, 1918-08-22


George L. Blair of Baggs was severe
ly wounded in action in France
A new line of telephone from Doug
las to Lusk has been completed.
Ground has been broken at Torring-
ton for a large potato warehouse.
A company has been formed at
Rock Springs to erect a shale oil re-
finery.
Governor Frank L. Houx has been
made vice president of the League to
Enforce Peace.
Leo Bradstreet. a 12-year-old Lander
boy, was accidentally shot while play
ing with a rifle.
Wyoming will get $4,000 of the fed
eral fund of $2,3O7,4 6 for vocational
education in 1889.
Clayton officers are looking for Ellis
Green, who is accused of shooting sage
chickens out of season.
Crops in all parts of Wyoming are
reported in good condition with pros
poets for bumper yields.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Yellowstone Highway Association will
be held in Douglas. Sept. 10 and IA.
During the past year the assessed
valuation of property in Converse
county has increased owe $4,000, 900.
The work of rebuilding the big
house at Dietz coal mines, recently
destroyed by fire, has been COM
menced.
GnIItharr Dfn~ T1 r~ao-, L.,
declared a dividend of IS a share, pay
able Sept. 3 to stockholders of record
Aug. 10.
Recent surveys of the manganese
and clay deposits in the Fetterman
section have shown that they are val
liable assets.
The county commissioners have an
nounced that they will at once com
mence to grade the roads around Lusk
n Manville.
To Miss Janet Crawford belongs the
honor of being the first young
Of Evanston to enlist in the student
nurses reserve.
Jennings Eldridge. colored boot
black, stabbed and slightly wounded
Sam Wah, a Chinese cook, in an alter
cation at Lander.
State Farm Labor Director Harry A.
Lyon, after a tour of the state, reports
that he finds the farm labor situation
in splendid shape.
Funds have been occurred to enable
the Glenhurst Wyoming Oil Company
to complete its well recently started in
the Big Muddy fields.
A. W. Ayres. one of the old timers
of Converse county, died at the Doug
las hospital, having succumbed to In
juries sustained in a runaway.
The voters of Meeteetse will hold a
special election Aug. "a to vote on the
question of issuing bonds for the i'm
provement of the water system.
The Lander armory will be made
into a big community house, IL present
plans of the Woman's Patriotic League
for control of the building are Of
fected.
School district No. IA is advertising
at Sunrise for bids for the transporta-
ton of school children from the Chi
cage mine to the Sunrise school.
Work on the new levers and water.
works system for Manville has been
commenced n will be pushed as fast
as mon and material can be secured.
Snake river has been stocked with
trout by the state. Two tank cars con.
tanning $4,000 young trout were
dumped into the river near Wamsut.
ter.
The Wyoming-Montana Company In
which a number Of Riverton men are
Interested has contracted for the cree
ton Of a 100000 potash reduction
plant.
Sergt. Leonard c. Purkey of Grey.
bull, died of wounds, and Private
Chas. o. Sitamaki of Elk Mountain
war injured in action, according to
the casualty list from France.
Gertrude zahn, a Casper school
teacher, has commenced action against
George Harris, asking for Judgment
of $3.50 alleged to have been lost by
her thru misrepresentation of the de-
PENDANT regarding the value of some
oil claims.
Arrangements are completed for the
throwing open to the public of the
big tract of Lakeview lands near Cody
that have Just been brought under ir.
rigation.
Clarence Riley. who has been carry.
ing the mail by stage from BurlinR-
ton to Meeteetse for four years has
been informed that the route has
been discontinued.
Lander business md professional
men have declared their readiness to
help the farmers harvest their crops.
and will be on the job any time they
are notified to go to work.