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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 18, 1919

Two hundred businessmen attended the Commercial Club dinner last night to hear the plans proposed by S.D. Fisher, new secretary of the club. The Sheridan Commercial Co. carries the Martin Ditch & Grader. The grader is made in two-, four- and eight-horse sizes. Mrs. J.O. Sanderson has returned from Seattle, Wash., where she has been …

March 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 17, 1919

City Commissioner Loucks today introduced an ordinance providing for a license upon all establishments retailing tobacco and cigarettes. He also introduced an ordinance prohibiting the sale or gift of tobacco or cigarette papers to persons under 18. Mrs. A.J. Hewitt has been removed to her home from the state hospital here after recovering from an …

March 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 16, 1919

Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Moncreiffe returned home Friday from Santa Barbara, Calif., where they have spent the winter months. Sheridan freshmen won last night’s basketball game against Buffalo 19 to 8, but the Sheridan eighth graders lost to the Buffalo eighth graders 5 to 19. Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Wilson Jr. from the DD ranch …

March 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 15, 1919

Mrs. Alice D. Coffeen died at her home at 223 Coffeen Avenue at 11 o’clock this morning. The cause was paralysis, from which she had suffered for more than two years. She had lived in Sheridan since her marriage to the Hon. Henry A. Coffeen on June 25, 1903. P.C. Duncan, jeweler and optometrist, has …

March 15, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 14, 1919

Airplanes are to circle over Sheridan for the first time in history during the coming Victory Loan campaign. The machines will be manned by aces of the American and French army. Freezing weather this morning followed the first rain of the season, which fell during the night, and paving and sidewalks throughout Sheridan were coated …

March 14, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 13, 1919

W.D. Fisher of Alliance, Neb., newly appointed secretary of the Commercial Club of Sheridan, will formally take over the affairs of the club at a dinner to be held in his honor next Monday night. Judge Hoops yesterday granted to the Odd Fellows possession of the building being leased by the Odd Fellows to the …

March 13, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 12, 1919

The first prisoner from Sheridan county under terms of a new state law that requires counties to pay transportation costs instead of the state was taken to Rawlins yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Campbell. The doctors of Sheridan are giving a banquet tonight for Dr. Shunk, who has recently returned from service in the army. There …

March 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 11, 1919

Plans for construction of a new Methodist Episcopal church in Sheridan will be decided at a meeting of the board of trustees of the Methodist church tonight. The new church will cost about $100,000. Officials of the Parent-Teachers Association of Sheridan today announced their determination to cause the arrest of people who sell or give …

March 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 10, 1919

Dr. E.R. Schunk, who has been in the service since last May, has returned to Sheridan. It was announced today that he will enter practice here in association with Dr. V.J. Keating. Colonel J.A. Moore will address Professor Early’s Americanization class tonight. His topic will be “The Coming Citizen.” He recently spoke to the high …

March 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Mar. 9, 1919

Building operations in Sheridan, as in the rest of the country, have been practically at a standstill since the war. Houses are very scarce here. Hayden White of Buffalo was in Sheridan yesterday. Also in Sheridan yesterday were L.L. Thomas of Ulm and Y.Z. David of Big Horn. C.W. Clark of Omaha spent today in …

March 12, 2019

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