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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 8, 1919

Senator John B. Kendrick says if stockmen should desire to seek pasturage elsewhere during the drouth, there is an abundance available in the southwest. The Senator has arrived in Wyoming to supervise the shipment of several thousand head of his cattle to pasture in the southwest. School dresses for girls are priced from 75 to …

August 8, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Aug. 7, 1919

Philanthropic Sheridan business and professional men, whose names haven’t been disclosed, are considering buying the corner lots at Gould and Loucks streets now occupied by the old Central school buildings. Their view is to ultimate build a new hotel at the site. County Commissioner A.C. Evans was awarded the contract for sprinkling the streets of

August 7, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 31, 1919

W.H. Wallace, who went to Cheyenne on behalf of the Sheridan Commercial club to induce the state highway commission to widen three miles of the Big Horn road to 16 feet of concrete, today reported he was convinced by the commission that the road as planned, with four feet of gravel on each side, will …

July 31, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 30, 1919

A former Sheridan man now living in Seattle, Washington, has written to County Clerk James J. Withrow asking for a copy of his marriage license issued in November 1914. He claims he’s lost his copy of the marriage license and was arrested a few days ago for sleeping with his wife. James Brunsell was taken …

July 30, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 26, 1919

Organized labor in Sheridan county last night selected Acme to be the location of the annual celebration on Labor Day, Sept. 1. The selection was unanimous. Dr. H.M. Brown announces that he has returned from overseas and has reopened his office in the Masonic Temple for the practice of his specialty, eye, ear, nose and …

July 26, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 25, 1919

Medium grey kid oxfords with the popular covered Louis heel, regular $12 value, are $7.95 at the Golden Rule store. Another oil filling station is to be established at the corner of Alger and Broadway. A gentleman from Casper, whose name is not learned, is here with plans for the plant and is arranging to …

July 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 24, 1919

Sheridan County commissioners have spent more than $420,000 since the first of the year and now have only $68,000 for operations until new taxes come in. The management of Piney Inn requests that patrons make reservations for dinner parties and rooms, saddle horses and guides for taking parties through the mountains. Mrs. R.C. Rasmussen and …

July 24, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 23, 1919

Fire today destroyed the planing mill of the Barrett Manufacturing company on the north side of Brundage street between Custer and Conner streets. Loss is estimated at around $10,000. Another forest fire has been raging in Wolf creek canyon since about last Sunday, and up to last night had burned over about 200 acres of …

July 23, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 22, 1919

The gentle family cat belonging to J.F. Judkins, Ninth and Spaulding streets, gave birth to a litter of four kittens, one of which has two heads. The good roads department of Sheridan’s Commercial club is working to secure concrete paving for the entire 16-foot width of the Sheridan-Big Horn road now under construction. Sheriff Thomas …

July 22, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: July 21, 1919

For more than an hour this morning, Sheridan’s city council discussed a tentative project for augmenting the city’s water supply through the construction of a reservoir in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Foley returned this morning from a two-weeks’ auto trip through Montana. Mr. and Mrs. H.L. McKinley of 1125 North Main street, in …

July 22, 2019

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