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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 2, 1918

Most of the morning session of the city council was consumed in a discussion of an application of the Warren company for an extension of time to complete the paving on Residence hill. Under the contract entered into on June 24, paving was to have been completed by Dec. 1, which was yesterday. No new …

December 3, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 1, 1918

All of Sheridan’s hotels are full tonight, although nothing special is going on to attract visitors. One of the hotel people reported he could fill 25 more rooms if he had them. Miss Dot Bard, daughter of C.W. Bard and a popular employee of the First National Bank in Sheridan, was married today at Alliance, …

December 3, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 30, 1918

Owing to the manifest abatement of the influenza epidemic, the influenza committee of the Sheridan County Red Cross chapter has been discontinued. Inasmuch as restrictions upon all other public meetings have been abandoned, friends will hereafter be involved in attendance at funerals. Brewing of beer and other malt beverages will stop at midnight throughout

November 30, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 29, 1918

In a letter from her son, Jimmy Snyder, from beyond the seas, Mrs. Lottie Hume of Sheridan learned today of the death of her other son, Max Snyder, killed in action somewhere in France. The Red Cross emergency hospital was closed today after several weeks’ active use in treating influenza. The number of patients had …

November 29, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 28, 1918

W. Diggs, the section hand held for the killing of T.J. Hunt, a fellow laborer at Arvada last Sunday, professes to be a preacher and gives evidence of being a religious zealot. Paving operations on Residence Hill have been abandoned for the winter season. The Thanksgiving service at St. Peter’s church this morning was attended …

November 28, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 26, 1918

With the exception of a few odds and ends expected from county precincts, the drive for united war work funds in Sheridan county is closed. The county’s contribution to the war fund exceeds $28,500. The premium lists for the seventh annual show of the Northern Wyoming Poultry Association are out, and arrangements for the show …

November 27, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 26, 1918

With the exception of a few odds and ends expected from county precincts, the drive for united war work funds in Sheridan county is closed. The county’s contribution to the war fund exceeds $28,500. The premium lists for the seventh annual show of the Northern Wyoming Poultry Association are out, and arrangements for the show …

November 26, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 25, 1918

John Booz of Parkman is registered at the Western hotel. Mrs. R.T. Williams of Tongue River has received word of the advancement of her son, Alfred Williams, to the position of lieutenant in the engineering corps. Mr. Williams has been in training at Camp Humphreys, Virginia. Three Sheridan chicken fanciers have sent coops or fowls …

November 26, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 23, 1918

For the first time since Oct. 10, the date of the first death from influenza in Sheridan, the churches will be opened tomorrow for divine worship. A perfectly good $2,500 “tombstone” has been smashed to smithereens at the corner of Loucks and Main streets, and the Montana concern that installed the thing in the middle …

November 26, 2018

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 22, 1918

The war fund drive is to close, and committees must make a final report on Monday. State Food Administrator Theodore Diers is host today at a conference in Sheridan of most of the county administrators and some of the leading ladies connected with food administration work in Sheridan. Owing to a fire at 257 Burkitt …

November 26, 2018

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