| Show COWLEY WYO B OLD FOLKS Protects In Ills Horn lurn Country Doom Special Correspondence Cowley Co Wro yo 30 Tho weather wORther ho hll ben Iwen nil that be he asked during the whole winter No snow linn fallen and work of ot all Kinds bus been on successfully until Saturday night when considerable hUK fallen tallen with heavy wind There has be bean u considerable con Il among the tho children an 1111 hlis hen been In our midst over 0 since l t summer Hummer A taw few deaths have occurred that havo the of ot tho people Mr Ir and II 1 III hM W K ro burled b by boy a 11 few tew go Two sad oases lately one bo boo boIng booIng Ing tl birth and turnout Instant of lIt an infant at lit the homo of our towns townsman man Christian other othera a II child ot OLD OID FOLKS I HONORED Friday Jan Jun 27 watt Old Folks day In Cowley and n very enjoyable was spent by II nil all I both young and old Carriage 1 at III tho horne home and conveyed the Hlo old ohl people to 10 tho meetinghouse at 11 n II m A program was rendered und at al 1 i II m ma mIl a Il bounteous repast wall wait served to nil all allover over 60 50 yours of oC lifter after which tha tho program wan continued followed with witha a fL In thc evening In III our new Mil sal we WI have not a large percent percentage age of ot the tho aged with UH liS hence placing InK ing of or tho honored ago UIO of ot veteran at nt 60 50 years Thu rhu oldest person present t WitS Atna Meeks M lek II formerly of ot who Is In his The rhe oldest woman was Aunt Paulina Iyman who has hns been with us for lor some months on ona a 1 visit Her Is 19 78 is years ear A Anum num number ber bel were present over 70 Tho people of ot Cowley are uro to be bc con congratulated ui on the completion of o the vestry ostry lo to the eltI 11 IU lie Thin Thill ward Is la very el fortunate In having this addi addition tion to their already good gOOtt meetinghouse It lIlt IB ns well ort off In these the t particular ilK of ot our very lIry much older olor elto SCHOOLS Tho district schools sChoola lire are doing nn ex excellent excellent I work under the tha ot Thomas assisted tell by b three tinei other able teacher The O linn hall only onty throe three at present PO 0 the vestry of ot tho meetinghouse Is ue l by byone one oJe department dO of ot the day III school chool The people feel teel encouraged with the prospects ahead The Tho government will spend pond a n great deal leal of ot money mOlley In thin neighborhood within the next three thrpo years on the great Shoshone Irrigation project This will not nol only give em om employment to many min of tho people pie but butwill butwill will furnish a n market for tor the products raised milled on the farm arm and garden PROJECTS Thero are rno prospects also for railroad work In tho n near r future Considerable hustling hll has already beon manifest by bythe b the engineers of pt tho U n M I and tho Northwestern system A great deal more transpires In the tha g however anywhere else el e A line linehau hau been run from through tho towns of ot Cowley Cow and Lovell and coma yours ago a line was run south from Garland through the basin It Is not known here at tho present writing which of these two routes will bo chos chosen en by tho B M for Its lino south southward ward The Cheyenne papers are Ing that tho contract for first 20 miles has been let but Is not tho case Indications however aro that In tho near future there will bo something doing In railroad business DOOM IN OIL AVo also have an oil boom on In our neighborhood Thousands upon thousands ands of acres of land has been staked off as oil lands almost under our noses by Montana people backed by eastern capitalists Tho drilling machinery will be hero In a short and devel development work will begin In earnest We are Informed that this plant will cost near as the owners feel that they have excellent prospects for oil In fact it Is reported by some of the di directors rectors of the company that from tho report of an expert who has examined tho property tho Indications for oil ns good ns tn tho famous Sliver Tip district In Texas He hns placed the value of the oil claims of this company at That looks big to u fol low who could have had any or nil of land for the asking ns It look Worth anything Two of natural constantly burning near Hyron that would light our towns townsand and by a little labor would he t them too If the could only pipe It to our settlements The pipes are only in the ground G feet and n omo S feet high burns night and day and each Is Independent of the theother other though not far apart Future developments In nil those directions will bo watched with Interest The Horn basin hns started onward and older sections In these mountains must hus tle or be left behind |
