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A Look Back in Time: March 8, 1921

As of last night, the post office has been ordered closed at 10 o’clock and not opened again until 6 o’clock the following morning. The order came about because of the enforced absence of one of the building’s janitors. Henry Dillet of Passaic is visiting in Sheridan. Also in Sheridan on business are George Gentry …

March 8, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 8, 1921

As of last night, the post office has been ordered closed at 10 o’clock and not opened again until 6 o’clock the following morning. The order came about because of the enforced absence of one of the building’s janitors. Henry Dillet of Passaic is visiting in Sheridan. Also in Sheridan on business are George Gentry …

March 8, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 7, 1921

Attorneys R. G. Diefenderfer and Don L. Wakeman have returned from a business trip to Buffalo. Lee Dickinson of Big Horn has returned home much improved in health after a three months’ visit to eastern and central states. Brown and Swickard will start a new building project this week near Dayton. They have just completed …

March 8, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 6, 1921

Miss Emma Mankameyer and Harold Johnson, both of Sheridan, narrowly escaped death by drowning, and their companions suffered exposure from water and mud when the automobile in which they were riding skidded and overturned into the Big Goose Creek last night. The incident happened just south of the bridge on the Big Horn cement road …

March 8, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 5, 1921

Sheridan high school’s boys will go to Buffalo tonight for a basketball game there. No girls’ games are scheduled.Campbell Stroud, city water superintendent, says the snowfall was light during the last winter and no water that comes with the spring rains and snows should be allowed to waste. Sheridan city banks today reported that, as …

March 8, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 3, 1921

Jacob Hergert of Clearmont is a Sheridan visitor. Members of the Sheridan Elks lodge will have an initiation of candidates, election of officers and a banquet at 8 o’clock tonight in the fraternity’s home on West Brundage street. Doctors Anderson and Anderson, chiropractors, have announced plans to build a modern office and apartment building, two

March 3, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: March 2, 1921

Sheridan High school classes held popularity contests, choosing students as Best Natured, Most Popular, Best Sense of Humor and Best All-Around Athlete. Committees from the Sheridan and Clearmont commercial clubs yesterday afternoon made protests to county commissioners on conditions of roads in various parts of the county. In a report to the Sheridan

March 2, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: February 28, 1921

John P. Croff, with the United store of Sheridan, has returned from a buying trip in St. Louis, Chicago, Boston and New York. C. W. Cooper, pastor of the Sheridan Christian church, will conduct special services in the Acme Amusement hall at 7:30 o’clock tonight. Mrs. A. C. Tezak, whose husband is manager of the …

March 1, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: February 26, 1921

Members of Boy Scout Troop 8 of the Holy Name church set to work early this morning to clean up Sheridan avenue, raking and piling up bricks and rocks that have covered the highway since the good roads day of last summer. Visitors in Sheridan today include Arvada rancher Nick Wildt, Dutch Creek rancher Frank …

March 1, 2021

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A Look Back in Time: February 25, 1921

Mrs. James M. Brunsell Jr. of Swan street and an unidentified young man rescued two boys, ages 6 and 8, from drowning yesterday in Big Goose creek between Swan and Badger streets. The boys were on their way home from school when they tried to walk across the thin film of ice over the creek. …

February 25, 2021

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