Prompt action by the fire department at 7:30 this morning, together with the incombustible quality of the building, prevented the destruction of the Kutcher block at the northwest corner of Main and Works streets. The fire originated in the basement in a pile of pasteboard boxes, but how is not determined. Fifteen below zero was …

Eleven of the 22 saloon licenses in Sheridan expired at midnight. All have been officially renewed by the council, and the new licenses will be issued as soon as the applicants pay the $1,300 exacted for the license year. It seemed as if every steam whistle in Sheridan broke out into a concert welcoming the …

Sheridan county enthusiasts for good roads and elaborate highway improvement voted at a meeting last night to ask legislators in the coming session to amend the existing automobile tax law so that, instead of the present annual tax of $5 on each machine, the tax should be 1 cent a pound on the machine’s weight. …

A crowd of several hundred greeted a special Burlington train of 418 troops en route from Vancouver barracks to Ohio. The train pulled into Sheridan about 9:30 a.m. today in a driving snow. The coyote hunt was abandoned for the second time today. Weather conditions were again the reason. Eddie Polo, Hercules of the film …

The Sheridan Commercial club will meet Monday night to confer regarding what legislation may be necessary to permit Wyoming’s most effective participation in the big road-building program that the government is to institute as an after-war economic movement. Brakeman Harry A. Floyd of the Burlington railroad was killed under a train at Alger in an

Before opening its chamber of horrors for the induction into the mysteries of the Mystic Shrine this afternoon, Kalif Temple pulled off its screaming pageant featuring 24 pilgrims panting for the knowledge of the occult mysticism of the desert. Buffalo sent up a bunch of Shriners by early morning automobile. The big coyote hunt will …

W.D. Fisher, secretary of the Community club at Alliance, Neb., is to succeed Tilden Morris as secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club. He will start on March 10. Tiverton Tynan, who has been attached to the local selective service board as military aid and clerk, left today for Fort Logan, Colo., to be mustered out …

Sheriff Mossberg has arranged to serve chicken dinner today for the inmates of the county jail. Seven prisoners are confined there. The Burlington Cafe is serving a special turkey and goose Christmas dinner from 11:30 till 7 today. Boy Scouts and their friends were given an unusual treat tonight when Scoutmaster Champion operated the stereopticon …

Miss Princess Butler, driver of the stage between Passaic and Sayle, Mont., succeeded in checking the horses and preventing a serious runaway after the horses became frightened and bolted, but she broke her wrist in the struggle. Between 450 and 475 people in Dayton are arranging to take dollar memberships in the Red Cross, but …

Although delayed by the influenza epidemic, “The Ocksheperida,” the official newspaper of Sheridan high school, has resumed publication, and the first edition of the present school year appeared from press today. Sheridan high school pupils have purchased more than $671 in thrift stamps in seven weeks. Martin Mock and daughter are in Sheridan