, 1917-08-02

Aug. is Sept. S.-Race meeting at
Sept. Ii-i4-State Fair at Douglas.
Sept. l4-15.-Community Fair at Car
penter
Sept. 27-29.-Fourth annual Lincoln
County Fair at Alton.
Lowell has a new $4,000 school
house.
Work is being rushed on the Green
River depot.
Hillsdale defeated the bonds for a
school building.
Douglas is to have a Building and
Loan Association.
A new Christian church is to be
built at Carpenter.
Lusk has plans ready for a new
$1,000 Carnegie library.
Hundreds are needed to aid in har-
vesting Wyoming crops.
Rapid progress is being made on the
new round house at Greybull.
Dog prisoners are at work in Chey-
enne, according to the police.
Sheridan City Council has decided
to have several streets paved.
More aeroplanes are reported to
have been sighted at Sheridan.
A Laramie young woman beat off a
would-be masher with her valise.
Forest Ranger Russell reports deep
SNOW still unmelted in the Silver Lake
region.
Mrs. Louis Morris died on their
- nph n-tI,ryn 90 D,Fn,-I - A. o-o
of 81 years.
Thirty thousand bass from a Wis
consin fish hatchery were placed in
Wyoming lakes.
Work is progressing on the Far
low Wolf roundup near Riverton, in a
very satisfactory manner.
New machinery has been received
for the Douglas Mountain Copper
mines, south of Rock Springs.
The Five-Mile Oil Company will be-
gin drilling at once on their holdings
in the Lost Well field, near Riverton.
A petition is being signed asking
that a postoffice be established at
the Borne homestead, north of Doug
las.
About 5000 worth of %valuables be-
longing to Dick Jones were taken
from his room in a Casper boarding
house.
West Salt Creek activities have be-
Il to attract much attention and the
work that is being done in hat field
is bringing results.
Building activities which will soon
more than double the present stable
capacity at Fort D. A. Russell are to
begin at once.
Wyoming women to the number Of
1924 registered in Cheyenne and their
cards were turned over to the Council
of National Defense.
Residents of the Casper district have
Incorporated the Traders Oil Com
pany, filing articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
The newly established Utah divi-
sion of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company was formally opened, with
headquarters at Green River.
That Wyoming's wool clip of 1917
will total at least 29, SOC, 900 pounds, is
an estimate made by DIR. Hugh Mil.
lard, secretary of the State Board OF
Sheep Commissioners.
1t has been announced in Casper
that the Midwest Refining Company
is about to enter into a contract with
the Hall Oil Company for the con.
struction of a pipe line out of the
Pilot Butte field to the Burlington
railroad at Bonneville.
The bridge being built over the
Burlington cut at Summit on the old
Grin road is about completed and the
superintendent believes that it can
be made ready for use within a few
days.
A station has been opened at Glen
cross by the Burlington with a night
operator in charge. 1t is said that the
company will erect a depot at that
point soon and that 24-hour service
will be given.
With the completion OF the Grass
Creek road, regular freight trips will
be made. Supplies from Casper
houses will be able to reach Grass
Creek in about one-third of the time
which it now takes.
That the practice Of selling LIQUOR
Illegally to soldiers is expensive and
likely to become more so, was brought
out in Cheyenne when Judge j. A.
Riner sentenced eight men to pay
ines amounting to 5000 each.
Excitement in oil circles rose 10
q great height when the news reached