Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1925, Page 17

SUND. Che Casper Sundav Cribune PAGE FIVE | town, and whe fi a sounded by | of them pus s : while other a 1 | that was faster eee | This was hard " y pe . and | i ea . € ~ re with me that I could not have gone far if I had started. | by the town council to rus t | When I took charge of the Trib | n hall with t + : * twenty-eight years ago, it was lo-|and haul the hose an : Pitto cated in a little frame building on | firemen to the sce 4 e west sik ‘enter street anc Give yourself 10 minutes to solve \his puzzle. It’s simple enough ie aha eaeiorss ent e i tiene to complete in less tine. ay rt Pic oer asia pes 5 a o U;: ' 2 my door during the day, but only a few of them stopped in to see me but there was always a good sized crowd in the saloo At 1 o'clock in the afternoons, when the music]in mind the would start up, and all during the | property rather remainder of the day the nolse was | were to so terrible that I could scarely col-| | We had t lect my thoughts to write my edi-]{n Caspe torlals. The pianos were out of |i was a 5 tune and when the two, one on] locateq on the (Continued From Page One) > | in the new townsite was lot 13, in as the old-timers al was cated seve of the Natrona Cou era! hogpital, and eust from the N hourse. @he t ays call-| block 8, where the Stockmen’s Na- blocks bank now stands. Mr. Nathan ity Gen- sristol was the purchaser of this put eight blocks and conducted a general store 1 county court ny years. The buildings wer s and residential | moved duwn from the Old Town jnto ised less than two} the new town in November, 1888. THERE’S MORE TO Clean-Up and Paint-Up in h. ‘The first ter each side of me, were in operation | school. grounds fed on this spat was by John| XOUF speaker came to Casper it sounded on the one side like some teachers and 124 Than Your House and Yard mittand Peter A. Demorest. ‘This | When the town was less than nin one pounding on a dishpan and the | } ) of age, that was on April and I can assure you that th ect had not been entirely worn off when I arrived. 1 came from Gre ‘alls, Mont., by the way of Cheyenne, and I was not an en- tirely tenderfoot to the west, but I other rattled as though {t would] pa; fall to pieces. To make matters | 49 in th worse, one of the saloons hired a] of 1897 the kinde man to sing the popular songs of }iished in Cast the day for the entertainment of its] first kindergar patrons, I c recall the man’a| schools of Wy name who did this singing, but I was put up on June: 8, 1888. people who heard that Was to be a w town estab- lished Here, soon came in, and Cas- er was quite a lively’ place before e summer was half over 28 int primary TAKE THE CAR FOR INSTANCE ve much the lar; h 1 pop as rthwestern railroad was | must admit that Casper ut that time! never shall forget “Sweet Violets,”| tation of any wit ilt int the town on June 15, 1888, | was just a little different and some: | “Little Annie ie” and the’ fit but | for quite a while the depot was} what livelier than any of the west- London Bridge Bs Dow the best tea > A r y fa ed about a mile east of the! ern towns I had ever been in before. Which seemed to be the favorites in] anywhere outside of gh-cla u nh a It ew oat ents With the railroad | Ato L enquired about the| his repertoire for he sang each of | jece, ual number and the] train gervice ny different classes of people that | told th ays flocked into a new town, and| teaye u that some of the these then pop twenty times a day gagement. Even now, elght years, {t seems sometimes as to Casper, and I was the passenger train would at 7 o’clock in the morning that I would have to change trains at least & his en- after twenty- by Casper ther paved streets OF as. 3 ‘ no furnace he and” « who came here in thevearly| at’ Orin Junction, and would arrive though T can hear him singing, and| (2, or three homes. in, wl > Were “not the most desirable) 4+ Casper probably sometime in the Whenever this, spell’ comes upon; me a bath The water at or flame tizens but thi class didmot-re-| evening. ‘The word probably. was ft makes me feel sad and forlorn.) 144 teen completed only a yea main long after th good citizens 8: a a t r said advisedly, for sometimes the (Laughter). before pfoperly ‘and thorougly organ- train did not arrive until well along es On account of this entert 1 Rites | nd You Cannot Help But Feel 1. There was a big celebration | j 119 Ie RGche tee erat aieo Mc saha suas phe re lasper-wa 1 u Cannot Help But Fee nda Got time in the new town on | ate in the night time, and upon ORIZONTAL. jl VERTICAL PRSRER LEI Y Oem a tne DE n, a Mle some occasio did not arrive , ing plant hauled to : oe ey ey - day oad was built in, | until the next day. I was also in-| 1. Dexterous 1. Atta in the Odd. Fellows block tts - A SENSE OF PRIDE d thisgeelbration continued dur-| formed that I had better take a} 8 Very close 2. Chief officer of faculty Mine choca mail and passengers : 3 ht. and. well into. the next |ionch with me, for there was no| 11. Part of a hamme A color. printing ‘office ang. my family | TBermopolia and all . inte in Your Possession lay, and was renewed in a some-| i460 along. the route where I could|12- ‘fo dip in liquid t Ator near and T lived there for two years, It] Poluts were taken h what milder form the next night-| cer anything to eat. I had my| 14. A tree B. An African’ Dl | was not altogether a pleasant place | WMich left Casper twice ¢ r . , ’ ye z rime and some embarrassing details) breakfast at 6 o'clock in the morn-| 15. Cushion. 8. Fruits. | to live, for lodge meetings were held I rags 8 tip T YW e fi in h } our ( ar YW ith Lnomparrnt “this fully and eG ing and had a couple of sandwiches| 16- Piles) 7 re és pre ‘ in the rooms upstairs and when pose a ir erly describe. this most. notable} ut up for my dinner. The train Knock ler posses oun. | there was a dance in the there ORY SPOR ei if > > There are ites a number of peo- motning consisted: of eighteen’ box A child's toy (bl) 0. Wigwans. i tals there below until the dance was| ¢" % hungry * leff in Casper who made this! cars and one combination mail, bag- To exist. } Sanienct over, but it was the best we could | ™* i wees ar FINISH THAT CANNOT BE HARMED part offthe state their headquarters | gage and passenger coach. We left Organs of the head Sol do, for there were no houses in t a Laie Givesy olan animate those early days, but there are] Cheyenne on time and rojled along Corrodes. Part of a chair. Weer cchiat: that, tiie Attor tere POs rm s Give You an imate only two men who are residents here | slowly over the rough and not alto- Mock Bright colored arc years 1 put up a smali building on| Before ch & now that were engaged in business | gether rugged road, and we unloaded tens over a fence Ae SUNEYS petepD | the corner where the Campbell Hard. | ¢'n railroad ) to Lar n the (Old Town, T-refer to Mr./ freight at all the stations and rail- cagle A FARIERS: | ward company now has its store,| der in 1906 Arapahoe and Sh A Peter G. Nicolaysen and Mr. Alex-| yond ties between stations, After Born. Smooth and I sent my family to Fremont. Indians used to come to ( bs jer J, Cunningham, and we who} what seemed to be the longest day Having knobs Even stboets Nebraska, to live until I could rent om the resery ; 0 Nn wsen unt oO came Iter owe to these two sturdy|1 had ever put in, we arrived at pores flower (ph). 2 bil Snake - a house. This was the first building haul thel 4; a e pioneers, these two men who are Orin Junction, where a box car was A rake ore indulgent. I r owned, and I was so proud 1 . - ears yp very salt of the earth, both of] being used as a union depot for the yk for Borough of it that when it was finished 1] sener took them r AUTO PAINTING DEPT. whom Bnve been keen business men. | great Colorado Southern and Chi. ative Longs for. |put a cot into it and slept there,| come and about a weel eturr Hirst and! Parl Phone 79 ind who have stayed with the old] cago and Northwestern railway sys upper garme toad jand fH was a great satisfaction to| There were u from a dozen PB SEC inne ‘ wn through thick and thin, for} tems (laughter). There was one store rent. Past: perfect of “iseo know that I was sleeping under my | to twenty wagons in tt 1 etter or for worse, a great deal of|/anq three houses in the town at Expire Sages: Jown roof. The Tribune was publish-| from two to four Indians € for the wonderful assistance) that time, but that was much larger Intersection of two arch¢ 1. Lubricated. Jed in this building for twelve years, | Wagon, and there wa hey have been to us in the building | than some of the stations where we Blectrified atom. Aen Ss Cone Ctem esa and then I had the two-stor one to four do; € p of One of the best little cities in ans North American deer 44. Composition in 4 pullding put up. In 19141 sold the| wagon. When ‘ ( had stopped during the da the midile weat. ( Applause! there was but a platform, and not Ae conjunction ieee opeme atte, Tribune to Mr. Hanway after pub-| Per t 1 on the flat s per anere PES - ~ bat The first business block to besold}, yuftding in sight. After what To worry. | 48._ Anger. Ushing the paper for more Resee D Count = see ed tc De a y long A grain, seventeen years. I shall not attemr ay; t na Coun'y i ‘it pel STD ae cei wgiten A kind of tree build 1 A F ' ome Orin Junction (but it was only c to relate to you the many exciting IZZLE and sometimes unplea | fences I had in those seve Units of type measure. | hour), the Northwestérn train came ped ha da H AFTER APRIL 1ST nt exp e along to take us to Casper. I = | ao i : Gabriel the only passenger on the Colo “Better time!” said he. ‘They are | for {t would only burden you and it eople. The ‘\ Per Month . ..$7.5C Per Night $ .BO Southern, but the Northwestern 3ad|making better time today than SOLUTION oan laiorinnhecil tases nd get a ee wee She Deed eres oe 8100 three passengers on board when it ‘The last time I came up on many tncfdents that I would rather ‘ find. ; | OPEN DAY AND NIGHT em for It, For or peatmeata gushes *°& 363 SOUTH ASH STREET PHONE 1891-W It was seldo dancing, but they would und — arrived at the Junetion, and they road we ran into a bunch of forget. were all coming to Casper. The} cattle a few miles this side of Lusk, Casper’s most important 1 pop- nubbers Northwestern train was just about}and we had to stop until the cattle} Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle ular building at that time was the such a train as the Colorado South-| got off the track, and we stopped Town Hal], If all the sorrows and Best For All Tires ern, except that it did not make aS|again this side of Orin Junction, pleasures could be told that have oc- Carrying Low Air Pressure | 00d running time. There was no]and when I asked the conductor curred in this building, what an in- hurry on the railroad in those days,| why we had stopped here, he re- teresting and thrilling tale jt would * a for there was only one trath each] plied, ‘We have caught up with that be. It was Casper's first, and Installed quickly, and with- way during the day and it made no| damn bunch of cattle, and run into many years onl bile bulldin out change in your car, | difference to the railroad men what| them again!” (laughter). it was used for everythir time they arrived at their destina-} After the trainmen came in with Me nature. Church services were | wy ASPER BATTERY tion. Between Douglas and Glen-| their game we proceeded cautiously held here, marriages were perform rock the train was stopped for| along the route and finally arrived ed and funeral services were cor COMPANY awhile, and the conductor and head] at Glenrock, where we had supper, ducted. Dances, parties and festt- rakeman went out hunting rabbits,|and the two rabbits were given to vals were given in the one large | 9 E. Fifth St. Phone 907] and they got two. At first I did}the landlady, and I suppose the room; there was a stage In the west not know they had gone, and asked] passengers who came along the next end of the building and ne talent } one of the other passengers the} night had them for supper. actors and actresses perform nd cause of the delay, and why the] We finally arrived in Casper at put on plays for the entertainment train was not making better time. 9:15 o'clock. There were t holtels and amusement of the citizens; band | Nash Leads the World in’ Motor Car in Casper then—the Graham Hous concerts were given and prize fights the Wentworth Hotel and the Grand were held here; sessions of the dis- | ind on them Central. It was said that the latter | ——— trict court w held In this building | Advan ced Ss ‘| : was the best hotel in town because | arernoons and was continued with-| for many years and many important Leave the Sparking ]} i: was tne only one that cooked its | Sfternoons and was continued With) cases wore tried. Divorces were Lour-Door Coup to Us meals on a range. The others bad| tne mornings. In most of the sa- he aie many * man was Aen | Ki aie : tee only common cook stoves. (Laugh-|jouny they had a platform for the|tenced to the penttentiary fn this ive Passenger Wien it comes at nition te : ik, Lag rmtiee me Grant musiclans, and in one place there portent nacre hae speed as tty roblems, we are there! If you]}| Central by a man named Simo swataien *taskea “apan the i vB : nis © a Rave been having trouble with || Solomon, and in passing along the| Was & Jerse sign tacked up) “|room many years aro and Ustened a your magneto, the thing to do || west side of Center street there were |e ene en ae asciane: | {0 the Judge of the district court is to place the entire job in our || 5¢ven saloons, and in each of th 4 Pronounce a penitentiary sentenc hands. We will quickly put || saloons there was an orchestra, The| They Are Doing the Best They} upon a woman and her daugl inlved toirighte: Fuiisii instruments were pianos,| Can.” (Laughter). and {t was the saddest scene I ey banjos and mouth harps, and in one| ‘There were two churches in’ Cas-| witnessed In a court of Justice. To| 3 of the saloons there was a contrap-| per when I came here, the Eplsco: | see the terror stricken women kneel- Auto Electrical Co. |} tion piayea by one man, which com-| pal and the Methodist. The Episcopal | ing before the judge with their hands earethias c bined all of the above, except the] church was on the corner where the| raised toward heaven, for me pee Bamidwest Ehenereeey plano, but to take the place of the Midwest Refining company bullding | brought tec to the "sof ir plano he had a bass drum with cym-| now stands, opposite the postoftice,|men who were accustomed bals, a gong and some sielgh bells.| and the Méthodist. churc t was on|hard ways of the world, but the The object of the musicians seemed] the same corner where it is now| had committed a crime, and jus b. Factory C 5 mi i a to m r as ate They were sma dings, e > 2 4 | p regardless chi or they were large enough for it] The ti . e 6 | Oh, Boy, Erahin’ Time Soon! 9) srmoss, ox acts solievo tt was) gun not, often that-more: than two| be established here In Casper, waa | Don’t Start With Worn Tires “music was started up in the about 00 people in Casper at that | bell m the’ cupaio, in 10ie. the seven saloons at 1 o'clock in the] time. Cowboys and sheepherders| roof and front of the building were YOU ARE BEHIND THE TIMES WITHOUT 4-WHEEL BRAKES often came to town, and while they | destroyed by fire, s spent most of thelr time and thelr | rebuilt a second st money at the saloons, [I m NEW STOUT TIRES Was added and ust say | it served for a fire house until it nd when it was | | ee, DIRECT FROM FACTORY | FISHIN’ SOON | 23s: seit isce teres | hase war ice savas casino One of America’s | now, and there was not nearly so|with the splendid fire department ~-------------- e | | much drunkenness. Youn, en | that it has now. In the early days _ 4 ir $12.75 Pare MMIC Fl Gein atesee is curtis wer | cor ce tptiaeuma licen Most Eagerly Sought Cars Other sizes in proportion . mitted in the saloons and be thle they were the business men of the | < We haye taken over the agency for Just Arrived at | whiskes: or beer, T never heard ot | B-E-A-U-T-Y! Long of line and smartly low to the road, 'AR RADIATORS AND EQUIP Leap ne cer arene le cay ee this 4-Door Coupe is richly attractive. P-E-R-F-O-R-M- TUBULAR RADIATORS AND EQUIPMENT , 16 at any time, day or : I nd are in a position to give Al Service. All Faber- chneider equipment is better and about 30% lower riced than ordinary honeycomb supplies. Ford Radiator ... $12.75 Dodge Radiator $18.85 |Natrona Tire and Radiator Shop 475 West Yellowstone * Phone 2008 DEAN AUTO the fespect’ that wan, dus hes, 0011 Oy. all means see the A-N-C-E! You Il revel in. the fluid powe i 1 fle ‘i di lity ‘i Haeur per stats tHe penne OF: Casper M this big Advanced Six motor. R-E-F-/-N-E-M E- VTA | were not so wild, and there was not | new iMioon | he ; refinished SUPPLY C0 | so much crime committed ax some | fittings are of se Het quality, among them a silve a shec eople would have you believe. 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