W. S. McPherren, Sheridan chief of police, this morning was named by the Sheridan county board of commissioners as deputy sheriff, to succeed J. Ira Kirby. A campaign is being prepared in Sheridan to launch the fight for adoption of a city manager form of government, as authorized by the last session of the state …

Members of the Donald Garbutt Post No. 7, American Legion, will have a “chow and smoker” for all ex-servicemen in the city at 7:45 o’clock tonight. The event will be in the Council Chamber of the City Hall. The annual dinner of the Presbyterian church will be held at the church tonight at 6:30 o’clock. …

O. J. Mills of Denver, champion fancy shot expert of the world in pocket billiards, will play against Heinie Kerr, a proprietor of Sheridan’s Palace Billiard Parlors, in a 250-point tournament at the Palace parlors tonight and tomorrow. Miss Matilda Shields of Sheridan is now on her homestead on Deer Creek. She will return to …

Miss Ruth Kueffer, teacher at the Upper Beaver Creek school, is spending the weekend with friends in Sheridan. Many fishermen passed today on surrounding mountain streams, and a few good catches were reported. But most said they had “little luck” with their efforts. Miss Margaret Young, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young, …

Miss Ruth Kueffer, teacher at the Upper Beaver Creek school, is spending the weekend with friends in Sheridan. Many fishermen passed today on surrounding mountain streams, and a few good catches were reported. But most said they had “little luck” with their efforts. Miss Margaret Young, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young, …

Two men who are ranchers near Dead Man’s Gulch are in the Sheridan county jail awaiting arraignment this afternoon on a charge of having set fire to the house of R.R. Spencer, another rancher of the Dead Man’s Gulch country. Many homesteaders who have been wintering in Sheridan are arranging to leave for their claims …

An ordinance is being prepared to repeal an anti-card playing ordinance passed in Sheridan several weeks ago at the suggestion of City Commissioner O. F. Svanberg. Visitors in Sheridan today include Gerald Willey of Dietz, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Upton of Buffalo and Frank Collins, a Ucross rancher. The Bon Ton restaurant is being …

Sheridan’s City Council in a special session this morning not only rejected a proposal to join with the Sheridan Commercial club in extending the tourist campgrounds at Pioneer park but entered into a discussion that caused individual members of the council to align against each other. The Citizens State Bank has laid a new linoleum …

In a special meeting this morning, Sheridan’s City Council accepted the first streets in the new paving district to be created. The district will involve an expenditure of some $200,000 in paving work during the coming summer. The Sodality Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs. Nellie Tynan at 251 South Thurmond this afternoon.  A 5-pound …

John Clay, president of Clay, Robinson & Co. of Chicago, is a visitor in Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Moses are in Sheridan from the Flying V ranch. Workmen have taken down the old ornamental lighting standards in front of the city hall, and have prepared a base for the heavier type of standards used …