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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 23, 1920

Sheridan is to be well represented at the second annual meeting of the Custer Battlefield Hiway association at Lewistown, Montana, on Oct. 25 and 26. Allen Macy of Sheridan, a veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic, has made a standing offer of $10 to any opponent of the League of Nations who will …

October 26, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 22, 1920

U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Sheridan will pass through Sheridan Sunday enroute to Gillette, where he will resume his campaign work next week.A Sheridan taxi driver and a man who gave his address as North Dakota have been arrested in Buffalo and charged with the transportation of intoxicating liquors in violation of the …

October 22, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 21, 1920

Practically every reservation has been taken for the fall meeting and banquet of the Sheridan Commercial club, which will be Thursday night in the banquet room of the Odd Fellows’ hall. George Scales, manager of the Ford Motor Co. of Sheridan, is confined to his home with a serious throat affliction. Mrs. Sherman Welton was …

October 21, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 20, 1920

Voters living in incorporated towns in Sheridan county will have their last chance to register for the Nov. 2 election on Thursday and Friday. It was announced today that every school pupil in Sheridan will march in a parade on Nov. 1 urging people to vote “yes” on Constitutional Amendment No. 2. The amendment would …

October 20, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 19, 1920

The Sheridan Real Estate Board in a recent meeting drafted a resolution advocating adoption of a council-manager form of city government for Sheridan. Sheridan’s Golden Rule store is offering one lot of women’s shoes in both high and medium-high heels for $1.65. Testing of the circuit for the new ornamental light system being installed in …

October 19, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 18, 1920

Hundreds of Sheridan farmers and others interested in the promotion of rural communities and their problems visited the Burlington “better farm” train which stopped yesterday and today in Sheridan. The car carried a model farm of growing crops, showing to scale a 320-acre farm, with farm house and fields. Action of the Farmer-Labor party delegation

October 19, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 17, 1920

Many Republicans of Sheridan county resent an effort by the county Republican party to secure pledges that voters will cast their ballots for a straight Republican ticket on election day. The effort appears to be an 11th hour effort to stem the tide towards Governor Cox in Sheridan county. People who bought tickets to a …

October 19, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 16, 1920

Republican voters of Sheridan county are being asked this week to sign pledges that they will vote a “straight Republican ticket.”High school pupils and students above the sixth grade who are studying agriculture under the Smith-Hughes law provisions in Sheridan schools viewed six reels of films sent out by the Department of Agriculture at the …

October 19, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 15, 1920

After being blocked for 21 hours due to the wreck yesterday, the main line of the Burlington at Wakely was cleared at 1:20 o’clock this morning. H. J. Thomas, county agricultural agent, left this afternoon for Arvada where he will meet the Burlington “better farming” special, which is in Arvada today. The train will be …

October 15, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: Oct. 14, 1920

A broken main rod strap on the engine of eastbound freight train No. 4102 caused a wreck at Wakely, near Sheridan, at 4:25 o’clock this morning. Ulm is preparing for one of the most notable “farm” days in its history when the Burlington railroad’s “better farm” train stops there Friday. The train will remain at …

October 14, 2020

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