The blinding lights in the traffic obstructions installed under a free 10-year franchise permitting a Montana corporation to derive revenue from Sheridan business houses through the sale of advertisements were responsible last night for an auto collision on Main street. Workmen were engaged today in cleaning up a big house on East Grinnell avenue to

Advertising lights on posts, set up as a test on Main Street last night, proved a miserable failure as many motorists avoided entering or crossing the street, thinking the glaring red lights on the obstructions indicated the street was blocked to traffic. Tony Moskal, an Austrian miner employed at the Monarch mine, met death from …

New revelations were made today concerning the 10-year free franchise granted by the city to H. Masterson, “trustee,” for use of Sheridan’s streets for advertising purposes. Only 12 “traffic tombstones” will be installed, instead of 20, and the advertising franchise has dwindled from $76,800 to just over $23,000. The Chase-Lister Theatrical

Clyde Orville Rucker died at his home on Gladstone street at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The cause was pneumonia which had developed from Spanish influenza. Billings high school outplayed the Sheridan gridiron squad at the baseball park yesterday afternoon. Mr. J.C. Buckingham and wife came to Sheridan on 42 today from Lodge Grass, Mont. Mr. …

A wave of indignation is sweeping Sheridan over revelations made concerning the surrender by the city of a 10-year “free” franchise to an unknown, out-of-town concern for the use of Sheridan’s paved streets to display advertising. Registration booths will be open until 9 o’clock tonight for people to enroll as voters for the fall election

Public schools, theaters, pool halls, churches and all places of public gatherings will not be permitted to open until one week after the last case of Spanish influenza is reported in Sheridan. Dr. Anna G. Hurd, county health officer, made the announcement today. Seventeen new cases were reported to Dr. Hurd last night. The Loyalty …

Benjamin L. Doto became the first victim of Spanish influenza in Sheridan. He died about 8 o’clock this morning at the family home on East Seventh Street of pneumonia, which was a complication of the influenza. He had been ill for about a week. Many Sheridan county people are being induced by the sifting committee …

There will be no meeting of the Rebekah Kensington on Friday on account of the quarantine. Optometrist Nicholas F. Burks returned last night from his eastern trip, just in time to buy another Liberty Bond. Kenneth Haywood celebrated his 15th birthday with a dinner party at his home on First street. Helen Haywood and Lillian …

Senator John B. Kendrick, Verner Z. Reed and Peter Kooi and the Kooi Coal Company have made subscriptions of $25,000 each to the Fourth Liberty Loan in Sheridan county. Mr. B. Gross, who has lately returned from a business trip to Chicago, reports a shortage of graders and other help in the wool trade at …

About 20 members of the high school civics class attended the meeting this afternoon of Sheridan’s city council. Owen A. Teague, who left Sheridan on Sept. 18 for Colorado College with the draft contingent from this county, is ill with Spanish influenza, according to reports received by relatives here. The local board has received a …