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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1917
Page
12
In Jackson Hole the beef market shows buyers from Jackson and Victor Idaho shipping 42 carloads on October 16 at 84 cents per pound. Local life highlights include soldiers in France, school improvements, a new Jackson School wing, and flood season chatter about the Teton Pass road and a repaired bridge.
Big Piney and vicinity report marriages in Kemmerer and nearby areas. Also notes on ranch activity, dance celebrating fall roundup, a saddlery business opening, and visits by locals to New York. Mentions oil leases, local professionals, and movement of families. Includes miscellaneous items from Life magazine and old recipes.
Special correspondence notes farmers threshing amid drought with grain yields slightly below last year. Potato crops prove exceptionally good, the best in the valley. N. J. Hemmert ships beef cattle to Omaha, preferring cattle sales over hay cost. A. J. Palmer seeks dairy cows for Burton Creamery Association, which plans easy payments to patrons.
D N Wray manager of the Mutual Creamery Thayne district travels to Salt Lake City for company business and will inspect factories at Etna Thayne Grover Idaho Georgetown Laketown and Randolph. Leonard Wray son of O N Wray hosts October gathering and leaves for Rupert Idaho to attend school this winter. Mrs Hokanson is critically ill. Vernon Pape and family visit Bedford as Fred Neuenschwander builds a large modern house. G W Stringfellow plans a high grade dairy herd for his Hedford ranch. Etna store building starts. Cooper of Pocatello notes need for another store. A J Clark sells Etna interests and plans to move to Utah.
Robert J. Martin of Daniel sells his ranching interests and moves to city life. NP Johnson and Mrs. Maughan purchase the 1280 acre ranch with 150 head of cattle and household goods. The Martins now own two Logan residences with orchards and equipment. Johnson and Maughan plan to move families to the Wyoming site and join the valley community with eight residents total.
A new roller mill will begin operation soon in Hina under the leadership of J. J. Crook who serves as president of the forming company. Crook possesses a prime power site on his ranch suitable for the mill. Meanwhile Mosare Roberts and Jacobaon, prominent stockgrowers of Etna, are moving cattle from the sunny range near Gray's River.
A fragment discusses parents rarely being at home together and compares character to marble, noting changes in bodies and minds over time. The dialogue hints at imperfect permanence and evolving nature of family life.
The readable text is garbled with repeated phrases and incomplete sentences. It mentions a toe, chest, and various disjointed terms, likely OCR noise rather than a coherent news item. No clear names, dates, places, or events emerge to summarize.
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