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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1911
Page
4
CG Van Brendes a printer and proprietor at Record-Herald worked daily 4000 to 9000 words. He traveled west two years ago with his family and spurred Kemmerer Wyoming coverage in eastern papers. A friend of M. S. Kemmerer and P. J. Quealy.
A garbled report notes a graduate from Iowa attending a high school in Acking. It mentions exams given across high school subjects last week as part of a routine weeklong assessment sequence.
Joan Hawny Surre, a member of the first presidency of the Mormon church, died last week leaving two wives, fifteen children and eighteen grandchildren. The Montpelier post office is now a postal savings office opening Oct. 13. There is rejoicing in California over equal suffrage victory while strike tensions show little change.
Mrs Noyes, 86, of Laramie, crafted a two yard square log cabin quilt for a friend in Boston last spring. The green and pink silk with white centers, scalloped edge, and fine stitches show her skill. She is honored at the 2nd annual convention and will host next in Rock Springs in 1912, while praised for lifelong needlework and vitality.
Two high school basketball games are arranged between Evanston and Kemmerer. The first will be at the Kemmerer ball park at 4 p m Saturday October 21 with the second likely in Evanston a week later. Admission 60 cents and 50 cents helps defray travel costs. Supt. Coverdale and the team will be guests at the Saturday evening event.
A Uinta County library section in Diamondville has about 100 volumes and open to the public Wednesdays seven to eight. A new cyclopedia is in each district school. Mountain Trading Co offers prizes for perfect attendance and spelling high percent of words. Attendance report covers month ending September 29, 1911.
Lewis Travis a prominent Big Piney rancher and Mrs. Travis returned from an annual vacation through Yellowstone park Jackson Hole and Fall River Basin. He praised the Jackson Hole country predicting a bright future. They were in Jackson for the frontier celebration and plan to visit Minnesota and Los Angeles after a brief stay in Winona Minneapolis and St Paul before returning home.
The Kemmerer School hosts a box social and free dance Saturday evening in the school building with games for non dancers. Ladies bring boxes for two, aims to raise funds to decorate and equip the school and promote community ties among parents, students, and friends.
Work started Wednesday on a lot north of the Rathbun rooming house near the Oucar Potorean residence. Developer M Kemmerer plans a two story brick structure with a 78 foot footprint and basement. The first floor is 14 feet high to be used as a store, while the second floor will have a 10 foot ceiling.
Local Kemmerer notices cover bakery sales cigars hardware and furniture, housing moves and new homes, a marriage license, a benefit dance, medical visits and travel for residents, plus railroad fencing work and livestock company travel notices. Several names and places appear including Kemmerer Rock Springs Diamondville Evanston Albion Neb Topeka Kansas and Piney.
A stream of short items from Kemmerer town includes visitors and moves of residents such as Alvin Anderson and the Larne family, dances at Frontier Hall, and upcoming school events. Mentions of church activities, road and housing work, and local trades paint a busy civic week with many residents traveling to nearby towns and returning with stories.
The Union Pacific completed double tracking the main line from Julesburg to a point near Oslo, covering 152 miles of the 1000 mile route. The project included rock work and signals from Omaha to Sudenburg, with work advancing to install the double track on the Genther Pacific road.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a reward and names a place Cakeville Wye with unclear attribution F Boner. The readable hints indicate a notice offering compensation connected to a person or event, but essential details and full meaning remain missing.
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