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, 1927-05-11
PROMINENT OIL MEN HERE
PIPE ZINE In SIGHT

1t is very evident that consider.
able business is being transacted in
Cody these days, evidenced by the
many prominent oil men who are
here. This week, G. L. L. Briggs
of Casper, connected with the Him
oil Pipe line was here and P. w.
Hennessey also of Casper and o. ].
Roush of Basin. No information
could be obtained relative to plans
but ii is very possible that a pipe
line will be laid from Oregon Basin
with the completion of another
well or two.
John McFadden of Casper and
c. r. Hetzler of Billings both rep
resentatives of the Ohio company,
spent several days here. and may
decide to do some drilling on the
Cody structure. 1t is very likely
that there win ne a deal closed soon
which win presage some real ac-
tivity in oil development very close
to Cody.
The Ferdig and Leonard inter
est are busily at work. going for
word as fast as weather conditions
will permit. Indications are that
several more companies will be
drilling in the Basin within the
next forty days.
, 1927-05-11
CHAS. TAGGART GETS
SOME ROAD CONTRACTS

The Taggart Construction Com
pany has been awarded a contract
for the building of a stretch of
eight and one-half miles of road
on the Greybull-Cody route, the
contract to include one timber
bridge. Mr.. Taggart's bid was
s2S,3S2.
j. F. Anderson of Casper has
been awarded a contract for the
construction of a steel truss
bridge over Sage creek on the
Cody-Greybull road, the contract
price being $12,3S2.
Threet Bros. of Lowell has a CON
tract for grading and the building
OF three timber bridges, Al miles
on the Cody-Powell road, bid
$5,OO1, and James S. Tebs was
awarded the contract for grade
work on the same road amounting
to s2e,s03.
All these contracts were let BY
the state highway department early
this week, when awards amounting
to ~s4O4.523 were made for state
road work.
, 1927-05-11

The commencement program will
consist of the invocation by Rev.
Chas. E. Pitts. music by the Girls
Glee club. the address. The class
honor students will be announced
at that time.
Baccalaureate service has been
arranged for Sunday night, at the
Methodist church. at 500 o'clock,
May 18th, when Rev. G. S. Upton
will deliver the There
will be some special numbers, but
the program is lot yet completed.
The class of 1926 numbered
t~hirty-one. and is the only class
to exceed in number the class fin
ishing the school work this year,
of these ten being boys and eigh-
teen girls, Eleanor Robinson and
Freda Worst, are also finishing
the normal training as a post grad
uate course and the eight girls will
receive certificates to teach in rur,
al or small village schools.
, 1927-05-11
LINCOLN LAND COMPANY
LOTS GOING VERY GOOD

The lot sale which las been ar
ried on by w. w. Gail is disposing
of a considerable mount of his
property. There has been a con-
siderable demand for lots by out
side people and many of them have
been purchased by local residents.
Mr.. Gail, who underwent an OPP
Grafton at the Billings hospital
Just this week, last week wrote
The Enterprise that he had
been very i'll, and had suffered a
general breakdown. He hopes to
be on the road to good health
again soon. and with an extension
of his option on these lots from
the Lincoln Land company expects
to be able to dispose of all of them
this summer.
, 1927-05-11
MAKE ROCK DUMP
MORE ATTRACTIVE

One of the projects which came
under the discussion of the Cody
club on Monday. at it's regular
luncheon. was the cleaning up of
the rock dump at the foot of the
Mill hill. This dump was started
at a time when the sewer construc-
ton was on in Cody. and it was
the hope of the committee in
charge at hat time that enough of
the rocks could be dumped there
to ultimately permit the straight
ening of the hill to avoid the S
curve at the bottom of the hill.
However. with a lack of super
vision. it was but a short time be-
fore rubbish of all kinds including
tin cans. parts of old cars etc, were
disposed of there. and made a most
unsightly view for those coming
and going to the station. The Cody
club proposes to do something. IL
possible to overcome this situation.
, 1927-05-11
CASPER SCHOOL MAN
new SUPERINTENDENT
Ray e. Robertson Chosen by School
Board for Cody Scfopis Comes
Most Highly ReGemmended

Ray z. Robertson. of Casper a
school man of many years exper-
fence, has been elected by the school
board as superintendent of the Cody
schools and the secretary of the
noon of his acceptance. Mr.. Rob-
ertson has worked with Mr.. A. A.
SIade in the Casper schools for sew
eral years. and last year held the
principalship of the junior high
school at that place. He is most
highly recommended to the local
board and while here with his wife
on Saturday of last week made a
very favorable impression.
Mr.. Il. B. Hardin. who has been
in charge Of the schools here for
the past five years will leave Cody.
He has not announced his plans IS
yet but has in mind going farther
west. Under Mr.. Hardjn's super
vision the Cody schools hav gone
forward in Il very satisfactory man
ner, until today they rank very
high in the state. The high school
is on the Northwestern accredited
list, and at the present time the
school has a curriculum which is
comparable to the better schools
OF the state. Mr.. Hardin and his
family have filled a large place In
the business and social life OF Cody
during their residence here. and
their loss will be keenly felt. Mira.
Hardin. a finished musician. has
maintained a large music class, and
has given generously Of her talents
pom all public occasions.
Many Teachers VIII Return
Many OF the teachers have signi-
fled a desire to return to Cody an
other year and the Board has been
receiving their application for the
last two weeks. Paul Sweitzer and
Allan Hampshire are both going to
remain at Cody. Both OF these
young men have given splendid
service and the patrons of the
school will be glad to learn they
are to stay. Miss Gracia Perry,
Helen Reeves and Clarice Clemens
are other members of the Cody high
school faculty who will return. In
the junior high Miss Mavis Feather
stone and Miss Johanna Reeves
have both signed for another year,
and in the elementary grades. Mis-
ses Marguerite Luke, Helen Mac
Farland. and Bessie Goodwin will
return. Miss Audrey Wilder and
Miss Della Ballard will be in charge
OF the Cedar Mountain and Trina
Flat schools. respectively another
year.
Contracts are being sent out and
selection being made for the vacant
positions and announcements of the
new instructors elected will be
made later.
, 1927-05-11

Those who will be given diplo-
mas are:
Walter Scholes, Wilma Davies,
Marguerite Dempster. Opal Rector,
Carla Wagar, Carrie Myers, Clytie
Fuson, Alice Bates, Alice Wilson,
Folsom McMillin, Dallas Scholes,
Earl Cogswell, Jane Carlow, Louise
Hardin, Doris Downing, Margaret
Hancock. Joe Kurtz. Edward Black,
Harold McMillin, Eugene Siddle,
Morris Shippers. Violet Coe, Merna
Kepford. Lorene Schultz, Ruby wor-
rell. Lea Ganguet, Loren Todd and
Dwight Hollister.
School Closes May 25th
The school year will end at noon
on Wednesday. May 25th. These
last two days and one-half of schoo'
were made necessary by the wishe.
of the teachers for a more extern
ded Christmas holiday. The child
rem will receive their report card.
on the last day of school.
, 1927-05-11
STATE GAME AND FISH
COMMISSIONER In CODY

Bruce Nowlin, state game and
fish commissioner for Wyoming
spent Tuesday in Cody and while
here made a trip to the Cody Fish
hatchery and held a conference
with his two deputy game wardens,
l.. E. Kennedy and Dwight King.
Mr.. Nowlin reports the game over
the state in fair condition and the
elk in Jacksons Hole fast getting
back to the open ranges.
Regarding the district for the
two game wardens in Park County
Mr.. King was given the Clarks
Fork, Sunlight, Crandall and Dead
Indian country, taking in the ter
ritory on the head Of Northfork.
and also all of the country to the
east of Powell on the Big Horn
Mountains. He will have an assis-
tant to look after the Big Horn
Mountain territory during the hunt
ing season.
make his headquarters on North
fork and will look after that
try. the Southfork. upper Greybull
and the upper Yellowstone.
Regarding the situation at the
fish hatchery, Mr.. Nowlin had little
to say: Adams Majors has been
asked to resign in favor of VIM.
johnson, but refuses to relinquish
his office. He is an a%ppointee of
exGov. Ross, and now under the
change of administration is en-
deavoring to hold on.
, 1927-05-11
RED CROSS OVER TOP
FOR FLOOD RELIEF

Once more the business men or
Cody have responded to the s.. o.
S. of the American Red Cross for
a most worthy cause and on Mon
day went twenty-five per cen over
their quota to the fund for the re-
lief of the flood victims of the Mis-
sissippi valley. Cody's original
quota was 500. and when the sec
ond call came, was doubled to 5000.
On Monday evening a check was
sent to the relief headquarters for
s252.5O.
The businessmen of Cody. like
the people all over the nation are
keenly alive to need OF the men,
women and children of the river
valley, whose homes and property
has been washed away by the un-
precedented flood, but it remained
for H. t. Newell of the Irma Hotel
to start the ball to rolling and to
do the actual work in gathering the
funds. Although the call was made
several days ago. UP until Monday
morning there had been collected
but $50. Mr.. Newell took the sub
scription paper out over the town,
and it is very doubtful if he re-
ceived a single rundown from any
who could afford to give. The sub
scriptions were very much in ac-
cordance to the towns quota, and
when the $252.5O had been colIec-
ted, there were few that had not
been seen by Mr.. Newell.
, 1927-05-11
1927 CODY CANAL TAX
LOWEST HISTORY CANAL
Ditch Riders to Handle Water This
Season to Avoid Difficulties
In Operation

The Cody Canal board has ap-
proved a budget for the 1928 as
sessment which will call for a tax
of but eighty cents per acre, the
lowest assessment ever made since
of the irrigation district. Last
year the last of the bonds were
paid off, and with the canal in n
very high state of repair and i'm
p~rovement, the eighty CEN levy will
more than owe all operating ex-
penses.
The board has at this time issued
an order to water users that the
ditch this year is to be in charge
of the ditch riders entirely. and
that those wishing water turned on
must notify these men to secure
the service. Last season many of
the water users turned the water
into their own laterals at their own
convenience. with the result hat it
was next to impossible to maintain
an efficient service in the canal
Each rider has a telephone and may
be called at any time. The head
gate phone number is 2F33; the
middle section riders phone will
be No. 2F24 and the Sage creek
phone will be 5J21.
This order by the board is made
for the benefit of the water users,
and is a step toward a better SER
vice to all. A steady and adequate
flow can not be maintained in the
ditch unless the riders have abso-
Lutte control of the ditch and are
fully informed of the needs OF the
water users along the entire water
way.
, 1927-05-11
ROAD CREWS START WORK
ON THE NoRTHFORK RoAI

A crew of men under Dick White
and Joe Freeborg went out this
morning and will start road repair
and construction on the Northfork
Fork and considerable work VIII be
expect to establish a camp at Elk
Ford and considerable work will be
accomplished this spring.
Mr. White who has been with
the Park road service for several
years shipped his equipment and
crew around from Gardner, and will
do some heavy Dad and crib work.
Freeborg will have four teams at
work and will apply himself more
to he maintenance and repair of
the roadway. After about n
months work on the Northfork
White expects to take his crew and
open Sylvan and go into the park
to work.
, 1927-05-11
GUERNSEY MAYOR AND
DRUGGIST CONVICTED
OF MANSLAUGHTEB

Sam F. Thompson, mayor and
prominent Druggist of Guernsey.
Wyoming, was given fifteen months
in the state penitentiary for the
death of William Fleming, January
both. The case was heard before
Judge Bryant S. Cromer at Casper
and the jury was out 36 hours.
Thompson was convicted of having
u into and killed Fleming on the
road between Douglas, and Casper
while driving his car in violation
of the law.
, 1927-05-11
MURPS BARBECUE NOW
OPENED FOR BUSINESS

Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Muri have
announced the opening of the Bar
becue. Cody's newest eating estab-
lishment which occupies the quar-
ters formerly used as the Workman
grocery store. Besides the eating
service the Muris still continue a
line Of groceries and lunch sup
plies.
Installed at the Barbecue is q
dip Jack" barbecue. the first of
its kind ever brought to Cody. You
must see it to appreciate just how
the good things to eat are barbe-
cued. It's heat is furnished by gas
and 1t is electrically operated.
, 1927-05-11
TRACK MEET AT BASIN
ON SATURDAY MAY Ia

The Cody track team will go to
Basin Friday for the Big Horn ba-
sin track meet which is to be held
there. The meet will be a two
day event and the Cody team is in
prime condition to take some of
the honors.
The Cody-Powell track meet
which was to have been held at
Powell last Saturday afternoon was
postponed on account of Lnsatis-
factory weather conditions.
, 1927-05-11
STATE HOME DEMONSTRATORS
IN PARK COUNTY THIS WEEK

Miss Mary Rokahr, state demon
stration leader, from the agricul-
tural college at Laramie, came to
Cody Friday of last week to spend
a few days in Park county.
Her chief errand here is to in
spect the work done in the home
demonstration department during
the year and to look over the pro-
gram for the remainder of the
year.
, 1927-05-11
BUREAU AGENT
GETS NEW ASSISTANT

r. b. Nordyke is to be located
at Powell as the assistant of F. A.
Chisholm, Farm Bureau agent, and
will attend to the duties in that
locality.
Mr.. Nordyke m from Rubio,
Iowa, a graduate of the Iowa state
agricultural college at Ames. and is
highly recommended for the po-
sition.
, 1927-05-11
p. f. o. GIVE ANNUAL
MOTHERS DAY LUNCHEON

The local chapter. P. E. o. gave
It's annual Mothers Day service on
Mondays the home of Mrs. H. F.
Bell, to which practically all of the
elder ladies of the Cody commun-
ity were invited. The luncheon
was daintily spread and an excel
lent program arranged, and both
the hosts and the guests enjoyed
h occasion immensely.
, 1927-05-11
OHIO STRIKES GAS AT BYRON
WILL DRILL TO LOWER SANDS

The Ohio Oil Company. which
struck a big gas well in the Byron
field last week is drilling deeper
to test the possibility of the sand
in which a IL million foot gasser
was encountered. 1t is the hope
of the company that large oil sands
will be found below. The gas was
uncorked at 1904 and it is believed
the sand is zoo foot thick.
, 1927-05-11

The Methodist Ladies' Aid is
meeting today at the church parlors
the meeting being a farewell to
Mrs. c. NJ. Cox. who has long been
a faithful worker in the Aid, and
who leaves soon for Cheyenne to
make her home.
, 1927-05-11
BURLINGTON PARTY TO BE
BERE TO MAKE PLANS
FOR OPENING THE PARK

The Cody Club yesterday received
a wire from H. f. McI.aury, of the
Burlington Route, to the effect that
his party would spend next Wednes-
day afternoon and Thursday in
Cody at which time plans would be
made for the program and celebra-
ton at the opening of Yellowstone
National park June 10th this year.
, 1927-05-11
TWENTY EIGHT GRADUATES RECEIVE
.H0NORS NEXT WEEK DIR. COULTER
WILL MAKE ADDRESS THIS YEAR
School VIII Close Wednesday Noon, May 25th
-Baccalaureate Service at Methodist
Church Sunday Evening

The second largest class in the history of the Cody high
school will finish the course this spring, twenty-eigth students
graduating next week. The commencement exercises will be held
in the high school auditorium Friday night, May 20, beginning
at 500 o'clock, when DR.. v. C. Coulter, head of the English de-
paEtment of the state university will give the address. His
subject will be THE Broken Tradition"
, 1927-05-11

Al Melvin came in last week and
is closing up his business affairs
here. Last summe he operated
the garage at Pahaska, and he
made a trip there on Saturday. Mr..
Melvin is now located at Forsyth.
where he is operating a battery
and service station.
, 1927-05-11
OPEN NEW BATTING HOUSE

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shrine are
planning to open a small lunch
room in the Walls building, next
door south of Shelly's saddlery
Mrs. Shrine expects to serve home
cooking at this little eating place.
, 1927-05-11

Bill Turk is back in Cody after
spending the winter at Roundup,
Montana.
, 1927-05-11

Mrs. E. A. GoldsSy is ill at the
Powell hospital.
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NEW SHOW AT
INDIANA TODAY

Another production by John Muir
ray Anderson, Listen H." and a
melodramatic photoplay of the
underworld, 1.-THE Girl from Chi
cago," make up the new bill at the
Indiana today.
Listen In" is a novel stage show
with the stage set to resemble a
huge radio receiving set. Charlie
Davis and the Indiana stage band
take part.
"Irmanette," the gay young sing
ing and dancing violinist, is one of
the headliners, and so are Berger
Herman and Harry Seaman, famous
knockabout comedians who starred
in "Allex Oop."
Others are the Ada Kaufman
girls, selected for their beauty and
disciplined choreography. Jerome
Mann, musical comedy Child
wonder" who sings Al Jolson's songs
as well as AL does, Dolores and
Eddy and Carlos and Inez make up
the cast of principals.
Conrad Nagel and Myra 10y are
co-stars in 1.-THE Girl from Chi
cago." Ray Enright directed this
underworld masterpiece, which
was taken from Business Is Best"
the Arthur Somers Roche detective
story.
Graham Baker did the scenario
and the subject is the spectacular
career of Southern girl who comes
to the great city to free her
brother from the clutch of an
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screen adaptation Of a French farce
comedy by Louis Verneuil.
The locale of the story is in
France, where the star is seen as a
young American tourist endeavor-
ing to see Paris alone, because of
the illness of her aunt and chap
eron. She meets an attractive
young Frenchman in a wax-works
museum, and is forced to remain
all night in the museum with him
when a careless custodian locks the
place for the night without first
making careful inspection, and
and who believes the place to be
empty.
Here, in the midst of mechanical
figures which execute famous histor-
ical events such as coronations,
murders, lynchings and imprison-
ments, the two fall in love, but not
until they have encountered nuimer-
Gus thrilling experiences with the
grotesque models.
The complications are increased
when it is learned that the boy has
been engaged for seventeen years to
girl he does not love, as a result
of pact made between the girls
father and his own when the boy
and girl were small children.
The remainder of the picture is a
series of comedy situations in which
the starry, as Nancy Worthington,
tries to break down the French be-
trothal tradition and succeeds most
admirably.
Charles Rogers, a Junior Para
mount star, plays the leading role
opposite Miss Bow, and others APP
pearing in the supporting cast are
Josephine Dunn, Harvey Clarke,
Josef Swickard and Frances Ray
mond. The production was direct
ed by Dorothy Arzner.
Other features of the program at
the Circle are: The Circle News;
the appearance on the stage of
Grace Doro, prominent pianologist;
Paris Creations" a Technicolor
novelty, in which Miss Hope Hamp-
ton, stage and screen star, displays
the latest fashions in women's APP
parel, and another of 1.-THE Cole
gians" series. featuring Dorothy
CULVER and George Lewis. The
overture for the week is "An Over
ture in Blue" played by the Circle
concert orchestra, under the direc-
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on Broadway and was later
taken all over the civilized
world by road companies, is re-
tanned in the cinema presenta-
ton, and to it's triangle theme of
jealous husband, fascinating wife
and handsome friend many new
diverting touches have been added.
When the busy husband cancels
a luncheon engagement with his
wife, she meets friend who steals
her portrait and refuses to re-
linquish it unless she dimes some
evening at his apartment. How the
husband discovers their tete-a-tete,
and the wife regains the picture and
the friend learns a thing or two
about a lovely woman furnishes ex-
quisite mirth and amusement. A
suicide pact, a yacht party and
other unexpected complications keep
interest sustained at a high pitch.
The program will contain
Charlie Chase comedy, called "As-
sistant Wives" the Fox news week.
ly, musical specialties by Emil. Sci
del and his Apollo merrymakers,
new songs by Charlie Barnes, 1.-THE
Boy From Kentucky" and organ in
novationS by Ray Winnings.
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NezO EUentS
i'm Music

The patronesses of Sigma Alpha
Iota, national musical fraternity To-
Gated in the Indiana College of Mu-
sic and Fine Arts, will hold its an
nual Christmas party on Wednesday
evening, Dec. 81, at o'clock, at the
home of Mrs. j. A. Goodman, Kess-
Ter Blvd.
Hostesses for the party, beside
Mrs. Goodman, are: Mesdames lila
Friermood, Louise S. Koehne,
Blanche Harrington, Gertrude H.
Cregor and Leonore Coffin. All
other patronesseS, the alumnae and
active chapters are cordially invited.
Louise S. Koehne, a patroness of
Sigma Alpha Icta music fraternity
was guest artist of the Phi Mu (Sin-
fonia) and the Mu Phi Epsilon on
Wednesday night. Mrs. Koehne
played the harp in one Of DR.. Edgar
Stillman Kelley's compositions
which was given in DR.. Kelley's
honor, at his initiation to honor
membership in the Sinfonia.
The Axline Trio of the Metropoli-
tan School of Music will play a
group OF numbers on a program to
be given at the Sutherland Presby.
terion church, Tuesday evening, De-
cember 20. The trio is composed OF
Addie Axline, flute; Lois Axline, vio-
lin, and Dorothy Fee, piano. ~
Charlotte Bergman and Mary
Eleanore Pegs, students of Gladys
Smead of the dramatic art depart
ment of the Metropolitan School of
Music, will give musical monologues
at the Christmas party of the Ex-
celsior Club, to be held at the home
Of Mrs. T. Wilkoff Saturday after
noon.
Pauline Hedges, violin student of
Dom Watson of the Metropolitan
School of Music, will play at the
brotherhood banquet Monday eve
ming at the First Baptist Church.
Gladys Smead of the faculty OF
the Metropolitan School Of Music
will give a number Of Christmas
readings for the Monday Conver-
sation Club at their holiday meet
ing Monday afternoon.
Mary Heaton, pianist. pupil OF
Willard MacGregor of the Metro
politan School of Music, will give a