A petition was filed yesterday with Sheridan’s city clerk by A.E. Bonham asking for a special election to vote on the return to the old council form of government. A canvass of the petition shows that a sufficient number of signers have been secured to make the election necessary. An army recruiting officer is in …

Among the passengers on the ill-fated ship Laconia were Mr. and Mrs. Boston, Mrs. Boston being a daughter of Granger Farwell, vice president of the Monarch Coal company in Sheridan County. They were among those saved after the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine on Feb. 25. The Sheridan Music Co. has pianos priced …

Otis Johnson of the Wyoming Electric Co. went to Kirby yesterday to overhaul the electric lighting plant at the Ferguson ranch. A robin, the first harbinger of spring, put in an appearance in the city this morning. Notwithstanding the bitter cold wind, the robin was chirping as if it were a warm spring day. Mayor …

Stevens, Fryberger & Co., Sheridan’s New York store, has handsome lines of new skirts for spring, starting at $7.50. The new spring silks are at Reeds. These are the most wanted weaves for the spring season, priced at 35 cents to $1 a yard. Meyer Garage has announced they will be open and ready to …

The need of an auditorium in Sheridan was presented by Secretary Steele at the Commercial club luncheon tonight. Another matter of considerable interest was a proposal that either the city or the county acquire the fairgrounds. That matter was presented by Mayor Church. The Macabees have moved their meeting place from the Knights of Pythias …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …