, 1923-02-14
Mainly About People
{ via June Little }

VI tie Wcch.
The Episcopal Guild will meet with
Mrs. Pool on Wednesday Feb. 21st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford C. Spencer
have beer in town for several days
from North Fork.
The Episcopal Guild will hold a
tea and bake sale at the Chamberlin
Hotel on Feb. IT.
I. C. Spencer was down from the
Wapiti Ranger Station during the
week.
Wilbur F. Tinckom is now located
in Red Lodge, and has recently pur-
chased a jewelry store in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Westerman
came to town on Wednesday to take
in the Eagles Ball. Henry says it's
about thirty below zero at Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pat Kelley came in
from the Kelley Ranch and were
among North Fork visitors at court
during the week.
AL Thomas returned from some
where last week and disappeared
again a few days later. Then he
came back and is still amongst us.
Mrs. Marshal Jones has gone to
Sparto, ILL.,, where she has a home
which she will repair with the in
tention of selling.
Hon. ]. M. Schwoob departed in a
cloud of snow and smoke on the
early morning train last Friday,
bound for Cheyenne and Denver.
He will later go to LOS Angeles.
Sheriff w. H. Loomis departed on
the train on Thursday morninw, ac-
comparing Percy Croker to the peni
tentary at Rawlins. Croker had
pleaded guilty to sheep stealing.
Art Mayberry came to town from
Rattlesnake Creek the first of the
week. Art says this weather they've
been having lately up in his part of
the world is cold enought to freeze
the cats whiskers if they only had a
cat.
Major Hemphill, instructor at the
Valley Ranch School has been in
Cody for several days. The Major
explained that he came in for some
clothes. The next morning we OBJ
served him in a bright green shirt
"SOME" clothes is right!
Miss Helen Burnham, daughter of
Mrs. Daniel Burnham of New York
City, has recently announced her
engagement. Both Mrs. and Miss
Burnham are well known in this
country because of annual summer
visits to Valley and vicinity.
Cody held it's second annual
Poultry Show this week, with ex-
hibits from the neighboring country
side being shown in the basement of
the Methodist Church under the dir
ection of County Agricultural Agent
r. j. Allen.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Larom returned
on Wednesday. Mr.. and Mrs. Larom
have been in Cheyenne where Mr..
Larom had business to come before
the legislature. A few days before
returning however, they %journeyed
to Billings where Larry got the
grippe and remained in bed through
out the visit.
Don Early came in early in the
week and then went out early enough
to get home early so he could do the
early chores at the Early Ranch on
Early Creek. He might be termed
the original "early bird" All of
which are terrible "puns" of course,
but then we were up almost all night
at the court house.
When C. A. Davis walked up the
stairs of the Chamberlin the other
evening, someone lounging in the
lobby happened to call after him that
he had just been reading about the
former sheriff in one of the papers.
an bet it was in the Enterprise!"
yelled back the prohibition agent,
but the gent below calmly informed
him that he had made a mistake for
once for the article he read was in
the Herald.
When Attorney Goppert while ad-
dressing the jury one day during the
week became confused for want of
words and ended his speech with $50
much for that" and everybody laugh
ed, we were tempted to challenge
him for stealing from the Enterprise
vocabulary. 1t was sort of crafty
ing, however, to realize that the eff
forts of a humble pen had at last
been recognized and had come to the
rescue in a critical moment of one
so important as the county attorney.
So much for that so much for that.
Several people wondered during
the course of court matters of the
week whether Attorney Goppert had
possibly been a "hammer thrower"
sometime in the days of his youth.
On different occasions he showed I'M
usual powers along this line when
opening numerous kegs and barrels
introduced in evidence. On Monday
evening especially VA this noted in
one instance when the county at
torney raised the mighty hammer and
crashed through the top of a barrel
with such vigor that the very court
house itself trembled and threatened
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