Reflections: New Year's resolutions from 1904

Reprint of this story from the Jan. 1, 1904, issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

SQUIBUETTES - New Year’s Resolutions

Turn over a new leaf and keep it turned over.

If you fail in your new resolution, try again.

There’ll come a time when it will be too late to mend.

Join the boosters.

Help pay the preacher; you may need him in your business.

Spring some new jokes; those few you have are getting whiskered.

Keep every appointment or send a note.

Save a little dough to tide you over the possible pinch of winter.

Don’t call a cowboy a liar without previously preparing your will.

Put the community at rest by marrying the girl.

Respect the man who can’t agree with you.

If you die suddenly, please advise your friends in advance.

Gossip all you please; some people could not live without it.

Don’t become a public censor unless the governor gives you an appointment.

Don’t warble your tongue about things you know nothing about.

Throw away the mail order catalogues; the home merchant has what you want.

Do it now.

Make it a new and a different year; variety is the salt and pepper.

Some Facts Suggestive of the Delightful Climate During the Month Past.

While friends who have the misfortune to spend the winter in Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburg and other eastern cities have been battling with fierce snow storms, way below zero weather and the elements in general, the people of Grand Encampment have been basking in the charm of a most delightful “spell of weather.” December was ideal for September. With a few exceptions every day was warm, bright and balmy.

The weather has simply been Californiatic. To demonstrate the great truth, observations were made and recorded for the four days preceding press days, the thermometer hanging in the sun. Here are the figures, registering between the hours of twelve and two, and figures do not lie: Monday, Dec. 28, 70 degrees; Tuesday, Dec. 29, 58 degrees; Wed. Dec. 30, 78 degrees; Thursday, Dec. 31, 60 degrees.

“Pretty tough on the coal man,” said Enky Joe, “when people close up their houses and sit out on the hitching posts for a sun bath.

Causes Excitement!

Saratoga has experienced a little oil excitement this week. Parties prospecting for coal near the river about nine miles northwest of Saratoga found indications of oil in a shaft at a depth of forty-five feet. A spring pole was secured and sinking continued until the shaft is now down eighty-five feet, about a pint of oil being hoisted with each bucket of muck.

The oil is increasing in quantity with depth and there are some prospects of success as the formation is said to be favorable.

Some of the interested parties are J. H. Rose, Chas. Maxfield and W. H. Johnson. These gentlemen with others have located 3,500 acres of land in the vicinity, while considerable staking has been done by other parties.

Mike Hanley of Purgatory Gulch was upon the ground a few days ago. He says there are good indications of oil in that locality.