Militiamen from Newcastle proved to be the best shots at a competition at the Fort Mackenzie range in Sheridan yesterday. The competition was for selection of 10 men from Wyoming National Guard companies A and D to compete with teams from other companies in the state next month. Winners of the state shoot will compete …

A Sheridan man is under arrest on a charge of attempting to break into a room at the Joy Hotel. He was attempting to gain access to the room last night by tearing off the screen, but occupants of the hotel hearing the noise ran out and caught him. They detained him until the police …

A 200-foot bridge across Powder River, which was started last fall, has now been completed and is ready for traffic. The bridge forms the connecting link in a good road between the Sheridan country and the ranches in the Lower Powder River country. Governor Kendrick is expected to arrive in Sheridan in the latter part …

N.A. Pearson has purchased an electric floor sander, a device for dressing floors. This device is the first of its kind ever brought to Sheridan, and it’s being used today on the floors at the new mill on Dow Street. The machine will do the work of at least four men supplied with hand floor …

The Golden Rule store is opening a new department. Silks and wool dress fabrics will be featured in the new dress fabrics section, advantageously located well to the front. The new section is in charge of a man of wide experience in the handling of dress fabrics. The Ben Hur company is at the Orpheum …

Little Evelyn Towle of Sheridan was made happy today as the winner of the fourth watch given away in the merchants’ pony campaign. She is the first girl to win a watch so far. The final two watches will be given away on Sept. 4 and 18, and the big award of the pony outfit …

The Texas Oil company will open a branch house in Sheridan. A warehouse is being built on the spur east of the main line on the south end of the train yards, and an 8,000-gallon combination storage tank is on the ground ready for placement. The H.F. Bar ranch has issued a series of 10 …

Vegetables in the truck farms of Frank Smith and J.T. Burkhart were ruined in the hailstorm that fell yesterday in the Big Goose valley about three miles west of Sheridan. Forty-two hundredths of an inch of rain fell in the city. Regular 20-cent Nainsook and Longcloth for underwear will be 14 cents at yard tomorrow …

J.C. Early will begin work on moving the county detention hospital from the site of the sugar factory in Sheridan to the new site recently selected by the county commissioners. Visitors in Sheridan today include C. Perry Cooper of Parkman and Payton Kineel of Clearmont. The building for the new flouring mill on Dow Street …

A number of boys were arrested by Sheridan police today on a charge of malicious destruction of property. They will be given a trial at 4:30 o’clock. They are alleged to have badly damaged a number of apple trees and threw stones at several houses in the north part of the city last night. All …