, 1917-05-17

Mr.. anu MIS-. w. y. COnQict. Dr.,
were city visitors Tuesday, coming
down in their auto.
Charles Mckay returned last Sat-
urday from a two weeks pleasure
trip to Denver, Cheyenne and other
nearby cities.
". P. Hays will take your Decora-
ton Day orders now, for cut flowers
from Louis B. Westholder, Florist,
Rock Springs, Wyo-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Edwards re.
turned home the last of the week from
Rawlins, where they had been for a
brief visit with friends and to take
in the circus.
MI. and Mrs. Boyd OF Ohio are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank White
this week. They had spent the win
ter in California and stopped off here
while enroute to their home.
Miss Frances Heaton of Encamp-
ment, day operator in the telephone
exchange of that city, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Ames
in Saratoga. She accompanied them
10 Rawlins to take in the circus and
returned to Encampment Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Dahl and daugh-
ter motored TO Rawlins Saturday to
have the latter young lady exam
ined at the hospital. She had been
quite seriously ill for a couple of
weeks and it was expected that hos
pital treatment would be necessary.
However, she was feeling much better
the first of the week and they returned
home on Tuesday.
Gould & Owens, who have been buy
ing hides and pelts throughout the
valley the past few weeks, sold the
bulk of their holdings last Saturday
to a Cheyenne h~ide-buying concern.
These gentlemen are now branching
out in the business and have arranged
with a large tanning concern for the
making of robes, coats, rugs, and
other tanned and finished articles.
6. S. Weston, manager of the Port
land mine near Encampment, accom-
panied by his chauffeur, passed
through town Saturday with the big
Simplex racing a which Mr.. Weston
recently purchased in the east and
which was left at Laramie a few weeks
ago on account of the bad roads. The
car will be used this summer in tran
sporting small freight and supplies
between the Union Pacific and the
mine.
William Torbett left today for
Fort Duchesne, Utah, where he goes
to look over farming lands in the
Uinta Basin, planning to purchase a
ranch in that section in case he is
pleased with the outlook and sur
roundings. On May 20 there will be
an opening of Indian lands at Fort
Duchesne and Mr.. Torbett plans to
spend a week OF ten days in looking
over this land with the idea of per-
haps taking n of the government
allotments. He will return here with
10 a few weeks.
Thos. McNaney, rancher and stock
man from upper Cedar creek, was a
business visitor in Saratoga Friday
and Saturday. He reports unusual
quantities of snow in his section and
looks for exceptionally high water in
the Platte this spring. Mr.. McNaney
got into a snow drift while enroute
to town, breaking his rig, and was
forced TO borrow a vehicle to complete
the trip. He states there is consider
able more snow in the mountains now
than at the same period nine years
ago, when the high water in the river
broke all records here.
L. Z. johnson, G. W. White head
and Morton Robbins, all business
men of Colorado Springs, Colo, ar.
in Saratoga Tuesday by auto,
coming up for a few days fishing in
the valley streams. They left Colo.
RADIO Springs Sunday afternoon and
spent the night at Fort Collins, came
az for M Hanna m