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A Look Back in Time: June 26, 1919

J.H. Pierson and wife are in Sheridan from Billings today, visiting and taking in the races. Dr. E.I. Schindler of Sheridan, an osteopath associated with Dr. G.H. Buffum, was united in marriage to Miss Anna Johnson of St. Louis yesterday in St. Louis. Dr. Schindler and his bride are expected to arrive in Sheridan Saturday. …

June 26, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 25, 1919

A forest fire which started yesterday morning in the timber of Wolf Creek in the mountains had burned about 10 acres at last reports. This is about 25 or 30 miles from Sheridan. A crew of about 15 men is fighting the fire. The Sheridan Music Company has just received a large shipment of the …

June 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 24, 1919

The Reo Garage on North Main street has the attachments that will allow you to convert your Ford car into a ton truck. The price is $400. Johnson Grocery at 516 Broadway has a special on brooms. For three days, brooms in three sizes are priced at 50 cents, 75 cents and $1. Four Western …

June 24, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 23, 1919

W.E. Bowman of Dayton is in Sheridan today on business matters. Miss Geraldine Scanlon returned on 41 this afternoon from Alliance, Neb., where she’s been visiting the past few days. Monarch defeated the fast Burlington baseball team on the Monarch diamond yesterday afternoon by the score of 8 to 7. The game was fast and …

June 24, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 22, 1919

Hot weather records for the month of June were shattered this afternoon when temperatures at the Sheridan weather bureau reached a maximum temperature of 101 degrees. That’s two degrees above the previous record of 99 set in June 1910. J. Land was slightly injured and A.L. Smith more seriously hurt this morning when their automobile …

June 24, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 20, 1919

By a vote of 15 to 0, electors of School District No. 7 yesterday voted to issue school bonds in the amount of $50,000 to be applied to construction of a $100,000 school building, which will replace Central school. Restrictions in the use of water for sprinkling under the districting plan for Sheridan will be …

June 20, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 19, 1919

From 3 o’clock until 6 o’clock this afternoon, the electors of school district No. 7 will vote their approval or disapproval of the plan to bond the district in the amount of $50,000 for the purpose of constructing a new building to supplant the Central school. The city commissioners plan to pay for all meters …

June 19, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 18, 1919

Residents of Nielsen Heights and Residence Hill are demanding immediate enforcement of the old water restriction ordinance that districts the city under specified sprinkling hours. A number of the residents appealed to the city commissioners today, stating that they have been without water for several weeks. Clearmont is undergoing a thorough clean-up today

June 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 17, 1919

A.C. Rice of Douglas won the Wyoming State Championship in the big trapshooting tournament held in Sheridan Saturday, Sunday and yesterday, with a score of 292 hits out of a possible 300 at 16 yards. Over 80 Sheridan boosters, with a band and the Boy Scouts’ drum corps, started out at 7:45 o’clock this morning …

June 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 16, 1919

A machine arrived today to register with a signal bell the time for wagers to start and stop at the races here next week. This is the only machine of this kind ever exhibited or used in the west. The telegraphers’ strike hasn’t affected the Western Union station in Sheridan as seriously as in some …

June 17, 2019

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