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Carbon County Journal Notes 12/18/1909–6/30/27 (very selective)
Transcribed by Corinne
File 1
12/18/1909-6/30/1927
12/18/09 Greenbaum-Mosher shoe and clothing incorporated
1/7/10 J. P. Hehn sells Spruce St. home to E. Mosher, Hehn going to NE
1/21/10 new rock crusher at cut in 60 days, to complete summer work; H. Larsen installs new electric light system in shop; George Deaton has leased Snake River Sentinel and is making improvements
1/28/10 Verne Ferris will return from Denver next week to open garage
2/16/10 H. France to build auto garage for Verne Ferris – Rawlins’ first, between the CCJ and Red Cross Drug
3/25/10 Rawlins Athletic Club organized at old Elks Hall, starts with 140 members; Charles Anderson says he and associates will begin work on new opera house in a few days; Joe Buck R. E. Hill contractors in stone, brick, cement solicit patronage
4/1/10 A. V. Ferris, agent for Chalmers Detroit Autos and supplier and repair
4/8/10 city doing work on street signs on corners
4/22/10 Tim Keliher, UP special agent in this division, to take similar position in Chicago with ILL’s Central RR – pen warden Lewis seeks new job
5/13/10 city ordinance, all autos and motorcycles must be registered with city clerk, have city ID number plainly displayed visible at 60 feet, 12 mph limit with alarm bell, brakes, and lamps
5/20/10 Haley’s comet seen brightly Fri-Mon, total lunar eclipse Monday night, comet to disappear by end of June
6/10/10 Captain Gray got experimental wireless installed in his office
6/23/11 N-S railroad proposed
7/7/11 Rustlers/butcherers gang in N. Carbon County, stockmen to take own action
7/28/11 Ma Bell born
8/11/11 Baily Annex being built; Buck + Hill split, buck continues
9/1/11 county to buy a poor farm (terms 11/17/11, purchase 1/5/12, new building 5/17/12)
9/15/11 Andy Comstock (horse thief) sentenced 5/14/08, paroled 6/1911, stole another horse, will serve balance of sentence
9/22/11 Robert G. Fowks attempting to fly to SF to NY for Hearst $50,000 prize expected in Rawlins Sunday
10/6/11 Sunday movies approved by council
11/3/11, 11/10/11, 1/5/12 – shoplifters
4/12/12 city ordinance no women in saloons or any place selling booze
5/17/12 Milton Bosworth recaptured near Dixon
6/14/12 cluster street lights
6/21/12 Dave Marcia murdered at sporting house
6/28/12 R. A. Daley gets contract on east ward school
7/12/12 old pen suicide of Fransisco Garrido
7/19/12 fire at old pen broom factory
8/12/12 sheep ship through dead line at Encampment
W. J. Bryan visits Dr. Osborne
10/4/12 Wigfall story?
10/18/12 Charles Stresner obit
11/8/12 Salas shots Mrs. Leel Keefe Hall (race story)
11/22/12 Mel Davis letter
1/3/13 Haystack murder (conviction 6/18/15)
1/24/13 Cullen Commercial Co by old Ferguson store 4th and Cedar, sold Front St. store to Pete Townson
4/11/13 Boscom Skaggs paroled (8/28/14 Kemmerer arrest, 10/2/14 escape)
4/18/13 as of 15th, auto owners must apply to Secretary of State for license; Masonic temple gets grounds plowed for lawn
5/2/13 water from monument hill tanks
6/13/13 city playground; 5th and Buffalo tearing down Ferguson warehouse
6/27/13 George Edwards kills wife’s lovers
7/4/13 Buffalo Bill coming here
7/28/13 cloudburst, flood
8/29/13 flag pole at Elks
10/10/13 concrete wall bid let at old pen, A. Allison
11/7/13 Scotty McKay RR wreck at Rock River, bottle of scotch broken
11/28/13 Sunday closing upheld, no liquors or cigars, tobacco and cigarettes ok; Ft. Steele JP court fight
12/5/13 Tichenor Spr. Wheel Co. Incorporated
12/19/13 west door of post office opened for first time
1/2/14 Ralph Ferris replaces Dee J. Wren as Ferris Hotel manager
1/30/14 Mayor Morgan has team plowing streets so walking easier
2/6/14 Alfred Johnson shot by prostitute Ada Buford
3/27/14 metal pneumatic tire invented by Joe Kennelly
4/10/14 broom factory open stats (fire 4/24/14)
4/17/14 Edison’s talkies
4/24/14 letter carriers
5/1/14 Dr. Swisher shoots burglar
5/8/14 Keefe again
6/12/14 super of public works $25/month, city marshal Hayes does it
7/10/14 Marshal Hayes attacked by circus men
9/14/14 Star Spangled Banner
10/16/14 J. H. Withers obit
11/20/14 Front Street right of way dispute settled
12/4/14 Saratoga Hatchery
1/8/15 home delivery petition lacks enough names; William Cide attempts to kill Charles Sanger
1/15/15 Al Martinez kills Isabel Trajello of “Irish World”; William Daley park
5/19/15 Cadets/Lt. Stiever; J. C. Penny’s Golden Rule Store
4/9/15 Rock River treasure
6/4/15 addition to central school (also 10/1/15, 10/8/15, 11/26/15, 4/17/16, 5/12/16)
7/2/15 horse buyers for WWI
8/16/15 James O’Leary; shoot out James Dickinson and George McIntyre
8/27/15 Moose Lodge organized
12/17/15 catholic church (also 6/9/16, 7/14/16, 8/11/16)
12/31/15 Smith Bakery Burns (also 1/7/16, 1/28/16, 3/3/16); first two state deputy Wyo/Colo
1/14/16 H. Rasmusson has lady assistant (the first)
2/4/16 snow blocks RR
2/11/16 Parker Car bill
2/18/16 fire truck
2/11/16 UP Bull shoots E. Cordova (also 2/18/16, 7/21/16)
3/3/16 777 stabbing
3/24/16 Baker Comstock
4/21/16 county jailor Hetzler assaulted mortally
5/12/16 city prohibition
5/19/16 Indian wars cemetery
7/7/16 North Star Lodge, old R.C. church, 3rd and Cedar
Ian Buchannon
10/6/16 coyotes; Park Hill streets
11/10/16 Harry Phelan stabbed (also 12/8/16, 12/15/16, 2/23/17, 3/2/17)
1/5/17 Martha and Chris Larsen
1/19/17 Jim Baker cabin acquired
1/26/17 snow blocks RR; Pete Olson buys Ball Springs ranch
2/16/17 first fishing license
3/2/17 RR hires guards, government reaction to Zimmerman riot
3/9/17 RR wreck at Daley’s ranch; Rawlins Realty co. to build ford dealership at 3rd and Cedar NW
3/16/17 earthquake
3/23/17 new RR club; new motor vehicle registration
3/29/17 telephone co. to build new exchange building; call to enlist in the NRA
RAWLINS REPUBLICAN
(It is unclear if all of these references are Rawlins Republican only or some other newspaper)
1917-1927
5/17/17 Cullens, 400 block of S. Cedar
5/24/17 selective service (6/20/18 expanded list)
5/31/17 shirt factory
6/28/17 Japanese 4th of July
7/12/17 Cadillac Miller of Hanna
8/2/17 1st Gideon Bibles in Ferris
8/23/17 John Leibig pro German (follow up 10/25/17)
9/20/17 whore houses banned
9/27/17 Rawlins Drug moves to Miller Block
11/29/17 food control taxes
1918
1/3/18 slots and punch boards banned; Rasmusson horse drawn hearse replaced with motohearse; hospital burns, Masonic temple used temporarily
1/17/18 RR yards improved and expanded
3/4/18 auto good store (George’s)
3/11/18 Belle Reardon (also 3/21/18, 5/2/18)
3/28/18 draft dodger V. T. Ward (also 4/11/18, 5/25/18)
5/30/18 new road to Ft. Steele all north of RR track
10/10/18 city health ban
12/19/18 Kosier buys and remodles Kraft Hall
1919
1/2/19 E. Lujan shot. Bank Exchange closed
1/16/19 S. Front shooting robbery
3/27/19 day light savings; school colors for RHS
4/17/19 N. garage Rawlins Motor Co. giving up
4/24/19 Tank #4 to attack breastwork on monument hill
7/3/19 Rawlins has 3 day Victory Party weekend before the 4th, preparing for prohibition; S+E 70 motor car
8/14/19 army motor train – 3 items
9/4/19 Brown and Lahrman 4th and Cedar; S. Side land development
9/11/19 water meters; P. J. Johnson buys property for new opera house
10/2/19 air race
10/9/19 boy scouts
10/23/19 Dr. Jeff
11/6/19 coal strike
1920
1/1/20 A. S. Roach, sheriff Platte Co. appointed 2nd state prohibition commissioner
1/8/20 new hospital fund
1/15/20 photo studio moves from 313 4th to Hoffman Block
1/29/20 city tax; Drs. Mott
2/5/20 weather 1st half December 1919 2nd ½ moderate; Kasoming Oil Co. (failed)
2/19/20 R. A. Daley sells lumber yard to Overland Lumber Co.
3/18/20 city water
4/8/20 pen break
4/22/20 97 acre Merrell addition to Rawlins
7/15/20 camp ground
8/5/20 airmail field
10/14/20 murder of Mrs. Carl Knapp
10/21/20 Murder of Theo Gardner
11/25/20 murder Mrs. Louis Hereston
12/30/20 gambling banned
1921
1/12/21 1st beauty shop; movement to again close movies on Sunday
2/17/21 St. Tom’s social committee
2/24/21 Saratoga Hot Springs/Wyo property
3/3/21 Rawlins counterfieters
5/19/21 Al Biscaro
8/11/21 Lee shoots McCullum
10/20/21 city manager first ban
12/8/21 Paid Firemen RFD 1st
1922
1/5/22 Perez New Year’s murder
1/12/22 Masonic Temple burns
3/23/22 murder Martin kills Paredo
4/13/22 building permits; death at McFadden
5/18/22 St. Joe’s rectory
5/25/22 McIntosh girls 3 drown
5/4/22 reading room
6/15/22 Chain Bandit
8/10/22 R. R. Bollva ice cream cart
11/23/22 big story/chain gang
12/14/22 Hatfield
1923
1/11/23 A. V. Ferris killed
2/8/23 postal census 1923-7000 December 1919-4000; Daley Building
2/15/263 aero #2
3/15/23 Christian Science
3/22/23 Wyoming Reporter
3/29/23 Sunny Side addition
4/26/23 Al Sandoval shot; golf course/country club; street lights; downtown building boom
5/24/23 dance pavilion; First National Bank
7/19/23 mountain view addition
7/26/23 White for RFD chief’s car; Maple St. sidewalks; John Terrill and daughter killed
8/19/23 (WR paper) first paved part of Lincoln Highway
8/16/23 Griff Maghee suicide
8/23/23 Cow Puncher’s Dream
8/18/23 Hugh Rogner dead
9/18/23 train wreck yards
9/20/28 curb clock pre-Kinnaman
9/27/23 pen shirt factory
9/27/23 Patterson kills Pecker
11/22/23 Rawlins = Casper bus
11/13/23 M. W. Dillon injured; Copper at Walcott
11/20/23 F. J. Meyers buys Rogner studio
1924
3/20/24 H. Larsen opens Cedar St. store
4/10/24 Park at rodeo grounds
5/29/24 national guard again; pen escape
6/5/24 Ft. Steele Killing, Taylor kills Robertson
7/10/24 Irving Draper stabbed
7/24/24 Carbon building
8/14/24 garbage pickup; stockgrowers’ bank merges
9/25/24 Mosher robbed; Cullen’s
10/9/24 Mrs. J. B. King
11/27/24 Stanley Hudson
1925
1/1/25 Coulson Canyon; first swimming pool; Moffat Co. sheep/cow wars
1/8/25 Cortine shoots Vela 0 Med Bow.
1/15/25 T. Thomas death
1/22/25 Columbia Theater
3/3/25 Frank Vigil shoots Rosie Jaramillo; city to pave streets; Ferguson Mercantile buys city market in same building; trees
4/12/25 east end camp ground
4/9/25 Evangel
5/14/25 Goas Tree holdup
7/30/25 radio W.J.A.Z.
8/27/25 Pat Graves building windy corner
9/10/25 E. Mosher sells to Couzens and Jacobussi
9/24/25 city police court now legal
10/29/25 Svensen murder
12/3/25 first city Christmas tree
12/17/25 Hoffman Block now Cobb Block
12/24/25 George Johnson missing
1926
1/14/26 library
2/4/26 UP morals ban gambling
2/25/26 Engstrom Brothers close all stores
4/25/26 city election
4/29/26 Saratoga bank holdup
6/3/6 Rawlins condry
6/24/26 Snowy Range Road
7/2/26 Neil Hart Rawlins Rodeo; RR conductor shot
7/15/26 rodeo grounds to county
7/29/26 J. A. Allen killed by C. W. Coleman
8/5/26 Engstrom motors/Pat Graves
8/19/26 UP #5 held up
8/26/26 Baby Bandits; Engstrom/Duncan post
9/2/26 Joe Simmons kills Joe Strattes
9/23/26 Dunlap Park
930/26 Hogback lake Dam
10/14/26 Salvation Army
11/4/26 Boncheon shot by Viv Bennett
11/25/26 Parco Fountain
12/2/26 Golden Rule sold
12/23/26 constructed commish. Electric Utzinger Armstrong at 3rd and Buffalo
1927
1/6/27 5th and Spruce (Burke’s Conoco)
1/13/27St. Joe’s organ
1/27/27 Republican + Reporter consolidate
2/24/27 Friend kills F. Cox
3/31/27 Parco Brick
4/7/27 Parco explosion
4/28/27 Sheriff Cosby killed
5/5/27 Carbon County Drug
5/26/27 Waite Battery
6/30/27 national guard again
File 2
Carbon County Journal Notes
BAKER COLLECTION
1911-1914; 1939
Transcribed by Carol
1911
2/10/1911-William Berry died of paralysis
2/17/1911-Polmatier Sisters, musical entertainment; Bar ads, Luxus, The Senate, Scandinavia Bar, Rumph and Nicholas, Senate Café; Grocery Stores: Cullen Commercial, Ferguson Mercantile, Eastman’s Cash Store, J. W. Hugus and Co. John A. Donnell and H. E. McFarland
3/17/1911-Lake is filling?
1912
1/5/1912-James McKinney brought the first train over the Union Pacific tracks from Omaha, died 1/19/1912
2/16/1912-July 4th committee meeting
3/29/1912-Good Roads Club organized, Dr. Barber, President, H. A. France, Secretary
4/19/1912-Titanic sinks
5/17/1912-Conventions of Democrats and Republicans meet in Cheyenne
7/12/1912-Baseball, Saratoga vs. Rawlins
9/27/1912-Elks Convention to be in Rawlins in 1913, J. H. Clause, President
11/8/1912-Wilson elected President; Ethel Frew birthday; Andrew McMicken and James j. Hopkins will help look after Wyoming’s interstates as they were elected as 2 reps to attend the good roads meeting in Cincinnati
12/27/1912-Old Timers Ball held
1914
1/16/1914-Elks dance; Masonic dance; 500 party by Mr. and Mrs. Geoerge Brimmer; St. Thomas guild met at Mrs. I. J. Rendle home; Jubilee singers at the Opera House; National Western Stock Show, Denver; Rawlins Opera House, presenting The Virginian.
1/23/1914-Quo Vadis at Opera house; Roller skating opened; Mrs. W. W. Daley hosts P. E. O.
2/6/1914-Alfred Johnson killed by prostitute, Ada Buford.
2/27/1914-Opera House, “Minstrel Maids.”
4/3/1914-Senior Class Party, given by Katrine and Christine Frandsen; Woolgrowers of Carbon County held an annual meeting at the Elk’s 1/6/1914
5/8/1914-“Doings in Colored Society,” Blanche Miller birthday at 718 South Front.
5/30/1914-Big shoot held in Rawlins for first time; Opera House program; A. J. Rosier & Grace Arthud were married; Ogburn Brothers and Luxus Café
7/17/1914-Sheepmen meeting
7/10/1914-Boys summer camp, first time to have one.
8/28/1914-Large Elks Picnic and fish fry at Saratoga
9/11/1914- County fair at Saratoga
10/9/1914-Ownership of Carbon County Homes, 2,357 homes in Carbon County, of these 426 farm houses, renters occupy 61 farm homes;
11/13/1914-Adelaide Sun became the bride of George Edward Smith
1939
U. P. Old Timers Edition
Pg. 8-Banquet gave idea for Old Timers Club in 1924, Club #21, Rawlins, J. H. Neath, President;
Pg. 35-1st teacher had 5 pupils in 1869;
Pg. 38. Order of Railroad Conductors, founded 8/1887;
Pg. 41-Ladies Auxiliary to U. P. Old Timers Club, #21, Mrs. Keeler, Pres., Augusta Mary Francis oldest member
Pg. 49-Isaac Miller, 1st Mayor in 1886; pg. 55-B.P.O. Elks, I.O.O. F., Korein Temple, Knights of Columbus, Modern Woodmen of America
Pg. 58-Carbon County Medical Society
Pg. 59- Salvation Army-1926; St. Thomas-1869; 1st Baptist church-1925
Pg. 63-Methodist church-1876
Pg. 67-Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen organization, Continental Divide Lodge, 1900
Pg. 82-St. Joseph’s-1916; Pg. 84-Dr. A. F. Thode, 1st dentist;
Pg. 89-Parco founded 1923;
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