Judge W.S. Metz has the distinction of planting the first sugar beets in the Sheridan district. A carload of sugar beet seed was received by the Sheridan Sugar company yesterday afternoon. Shortly before noon today, Judge Metz motored out to his ranch on Little Goose, and started the work of planting. Mick Riche has filed …

The city council in a meeting this afternoon consolidated the offices of the city clerk and water commissioner. The change will become effective May 1. The city clerk will move his office into the water office and take charge of the work in both departments. The change will save $100 a month in salaries. 19-year-old …

O.P. Hanna, formerly of Sheridan, is in the city from Long Beach, California, where he has been for the past year and a half. His wife and daughter remain in Long Beach, but Mr. Hanna plans to remain in Sheridan for some time. He said Sheridan still presents better opportunities than any other places he …

Reed’s has the very latest models in wash dresses for women, misses and children. Dresses are the best quality of Zephyr and American ginghams in prices from 49 cents to $3.48. The Russell house on Scott Street is serving a good chicken dinner today, for 35 cents. Serving will be from 12:30 until 1:30. The …

F.W. Cooper, superintendent of the fish hatchery at Story is in Sheridan today to receive 100,000 steel head trout eggs shipped here from Oregon. The eggs will be hatched in Story. Mr. Cooper says one million brook trout from the hatchery will be planted in the streams of nine northern Wyoming counties during the latter …

W.H. Castner, who is a representative of the Northwestern Auto Supply company, plans to establish a service station in Sheridan in connection with one of the garages here. He is in the city today from his headquarters in Billings. Advertising that Sheridan has received in connection with building a sugar factory here is bringing a …

F.G. Cooper, a Civil War veteran living in Sheridan, has the distinction of having seen President Lincoln in Ford’s theater in Washington D.C. a few days before the president was assassinated. Mr. Cooper says he saw the president in the identical box in which he was killed 50 years ago tonight. Big Horn Avenue in …

R.A. Keenan has applied to Sheridan’s city council for a 25-year franchise for a central heating plant. Mr. Keenan proposes to build a plant that will heat the entire business district of the city. Sheridan’s city council has appointed E.W. Wilson as the new city clerk. He will fill the vacancy created by M.W. Foy, …

Homesteads have been filed on more than 8,000 acres of land in Sheridan County over the last three days. The most recent filings were this morning, when 14 homesteaders from four states filed for more than 4,300 acres. Most of the filings are for acreage in the Clearmont and Arvada districts. Federal court convened at …

Federal court will convene in Sheridan at 9 o’clock tomorrow in the court chambers in the federal building here. The session will probably not last longer than a day, as there is but one case to be heard. There will be no juries. E.E. Clancy has been appointed superintendent of the state hospital in Sheridan. …