The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., February 22, 1922, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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I KNOW a maa
■WHO JUST returned
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FROM THE East
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AND HE looks
FINE AND thia
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AND VERY healthy
• • •
IN A new suit
THAT MUST have
BEEN MADE by
• • •
A CHICAGO tailor
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OTHERWISE ha
• • •
WOULDN’T LOOK thin
AND WE’LL admit
IT IS better
• * •
THAN THE on©
HE DEPARTED in
• • •
AND HE brought
• * •
ME SOME cigars
• • •
WHICH I can’t
• • »
SMOKE because
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THEY’RE STRONG enough
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TO TIP over
• * •
'A STEAM roller
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BUT ANYWAY lie
• • *
'ALSO BROUGHT
• • •
WONDERFUL tales
OF THE East
• • •
'AND OF drinking
SCOTCH AND rye
GIN AND beer
• • •
OVER THE bars
• • •
AS IN ye
• * •
GOOD OLDE days
• • •
AND TOLD about
• ♦ •
VISITING IN offices
• • •
IN DOWN-TOWN New York
AND SEEING men
• « •
COME AROUND each morn
WITH WINE cards
ASKING THE big
• • •
MEN OF the world
• • • ■»
WALL STREET magnates
• • •
BANKERS AND Brokers
• • •
HOW MUCH booze
• • •
THEY WISHED delivered
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DURING THE week
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AND IT must
• • •
SEEM FUNNY after
•. ■
SEEING THOSE things
• • •
IN LITTLE old
• • •
NEW YORK or r
• • •
DIMINUTIVE Chicago
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TO RETURN to a
•GREAT ROARING metropolis
• • •
SUCH AS Cody
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AND OBSERVE officials
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DARTING AROUND corners
* • *
AND DOWN alleys
• • •
IN THEIR zeal
• * •
TO NAB some
• • •
POOR INJUN
• • •
SIFTING perhaps
♦ • •
A LITTLE
• • •
HANG OVER medicine
AND WHILE he talked
THE SWINGING doors
• • •
OF PATCHELL’S pool hall
BURST OPEN
AND OUT reeled
THE MAYOR and - t
THE CITY attorney
• • •
WHO EVIDENTLY had
BEEN PLAYING pool
• • •
ALL SUNDAY afternoon
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AND WE rejoiced
• * •
TO REALIZE
AFTER CATCHING
OUR METHODIST Mayor
• • •
MANIPULATING a
• • • • •
BILLIARD CUE on Sunday ‘
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THAT THERE might be
••. • • -
STILL SOME hope
• •
FOR THE town
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YET WE lingered not
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IN OUR glee
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BUT HURRIED on
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FOR FEAR of
,f— ■ ■ - I *1
•ft LOCAL ITEMS -fc
... j
Do not kid yourself. It merely make
others laugh and feel sorry for you*
Charlie Sullivan was in from North
Fork during the week.
Wm. Lenninger departed for Grey
bull on Tuesday.
Phil Kent was in from the Carter
ranch on Saturday.
Dewey Johnston came in again re
cently, as did also Roy Glasgow.
Bill Leatherman, veteran mulligan
mixer has been amongst us.
John Kirkpatrick rode infb town on
Saturday on his white charger.
Word has been received from Mor
an, that theie is 100 inches of snow
there on the level.
J. J. Winniger and BUI English
were in from Meeteetse land on Sun
day.
Bill Barlow says he’s perfected an
invention of perpetual motion. Hold
on to yourself Bill!
Mrs. Carrie Johnson of Ralston,
who has been seriously ill for some
days, will leave for Kansas City next
week.
Upon the removal of Pachell’s Bil
liard Hall to the Irma Hotel, Earnest
Ricci will continueto run the old
hall as a i ft drink parlor
Joe Jones motored to Meeteetse on
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jones and
Joe, junior, have been spending the
week at the Irma Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Carley Downing have
been staying in town during the week
waiting for something to be fixed un
der Cart’s car. They have been at
the
Dan MacDonald, who bought the
Hank Fulton sheep ranch, states that
his woolies are getting through the
winter in fine condition. They are
being ranged near Burlington.
Lawrence Nordquist came through
Cody the first of the week on his way
to Jim Creek Heights ranch after
having spent a few day a in Billings.
Pete Nordquist is staying in Powell
for the present.
George Nelson has been in town
for a few days. Having finished his
work in connection with the new com
munity house recently built at Isha
wooa, he is now taking a deserved
vacation.
Mrs. A. T. G. Orr who has been vis
iting in Nebraska returned during the
week but departed soon again for El
Paso, Texas where she will assume a
position as nurse in the government
hospital.
“Mike” Dayer went to Billings last
week with his wife who has departed
for Minnesota. Mike returned in
time for the dance at the Irma on
Wednesday. Mrs. Harvey Hoopes
also departed for Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. Bronson C. Rumsey
came to town on Friday from Black
water Camp. They were accompan
ied in their car by several of
the boys from Mr. Rumsey’s school,
including Steve Robie. Mr. and. Mrs.
Rumsey departed for the snow and
ice once more on Monday morning.
There is about thirty inches of snow
at Blackwater and only after two
days of strenuous work on the road
with a grader, was it made at all
passable.
Ned Frost returned from an extend
ed trip to the East on Wedn sday.
Ned says that he had a wonderful
time, is expecting lots of dudes for
pack trips and hunting trips during
the coming season, and that he is
glad to get back.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thurston enter
tained on Wednesday evening after
wards taking their guests to the
dance of Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Forrest
at the Irma. Among those at the par
ty were Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hollis
ter, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ewart, Mr.
Jake Schwoob and Mr. and Mrs. Ned
Frost
We knew Bill Lane because he is
one of the friendly sort that dashes
by the Enterprise office, yells “Hello
Chune,” and gives the wi .iow a
whack with his hand, supposedly just
to see how hard he can do It without
breaking it. We didn’t know he was
a bootlegger however, or at least
wouldn’t admit it if we did, and it
was a surprise to hear of him being
arrested by Sheriff Davis on Sunday
morning about 4 g. m. as he sat inno
cently in the lobby of the Irma with
three pints beneath his overcoat.
Bill was taken to Basin and given on
ly SSOO fine and sixty days In jail by
Judge Metz. As one person was heard
to remark on hearing of Carl Thomp
sen’s recent arrest, “Darn It, just
another good bootlegger gone!” How
ever, the Enterprise window is safe
for a while
Henry Sayles and Charles Beldon mo
tored to Cody from Pitchfork the first
of the week. Mr. Beldon also made a
trip to the Coe ranches.
GETTING PINCHED for
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TALKING about HOOCH!
SO MUCH for that.
If you are watched, change It tto the
other pocket.
Ora Sonners went to Cheyenne on
Monday.
A. L. Cummings of Billings has
been in town.
Judge Percy Metz has been visiting
in Denver.
Charlie Stump went to Greybull i
during the week.
L. C. Freeman has been visiting in
Thermopolis.
Jack Sayles was among those at the
Irma during the week.
/
Buck Buchanan and Glen Newton
went again to Greybull during the
week to attend a business meeting.
The Episcopal Guild will meet with
Mrs. Lloyd Buchanan on March 2nd,
(Thursday instead of Wednesday.)
Mrs. Dode Brundage who has been
seriously ill for some time is now con
siderably improved.
Jack Tweedie and Terry Barefield
just motored past the Enterprise of
fice in their car enroute to Oregon 1
Basin to inspect oil operations.
It was twenty eight below zero in
Cody on Wednesday night. At Val
ley where it never snows and it never
blows, it was only thirty eight below.
Andy Martin, accompanied by Mrs. 1
Martin, returned to Cody on Saturday
following a visit with Judge and Mrs.
P. C. Metz in Basin.
A. B. Nash, Deputy Collector of the
Internal Revenue Service, will be in
town on the 26th and 27th to assist
individuals in filing their income tax
returns for the year 1921
Max Wilde, famous trapper of Val
ley was in town for several days dur
ing the week attending to business
affairs and playing solo inn the pool
halls.
A. M. Sellery made another flying
visit to Cody during the past week.
He attended a dance at the Temple
on Thursday and the home talent
show given by neighbors from Pow
ell.
Miss Evelyn Steib, secretary tc< I.
H. Larom at the Vallep Ranch, de
parted for her home in Chicago on
Friday. Miss Steib recently recover
ed from a long seige of appendicitis
in the Powell Hospital, and expects
to return again pext summer.
Jack Reynold who has been shacked
up for the winter over toward Pat
O’Hara came out on the second of
February to see his shadow. He
bought a fresh grub suply in Cody so
we take it he looks for another spell
of weather.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V Robertson of the
Hoodoo Ranch, returned from their
trip abroad during the week on board
the Olympic. They are at present in
New York and are expected to arrive
in Cody some time next week.
Work on the oil well out beyond the
Hargraves Ranch was somewhat ham
pered on Sunday and turned into a
fishing job when the tools dropped
down the hole. The stem on the drill
broke above the box, leaving the bitt
and part of the stem in the hole.
Al Me Clenahan, who last week
startled the world by appearing in a
new hat, Joe Jones, Mrs. Forrest and
Mrs Hall, motored to the dance at
Meeteetse on Saturday night. For
some reason or other, Joe had a head
ache the following morning.
Clifford Spencer stopped whistling
for a while in the Forestry office af
ter our recent article concerning his
talent along this line. He started up
again on Monday however, but soon
gave up in disgust. Attorney Goppert
was once more trying a case in the
adjoining office of Justice of the
Peace Marston.
There was a house partyat the ranch
home of L. G. Phelps at Pitchfork on
Saturday. Among those entertained
over the week end by Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Belden and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Phelps, were Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Hollister, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Rumsey,
Hon. Jake Schwoob Mr. and Mrs. I.
H. Larom, and June Little
Pat Kelley took a party to Billings
in his “oprey bus” last week. Among
those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Barnes and son, of Cody, Mr. Christo
pher Pike and Lawrence Nordquist of
North Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes and
son returned to Cody on Sunday with
Mr. Kelly as did Lawrence Nordquist.
They report the roads In very poor
condition and took two days to make
the return trip. Chrin Pike remained
on In Billings to have something on
his Up removed by a doctor.
Patchell’s Billiard Room will be
moved over to the Irma Bar on the
first of March.
Kid Wilson is to start running o
bus to the station on Marell Tst. Car
will call for passengers. Phono 5.
The Irma Bar-Room will be opened
March Ist under the management of
H. H. Patchell; Billiards and Soft
Drinks. 29-4 t
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