Several auto loads of Wheatland citizens accepted the invitation from Slater farmers to participate in a tour of their community, Antelope Gap, and Hudson Valley. Many people in Wheatland do not realize that they “are within an hour’s ride of one of the agricultural miracles in the west” where much hard work has gone into “transforming the arid plains into fields of grain” and creating the amazing prosperity evident throughout the Slater area. (To see the full story and the pictures from this Slater tour, go to Wyoming State Archives Newspapers, then to Wheatland, Wheatland World, 1918, July, 19, Page 3).
Marion Faulkner, of Slater, and Ruth Hudson, of Hudson Valley, were married in a fine wedding. Mr. Faulkner leaves on the 24th for Fort Riley, Kansas. Miss Zetta Scholle, of Chugwater, has wed James Woodrow, of St. Louis. Mr. Woodrow will be leaving in the next draft. Arnold Miller slipped out of Sunrise recently and a few days later Miss M. Nasimbene went missing. Sure enough, they came back from Glendo as Mr. and Mrs.
O.E. Duff has just completed the construction of eight new silos for Wheatland farmers Holmes, Fish, Morrison, Streed, Maurer, Franzen, Moody and Wolfe.
The U.S Fuel Administration has banned the use of coal to power non-essential industries, effectively closing down beer breweries throughout the country. It is thought there is a present supply of enough beer to last for six months to a year, but after that there will be no more beer distilled until after the war.

If you are over draft age, not a pacifist or slacker, willing to go under shell fire, and respond to needs wherever you are sent, the Y.M.C.A. is asking you and 4,000 others to go to France as big brothers to the boys who have left their homes to fight the war. As a Y.M.C.A. representative you will be asked to bring cheer into the soldiers’ lives, help keep them fit mentally and physically, and serve them at all times.
The Drube Garage has closed its machine shop due to the enlistment of manager George Drube. The sales department will be kept open under the charge of Mr. Fritz Drube and Ralph Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. O’Hara have arrived to take over the work of Harrison Waln who had been in charge of county activities for boys and girls club work and has now been drafted.
Dr. Phifer was summoned to Fort Laramie to tend to the serious burns of Mr. and Mrs. Sandercock’s daughter, 18 months old, who pulled a scalding cup of hot coffee onto her chest. The child is in critical condition from the burn and shock.
Jack Waitman has written to his father Bud that he is in a hospital in France recovering from a German gas attack but expects to be out soon. Morris Wright was also in the hospital overseas after receiving a wound to his left hand from German shrapnel, but he has now been released back to his company. One of the 40 current draftees from Platte County is Duncan McDonald, of Diamond. He is one of four soldiers from Platte County who will be killed overseas.
N.J. McCallum is urging everyone to buy what they need from the lumberyard now. “The cost of war climbs higher and higher, dragging everything else with it. An empty cement sack now costs 30 cents,” and freight rates are going up constantly.
Heavy rains in Sunrise and Guernsey have caused roads to be in a very dangerous condition with great gullies requiring serious driving precautions.
Some of the bootleggers arrested in Hartville are claiming they are only “agents,” taking and delivering orders to customers after traveling to Wheatland, the only county town currently allowing liquor sales.