Children’s wash dresses are on sale starting at 49 cents at Reed’s. Also silks, regularly $1.25 a yard, are clearance-sale priced at 69 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Peret, Hall and Richard will return tonight from a week’s outing in the mountains at Linger Longer cabin. Mr. Joe Pollard of Monarch has recently purchased a …

The committee representing the city council for national defense met in the Commercial Club rooms yesterday evening to discuss the registration of women next Tuesday, July 17. The local committees are acting under instructions directly from Washington. Registration is for work service or food conservation and is purely voluntary on the part of the women.

Because of the hot weather, until further notice, the Sheridan Red Cross work rooms will be open only on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Those rooms will be closed on the other days of the week. The first annual picnic at the experimental farm on Dutch Creek yesterday was well-attended. A basket dinner was a feature, …

An airplane fleet appeared against the sunset and came circling down toward Sheridan late yesterday. The planes, four in number, came into view in wild goose formation, wound their way toward the town, and hovered for a time over the fort before fading like shadows into the deepening night. Americanism will be the keynote of …

Harvey Hammond, the son of John Hammond, the well-known rancher on Big Goose, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon. The deceased and another man were working on an irrigation ditch on the ranch when a cement wall caved in, crushing young Hammond against the opposite wall. Death was probably instantaneous. A.J. Dunlap and Bob Whiston, advance …

Owing to the present scarcity of water, due to the excessive demands during the recent hot spell, Sheridan’s city commissioners have decided to minimize street flushing. The only streets that will be flushed regularly are Main street and Broadway. The local Red Cross chapter is making the first big shipment today to national headquarters. Contents

Wortham Bros. Shows will arrive tonight on their special train of 30 cars. They will set up on the vacant lots near the City Hall, and everything will be up and ready to open tomorrow at 7 p.m. Park Prentiss and his military concert band will give a free concert at noon and 7 o’clock …

Miss Blanche Perry on Park street sustained a broken arm last night when she slipped and fell on the cement sidewalk. The arm had not fully recovered from a previous break. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis came to Sheridan from Lincoln recently. They will remain here until late in the fall. More than 1,500 people, …

The examining committee of applicants for the Officers Reserve Corps reports a number of applicants in Sheridan already in excess of the number to be drawn from the whole state at this time. Twenty-eight applicants will be selected from Wyoming, and probably nine of those will be from Sheridan. Mr. L.J. O’Marr motored to Roundup …

Reed’s has high-class wash fabrics in a variety of styles starting at 19 cents a yard. Also waist bargains sale priced from 49 to 98 cents. Sheridan’s Orpheum theater is showing “Neptune’s Daughter,” starting today, featuring Annette Kellermann in eight big acts. Prices are 25 cents for adults, 10 cents for children. The Western