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A Look Back in Time: December 18, 1920

As of this morning, money contributed to the Salvation Army’s fund for Christmas baskets and donations to the needy is almost to the $200 mark. Forty-five or more Sheridan families will receive Christmas dinners and gifts this year. The committee handling plans for the celebration that will attend the illumination of a tree on East …

December 18, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 17, 1920

Dr. O. L. Veach of Chicago, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, has joined the clinic of doctors Stevenson, Roberts and Marshall in Sheridan. Howard Eaton is today sharing with friends some choice bits of a buffalo from Pioneer Park that Mr. Eaton acquired recently through a trade with the city of Sheridan. As …

December 17, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 16, 1920

One of the longest criminal and civil dockets to be cleared is before the district court in Sheridan, which is now in session. Attorney C. L. Sackett is confined in his home by illness. Mrs. C. W. Shickley of Buffalo is a Christmas shopper here today. Milton McCoy of Big Horn has shipped eight head …

December 16, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 15, 1920

Word has been received in the Burlington offices in Sheridan that George W. Holdredge, long-time general manager of the C.B. & Q. Railroad, has resigned. Professor C. R. Sheldon of Billings, known as the “hen wizard,” will address the Sheridan County Poultry Association tonight. The ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star entertained the

December 15, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 14, 1920

Sheridan’s city council has asked the city engineer to recommend certain hills in the city as safe coasting places for the city’s children and, if possible, to bar streets to traffic during certain designated hours each day during the winter so the children can play. N. B. Bennett has been elected president of the Pioneer …

December 14, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 13, 1920

Nobles of the Kalif Shrine temple, together with about 10 novices, paraded through downtown Sheridan at noon today as part of the ceremonial in which the novices will take the mystic journey across the burning sands to attain their degrees. According to reports submitted to the city council this morning, 35 cases were handled in …

December 14, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 12, 1920

The Sheridan telephone exchange reports handling over 15,400 calls daily, with the peak load being from 10 to 11 a.m. Over 1,600 calls are handled during that time. Hershell Donahue has been elected captain of the 1921 Sheridan High School football team. Lunch is 60 cents and dinner $1 today at the Crescent Cafe. Sheridan …

December 14, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 11, 1920

J. F. Curry has moved from 206 West 6th street to Room 11 in the Helvey building. George W. Scales of the Ford Motor Sales Co. is in Buffalo, where he will pass a few days looking after business matters. B. F. Horton, one of the Clearmont country’s best known ranchers, has left 10 ears …

December 11, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 9, 1920

J. J. Early, superintendent of Sheridan school, has been named chairman of the Municipal Christmas Tree observance to be held on Grinnell avenue just east of Main street at 8:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The secretary of agriculture has authorized the grazing of over 46,000 cattle and horses and 120,000 sheep on the Big Horn …

December 9, 2020

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A Look Back in Time: December 8, 1920

W. D. Fisher, secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club, is urging legislation that would allow a community to assess a levy for promotion of itself. Mrs. J. J. Marshall, temporary chairman of the Young Women’s Christian Association, has announced that, thanks to a gift from Senator Kendrick, the association will open upstairs in Sheridan’s old …

December 8, 2020

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