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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 18, 1916

The Burn Cleuch dairy, conducted on the Adams ranch three miles south of Sheridan, received a score of 96 out of a possible 100 following a recent inspection of the dairy by state food and oil commissioner Maurice Groshon. The score is said to be the highest ever given a dairy in the state of …

August 18, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 17, 1916

Four thousand men, women and children of Sheridan County will be represented in the mammoth parade that will be a feature of the Labor Day celebration on Sept. 4. The event will be under the auspices of the Sheridan County Trades and Labor Council. No celebration of this kind has ever been undertaken in northern …

August 17, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 15, 1916

The site of the famous Wagon Box Fight, about which there has been so much controversy, was definitely and absolutely located yesterday by one of the two known survivors, Max Littman of St. Louis. Mr. Littman made the trip out from the east with his wife and daughter for this purpose. Ed Arnold, accompanied by …

August 15, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 14,1916

Victor Miller, representative of C.L. Chester Inc. of New York, one of the biggest producers of travel films in the country, returned last night from a trip into the Big Horn mountains in the vicinity of Cloud Peak, in company with Secretary Steele of the Sheridan Commercial club. During the trip, many of the magnificent …

August 15, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 13, 1916

A charming love story, “Merely Mary Ann,” is playing today and tomorrow at the Pastime theater in Sheridan. Admission is 10 cents. W.G. Comstock, his wife, and Mrs. B. Richards, all of Denver, have arrived in Sheridan and will spend several days here while on an automobile trip which will take them as far as …

August 15, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 12, 1916

More than three miles of gas mains and a half-mile of service pipe have been laid for the Sheridan Gas company. Work on the building for the plant is progressing rapidly, and the building will soon be completed. F.O. Rose went to Clearmont and Arvada today on a short business trip. F.B. Perkins paid $27,500 …

August 12, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 11, 1916

Denver capitalist Verner Z. Reed has announced plans to build a magnificent country house at the Home ranch in Sheridan County, which he owns. The house will be about a quarter of a mile west of the ranch buildings, three miles south of Sheridan. The Buck-Robison company will open a new shoe store in the …

August 11, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 10, 1916

Al Andrews went to Arvada today to install a couple of irrigation pumps for ranchers living in that vicinity. The primary election ballots have been printed and delivered to the county clerk. They will be sent out to the precincts just before election day on Aug. 22. Arrivals at the Sheridan Inn include Mrs. Albert …

August 10, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 9, 1916

By the time the first beets go into the dumps, about Oct. 1, the Sheridan sugar factory will have been completely overhauled and put in perfect repair for the four months’ campaign ahead. T.L. Tracy has recently purchased another automobile and is now running two Buick cars in his auto service. His headquarters are at …

August 9, 2016

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 8, 1916

The municipal tennis courts at Pioneer Park are being surfaced with clay, and will be ready to open to the public within the next few days. If beets in the Sheridan district continue for the next two months to make the growth that they have up to the present time, a bumper crop will result. …

August 8, 2016

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