, 1922-08-16
SHORT
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NEWS ITEMS

twelve miles south of Worland. The
! Midwest Refining Company has the
drilling contract.
The first carload of head lettuce
grown for export on the Laramie plain
was loaded recently for Denver, where
ii may be diverted to st. Louis. 1t was
sent forward in M of the newest of
the Pacific Fruit Express cars.
W. L. Rehr, Jr., of Casper, won the
singles championship of Wyoming by
defeating Roderick Tower, TO, 6-3, go,
in the finals of the state tennis tourna-
ment. Rehr is a former Colorado
state and Denver city champion.
The first fatality of the chicken
hunting season was reported at Casper
when the body of John f. Ryan, %
years old, of Casper, was returned
from Mailman, sixty miles west, where
he died from a wound received by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun In
the hands of Leo Flynn of Waltman, a
brother-in-law, at whose home he was
visiting.
That construction work on the
Guernsey dam will be started within a
short time-possibly less than ninety
days-is an assurance resulting from
Il personal inspection of the proposed
project by Congressman Mondell, Ar
thur p. Ds.vis, director of the reclama-
ton service, and Andrew Weiss, gov
eminent engineer, says the Wheatiand
Times.
Goshen county should have a state
agricultural college, in the opinion of
Il. o. Sinnard of foder. who is a can
didate for state representative OF
Goshen county. says the News. Sin
nard. who recently announced Ills can
'didacy for representative, has prom.
ised, If elected, to work in behalf of a
state agricultural college TO be located
in Goshen county.
Four hundred and sixty thousand
ties cut during the winter at the for
est camps of the Wyoming Tie and
Timber Company are moving down the
Big Wind river at a point twenty
miles this side of Dubois in the annual
drive. They will be brought to the
camp at Riverton of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company for
treating before being put 10 track use
Calvin Matthias, 81, operating en-
gineer at the Casper plant of the Ma
trona Power Company, was electrocut-
ed and died instantly when he
grounded a strong current while max
ing repairs on the switchboard. Math-
las, it was said by company officials,
neglected to throw off the switch
which world have protected him. His
widow and two small children survive
him.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Assoc
citation, at its concluding session at
Sheridan adopted he report of It's mar
keting committee, recommending that
Wyoming sheepmen continue and de-
velop their local wool pools and that
the state association appoint a com
mittee to coordinate the work of the
local pools and study the situation In
relation to the eventual formation of a
statewide pool.
The period of %stagnation thru which
the Rawlins wool market has passed
for the past month came TO an end
recently, when practically the entire
unsoId balance OF the clip of 1929
passed from the growers hands to
those of the dealers or mlddleman
says the Rawllns Republican. The nv,
erage price Il was far below the
June, this being due to a variety OF
conditions. local, eastern and financial
rumb,,ng into an .horaoroa .a,,
while ON : y,s,, 10 HE urandsa,,ass
nIace n, varghan eonard uan He
man 2-vear-oId cbi;s ~ NJ ard Ms
Raw Hapenan. who reside north ~
T%orrIngton. before his nh
sence III he house was not,ced nh.