Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-09


June 15-16-Prohibition State Con-
vention at Douglas.
June 19-20-AIecting State Dental As
ISOLATION at Casper.
July-Horse Show at Sheridan.
July 3-5-"Stampede'' at Sheridan.
July 9-12-First Annual Tournament.
July 26-29--Twentieth Annual From
tier Days celebration at Cheyenne.
Sept. 1315-Laramie County Fair at
sapt. is-15-Park County Fair at
Laramie is arranging for Fourth
of July celebration.
The Episcopal church society at
Casper has been Incorporated.
The state convention of the w. C..
T. U. will be held in Casper this
fall.
The Cheyenne Country Club house
Is to be comfortable type of bunga-
low.
The Littlejohn land at Grass Creek
has been bought by the Midwest Oil
Company.
The grounds for the Frontier Days
celebration at Cheyenne are being
improved.
The county commissioners at Rock
Springs have purchased property for
a poor farm.
Miss Nova Lester, 16, was almost
Instantly killed in an auto accident
near Douglas.
Work has been started on the new
Baptist church at Douglas. 1t will
cost about $4,000.
The Big Horn site near Hardin for
nitrate plant is said to present un-
usual advantages.
w. E. Hardin. mayor of Lander.
was appointed receiver of the Dallas
Oil Fields Company.
J. A. Delfelder, of Riverton. has
sold his wool clip estimated at 1907
900 pounds for $3Oc.
The number of persons of school
age in Sheridan is 2,i92, according to
a census just taken.
Yeggmen broke into the Arvada
postoffice, blew the safe and escaped
with $500 and four automatics.
Range riders from all over the
West are becoming interested in the
stampede" to be held at Sheridan.
In Fremont county the oil rigs arc
still going in for prospect work and
the development of the proven fields.
south of the Bad Lands near Doug
las, where a new well is to be put
down.
Isaac Haines, father of Ex-Governor
Haines of Idaho and a pioneer of the
west, died at Mountainview, aged SO
years.
Many oil land leases in various
parts of the state have been made
recently and development work is be-
ing done.
1t is stated that Cheyenne mail Or
der houses are sending $4,000 worth
of wet goods out daily-mostly to
Colorado.
The owners of the Coalmont coal
field are prospecting to determine
the extent of the veins and the possi-
bility of the field.
Word has been received in Riverton
Dubois. cattleman. Death was the
result of tick bite.
Minnehaha and Sloan's lakes, in
Cheyenne. will be stocked with black
bass, in accordance with the request
of the city authorities.
Percy Howell of Berthoud. Colo.
was seriously injured in the wreck of
his auto on the Lincoln Highway,
three miles east of Otto.
The Douglas Chautauqua will be
held July 9-1i.
A full-grown lynx was killed by F.
w. Taylor on his ranch on Dutch
creek, eight miles from Sheridan.
The Sundry Civil bill, reported by
the committee to the House of Rep
resentatives carries a million and a
third for work in Wyoming.
Governor J. b. Kendrick has con-
sented to make an address at the
dedication of the Edward Ivinson Me-
mortal hospital in Laramie June Z.
Articles of incorporation for the
Stockgrowers' State Bank of Sara
toga, capitalization at $4,000 were
filed with Secretary of State Houx.
Fl. NJ. Baarghafer, an aged pros
pector, was killed while working
alone by an explosion. His claim
was about thirty miles from Atlantic
City and his body was found by
Philip Harsh.
Robert Gammell of Mountainview,
will shortly receive a check for ST.
115. being the amount awarded him
as back pension for military service
on the U. S. s. Delaware during
the Civil war. Thereafter Mr.. Gam
NELL will receive s24 monthly.
Three hundred and sixty students