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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 25, 1919

A number of perplexing robberies have occurred at Carneyville recently, running into a considerable sum of money being taken. Mine workers have had their homes entered and their goods ransacked by someone who has not only keys to the houses but also to the trunks. Soldiers who went through Sheridan yesterday, going to American Lake …

January 25, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 24, 1919

A case is to come before Justice Hoop tomorrow involving the possession of the Orpheum theater room. The Odd Fellows lodge leased the room to the current occupant at $150 a month, but now wants to raise the lease to $200 a month because $150 isn’t adequate compensation for the cost to heat the building. …

January 24, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 23, 1919

The 16th annual ball to be given by Dome Lake Lodge No. 660, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will be held in Central Hall in Sheridan tomorrow night. Fully 250 tickets have already been sold for the event. The freshmen were defeated in two well-played games at the Linden gymnasium last night. The sophomore girls defeated …

January 23, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 22, 1919

Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming addressed the convention of the American National Livestock Association on the Kendrick bill pending before congress. The bill is to control the meat industry. Visitors to Sheridan today include Mrs. G.T. Cook of Clearmont and F.W. Campbell and C.G. Miller of Buffalo. D.R. Williams and Alfred Williams left today …

January 22, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 21, 1919

A meeting will be held tomorrow night in the council chamber in the city hall for the organization of the young men’s club. The club is for all young men of 17 and upwards. George Ackerly of Sheridan not only took a second prize for the best Rhode Island Red cockerel at the Butte poultry …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 20, 1919

The proprietor of the Owl Saloon is going to be given a formal opportunity to show cause why his liquor license should not be revoked. John F. Lehman was given two $100 fines in police court a few days ago for the sale of liquor to two minors, but in the city council meeting this …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 19, 1919

Emma, the wife of Frank Gassin, a young farmer who has a claim near Arvada, died from influenza complications this afternoon at the family home on Tenth street in Sheridan. She leaves two small children. Sheridan poultry fanciers won several awards at the poultry show in Butte, Mont., last week. Among them was W.L. Wright, …

January 21, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 18, 1919

The old restricted district on Grinnell avenue has been purchased as the nucleus for an attractive residence section in Sheridan. Sheriff Thomas, who returned last night from Laramie, where he took a prisoner to serve a term for the murder of T.J. Hunt of Arvada, left again this afternoon to take another man to the …

January 18, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 17, 1919

Representative C.P. Story of Sheridan introduced another prohibition bill in the Wyoming legislature this morning. The new bill is less dramatic in its prohibitions than the bill approved by the Wyoming Anti-Saloon League. John Cover of Big Horn is hauling wheat today. Mrs. S.H. Hardin of the O Four Bar ranch is spending several days …

January 17, 2019

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A Look Back in Time: Jan. 16, 1919

Smith Brown met death beneath a fall of earth sometime between Saturday night and yesterday afternoon on the homestead claim of William Price, about six or eight miles southeast of Sheridan. His body was discovered yesterday almost completely covered by several tons of earth. Samuel M. Breckenridge, a pioneer resident of Sheridan, died at 7:30 …

January 16, 2019

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