, 1922-06-22
several days in this community

WHICH "OulO Dc 0uAUlc u travel Tut
any distance. The men are expected
to get home about July LIST.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Ellis. John
Ellis and Miss Babe Loring made a
trip to Hanna on Sunday evening.
and took in the picture show. 1t
was real good. being 1.-THE Sign On
The Door"
THE STORY OF A STAGE COACH
A stage coach all painted and shiny
and bright,
And drawn by prancing steeds,
Rolled over the hills and flats the
same;
Fulfilling the country's needs.
Mail sacks were taken. and passen-
gers. too,
The rich and the poor alike.
Desperate and millionaire - cold
blood and blue
Were none OF them left to hike.
The Duchess who came from yer the
SEAS,
To visit in cattle land.
Rode in the g%listening coach with
ease,
Over hills and faded sands.
The driver sat proudly as any king,
As his horses rel trotting along,
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summer and spring,
Filled Wyoming's air with their
song.
The coach swung on its springs as
1t rolled On its way.
Bearing passengers on with a
The mother and baby, the father
and son,
The ranchman and hired girl.
The baggage and luggage came or
with the folks
Who travelled across the state.
The people at road ranches watched
it pull in,
With interest that always was
great.
The career of the stage coach grew
c~heckered, indeed.
For a hoId-up and robbery oc.
Cured,
A runaway marked the limit OF
speed,
And the widest of stories were
heard.
Time passed away. and the stage
coach grew old,
The railroad and automobile
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And for years It has not turned a
wheel.
Wrecked and old and battered II
stands,
A victim Of weather and time,
A true enough relic Of by-gone days.
When q stage was considered
sublime.
All alone it stands in Rock River
town,
Unnoticed and battered and grey.
With only the wind to swing 1t
around,
For the stage coach has had its
day.
And still. as we gag on it's battered
frame,
And think it was once the best.
1t causes q pang or real regret.
At the passing away Of the west.
For the days of the stage and the
cowboy, too,
Are drifting away to the past,
And cattle lands gone. for the farm
ers r here.
And intend to remain to the last.
There was an electric storm swept
over this community on Sunday eve
ming, which disabled the ~telenhone
line on the north. thus cutting off
communication farther than the F.
r. Richards ranch.
A large reservoir is being built in
cottonwood Creek at h Ellis ranch.
When completed. 1t will afford
ample i%rrigating water for many ad-
ditional acres Of land which will be
sowed with alfalfa.
Mrs. Floyd Jones. Mrs. Albert
Cronberg and Korte Cooper were
guetss at the Ellis ranch on Mon
day.
Miss Annie Howard has returned
Ito her home at the Little Medicine
ranch. after some weeks sojourn In
the Basin.
Potatoes, and gardens in general,
are showing up in great shape now,
promising great feeds for haying
fttime and next winter.
A letter from Mrs. Buck Burch at
Los Angeles, Cal, tells of visit paid
ilher and her family by Slim Parkko
land John Brolin, both Of Hanna. She
says they were glad to see some &C.
Iquaintances from Wyoming.
9hearing Is in full blast at the
{ Sullivan shearing pens. and viii he
l9inished before many more days.
1Ohnnie Sullivan is busy hauling
wool to Medicine Bow.
Mrs. Won Barren Is at the TB ranch.
where she will spend the summer
with the boiling family. Mrs. Won
Barren moved to California to live.
6ut the call of the wilds Of old
Wyoming was too strong for her, and
she has returned, and will make her
home here in the future.
MT. and Mrs. John D0lling and chill
dren and Mrs. Won Barren made q
trim down to the Rock River farming