, 1917-08-16

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Sept. 14-15.-Community Fair at Car
Sept. so:2s;-county Fair a. BuEris;
Sept. 27-29.-Fourth annual Lincoln
County Fair Mt Alton.
Dec. 1o-13-MIdwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.
Fishing with a net cost three Hud-
son men s91.
The Sheridan Rifle Club has offered
to train recruits.
A $4,000 apartment house is to be
erected in Kemmerer.
A night school for the foreigners
has been started at Hudson.
Cheyenne Odd Fellows have pur-
chased a site for a new structure.
The Thermopolis Trades Assembly
will celebrate on Labor Day, Sept. 3.
Their are over fifty men who nave
volunteered for the National Guard at
Rawlins.
Drilling on the Powell flat will
start not later than the first of Sep
TENDER.
The Big Piney theater was struck
by lightning and the building
wrecked.
The members of the Mormon
church at Evanston celebrated Pho
neer Day.
The contract for the county and
city building at Cheyenne has been
let for $1S4,76O.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. ~Covington, pio-
nee residents of Guernsey, celebrated
their golden wedding.
Ground has been broken for a mod
ern lodge building at Riverton, to be
erected by the Masons.
Indications are favorable for the
opening of the limestone quarry near
the Laramie City springs.
The Western Exploration brought in
its fifth well on the eighty adjoining
the 900" Company property.
Miss Caroline Atchison, aged %
years, died at the state mental hos
pital at Evanston, after an illness of
two weeks.
The forest service organization is
now facing the most disastrous period
of the year from the standpoint of
fire hazard in the forests.
The July estimate of the hay situa-
ton from Washington indicates an in
creased crop of over 100000 tons a.
compared with last year.
1t was reported that u well was
brought in IN the property of the It's
dale Oil Company, on he Tisdale
dome in the Powder river field.
Beverly C. DAILY of the U. S. army.
retired, has been promoted from first
lieutenant, to the rank of captain, and
is now stationed at Fort Russell.
Since the first draft was made.
calling 103 men from Laramie county
to the colors, t~wenty-nine, whose
names were drawn, have enlisted.
F. D~iGiacomo, an Italian doctor at
Kemmerer, was held in 10000 bonds
on a charge of causing the death of
Virginia Englese of ~Diamondville.
Ed Prayer, the negro who was ar
rested in Cheyenne for flourishing a
gun in a cafe, vas fined $50 and SEN
fenced to serve ten days in the city
jail.
President c. A. Duniway of the
University of Wyoming stated that no
exemptions for any of the employees
of the University of Wyoming will be
asked.
At a specially called meeting of the
shareholders of the Lowell Canal
Company held in Lowell, it was
the canal.
Gen. Richard NJ. Blatchford, who
for a number of years was stationed
at o d. A. Russell as major of the
Eleventh infantry, has arrived in Eng
land with his staff.
The Laramie chapter of the Ameri.
can Red Cross forwarded the first of
a large shipment of Red Cross sup.
plies for use at the front during the
present val against Germany.
The Mexico-Wyoming Oil Company
brought in a new well in the north
west end of the Grass Creek field,
adding about 1000 acres to the known
producing area.
The Manville Oil Company leased
their 600 acre tract on Lance creek
to the Beison Oil Company of Den
yer. This land forms the apex of the
Buck Greek structure.
The Lucerne dome, conceded to be
the most promising unexpected oil
ground in Hot Springs county, is
about TO undergo a thorough trying
out by the Sattley Oil Company.
Geo. Blakey, one of the COW punch
ers of the old school from Guernsey
had the index finger on his right
hand taken off while roplng a calf at
the Waters roundup on the Platte
river.