Sheridan police made 13 arrests last month compared to 59 during August of 1918. This indicates the part that booze had in swelling the number of misdemeanors and crimes in this community. Walter Bates Jr. has arrived in Sheridan from 15 months’ service in France. He was discharged at Camp Dodge on Aug. 15 and …

In a letter to W.D. Fisher, secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club, F.B. Connell, president of the Midland Club of Billings, gives the proposed Custer Battlefield Scenic Highway a wholehearted endorsement. Mr. Fisher inaugurated the movement for the highway. Things have been humming along in Clearmont getting everything lined up for the coming

Mrs. C.L. Hoag assumed her duties today as the new organist for St. Peter’s church. She takes the place of Miss Ethel McFarlane who, next Wednesday, will marry Mr. Hacock of Calloway, Nebraska. Mrs. C.K. Jones was hostess recently at a charming farewell dinner party given in honor of Miss Carrie Sorenson. Mr. and Mrs. …

The ranch of G.W. Garrett, embracing 520 acres on Big Goose creek, four and a half miles from Sheridan, was sold yesterday to F.L. Sturtevant. The deal amounted to $35,000. E.V. Newcomer was in from the ranch today visiting his family at their new home at 446 South Tschirgi. W.P. Ricketts, a prominent stockman of …

S.D. Caulfield, chairman of the Salvation Army drive in Sheridan, said today that the drive will fail unless people treble the amounts that they are pledging. The Sheridan school board is contemplating construction of three more bungalow school buildings to relieve the congestion occasioned by the large increase in enrollment of the schools this year.

Homer K. Peters, the proprietor of the Story pavilion, has announced a dance Sunday night for the benefit of the Salvation Army. Six schools in Sheridan county are closed because of the inability of the school boards to secure teachers. An attractive painting in oil by Mrs. C.F. Burdick of Sheridan is being exhibited in …

At a meeting of the Commercial club at the Sheridan Inn today, E.G. Reed, agricultural agent for the Burlington railroad, urged that aid be given to the dry farmers to enable them to continue their work for another year. Mrs. Clarence Hilton hosted a charming lawn party at her home near Grove street in Monarch …

The Salvation Army drive opened today, and everywhere the teams met with success, indicating a splendid interest on the part of the public in the efforts of the Salvation Army here. Fifty-six hundredths of an inch of rain fell in Sheridan yesterday afternoon and last night, which nearly equals the total precipitation for the months …

Thousands of people are celebrating in Acme today where a big community picnic, sports, ball games, dancing and other forms of entertainment are being held in observance of Labor Day. Visitors in Sheridan today include Frank E. Long of Buffalo and E.E. Conway of Dayton. Belle Shankton from the IXL ranch is registered at the …

Blanche Alexander Rice, who’s county superintendent of schools, received notice today that vaccination of all school children against small pox is a prerequisite before entering the schools of Wyoming. A.H. Leonard, who’s a proprietor of the famous “Scotty” Phillips herd of buffalo in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, has contracted with the L. & M.