The valuation of the taxable property of Sheridan County for 1916 is just under $17 million. That’s according to the abstract of the assessment roll prepared in the office of County Assessor John X. Morris, and is exclusive of railroads, telegraph and telephone lines. The county commissioners returned this afternoon from an inspection of a …

The Wyoming Securities company, of which Vernon Z. Reed is the principal owner, is constructing a number of new buildings at the Home ranch south of Sheridan. The improvements include a modern office building, a number of tenant houses and a school house for the children of the tenants. The mess house, the first permanent …

The convict gang is making splendid progress on the Dayton-Mountain road, according to Prof. J.J. Early. He returned Monday night from a fishing trip in the Big Horn mountains in the Tongue river district, coming down the new road Saturday afternoon. J.J. Marshal, who for several years has been assistant principal of the high school …

Malcolm Moncreiffe put his horse over a jump 5 feet 2 inches in height to set a new record for the high jump in Wyoming at the horse show at Sheridan’s fair grounds yesterday. Sheridan’s first horse show was a splendid success in every particular. Dr. David E. Kendall went to Clearmont this afternoon to …

County Agent S.M. Fuller and his wife returned yesterday from a trip to the southern part of Wyoming and Colorado. Mrs. Fuller has been visiting in Laramie for several weeks, and Mr. Fuller was attending the tri-state convention of extension workers at Fort Collins last week. They met in Denver and returned home together. A …

Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Yonkee returned to Sheridan today from a five weeks’ automobile trip during which they toured Montana, Yellowstone park, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. They had splendid weather during the trip, and did not experience the slightest mishap. Rev. and Mrs. I.W. Kingsley and son, Darwin, returned to Sheridan today from a trip …

At a meeting of the Sheridan Motor and Good Roads club last night, Mr. Churchill presented the club with a log of the road from Sheridan to Billings, which he made a few days ago. The club secretary was instructed to have the log printed and distributed to the garages of the city, where it …

Seventeen men have been discharged from Sheridan’s National Guard Company D because they were married or were unable to pass the medical examination. Thirteen of the men returned home today. Luther Dunning arrived in Sheridan today from his ranch on Otter creek in Montana. He brought 15 head of thoroughbred horses, which he has entered …

A $21,000 judgment, the largest ever given in district court in Sheridan County, was awarded to the Big Horn Timber company against T.B. McPherson yesterday. Sheridan speed fans, lovers of mile-a-minute races, will have an opportunity to witness racing duels between crack drivers next Sunday. Capt. Harvey Kennedy of California and Jerry Wonderlick of

Hewitt’s Bootery is having a second July clearance sale. Women’s tan calf shoes, a $5 value, are now $1.45, and women’s Walk-over pumps, a $4.50 value, are $3.75. T.E. Roberson has received a patent for an applicator which he recently invented. J.L. Dixon, representative of the L.C. Smith Typewriter company, is in Sheridan calling on