases and deaths as nurses and doctors are scarce.
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