, 1917-10-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert ID. Young of
Brush creek spent Saturday in town.

A social dance is advertised to take
place at the Jensen hall Saturday
night.
For Sale or Trade-Folding camera.
Pony Promo No, 3. Takes pictures
4x5 inches and uses either films or
plates. Fine leather case, tripod, plate
holders and other equipment. \ $500
outfit. What have you to trade? In
quire Sun office.
Chas. B. Spaulding of Paola, Kans.,
arrived in Saratoga last Thursday for
a visit with his so~n-iniaw, DR.. s. F.
Price, and his grandson, Chas. +. Price,
and their families. Mr.. S%paulding is
IS years of age, but exceedingly spry,
nevertheless, and made the trip here
alone and without inconvenience This
is his first visit to Saratoga for several
years.
\ movement has lately been inaug-
urated by local race horse owners to
form a Southern Wyoming Racing As
ISOLATION, to embrace some h~alf-dozen
towns in Albany, Carbon, Sweetwater
and Uinta counties, with the purpose
in view of pulling off an annual race
meet in each of the various towns. S.
L. Willis of Saratoga, who vas recent
ly elected Wyoming vice president of
the Western Trotting Horse Breeders
association, is enthusiastic owe the
project and has enlisted the aid of the
Breeders association in furthering the
movement. Several horsemen of Raw
Inns and Laramie have reported favor
ably on the proposition and it is likely
that II meeting of interested parties
from the various towns will be held
this fall to perfect an organization.
The tentative plan is TO hold the first
meeting at Laramie, with subsequent
meets at Saratoga, Rawlins, Rock
Springs, Evanston and Kemmerer.
1t is no altogether strange that the
leaves are turning yellow, after the
terrific frost which struck Saratoga on
Monday evening. The Sun man wasn't
there. but he has it straight from many
others that the se~lf-styled show
which drove in and out with an auto
mobile that evening, and which took
with ii most of the loose change in
town, was the absolute limit-the
worst that has been seen in these parts
within the memory of the grandfather
of the oldest resident. 1t had no name,
so far as our investigation has disclos-
ed-nothing but an automobile, adorn-
ed with a few muslin banners which
loudly proclaimed in red letters the
merits of the picture and vaudeville
show" to take place at the opera house
that evening. A good-sized crowd paid
good money to. see a few old
picture slides Of Spanish-American
war scenes, after which a number of
small boys were called from the audi
ence to be put through IA few old-style'
amusement stunts as the chief feature
of the much-megaphoned vaudeville
bill. Other Wyoming towns should be
on the lookout for this outfit, which is
touring the country in an effort to get
something for nothing.
The committee of local business men
recently delegated to investigate coal
lands down the valley with a view 10
purchasing a tract containing a good
vein to supply the local market this
winter, has been having its troubles,
and to date has been able to accom-
plish but little, in spite of
efforts to provide a local coal supply
before the advent of cold weather. Ac-
cording to one of these men, the best
coal land which can be purchased or
leased is too far away to be altogether
desirable, on ccount of the great ax-
pense of transportation, which would
make the commodity unreasonably high
III price delivered here. Other coal
lands, several miles nearer town, have
been investigated, inc it was found
that the most desirable of this land is
under lease to other parties. Tele-
graphic negotiations have been in prog
ress for several days with Union Pa
cific officials in an effort to lease a
section of railroad land which con-
talns coal, in the n~eighborhood of the
Old McCoid mine, and it may be that
Il suitable vein may be secured ia this
way. 1t is expected that a definite an
swer will be had from the Union Pa
CHIC land department by the last of