, 1923-03-22

nAI. MOIoS OIVt Out 8uOtn0f lOo0
of cottonseed cake to the Ellis ranch
on Thursday. and arrived without
any of the customary side issues.
He had q great deal OF trouble stick
ing to the side hill grade south OF
the ranch, with his ak horse team
and his three ton load. Once the
wagon turned completely bottom
side up. when It skidded over the
bank, and caused . great deal OF
trouble to right 1t. and reload the
cotton seed, and carrying one hun.
dred pound sacks up q bank is nc
picnic, especially when the ground
is a solid glade of ice.
The Shirley mail carrier had q
dreadful time last week, and when he
got back as far as Cowdins, Harri.
son West took a sled and went down
there, bringing the mail back with
him to Shirley.
Mack Mccoy was q Difficulty visit.
or on Monday last. He accompanied
DR.. Sell out.
Miss Mary Schencks has been as.
sisting Miss Nancy Kelly at the tele.
phone central office, for the past
week.
Miss Audrey Elliot, who under.
went an operation for a mastoid in.
lection, last week. Is improving In
health and will SOC be able to re-
turn home. DR.. Strader and DR.,
Foster from Denver performed the
operation, which was entirely sue.
cessful. Miss Elliot is still in Chey-
enne.
DR.. Sell made a business trip to
Rawlins n evening last week, re-
turning during the night.
Mrs. F.. r. Richards and two
babies have been on the sick list
being the victims of colds and grippe.
Mark Howard made a trip to the
Bow with the team after a load of
supplies for the Howard ranch in the
Basin. arriving home on Saturday
evening.
A letter received here by friends
from Emil Schmale, says that that
young man has purchased an auto
mobile, and as soon as the roads are
fit. he will drive back home. He
seems anxious to get back to Wy
oming. II he could see it, he would
not be.
Mrs. Tom Scott has been sick for
the past two weeks with a bad cold
and the flu.
Mrs. Agnes Howard has been suf-
fering for some time from an attack
OF bronchitis, but Is improving at
this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Toll Gritty were bus
mess visitors in the Bow last week,
from their home at Sulphur Springs.
Miss Katherine MACPHERSON and
the Cronberg children left the last
Of the week for Cheyenne, where the
children will have their eyes treated.
Allen Harris returned from several
months sojourn at his old home at
Adams, Vermont, and is now as
with the sheep at the Beer
Mug ranch.
Fred Nelson was a visitor at his
home on the river the last of the
week. He is still working in Hanna,
while Mrs. Nelson takes care OF the
-anch.
Charlie Ellis was a business visit
Or IN Medicine Bow on Tuesday last,
returning the same evening.
jim Horne was a business visitor
n the Bow he first of the week.
The Nelson boys down on the river
are very busy this winter making
a water wheel. which they will place
n the river for the purpose of throw
the water into an irrigation ditch
10 be Used on the newly cultivated
ground. 1t will undoubtedly be the
a OF making some valuable land
on the Nelson ranch.
Frank Walker has taken his sheen
town, where he can get feed for
them the rest OF the winter.
Such weather as we have had.
are still having. brings to mem
DRY the following poem which ap-
peared In the Cheyenne Tribune dur
ing the memorable winter of 1916
II: Backward. turn backward, oh
In your flight; give me July
again. Just for tonight: soften the
ground where the frost king has
lain; let me hear just one mosquito
again. l am weary OF snow drifts
and Ice, weary OF paying the coal
trusts price. weary. so weary OF
frost bitten pie. give us "A slice OF the
Fourth OF July. Backward, swing
backward. oh season of snow, mer-
curry fifteen or twenty below. turn on
the heat OF h tropical zone. roast
me until l am cooked to the bone.
I'm tired OF trying TO sleep with cold
feet. turn on the heat mister, turn
on the heat!"
We heard n man say yesterday
that the weather man had frozen to
death n that the kids were trying
to run the plant.
A letter from Frank Lane at
Bartleryillc. Oklahoma to friends
here states that he will be back to