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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 3, 1919

The Western hotel re-opened today after being closed the past two months awaiting the arrival of furniture. Thomas W. Bradley of Billings, Montana, was the first guest to register. While it was closed, the hotel has been thoroughly renovated. The county commissioners have appropriated $2,000 for use on Dayton-Kane mountain road. They instructed the county

December 3, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 2, 1919

At 6 o’clock this morning, the temperature was 25 below zero, which was the coldest that it’s been since Jan. 31, 1918, when a temperature of 32 below was recorded at the local weather bureau. Will Mattox, who resides at Parkman, is in Sheridan attending to business matters. Also in Sheridan is G. A. Blake, …

December 2, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Dec. 1, 1919

The price of coal dropped in Sheridan today to $6 per ton. All consumers who purchased coal for $7 per ton from local retail dealers since Nov. 16 will receive a refund of 95 cents per ton. This is the result of the ruling of the government in the settlement of the coal strike. Mr. …

December 2, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 27, 1919

Without a doubt, there were few homes in Sheridan today where the hospitality did not prevail. Some who entertained Thanksgiving guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dave Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. McNally, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Taffner and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dorman. L. M. DeVine is in Sheridan from the PK …

November 27, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 26, 1919

Emphasizing his determination to enforce the provisions of a federal injunction prohibiting conspiracies to promote the coal strike, Major Warren Dean, military commander of Northern Wyoming, headed a military detachment into the coal fields of Sheridan County today. Fifty-two miners were taken into custody. The football game between Billings Poly and

November 26, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 24, 1919

The improvement of North Main street will begin at once, immediate action having been decided on at a meeting of the city council this morning. The action was taken because of the impassable condition of the road. Trucks and vehicles of all kinds have been mired, and the street car service interrupted. Charles Frank Francis …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 23, 1919

Earl D. Hawkey and George Williams of Ucross came to Sheridan today to spend a day attending to business matters and visiting friends. They are guests at the Crescent hotel. W. W. Alderson returned tonight from shipping cattle to Kansas City. He returned by the way of Denver, where he visited Mrs. Alderson who is …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 22, 1919

The J. W. Denio Milling Company filed a suit for $185,000 in district court in Sheridan today against Walker D. Hines, director general of the railroads. The plaintiff alleges damage to that extent by destruction of the milling property from fire on the night of July 1, allegedly caused by sparks from a passing locomotive. …

November 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 21, 1919

The good roads committee of the Sheridan Commercial Club met last night to consider plans for cooperating with the Forest Service in the matter of securing a road into the mountain, eventually to connect with a road on the other side. The project is to be known as the Dayton-Kane road. Make your reservations now …

November 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Nov. 20, 1919

T. H. Dudlow, Thomas H. Kelly, J. J. Dooley and R. G. Swain of Hall, Mont., arrived in Sheridan with a big shipment of cattle last night and stopped here to feed. Henry Walker, night chief of police, placed a speeder under arrest last night. The offender will appear for trial before Judge Byrd at …

November 20, 2019

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