Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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1 years ago While the display of grains and vegetables was not so large as usual it made a splendid show. Music, ball games and sports of all kinds made the people happy. last Friday afternoon the first day of the third harvest festival was ushered in at this place by music, ball games, and sports. During the forenoon the exhibits of grain and vegetables were placed in position. Saturday the program was carried out by speaking: ball games, races and band music. Both evenings there were...
1 years ago The infant child of Mr. And Mrs. Wm. Perry died Monday evening and was buried in the Pine Bluffs cemetery. Last Sunday forty-eight friends and relatives gathered at the home of D. F. Rairigh and partook of the bountiful dinner, ice cream and cake. As most all of them had resided in Kansas at one time, the table was decorated with sunflowers. The dinner was given in honor of Mrs. Rairigh’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Bozroth, of Peabody, Kansas. Meets child he hadn’t seen: Dau...
1 years ago A.R. Whiteman of Salem has just completed the interior of his house by a coat of plaster. Otto Anderson was in town after a load of lumber with which to build a vestibule on the Grange hall at Albin. The weather man is getting quite generous with his moisture these days. He let down another downpour over Pine Bluffs again Wednesday evening. C.E. Worley, a farmer living southeast of Pine Bluffs, brought in 225 pounds of the juiciest, finest, most delicious tomatoes we have ever...
1 years ago We can’t see where the Union Pacific has made any progress toward placing a drain through the grade between town and the depot. Train No. 19 from the east at 1:44 p.m. will make Pine Bluffs a regular stop hereafter. This gives our citizens three trains westward. When one dish was passed, mamma said she just loved to eat of it, but that the food would not agree with her. Paxton said he liked bananas but he didn’t eat them. Then Jean, the five-year-old, said, “I love water...
1 years ago Everybody is eating roasting ears. There is good money in hogs and every farmer should have a few. Albin Anderson says he has the best crops in his neighborhood, and from the looks of things, his say is true, but James Johnson also claims honor for the best what is. Both are good and it will take the threshing machine to decide which is better. Shoshoni.- A bolt of lightning, which struck the residence of T.E. Prill, killed a sheep, a dog and a cat, which were sleeping in the same...
The Panhandle Senior Ladies Golf Association held their latest outing at Cottonwood Country Club in Torrington. Finishing in first place with 5 birdies was the team of Gail Magers, Sally Plover, Mary Ann Brothers, and Loretta Haught. Coming in second and shooting two birdies was the team of Mary Nielsen, Claudia Benda, Sharon Havely, and Donna Meier. Third place, with one birdie, was the team of Terry Espinoza, Beth Korell, Kip Fitzgibbon, and Margaret Lienemann. The team of Vickie Nemnich,...
1 years ago Montclair, N.J. - Mrs. John McKee, sixty-five years old of 83 Orange Road, appeared in the Montclair police court to make a charge of assault against her son John, twenty-seven years old. Mrs. McKee said her son attacked her in their home after they had quarreled about domestic affairs. Neighbors summoned the police, who found McKee with an axe in his hand. Mrs. McKee had a fractured arm, a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face. McKee resisted arrest, but was taken to police...
1 years ago San Francisco. - Of the hardships endured by the “jayhawkers of ‘90,” as the survivors of the first band of white people ever to cross Death Valley are now called, little has been told. The memories of 52 days spent in the sand of the Mojave Desert, with boiled ox hide for food, and water as an occasional luxury, however, are kept alive by the Jayhawkers’ society, whose four members, one of them a woman nearly 100 years old, hold yearly meetings. Elam, the white bulldog owned b...
1 years ago A general rain storm paid a visit to this section of the country Tuesday evening, Wednesday and Thursday. A steady downpour lasting about thirty hours unaccompanied by wind gave a precipitation of 1.26 inches. Washington, July 23. - It is only a few days since it was announced that a corporation had begun business in this city to reduce the high cost of living, the fact remains that living expenses are still climbing. This is shown by a report made to Sherman Allen, Assistant Secre...
1 years ago Last Monday morning a crew started in to move the Union Pacific depot to the new site where the old stock yard stood. Up to the time of going to press the depot still stands on the old location, but the structure has been jacked up and is about ready for the pull. It has not been fully decided whether the depot will be skidded, rolled or hauled to the new site. Wednesday afternoon, as usual, the clouds again hovered over the Pine Bluffs District in thick masses, but this time the...
1 years ago The Cheyenne correspondent of the Rocky Mountain News gives Wyoming a black eye for the sake of fifteen cent space filer. Here it is: “Cheyenne, Wyo., July 8. — Farmers of southeastern Wyoming are praying for rain. Their situation has become desperate as a result of the dry spell, and crops are shriveling in the fields. Unless there is rain before the end of the week the situation will be hopeless.” The next thing we see from this “wish-father to thought,” penny hirer will be that...
1 years ago Tuesday morning ground was broken for the basement of Catholic church. The structure will be 34x60 feet and will be constructed of wood. Rundell & McCarty have the contract for the cement and frame work and members of the church are doing the excavating. The contract calls for the completion of the work by October 1. It is important that duckling should have plenty of water to drink, but they should not be allowed to play in it or get wet. When wet they are likely to chill and...
1 years ago Some women are possessed of a superabundance of impatience. We draw this conclusion from reading in the papers of several aviators’ wives who are suing for divorces, instead of waiting just a little while to become regular widows. A gallant Kansas City judge has ruled that writing love letters at the age of seventy-seven is no sign of mental incapacity. This wise official has no idea of Oslerizing Cupid. Judge Henry C. Jones, ninety-four years old and last surviving member of t...
1 years ago Lander. - The old theory that lightening will not strike a moving rail road train was exploded when C.R. McCauley, a brakeman, member of the Denver lodge of the Order of Railway Conductors, was struck by a bolt during a severe electrical storm and killed. The estate of Colonel John Jacob Astor, who perished in the Titanic disaster, was officially appraised at close to $88,000,000, of which Vincent Astor receives $68,964,499; Mrs. Madeline Force Astor $7,678,896; Muriel Astor $4,866...
1 years ago A man who couldn’t sink tried to commit suicide by jumping into the lake from the stern of a launch at Chicago but failed dismally despite his frantic efforts to keep under water. The coldest weather ever recorded durning June in the middle Atlantic and New England states, the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes region was reported on the 9th to the weather bureau. The gulf states region was the only territory east of the rockies to escape an unseasonable drop. A promise made twenty-fo...
1 years ago Rancher killed wife and son; jealousy given as motive for triple tragedy following quarrel. Also took own life. Dead man an heir to estate valued at hundred thousand dollars. Woman, 101, travels. Recently Mrs. Mary Everett celebrated her one hundred and first birthday. It is rather difficult to say where “Aunt Mary” will be in a few days, for she has the wanderlust and may be “way up in Madawaska or down at Mattawamkeag.” 75 years ago Arvid Anderson of Albin had eight head of fine...
1 years ago Springfield, Ill. - John Jasper, head baker at the state hospital at Anna, fell into a dough mixer and was ground to death. It must take an ordinary, or even extraordinary, lawyer, doctor or minster very, very much fatigued to read, day after day, of the fanciful salary figures that are being printed of and concerning diverse and sundry dark necks who are capable of hitting about .300 and stealing a few, now and then, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. Indeed, if these worthy professiona...
1 years ago Cheyenne, Wyo.,- When Henry Johnson, a ranchman residing near Bucknum, Wyo., hospitably invited Frank Connors and John Williston to come in and have dinner, he did not realize that the pair would be “ready money” for him. They were worth just $400 each, however, as Johnson has been informed by the United States department of justice. He has been notified that reward of $800 will be paid him for arresting the pair. While Williston and Connors were eating dinner Johnson received a t...
1 years ago Second tornado hits Nebraska; Hundreds flee for lives as storm strikes almost same place as first. 25 dead, and 100 hurt. Seward wrecked; McCool JC,. Tamaro, Lushton, Grafton, and Utica destroyed. The second tornado of the year struck Omaha at 7 o’clock last night and partially wrecked a score of homes in practically the same district that was devastated by the storm on Easter day. “I will liberate you, that you may seek employment and support your wife and baby. If you do not do...
1 years ago Wheatland. — Mrs. Lulu Myers, wife of a ranchman, and her 16-year-old admirer, Guy Lockson, with whom she fled from her husband’s home, are in the county jail here, charged with horse-stealing. The woman is alleged to have stolen a horse from a neighbor, Charles Howell, while the boy appropriated one belonging to Myers, and together they rode into Converse county. They were not apprehended for several days. She is old enough to be the mother of the youth, 6 feet 3 inches in height, with whom she left home. Kemmerer. — The Oregon S...
1 years ago Cheyenne man charges his wife with fraud. Cheyenne, Wyo. — That Olga Wurst, a young woman of probably thirty years, married him merely to swindle him, and with full knowledge at the time that she was the wife of another man, is the complaint of Henry Smith, seventy-six, in an appeal to the District Court to annul and cancel a note for $2,500, secured by a mortgage on Cheyenne real estate worth twice that sum, given by him to his bride on the day of their wedding and now held by Amelia M. Johnson. Smith asserts that less than a m...
1 years ago Gen. Sir Robert Baden-Powell believes in the woman who can do things, and the other day he held up Lady Baden-Powell as an exponent of this much-desired art. The chief and founder of the Boys Scout movement was describing a tour that his wife and he recently made in Algeria. “I saw Lady Baden-Powell,” he said, “not so long ago in — what is the feminine for shirt sleeves? — scrubbing out a saucepan. We were living the simple life in the dessert. We had only one pan, and that was a saucepan. It had to do for frying our fish in t...
1 years ago A quintet of infants was born recently to Mrs. Charles Smith of Danby, a few miles south of Ithaca, N.Y. The gross earnings of the Midwest Oil Company of Casper approximate $180,000 for the month of March. (sic) Work is progressing rapidly on the new duplicate refinery and by October 1 the Midwest Company will be outputting at the rate of 11,000 barrels a day. 75 year ago Tomorrow is the day for the showing of the big industrial picture to be shown here by John C. Fleming of the Mountain States Telephone company of Denver under...
1 years ago The annual conference of the Church of the Latter Day Saints was opened at Salt Lake by President Joseph F. Smith. A great many persons who are trying to grow strawberries do not know that there is a question of sex in the plants. That is also true of many nurserymen, and scores of growers are disappointed every year because the plants they buy do not bear fruit. The male plant in strawberries is what is known as the staminate or bi-sexual, a perfect flowering plant. The female plant is known as the pistillate, and useless unless...
1 years ago The cry for help, from the raging torrents of water that swept throughout Ohio, leaving in its path death and destruction, has given was to a cry for bread.(sic) With communications being slowly restored, rumors are rife of loss of life, but there are only four known deaths in Zanesville, Ohio, as a result of the flood. A writer in the Wide World magazine says that the most curious sight he saw at Cairo was men ironing clothes with their feet! The men were employed in the native tailoring establishments. Except for the long...
