Owing to the present scarcity of water, due to the excessive demands during the recent hot spell, Sheridan’s city commissioners have decided to minimize street flushing. The only streets that will be flushed regularly are Main street and Broadway. The local Red Cross chapter is making the first big shipment today to national headquarters. Contents

Wortham Bros. Shows will arrive tonight on their special train of 30 cars. They will set up on the vacant lots near the City Hall, and everything will be up and ready to open tomorrow at 7 p.m. Park Prentiss and his military concert band will give a free concert at noon and 7 o’clock …

Miss Blanche Perry on Park street sustained a broken arm last night when she slipped and fell on the cement sidewalk. The arm had not fully recovered from a previous break. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis came to Sheridan from Lincoln recently. They will remain here until late in the fall. More than 1,500 people, …

The examining committee of applicants for the Officers Reserve Corps reports a number of applicants in Sheridan already in excess of the number to be drawn from the whole state at this time. Twenty-eight applicants will be selected from Wyoming, and probably nine of those will be from Sheridan. Mr. L.J. O’Marr motored to Roundup …

Reed’s has high-class wash fabrics in a variety of styles starting at 19 cents a yard. Also waist bargains sale priced from 49 to 98 cents. Sheridan’s Orpheum theater is showing “Neptune’s Daughter,” starting today, featuring Annette Kellermann in eight big acts. Prices are 25 cents for adults, 10 cents for children. The Western

Hundreds of people today enjoyed the parade, picnic and general celebration of the Fourth of July as staged in the City Park and along the streets leading thereto. The address of the day was made by the Honorable R.P. Parker. Butterfly Pictures presents Jack Mulhall in “The Flame of Youth” tomorrow only at the Gem …

George Garrett’s Ford was stolen this morning from his ranch on Big Goose. The machine was taken from a few hundred feet of where he was sleeping. There was enough gas in the tank to take the vehicle about 60 miles. United States Army Inspectors will inspect and buy horses and mules at the Burlington …

Sheridan’s Fourth of July parade will form at Broadway and East Alger, facing toward Main street, then will march south on Main to Loucks, east on Loucks to Gould, south on Gould to Burkitt, west on Burkitt to Main, north on Main to Brundage, and west on Brundage to the Park. The first awards have …

Stevens, Fryberger & Co., Sheridan’s New York Store, has Kuppenheimer Air-O-Weave suits for men priced at $10 and $12. The Misses Frances and Anna Maghee left today to spend the remainder of the summer at the Buckingham ranch near Piney. School will be closed during their absence. Reed’s has high-grade wash fabrics, suitable for suits,

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Messick, accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. Dean T. Waddell, and 14-month-old grandson, George Messick Waddell, returned this afternoon from a prolonged visit in the east and middle west. Mr. Messick said evidences of our state of war with Germany were very striking in New York. Miss Florence Williams is quite …