, 1917-10-25

Forty new homes are being built at
Glenrock.
A 50-room annex is being built to a
lander hotel.
A new timber camp has opened
neal Big Piney.
Over S1,1OO was raised in the Chey'
enne library drive.
Work on Greybull's new theater is
to be started at once.
Many troops at Fort Russell have
bought Liberty bonds.
About 1000 head of sheep changed
hands in a week at Worland.
The work of harvesting Riverton's
test crop of beets is progressing.
At Casper, a branch of the Girls
Friendly Society has been formed.
A carload of wheat, just loaded for
shipment at Burns, was destroyed by
fire. H
Every city in the state is subscrib-
ing to the second series of Liberty
bonds.
The Elkhorn deep well in section 5
is producing regularly $50 to 975 bar
rels a day.
The Young Oil Company on section
1886 has its first deep well No. l
down 1,205 feet.
Wyoming's crops this year show
the greatest increase in the farming
history of the state.
The nine-year-old daughter of Fred
Lydick, on Owl creek, nea Thermop'
oils, was burned to death.
Nellie Smedley, one of the young
student nurses at the Lincoln County
Miners Hospital, died at Kemmerer.
Thirty sacks of English mail con
signed from England to Australia were
destroyed by fire just east of Chey-
enne.
With a single subscription from n
man of $50, 900, the second Liberty
loan campaign tool concrete form in
Casper.
Contract for building two bridges
across Laramie river, between IVA
and the Wheeler bridge, vas awarded
at Wheatland.
Gu Iluhl' ptttti hhu"h aS Ddl
Wire Slim was taken to Buffalo to
answer the charge of shooting up h
town of Kaycee.
With $4,000 already collected for it.
work OIL the new Baptist church of
Glenrock will commence at onc The
church will cost about $4,000.
Sixteen men, Laramie county's f.
nal contribution to the first draft quo
ia, will leave Cheyenne for the train
ing camp at American Lake.
The creditors of G. M. Mcdonald,
whose private banks failed at Chug-
water, Dryer n Glendo have filed
a petition in bankruptcy against NC
Donald.
A banquet was given at Sheridan
on the return of Senator ]. B. Ken
drick and former Assistant Secretary
of State John E. Osborne from Wash
ington.
Everett McCumber, a farmer living
near Flattop, died in the Lusk hos
pital after an operation made neces-
sary by injuries from the kick of a
stallion.
Casper p%ostoffice conditions contin-
lie to grow worse. The postmaster and
clerical force work well into the night
but the rush of mail grows too great,
with the result that many people are
put to much inconvenience on this &C
count.
The III Master Masons of Chey-
enne, who visited Fort Collins, were
royalty entertained.
The Ohio Oil Company is reported
as having got a shale well in its drill
ings for the New York Oil Company's
holdings in the northwest quarter of
Sec. 27-40-79 at Salt Creek.
The old adage hat murder will
out" is once more recalled by the dis
covery of what are supposed to be the
remains of young Mcdonald, a sheep
herder, who disappeared over two
years 6 from the vicinity of Clear
mont.
Edgar 2. Steever, to whose efforts
are attributed the cadet system in the
Cheyenne high school, has peer pro
NOTED to the rank of major in the
signal corps of the United States ar
my and has already reported for duty
at Washington.
Building operations in Casper con-
tinue at an almost unbelievable rate.
A conservative total would exceed
81, 100000 now under construction.
Those who passed through the Tulsa
BOOB are confident that Casper will
reach the population of that wonder.
full Oklahoma city.
The First Separate battalion o. Col.
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