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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 22, 1919

Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming addressed the convention of the American National Livestock Association on the Kendrick bill pending before congress. The bill is to control the meat industry. Visitors to Sheridan today include Mrs. G.T. Cook of Clearmont and F.W. Campbell and C.G. Miller of Buffalo. D.R. Williams and Alfred Williams left today …

January 22, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 21, 1919

A meeting will be held tomorrow night in the council chamber in the city hall for the organization of the young men’s club. The club is for all young men of 17 and upwards. George Ackerly of Sheridan not only took a second prize for the best Rhode Island Red cockerel at the Butte poultry …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 20, 1919

The proprietor of the Owl Saloon is going to be given a formal opportunity to show cause why his liquor license should not be revoked. John F. Lehman was given two $100 fines in police court a few days ago for the sale of liquor to two minors, but in the city council meeting this …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 19, 1919

Emma, the wife of Frank Gassin, a young farmer who has a claim near Arvada, died from influenza complications this afternoon at the family home on Tenth street in Sheridan. She leaves two small children. Sheridan poultry fanciers won several awards at the poultry show in Butte, Mont., last week. Among them was W.L. Wright, …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 18, 1919

The old restricted district on Grinnell avenue has been purchased as the nucleus for an attractive residence section in Sheridan. Sheriff Thomas, who returned last night from Laramie, where he took a prisoner to serve a term for the murder of T.J. Hunt of Arvada, left again this afternoon to take another man to the …

January 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 17, 1919

Representative C.P. Story of Sheridan introduced another prohibition bill in the Wyoming legislature this morning. The new bill is less dramatic in its prohibitions than the bill approved by the Wyoming Anti-Saloon League. John Cover of Big Horn is hauling wheat today. Mrs. S.H. Hardin of the O Four Bar ranch is spending several days …

January 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 16, 1919

Smith Brown met death beneath a fall of earth sometime between Saturday night and yesterday afternoon on the homestead claim of William Price, about six or eight miles southeast of Sheridan. His body was discovered yesterday almost completely covered by several tons of earth. Samuel M. Breckenridge, a pioneer resident of Sheridan, died at 7:30 …

January 16, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 15, 1919

Wyoming’s attorney general has ruled that the recent opinion of City Attorney Diefenderfer is correct and liquor dealers will be unable to get back any part of the fees they paid for licenses in Sheridan. It’s expected that within 24 hours, possibly sooner, the United States will be voted dry by the action of the …

January 15, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 14, 1919

Miss Gladys Dougherty, 16, became the bride of Ralph Beatty, an employee of the street railway company, at 1 o’clock this afternoon after an attempted elopement had failed. Senator Peter Kooi of Sheridan was selected by the Republican caucus today for vice president of the state senate. Mayor Camplin has drafted a polite requisition upon …

January 14, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 13, 1919

Popular Sheridan boy Donald Garbutt met death in an airplane accident at 10 o’clock this morning at Carruther’s Field in Benbrook, Texas. Rev. C.F. Fisher, pastor of the Congregational Church in Sheridan since June 1916, has been called to the Congregational Church at Cheyenne. He said today he will in all probability formally announce his

January 14, 2019

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