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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 18, 1919

The senate late yesterday afternoon passed the bill authorizing the state to dispose of the state hospitals at Rock Springs, Sheridan and Casper. The vote was 14 for the bill, with one vote against it. The Sheridan Brewery in all probability will not manufacture beverages containing alcohol even to the one percent permitted by the …

February 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 17, 1919

About 40 property owners in the vicinity of where Third street intersects the creek have petitioned the city council for protection from the menace of overflow. They represent that the condition of the creek above and below Third street is dangerous on account of the removal of riprap formerly existing for the protection of the …

February 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 16, 1919

Miss Mary Pelissier returned tonight from a brief visit at Billings. Train 41, due this afternoon, came in tonight bringing some eastern mail that should have reached here Friday and Saturday. Deep drifts in Nebraska are blamed for the delay. Mrs. Floyd Whitechurch, 1446 North Gould street, and Walter R. Harris, 1203 Val Vista avenue, …

February 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 15, 1919

The Sheridan County Medical Society late tonight wired Gov. Carey and the Sheridan county delegation asking that every effort be made to defeat the bill before the senate providing for the sale of the state hospitals. The telegram points out that the Sheridan branch of the state hospital is virtually self-sustaining. Aubrey Dodge Crawford, who …

February 15, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 14, 1919

A bill disposing of the state hospitals at Rock Springs, Sheridan and Casper passed late yesterday afternoon with an amendment added by Sen. Kooi that eliminated a provision allowing the hospitals to be sold to any purchaser other than the county in which the hospital is located. Residents in Sheridan county have adopted 47 fatherless …

February 14, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 13, 1919

Swan’s Grocery and Market is having a special sale on lard. A 3-pound pail is 90 cents, 6-pound pails are $1.45, and 10-pound pails are $2.80. Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Raycher of Monarch are in town today. The Scales Motor company is unloading a carload of Fordson tractors today. Many of the tractors have already …

February 13, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 12, 1919

A plate glass window in the Waters’ Jewelry store has been broken. Fred W. Freese, general manager of the Sheridan Gas & Fuel Co., is expected home Friday from Chicago and Denver, where he has been on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Griffen and Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Kirkpatrick are home from an …

February 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 11, 1919

Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey and 1,000 others appear in “Tarzan of the Apes,” showing today and tomorrow at Sheridan’s Gem theater. Admission is 15 and 25 cents for the matinee, 25 and 50 cents for the night shows. John Beebee of Clearmont was in Sheridan today. Mr. W.P. Service from Arvada is in Sheridan for …

February 11, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 10, 1919

Having been under consideration since April 1917, Senator Kendrick’s bill authorizing the addition of certain lands to the Wyoming National forest was finally passed through both houses of congress today. The measure is now ready for the president’s signature. Swan’s Grocery and Market has the finest boiling beef for 20 cents. Rossi &

February 11, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 9, 1919

R.E. McNally left today for a trip of two days to Gillette on business. George W. Perry of Sheridan was chosen secretary and Theodore C. Diers of Sheridan was made orator of the Scottish Rite class which completed its work last week in the Consistory at the reunion in Cheyenne. An American soldier from Montana …

February 11, 2019

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