The Sheridan Commercial club has approved appointment of a committee to prepare petitions to be circulated among the city’s voters requiring the mayor to call a special election on the question of a commission-manager form of government. The state of Wyoming has allocated Sheridan county schools nearly $50,000 from the state’s common school land income

Registration booths in Sheridan county, as well as in the rest of the state, were opened this morning to those persons who are required to register before voting at the coming election on the good roads bond issue. Sheridan Iron Works is building a screening device for use in head gates of irrigation ditches for …

A capacity house is assured for the Sheridan High school presentation of “The Private Secretary” tonight in the Linden school auditorium. Seat sales are reported to be above average. Dozens of collar and cuff sets in embroidery, net, organdie and filet are on sale today for $1 and up at the Painter Sisters, 21 West …

A county highway bond issue of $300,000 will be submitted to Sheridan county voters on May 10 when the entire state will be asked to vote on a proposal to issue $1.8 million in state bonds for highway work.   Guy Webb, a patrolman on Sheridan’s police force, was confined to his home on Gladstone street …

W. S. McPherren, Sheridan chief of police, this morning was named by the Sheridan county board of commissioners as deputy sheriff, to succeed J. Ira Kirby. A campaign is being prepared in Sheridan to launch the fight for adoption of a city manager form of government, as authorized by the last session of the state …

Members of the Donald Garbutt Post No. 7, American Legion, will have a “chow and smoker” for all ex-servicemen in the city at 7:45 o’clock tonight. The event will be in the Council Chamber of the City Hall. The annual dinner of the Presbyterian church will be held at the church tonight at 6:30 o’clock. …

O. J. Mills of Denver, champion fancy shot expert of the world in pocket billiards, will play against Heinie Kerr, a proprietor of Sheridan’s Palace Billiard Parlors, in a 250-point tournament at the Palace parlors tonight and tomorrow. Miss Matilda Shields of Sheridan is now on her homestead on Deer Creek. She will return to …

Miss Ruth Kueffer, teacher at the Upper Beaver Creek school, is spending the weekend with friends in Sheridan. Many fishermen passed today on surrounding mountain streams, and a few good catches were reported. But most said they had “little luck” with their efforts. Miss Margaret Young, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young, …

Miss Ruth Kueffer, teacher at the Upper Beaver Creek school, is spending the weekend with friends in Sheridan. Many fishermen passed today on surrounding mountain streams, and a few good catches were reported. But most said they had “little luck” with their efforts. Miss Margaret Young, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young, …

Two men who are ranchers near Dead Man’s Gulch are in the Sheridan county jail awaiting arraignment this afternoon on a charge of having set fire to the house of R.R. Spencer, another rancher of the Dead Man’s Gulch country. Many homesteaders who have been wintering in Sheridan are arranging to leave for their claims …