Sheridan County commissioners at their last meeting ordered the county clerk to advertise for a suitable tract of land for location of two buildings. One will be an institution for caring for the poor of the county, and the other a hospital for contagious diseases. Commissioners desire a site of about five acres, not more …

M.W. Foy, who has been city clerk since January 1914, has been appointed city commissioner to succeed S.D. Canfield. Mr. Canfield resigned from the city position to become postmaster. An appointment hasn’t been made to fill the vacancy in the city clerk’s office. S.W. Service is in Sheridan from his homestead near Arvada. He will …

Early completion of the Lake DeSmet project has been assured by Verner Z. Reed, a Denver capitalist. The project will put at least 50,000 more acres of land in the Sheridan country under irrigation. Mr. Reed is the owner of several thousand acres of land south of Sheridan. A contract for grading right-of-way from Dow …

Goelet Gallatin, Roy Snyder and R. Nicholas, all of Big Horn, are in Sheridan today. Father John Duffy left today for Arvada and Clearmont. He will conduct services in that area. Mrs. R.E. Hayworth of Parkman is in Sheridan today, taking the railroad telegrapher’s examination. The new lingerie blouses are on sale at Reed’s, for …

Articles of incorporation for the Northern Wyoming Railroad company were filed this afternoon in the secretary of state’s office in Cheyenne. Terminals named in the articles are Sheridan, Beaver Hills and Big Horn. A.F. Meyer let a contract today for construction of a one-story brick building on Broadway opposite the Sheridan Commercial company. The

Sheridan city commissioners have asked the county to collect just over $46,000 in taxes this year to pay for the following city expenses: water bonds interest, $5,000; sewer bonds interest, $6,125; current expense, $32,640; and sewer bond sinking fund, $3,000. Mrs. Charles Waegle returned to the ranch today after visiting over Sunday with her sister,

The Sheridan Inn will serve a special Easter dinner this evening from 6 to 7:30 o’clock. Sherrard’s orchestra will provide music. The Western Cafe will serve Easter Sunday dinner from 5:30 until 7:30 tonight. The dinner is 50 cents and will be accompanied by a free concert in the hotel lobby. W.W. Cox cleans carpets …

The Baptist ladies’ bazaar and dinner tonight was well-attended. The ladies feel highly elated over the success of their endeavor. O.G. Rhode is in town from Ranchester today. Anna L. Passamore, an attendant from the insane asylum at Evanston, arrived in town today to get a Sheridan woman who was adjudged insane a few days …

Stevens, Fryberger & Co. has the latest selection of stylish suits for men and young men. Choose from their large assortment of hand-made suits, just $16.50. Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Hardin were in Sheridan yesterday. They returned to their home near Ranchester on the afternoon train. George de Hamilton of Big Horn is in Sheridan …

Twenty-seven polo ponies belonging to W. Milton McCoy of Big Horn were shipped today to Long Island, where they will be sold to members of the polo clubs in that vicinity. Polo ponies raised in Sheridan County are becoming greatly in demand because of their sturdy qualities and superior lung power. Judge T.J. Foster is …