, 1924-06-11
LATE NE VS.
From All Orer
w Y O M N G

SAAdiitS ~ "a Va ohSAAeD
& S. freight train and its crew from
oiling up in the bottom of Horse creek.
1t the time the bridge over that stream
)urned down.
The ~baccalaureate sermon for the
Hillsdale High school class of 1874,
vas delivered by Rev. Il. f. Moorman
Of Cheyenne. His talk was not only
profitable to the class but to everyone
hat was present.
Eugene Miles, veteran of the World
war, lied at a Casper hospital from a
fractured skull and other injuries re-
:elved when the truck he was driving
turned over near Teapot oil field. A
widow survives him.
Reverend Harry n. Dascomb, until
l short time ago pastor of h Ply
mouth Congregational church of Den
yer, the largest Congregational church
in the West, died in Casper of u par
llytic stroke last week.
Fifteen students OF the Burns High
school We're awarded their diplomas
last week. Rev. Mr.. Moorman of the
First Baptist church of Cheyenne, de-
livered the commencement address,
taking as his topic my Life and the
Worlds Work"
In the awarding of honor books at
he University of Wyoming, President
Crane awarded books to Sergio Oglob-
lin, II Russian, and Kiyoji Tanabe, Il
Japanese. Seventeen men and twelve
women received these recognitions for
thinking clearly and working hard to
ward Il definite end"
Pahaska Tepee, the old hunting lodge
IF Col. W. F. Cody, has been sold to j.
3. Warren of Rochester, New York,
who with his wife spent several days
in Cody. Disposing of Pahaska, j.. f.
Files, former owner, states that he ex-
poets to give his undivided attention to
the management of the Irma hotel.
Officials of the Holly Sugar Corpor.
ltion. which is reported to have pur-
chased the Worland sugar factory,
were guests of the Casper Chamber of
Commerce on the evening of May 81,
following inspection of the Casper and
Douglas regions with a view to encour-
aging the growing of sugar beets.
Further consideration of a large area
in the Big Horn mountain forty miles
west of Sheridan us a new national
park is promised in letters received by
Sheridan men from harrington Moore
and c. Grant Lafarge of New York,
members of the national park commit
tee, who are planning a visit to the
mark area This summer.
Authorities are searching for John
Spear. a ~one-legged negro, whose white
wife, Helen Spear, was found MUIR
dered In the couples one-room shack
at Green River. The woman, with a
rope around her neck, had apparently
been dead for several days. She had
told neighbors that she married Spears
in Iowa about a year ago.
Live in Wyoming and live long as
well as raise big families, according to
a bulletin of the Department of Com
merce on provisional birth and mortal
lty figures for 1929 and 1923. In the
summary, Wyoming stands first in
births, the record In this state for cit
les being 34.S per 1000 population.
IA ioNco L idic 10 ShoNh III III
Montana districts, 1876 for each 1000.
Judge Melville Cox Brown and Mrs.
Brown of Laramie celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of their marriage re-
Gently, having as special guests Mrs.
Ellen Fox, wife of the late George w.
Fox; Mrs. Alice Marsh, wife of the
late Robert Marsh, und Mrs. Eva Dow
ney, wife of the late Stephen w. Dow
ney, the three residents of Laramie
now living in Laramie who attended
the marriage May 20, 1874.
The meeting of the depositors of the
Commercial Bank and Trust Company
OF Douglas was attended by over 100
people. the majority of whom were de-
positors of the institution.
Legal proceedings which residents of
Lavoye hope will not be concluded be-
fore special d~lspensation cun be se-
cured from Congress to permit their
occupation of the Salt Creek field
townsite, also claimed by the Ohio OIL
Company, were thrown into the "home
stretch" when United States Marshal
Hugh l.. Patton and deputies served
copies of II Federal Court decree, up
holding the Ohio ~company's claim ON
forty-seven residents, including many
business men.
Sigma M fraternity won the inter
fraternity scholarship cup for the
fourth consecutive time ut the Univer.
slty of Wyoming. This organization
has taken first place among the Greek
letter societies for scholarship ever
since the cup was offered four years
ago. One cup came into its permanent
possession last year. and they have one
leg on the new trophy. The cup must
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