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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1917
Page
17
Afton hosted a ceremony at the new Star Valley High School in honor of the board of education. Faculty members and the superintendent demonstrated strong cooperation, praising education as a priceless heirloom for future generations and noting the sound basis of local schooling.
The Camera urges Lincoln County residents to attend a Nov 2 social dance in Kemmerer held in connection with Vice President Marshall's visit. The event aims to unite four to five county sections and foster cross county mingling and new acquaintances.
The Camera boasts countywide reach and reports growth in subscriptions. It invites readers to become correspondents, especially in the Green River valley, with paid duties for weekly county news coverage.
The piece urges all families to purchase at least one liberty bond. It notes economy is essential, money saved earns 4 percent interest, and the bonds are absolutely safe. The funds are portrayed as a prudent reserve for future rainy days.
A Jackson Hole resident boasted he could subsist on spuds and elk meat if needed this season. He already has plenty of potatoes and simply rises early to select game from a hillside herd nearby. Lucky dog.
A report from sheep men shows a large portion of Lincoln County lambs shipped to market in 1917. Lambs are selling around 16 cents per pound locally, with Omaha markets paying 17 to 18 cents.
The Wyoming Tribune notes Watt Brandon and the Pinedale Roundup era as part of Glenrock lore. J B Higgins and his wife promote Glenrock’s new newspaper The Gazette as Burlington Railroad eyes growth, planning a river bridge and town improvements boosting Glenrock’s standing in the Wyoming district.
Editor Weds John F. Whitney of Mc Cammon News and brother of C M Whitney Kemmerer in Pocasseto last Saturday. Whitney formerly worked at Kemmerer Camera plant and now runs the Mc Cammon paper. his wife Katherine Barron was cashier of the McCammon Investment Company.
Madeline Fearn of Diamondville died Saturday morning at Marquis hospital after several days illness caused by yellow jaundice. Funeral services were held Monday at the L. D. Church in Diamondville. Survived by her mother and several brothers in the area. relatives from Evanston attended.
Gus Patrioas, a Cumberland miner, suffered a broken thigh and bruises from a coal fall at about midnight Monday. He was transported to Lincoln County Miners Hospital Tuesday morning and is reported to be progressing well.
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