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A Look Back in Time: June 18, 1919

Residents of Nielsen Heights and Residence Hill are demanding immediate enforcement of the old water restriction ordinance that districts the city under specified sprinkling hours. A number of the residents appealed to the city commissioners today, stating that they have been without water for several weeks. Clearmont is undergoing a thorough clean-up today

June 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 17, 1919

A.C. Rice of Douglas won the Wyoming State Championship in the big trapshooting tournament held in Sheridan Saturday, Sunday and yesterday, with a score of 292 hits out of a possible 300 at 16 yards. Over 80 Sheridan boosters, with a band and the Boy Scouts’ drum corps, started out at 7:45 o’clock this morning …

June 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 16, 1919

A machine arrived today to register with a signal bell the time for wagers to start and stop at the races here next week. This is the only machine of this kind ever exhibited or used in the west. The telegraphers’ strike hasn’t affected the Western Union station in Sheridan as seriously as in some …

June 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 15, 1919

Three petitions have been presented to the City Council for street sprinkling. These are for Broadway, Works and Loucks streets. Three other petitions have gone out. Lawrence Gillespie of Sheridan, son of J.D. Gillespie, had one of the most narrow of narrow escapes from death when he was in an automobile accident in Denver late …

June 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 14, 1919

Sheridan for the first time today began feeling the effects of the nationwide strike of telegraphers. Two operators, two clerks and two messengers walked out of the local office of the Western Union at 6 o’clock last night. A Ford sedan with starter and demountable rims is $980.93 at Scales Motor Co. Jimmie Rennie of …

June 14, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 13, 1919

The assignment of teachers for 1919-1920 was announced this afternoon. J.J. Early is superintendent, and Lois E. Lucas is clerk for the school district. The prize catch of the season, a 7 ¾ pound trout, was exhibited in Sheridan today. The fish was caught at 10 o’clock this morning by Clark Zingg, two miles west …

June 13, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 12, 1919

The heaviest rainfall of the season began falling over Sheridan this afternoon, and at 3:30 o’clock, the streets were running rivulets. The rain undoubtedly has saved the crops of this district, many of which had been virtually despaired of because of the prolonged drouth. Managers and officers of the ball clubs of the new city …

June 12, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 11, 1919

In spite of a nationwide strike of Western Union Telegraph employees, all six of the Western Union employees of the Sheridan office remained on duty this morning. All dispatches to Sheridan came in on scheduie time. Mr. and Mrs. G.T. Cook of Clearmont are visiting in Sheridan this week. Dr. E.G. Denison of the United …

June 11, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 10, 1919

Discovery of gold, some of which assays as high as $1,000 per ton, in the Big Horn mountains near Hyattville, immediately southwest of Sheridan, has led to the belief that the famous Spanish Cabin gold mines have been discovered. Employees of the local offices of the Western Union Telegraph company have received strike orders, effective …

June 10, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: June 9, 1919

Elimination of a bad stretch of road on the Jim Creek-Piney road has been assured through the granting of a right-of-way by three property owners on Lower Piney. Work will start on the new section of the road shortly. J. Reen of Clearmont is in Sheridan today. The water line to Fort Mackenzie, which was …

June 10, 2019

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