, 1922-02-08
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j. e. Finch. formerly manager of
the Elevator at the depot has returned
to Cody once more. We are not re-
peating what we said last week, be
cause since then he has went" and
canned" again. Mr.. Finch operates
the Elevator at heyenne.
Hardy Balm and his brother were
up from Powell on Tuesday. incident
ally subscribing for the Enterprise.
Watch us grow! Hardy says he has
I5 head of thoroughbreds eating at
his hay stack that are going to carry
OF some Of the purses at the Cody
Stampede.
"Dooley" is a very goodnatured per-
son. The other morning we walked
into his apartments with a bill for
advertising to present. and alaf and
alack he was still in bed. We stgrt-
ed to- beat G hasty retreat, but Mr..
Aydis quietly reached beneath his
pillow. produced a check and a pencil,
fixed everything o. K. and disap-
peared beneath the sugans again.
Tom A,nes who OWNS the T Bar A
Ranch on South Fork. now occupied
by Shorty Schaefer. writes that he
has a large horse farm in Vermont,
and that he is expecting to return to
Cody and his old stamping ground in
the neal future in order to purchase
horses which he will ship East to
Vermont. Mr.. Ames was recently
n of the riders in the U. S. Caval-
ry endurance tests.
Percy c. Spencer. formerly editor
of the Enterprise. Zone 81 our prede-
cessors Sc.a .we.l has
opened a law Office in Cheyenne. with
a big desk. ink well, pens, dictionary.
telephone IN everything in the First
National Bank building. He is a son
OF Mrs. Hud Darrah, and needless to
say as he has opened law offices, he
will practise law.
Our friend ''Pontoon Johnny" was
I'M from the Cedar Ridge coal mine
on Saturday with more none that
we have seen for a long time-he left
two bucks for a years subscription.
Watch Is growl Pontoon Johnny
says that his mine Is doing a land Of
fee business. with more orders from
Germania Bench than he can fill
owing to the difficulty of getting good
miners. =
Mont Jones, who last week Stude-
bakered himself and friends to Grey
bull for the Elks' Installation, supple
mented his vacation with a trip to
Thermopo,is where he and his friends
Al Nc Clenahan, Bill Leatherman
and Joe Jones. splashed and cavorted
in the famous waters to their respect
i've hearts content-which for some
reason or other reminds us of the old
song. Wont You Come and Splash
Me. Splash Mel" etc.
Fred Smith and family are occupy
ing the AL Beam Ranch for a few
months. A bay horse, weighing 1400
pounds and purchased at the Schauer-
man sale is for sale there by June
Little. The horse was taken up
South Fork directly after the auction.
but jumped n fence and returned TO
his former stamping ground. Very
liberal terms to save Inconvenience
of transporting again up the river.
Mrs. VIM. l.. Simpson had rather
amusing experiences in Billings last
week when she was repeatedly mis-
taken for Nine. Schumann-Heink. 1t
seems she had the. same kind of a cos
tune on one day as the noted singer.
and despite insistant denials. was
~-.,b(.ntoa - oil eoeko of fntarvfauru
and had her picture snapped many
times by ardent newspaper photo
graphers and movie men.
Finley goodman, who runs the Ford
Service Station at Powell, ~fiivvered
over in one of Harry Thurston's dash
ing runabouts last week to see old
Cody friends. Mr.. Thurston who
owns the Ford Service Station here.
also owns the one at Powell. which
reminds us hat we left a pencil in
his office the other day when he was
kind enough to give us an ad.
H. A. Thurston, Cody's famous mil
Ter has been visiting at his HON in
Meeteetse. and while there has been
quite i'll. He will b forced to be alb
sent from the Cody Mill for at least
a week, but fortunately there are
about four car loads Of -four on hand
at present, with Bill Hogg and other
able representatives of the Cody Mil
in attendance to wait on those seek
ing mill products.
There was a wedding on Saturday
evening-the guilty ones being one
Barnie Blackstone a ranchman of
Burlington, and Miss Jesse Gentner of
Cody who has recently been teaching