Taken from the files
of the Wheatland Times
Sept. 4, 1918
Courtesy of Platte County
Historical Society
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The new wing of the Wheatland Hospital, “which has grown to the position of the largest and most successful establishment of its nature in the state of Wyoming,” has opened for use. It includes 2 new operating rooms, a sterilizing room, patients’ waiting room, doctors’ preparation room, 15 new private rooms, and a large maternity department. Within a few days, 15 successful surgeries, some of which were “among the most difficult operations known to modern surgery,” had been completed in the new space. The nurses’ dormitory,“fixed up in the most modern, convenient and comfortable style,” is also completed and occupied.
The use of an additional 25 pounds of sugar per family for canning and preserving has been okayed by Mr. Diers, Federal Food Administrator for Wyoming.
Every man aged 18 to 45 in the United States, except those already in service or exempted, has been summoned by President Wilson to register for military service on September 12. The total from Wyoming is expected to be 30,620 men.
President Wilson has proclaimed the price of the 1919 wheat crop at $2.20 a bushel. He is sincerely hoping for peace before the 1920 crop is harvested.
A specialist from the Bureau of Chemistry with the U.S. Department of Agriculture is in town inspecting the Wheatland Creamery. The government is gathering data to determine if small local creameries should be closed and the manufacture of butter and other dairy products be turned over to large, centralized plants. J.R. Mason, president of the local creamery, can “conceive of no greater calamity to the dairy interests” of small communities and sparsely settled areas, essentially killing the development of local dairy husbandry.