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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1918
Page
8
In Sinton, nurses Mianes Simms Nell Walton Miss Wolléngein and others provided care and cooking for flu patients at the detention hospital in the County Building. Simms Nell and Walton aided recovery and earned community admiration for their service.
Private Andeas Blickfeldt spent hours in Kemmerer returning home by telegram due to his wife s illness. He had trained at Colorado College Colorado Springs and praised the soldiers treatment by Capt. Rudd and 2nd Lieutenant Denman, noting the fine clothing and meals provided to the men.
William Gibbs McAdoo urges loyal, sympathetic men to back the President in wartime policies. He warns that repudiation in Congress and the upcoming election would irreparably harm the President and America's wartime influence.
Mr. Blickfeldt notes ten of fifteen Lincoln County men at Colorado Springs have had the fit with only Ro verte and Angelo suffering severe attacks. Seven deaths among 450 in camp indicate the epidemic is nearly over. Blick plans to return to the Camera office after the war.
Telegram from Kemmerer reports the death of Alex Salmon in Purley Idaho from pneumonia after influenza. He is a brother of T Hunter Salmon of Kemmerer and leaves a wife at Burley along with several brothers and sisters. Burial will be at the old family home in Coalville with the funeral today. Mr Salmon was known in Kemmerer and Green River Valley for years on the Salmon Brothers ranch. T Hunter Salmon was in Salt Lake City at the time and will attend the funeral before returning to Kemmerer.
A dramatic monologue by Bob Carey complains of pressure to join World War I. He mocks calls for duty, questions patriotism, and weighs sacrificing wealth and comfort versus risking life. The speaker seeks safety at home, imagining family needs and ranch duties would suffer if he goes to war.
The Civil Service Commission announces the post office clerk examination scheduled for October 26 1918 in Kemmerer Wyoming is postponed to November 23 1918. Both men and women aged 18 to 45 may apply with a salary of 1000 dollars per year. Applications may be secured from the Kemmerer postmaster or local secretaries in Rock Springs and Spokane.
A notice states Christmas parcels to American Expeditionary Force members overseas must not exceed three pounds each and require a coupon or label. Red Cross provides 9x3x4 inch cartons. deliver to the nearest Red Cross room for weighing before the November 20 deadline.
The Lincoln County Red Cross chapter received from Division headquarters in Denver an army allotment of three hundred pairs of pajamas. The order, placed by the Surgeon General with the American Red Cross, requires careful inspection and 100 percent perfection. A large stock of refugee clothing remains plus seven hundred knitted foxes, and every helper is urged to respond by calling Mrs. C. M. Whitney or Mrs. Harry A. Trost.
The National Phonograph Records Recruiting Corps based in New York urges phonograph owners to donate unused records for wartime use. From October 26 to November 2 volunteers will draft items through 500 corps committees nationwide to boost morale and support troops overseas in rough conditions.
Cadet R C Sheridan describes how a phonograph and records lift spirits in a French camp. Men hike less somberly, sing and whistle on march days, raising morale. Campaigns in Kemmerer rally to send thousands of records to the Photograph Records Recruiting Corps in the current week.
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