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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 23, 1917

Another meeting of the Sheridan Athletic association will be held some time during the coming week to discuss plans for the opening of the gymnasium in the near future. The membership committee has met with splendid success in its effort to secure members. The trial came up in police court today of the two men …

February 23, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 22, 1917

State Sen. N.A. Pearson returned to Sheridan last night from Cheyenne, where he’s a member of the senate ways and means committee. He said the appropriation of $20,000 for the Sheridan hospital was passed. The money will be used for an extension to the hospital and installation of the new boiler. Seventy slides illustrating conditions …

February 22, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 21, 1917

John D. Wallace, a prominent stockman of Parkman, says that in spite of an unusually severe winter, stock all over the west is in splendid condition. Wallace has been buying and selling cattle this winter, and as a result, has traveled over a great deal of country. Sheridan’s Gem theater offers an exceptionally strong bill …

February 21, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 20, 1917

The cemetery bill, under which the city of Sheridan will have authority to vote bonds for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining cemetery grounds, was passed by the Wyoming legislature. As soon as it has been signed by the governor, it will become a law, and the city council will then pass an ordinance calling …

February 20, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 19, 1917

George Brown has returned to Sheridan from Salem, Ore., where he went to visit his father, who is in very poor health. Mr. Brown said that business is not so good in Oregon generally as it is here and in Montana. Rev. C.F. Fisher gave an illustrated lecture presenting an intimate study of the life …

February 20, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 18, 1917

Reed’s has many new spring suits for women, priced from $19.50 to $39.50. Col. C.R. Duffy of Buffalo has been spending a few days in Sheridan on business. Clint and Bessie Robbins, the prince and princess of entertainers, have returned to Sheridan for an eight-day engagement starting tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are well and …

February 20, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 17, 1917

F.W. Cooper, superintendent of the fish hatchery in Story, says there are 1.7 million brook trout fry at the hatchery, and they will be planted in the trout streams of northern Wyoming early in the spring. Cooper is in the city today to get a shipment of lake trout eggs from Minnesota. Carroll Realty Co. …

February 17, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 16, 1917

Evangelist Shepard preaches an old-fashioned religion every evening at the First Baptist church in Sheridan. The hearty prayer response last night was much appreciated by a large audience. E.W. Stone, a large cattle owner of Campbell county, in company with his wife spent several days in Sheridan this week. While here, they purchased a fine …

February 16, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 15, 1917

The 1917 Booklet of Sheridan Ranch Resorts issued by the Burlington railroad will be published in the near future. Secretary Steele of the Commercial club plans to forward a copy of the booklet to the Burlington advertising agent some time during the next week. Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Shannon and Miss Lora Brammer, all of …

February 15, 2017

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A Look Back in Time: Feb. 14, 1917

Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, by reporter Pat Blair as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on Feb. 14, 1917. The Bird club, 35 pupils in the fifth through eighth grades at Taylor school, will give an illustrated lecture on bird life at 3 p.m. Friday at the …

February 14, 2017

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