It has been learned that, based on a population of just under 18,800, and discounting credits for men enlisted in the National Guard and the regular army, the number of men to be drafted for Sheridan County will be 43. The recent registration of Sheridan County women shows a total of 358 have signed the …

There are still several vacancies left in the National Guard, Headquarters Company. Positions needed include 10 mounted men for Headquarters Company, four men for clerks at headquarters, and 15 men for the band. Carl Garretson, his wife and little girl are now in Oregon, on their way to the California coast. They are traveling in …

Agnes Stagler left yesterday for Basin City, where she will spend a month visiting her aunt, Mrs. Scholz. Sheridan’s Grand theater today is featuring a big double show. Emory Wehlen stars in “Sowers and Reapers,” a Metro feature in five acts, and Mack Swain and Polly Moran appear in “His Naughty Thought,” a two-reel Keystone. …

The Sheridan Enterprise has been asked to be campaign manager for the “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund” in Sheridan. The fund, which is organized under approval of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, is to collect money to pay for tobacco for American soldiers and sailors on the front. The …

The Sheridan National Guard company has an enlisted strength of 113 men. The assistance of the Commercial Club has been secured in a recruiting campaign to increase the company to war strength of 150 men by July 25. William S. Hart stars in “The Desert Man,” playing today and Tuesday at Sheridan’s Grand theater. Admission …

Children’s wash dresses are on sale starting at 49 cents at Reed’s. Also silks, regularly $1.25 a yard, are clearance-sale priced at 69 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Peret, Hall and Richard will return tonight from a week’s outing in the mountains at Linger Longer cabin. Mr. Joe Pollard of Monarch has recently purchased a …

The committee representing the city council for national defense met in the Commercial Club rooms yesterday evening to discuss the registration of women next Tuesday, July 17. The local committees are acting under instructions directly from Washington. Registration is for work service or food conservation and is purely voluntary on the part of the women.

Because of the hot weather, until further notice, the Sheridan Red Cross work rooms will be open only on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Those rooms will be closed on the other days of the week. The first annual picnic at the experimental farm on Dutch Creek yesterday was well-attended. A basket dinner was a feature, …

An airplane fleet appeared against the sunset and came circling down toward Sheridan late yesterday. The planes, four in number, came into view in wild goose formation, wound their way toward the town, and hovered for a time over the fort before fading like shadows into the deepening night. Americanism will be the keynote of …

Harvey Hammond, the son of John Hammond, the well-known rancher on Big Goose, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon. The deceased and another man were working on an irrigation ditch on the ranch when a cement wall caved in, crushing young Hammond against the opposite wall. Death was probably instantaneous. A.J. Dunlap and Bob Whiston, advance …