The Northern Wyoming herald., August 11, 1916, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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PAGE EIGHT
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Tourists are getting thicker every
day.
All of the dude ranchers are filled
to capaci'.y.
Dave Jones is still in the mountains
and is expected to return Monday.
Mrs. Fred Garlow and Cody Boal
came down from the TE for supplies
Wednesday.
H. W. Thurston, R. L. Donley and
Sheriff E. S. Hoopes were in Meetee
tse on legal business Tuesday.
Mrs. Arthur Parker returned to
Cheyenne Monday accompanied by
Miss Jessie I.ambert.
Mrs. Fred Winchester has been
quite sick for several days but is im
proving.
Mr. and Mrs. John Owens and fam
ily who were here to attend the funer
al of their son George returned to
Sand Springs, Montana, Tuesday.
Mrs. Matid Brown assisted in the
musical numbers of the “Battle Cry
of Peace" at Powell last week and was :
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ful- i
kerson.
George Taylor and family »f Ten- i
sleep spent the week in Yellowstone.
W. T. Hogg and family motored
thru the Yellowstone this week and
had a pleasant outing.
J. M. Frost, one of Cody’s prize
boosters, is having more than his
share of trouble with an attack of
rheumatism and has been confined to
his bed for a couple of weeks.
Dick and Dan Marlow are the lat
est purchasers of white fases from
the Richard and Comstock herds and
will range them on the Greybull
country.
Luther Smith is home from Colo
rado and was warmly welcomed by
his many friends. He was employed
in mining tungsten in the district
near Boulder.
Eighty tourists were accomodated
at the public camping grounds at the
school house Wednesday night. Janit
or Bates reports this to be the largest
number of the season.
Curt Howell is around again after
a very serious operation for appendi
citus and intestinal adhesions. He
says if he could only eat all he want
ed he would be happy.
The many friends of F. W. Kurtz,
the plumber, are pleased to hear that
he is greatly improved and sufficient
ly recovered from his operation at
Billings to be out of bed. He will
return to Cody within a few days.
Tuesday night there was scarcely
an empty bed in town. The hotels
and rooming houses were filled by five
o'clock and many private homes were
opened to tourists who could not find
other accommodations.
George Weller was badly injured
by the rigging of a stacker stricking
him on the head Monday while en
gaged in the putting up of hay near
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Meeteetse. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Weller.
The Misses Thora Slade. Letha Ful
ton, Ida Ward, Racheal Waples, Paul
ine Lackaye and Ethel Erickson,
properly chaperoned by Mrs. Thom
! pson, are up Southfork for a few days
outing.
As evidence that there are some
I tourists on the road. Mr. and Mrs. D.
iE. Hollister submit the statement
| that in coming to town Monday they
j passed 23 cars bound for Yellowstone
I park and all within an hour and a
! half.
| A. A. Anderson, artist, millionaire
I and Meeteetse rancher, arrived from
I New York Tuesday and loaded out a
auto truck of goods for the Palette
ranch. He expects to spend a while
among the hills of Wyoming before
returning to Broadway.
Jake Lane is under arrest for vag
rancy and frequenting a house of ill
fame at Meeteetse and will be brought
to trial before Justice of the Peace
! William Foster on Saturday. A
j warrant is also out for the madam of
j one of the houses of that city and she
j will be tried later. j
Jack Hancock is down from the
Cooke city district and reports a great
deal of activity in that section. He
i says that the big interests are making
I a thoro test of the value of the min-
I -g districts and have large forces of
men at work. Labor is scarce he
says. He visited with his family who
have been spending several weeks i
with his mother. Mrs. Smith.
' Dick Marlow has decided' to return
to Cody to live. After wandering a- j
bout the globe, covering Canada and
the west slope he and his wife have
decided that Cody is the most attrac
tive place to them they know of.
They are arrangeing their business
affairs in order to make the char.ee
and Park county thus gets another
worthy couple as permanent resi
dents.
HELD IP THE TRAIN
“Shorty”, a little old dried up.
half grown man. had the train crew
of the northbound eight o’clock even
ing train all buffaloed Friday night.
He was determined to get out of
town and climbed up on top of the
Pullman. Conductor Rodgers discov
ered his presence but when anyone
appeared above the top of the car
“Shorty” made a feint at drawing a
six gun. The city and county officers
were telephoned for and they made a
hurried run for the station. Recog
nizing the fellow as one that had beer,
drunk about town for several days
• they called him to come down and
< meek as a lamb he climbed off the
coach. He was locked up for the
; night and the next morning given
: “floater passage” to other parts.
I I IMPROVING SCHOOLHOUSE
I Improvements costing $1,500 are
j in process of being made at the Cody
school building by Contractor W. B.
1 j Raymond.
The increased attendance and bet
ter heating system are the necessities
NORTHERN WYOMING HERALD
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which compelled tha expenditure and
the plant furnish additional room,
better toilet'facilities and insures a
warm building any kind of weather.
The furnace gets a complete over
hauling and 300 feet of radiators are
to be installed. A new chimney will
replace the old one on the west end of
the frame building, the discarded
• one being two small for the fire box. '
By a rearrangement of the pipes the
head room in the busement is great
ly increased making the rooms avail
able for clasß work,
j The basement room used the last
few a manual training room
is being.jkatodeled into a large reci
tation rodm. The toilets in the boy’s
room are being fitted so that a large
room is provided for manual training.
This room is well lighted, has good
ceiling and' with added equipment
will create an increased interest in ,
this branch es the school’s activities.
A re-arrangement of the girl's room
makes possible a large well lighted
space for the new domestic science
departmerik'rivhich is to be installed
this year. On the main floor a new
lavatory and toilet for ladies is provi-.
ded. \Y
The work is being rushed forward
to completion for the opening of the
school year September 11.
THREW UP TKF.IR HANDS 1
Local garages are crowded to over
flowing with the auto tourist busi
| nes9. Managers who started out the
season 'fully, determined that they
would ,keep a register of all visitors
have thrown up their hands and aban
doned the plan because of th,e press
of business.. “We are kept oniths job
night and day," said Sid Eldred of the.
Cody garage yesterday. “We have
simply been compelled to turn out the
work as quickly as possible and cut
! out all non essentials. Such a took
as we started in with would make en
' tertaining reading next winter had it
i been possible to keep it up. but We
just coulden’t take the time t'tf Attend
to it.”
The Park garage has more than it
can do is the report from Manager
Glen Newton. The new place''just
is not nearly large enough for the
business ar.d they were confident that
they had planned far enough ahead
for several seasons. “If next year is
.an increase over this we will haw to
make some arrangements to take c>re
o? the additional business,” said Dud
ley Watkins the other member of the
Park garage firm. “It is better-than
we thought it would be and the open
ing of the Cody entrance is a mighty
good thing for this town."
CODY DOUBLE CROSSED ON
IRRIGATION PROJECT
(Wyoming State Journal)
Cody) like nearly every other com
munity in the state, has its own big
fuss with the government. Years
ago Buffalo Bill transferred his water
rights on the Shoshone to the gov
ernment with the understanding that
the government would complex' ccr
train irrigation projects which the old
scout had started .The Shoshdne dam
costing around $3,000,000, located
above Cody some eight miles, seems
to be tangible evidence of the' agre
ement- But that is about all the
government has done in the immed
iate vicinity of Cody. Instead the
reclamation service, with what the
Cody natives might with reason
charge “malice aforethought, went
HONESTY, INTEGRITY AND
PERSEVERANCE
Are the foundation of every success
ful legitimate business enterprise.
PUBLIC OFFICE
should be conducted in the same manner and if I am
liifcil elected to the office of County Treasurer, the office will
, be so conducted. I earnestly solicit jour support.
Republican Primaries Aug. 22
Jll E. Erickson
down the river farther and are put
ting thousands of acres under ditch,
building towns, and promoting the
genera! prosperity of the district
with Cody getting only the indirect
benefit.
In the mean time the Shoshone
dam. completed several years. Is serv
ing no useful purpose. The reservoir j
is kept full because when the water j
is lowered silt from the lake bed |
Rows over the adjacent ranches caus- 1
ing substantial damage. But ther -
is plenty of water and then some in
projects below and so far the dam
serves only as a mounment to the
reclamation service.
The reclamation service have giv- j
en sundry and varied excuses when!
implored to do the work promised.
Just now they say liligation is caus
ing the delay. As the completion of
the project around Cody v.uld have
no effect on the outcome of the suit
pending the reason does not seem to
I be well founded. In the meantime
the settlers on the lower irrigation
units are paying the government
something more than ten dollars per
acre as their proportionate share of
the cost of the big dam. And the
dam so far is of no value to them.
So far the big dam, depreciating
every year in value, carrying an in
terest charge, if privately owned, that
would swamp the owners, stands,
serving only the tourists who stop to
see oqe of the wonders of the engin
eering world while on their way to
the park.
The real reason why the Cody unit
is not built, probably, is that the land
under the lower units is cheaper, for
the water rights, and it has not all
been settled. Add to that the fact
that the reclamation service will have
1 a hard time making their books bal-
I ance after they have the Cody work
finished and the real reasons are not
i far away.
But there is a world of electric
newer very easy to develop on the
Shoshone dam that there will be some
day a market for, and in the limit
ed number of years the irrigable
land below will be under cultivation.
When that time comes Cody will pro
bably get her lands irrigated, that is
if her enterprising citizens at once?
do not round up the whole reclama
tion service, burn its members at the
stake, and start with a new deal.
OPEN BAKERY IN GREYBULL
Greybull Standard: William I.en
ninger, of Cody a well known resi
lient of Big Horn county has pur
chased of A1 Blackley, the lot adjoin
ing the po.stoffice on the west and will
erect thereon a building which he will
usa a bakery. Mr. I.enninger is ex
pected here next week, to arrange for
constructing his building. He went
to the Pacific coast about three weeks
since to examine some of the latest
ideas in ovens and bakery equipment.
Mr. Leninger is a baker of many years
experience.
Upper Sage Creek
August 8, 1916.
Those who participated in the
bountiful supper at A. L. rearson’3
were: Elmer Pearson, Misses Aman
da Pearson, Fern and Gladys Isham.
Mable Houston, Elsie Lindstrom, and
Lillian Miller. Later in the evening
the following guests arrived: Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Rader, Onis and Dorothy
Collins, Loren Irven, Lewis Pearson,
Ernest Garth, Wilson Riley, Margaret
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FINANCE NEEDED ROAD
Phelps Pays Half the Amount
for Improvement of
Seven Miles
| Taking advantage of the offer made
| by L. G. Phelps at the meeting of the
i Meeteetse-Cody road boosters at tii -
Weller hotel a couple of months n
to pay an amount equal to that rais“ ’
by the Meeteetse people in improving
the road from Meeteetse to the mouth,
of the Wood river, Ed McGuire and
C. H. Davidson went out among the
residents of the good town and in a
couple of days had $235 subscribed.
The Phelps pledge brings it up to
j $l7O which is calculated enough to
1 put the seven miles in first class con
dition.
Mr. Phelp's further offers to bear
the entire expense of building the
road from Wood river to the Z ha t
T, will put a road up the Greybull
from Meeteetse probably in better
shape than any other similar length
in thestate of Wyoming.
Plans are being formulated for the
building of the road up Wood river
which serves a large number of people
who trade at Meeteetse, the Mays
having offered material assistance in
this matter.
Interest is keen for good roads in i
the Meeteetse section and three men i
have come out for the position of road I
supervisor. These three do not neces- ]
sarly constitute all of the available j
material for the position, for that sec- j
tion has a number of men who know j
the principles of road construction and |
maintenance.
BRING IN WELL -
A well owned by a company of
Sheridan speculators was brought in
seven miles south west of Lovell Wed
nesday and gives promise of being a
good one.
Geo. E. Hayes, the engineer, who
located the ground for the owners
was sent for and left yesterday morn
ing at day break for Lovell.
FRIDAY, kuduST n ms>
and Fern Ashley. H jlila Ho?i jnd.
I mil Ah r’. Shultz. Th“lma Ash-
Wul’er Harold and Wn. Hous
-1 *i Jesse Horn»r Reuben Millar.
Fidna and Arthur Limlholm and Les
lie Walls. Refreshments consisting
of lee crpam and coke were served.
All went hn-i" '"-ling they had spent
-v pleasant evening.
’V/orul parties from Upper Sage
- » Feen seen on the way to the riv
- *h« past week. The fleh seem to
t-ite prettv well these davn.
t'ra. .las Ashley’s sister arrived
lest, week and helped to make up the
party that went thru the park. They
have returned and report a delight
ful trip.
Clarence Miller went up Northfork
I near Jim Creek last Wednesday to
| spend a while in the mountains. He
'will return to-morrow,
j The Misses Fern and Gladys Isham
entertained a merry party of young
people at their home Sunday. The
evening was spent in playing lively
games, tricks,etc. and byenjoying
some splendid music and singing.
Those attending from Upper Sage
Creek were: Harmen, Albert and Fred
Schultz, Harold, Mable and Wm. Hou
ston, Lillian and Ruehen Miller,Elsie
I.indstrom, and David and Joe Free-
I borg. Delicious refreshments were
1 served. All declare the girls royal
1 entertainers.
Miss Elsie Ebert, of Cody, has been
j the guest of Elsie Lindstrom a few
I days this Week.
! Mrs Pearson and Miss Amanda
! Pearson entertained at a sumptuous
j Sunday dinner Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hou
! ston and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Schultz and family, Mr. and Mrs. A.
L. Pearson and Donald, and Mr. ami
Mrs John Cooper and Emly.
Mrs. Walter’s sister, with her son
and daughter left last Wednesday af
ter enjoying a pleasant visit here.
3%ere will be a dance at the Upper
Sage Creek school house next Friday
evening, the 11th. All ladies are re
quested to bring a cake, sandwiches
or anything good to eat