, 1917-07-12

FTOUlltI Dd1S III thhr.
Sept. ll-l4-State Fair at Douglas.
Laramie will close red light resorts.
Burns is now a postoffice OF the
third class.
Many persons attended the Grange
picnic at Tingle.
Goshen county has decided to have
no fair this fall.
Pioneer Bert Elder died from par
alysis at Douglas.
A $4,000 grain elevator has been
erected at Buffalo.
A wolf drive will be held in the Riv-
erton section Aug. 18th.
The Wyoming Press Association
will meet in Cheyenne, July 21-23.
VIM. H. Hayes succeeds Guy U.
Shoemaker as mayor of Laramie.
Another company has been incor-
porated to drill for oil at Wheatland.
1t is expected that $4,000 Wyoming
women will register for war work on
July 18th.
About fifteen teamsters are wanted
for the supply company of the Wyo-
ming regiment.
Cheyenne BARRIERS have fixed the
price for shaves at 20 cents and hair
cuts at 40 cents.
That Douglas Is to be the site for IN
oil refinery in the near future is the
opinion of ]. F. Sperry.
Fire destroyed the barn and sheds
on the 8. e. Grout farm a Burns.
but the house was saved.
Steve Derral and Charlie Mcclure of
Riverside are under arrest charged
with illegal killing Of deer.
Two Wyoming dentists have passed
the examination and will go to the
front in government service.
The Security Oil & Gas Company
is installing a rig on the west half
of section 6-33-75 in the Big Muddy
field.
One thousand of the 5000 men sta
toned at Fort D.. A. Russell at Chey-
enne attended the celebration at Pine
Bluffs.
A new mail road from Wheatland
to Laramie, to be constructed Jointly
by the county and the state, is
planned.
The Pyramid syndicate has pur-
chased a number of cars lately to help
in the development work in the La
Barge oil field.
From IS three weeks ago to $5.75
at present is the recent history of the
price IN a hundred pounds of pota-
toe in Cheyenne.
About ten thousand acres of oil To-
cations have been filed upon in a
new district fifteen or twenty miles
south of Shoshoni.
Private Asa Hebdon of Thayne had
the misfortune to accidentally dis
charge a bullet from an automatic re-
yolver into his leg.
A team of horses belonging to the
lobe ranch are reported to have been
drowned in the waters of the Grey
bull near Meeteetse.
In the Toltec field, situated at the
extreme northern boundary OF Albany
county. drilling has been started b.
the Toltec Oil and Gas Company.
Gramm, a timber camp for a lum-
Der company, was threatened by a for
est fire, but a change in wind and
some backfiring ave- the town.
The fly contest at Laramie has
closed with Helen Fitzgerald first.
having killed 1000 flies, and Bertha
Green second, with 1900 as her mum
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The Wyoming Oil and Gas
Company has started drilling on it's
well in S-3S-9S in the Lander field.
The third big gasser Il be struck {
Powder River junction during recent
months vas brought In by the Ohio
Oil Company. on the lease of M. C.
Brewer.
The Pathfinder dam, situated on the
Platte river in south central Wyo-
ming, is among the large works con-
structed by the United States reclama-
ton service.
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the large warehouse of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad at Powder riv-
Ell, together with two cars loaded with
wool. The total loss may reach $45,,
900.
Winnie Jones is in the county Jail at
Laramie as a result of knitting Arm
sted Corbin, a negro. Corbin is under
the care of physicians and it is
thought hat the jugular vein is sew
cred.
The new $4,000 residence being
constructed by F. s. King on his
ranch six miles west of Cheyenne on
the Happy Jack road, burned to the
ground as n result of lightning strfk-