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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1917
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Tom Jones report a letter from their son Tom serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He recounts surviving U S Antilles sinking, dodging submarines between England and France, and details life at Bordeaux and Army YMCA posts.
A sixty carload shipment of cattle is set to depart Opal today if cars can be secured. The cattle arrived earlier this week from the herds of James Chrisman John Budd Elmer Budd Henry Budd and A Oster.
J Charles Rumsech and W W Luce returned from Omaha with 11 carloads of cattle belonging to Mr Luce and sold at 10.5 cents per pound there. Floyd Norris and Charles Noble are also in Omaha with 30 carloads. The Big Piney shipment begins now in earnest.
Miss Ethel Pfeiffer daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Pfeiffer wed Lieutenant Wim B Cobb of the 21st Cavalry at Kemmerer Sunday The ceremony was at the parents home Rev E F Clower officiated Port Riley Fort Benning alumnus of the University of Wyoming Captain Daly attended as a guest and spoke of the cadet class Today the couple left for Fr Riley and the groom's mother Mrs A H Cobb attended The wedding drew a small circle of family and friends and marked a notable local event for Kemmerer society
Local items cover theater tax changes effective after November, barber services, inmate health news, deer hunting trips, appendicitis surgeries, travel to Idaho and California, school speed tests, bridge construction over Green River, sheep industry updates, bakery promotions, furloughs and transfers, Army visits, and corner coroner activities with regional travel notes and social dispatches.
Classified column notes small ad rates and tips for selling items renting space and seeking services. It mentions ten cents per line per insertion and invites readers to place notices for sale rent lost found and help wanted with concise phrasing.
Advertisement notice offering cleaning and alloying works by Frank Malrick Phoss 80 and household furniture for sale. Includes phone contact, brief details, and a low price offer with possible parceling into four lots. office location referenced as Camera offices.
Local items from Kemmerer Wyoming note Wednesdays and Fridays sewing circles and Thursdays knitting with no Tuesday meetings. A $250 Edison fine was levied at Willard Home by Kemmerer Hardware. Residents Rovette, Marbleton, Wilson, Youe, Nikanen, and Jorgenson appear in transit or business moves, with various sales and jobs listed. The Kemmerer Camera publishes an ownership statement and local notices as part of weekly operations.
The Maurice Tourneur World Film Feature titled A No 1 will be shown at the New Kemmerer Theatre on Monday and Tuesday November 11 and 6. The program includes Jim Lewis stunts and a comparison with A No 1’s feats.
A collection of community notes reports visits by John Angelo and others in Kemmerer Rock Springs and Green River valley draft training camp plans for American Lake Henry Sammon and Mes Katherine Smith hosts and parties updates on local errands property improvements and a hunting trip by Tom Sneddon Pred Chapin Burt Smalling and Lee Chesney elk sightings near Kemmerer and surrounding towns
George Whitten manager of the New Kemmerer theatre says war taxes on seating, admissions, incomes and extra profits plus a music tax and film industry levy strain small motion picture houses. He notes exhibitors follow law, with admission taxes starting November first. Also mentions local travel and personal items among brief town notes.
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