Sheridan county topped the record for the entire state for total school enrollment in 1918. According to the annual report of the state board of education, nearly 3,700 pupils were enrolled last year. Influenza claimed another victim this morning at Clearmont. The body of the 4-year-old boy has been brought to the Champion & Shannon …

The Sheridan Commercial club and Loyalty League are expected to formally consider a proposal for a memorial building as a measure of recognition to the soldiers and sailors from Sheridan county who participated in the war. The federal employment bureau has reported receiving around half a dozen applications from mothers in Sheridan county widowed by

A disturbance case against L.N. Larson was dismissed yesterday in Sheridan’s police court, based on the declaration by the city attorney that the chief witness for the prosecution couldn’t be located. A.J. Hewitt of the Bootery left yesterday for St. Louis to attend a convention of Walk-Over shoemen. City Commissioner Loucks, aided by men loaned

Prompt action by the fire department at 7:30 this morning, together with the incombustible quality of the building, prevented the destruction of the Kutcher block at the northwest corner of Main and Works streets. The fire originated in the basement in a pile of pasteboard boxes, but how is not determined. Fifteen below zero was …

Eleven of the 22 saloon licenses in Sheridan expired at midnight. All have been officially renewed by the council, and the new licenses will be issued as soon as the applicants pay the $1,300 exacted for the license year. It seemed as if every steam whistle in Sheridan broke out into a concert welcoming the …

Sheridan county enthusiasts for good roads and elaborate highway improvement voted at a meeting last night to ask legislators in the coming session to amend the existing automobile tax law so that, instead of the present annual tax of $5 on each machine, the tax should be 1 cent a pound on the machine’s weight. …

A crowd of several hundred greeted a special Burlington train of 418 troops en route from Vancouver barracks to Ohio. The train pulled into Sheridan about 9:30 a.m. today in a driving snow. The coyote hunt was abandoned for the second time today. Weather conditions were again the reason. Eddie Polo, Hercules of the film …

The Sheridan Commercial club will meet Monday night to confer regarding what legislation may be necessary to permit Wyoming’s most effective participation in the big road-building program that the government is to institute as an after-war economic movement. Brakeman Harry A. Floyd of the Burlington railroad was killed under a train at Alger in an

Before opening its chamber of horrors for the induction into the mysteries of the Mystic Shrine this afternoon, Kalif Temple pulled off its screaming pageant featuring 24 pilgrims panting for the knowledge of the occult mysticism of the desert. Buffalo sent up a bunch of Shriners by early morning automobile. The big coyote hunt will …

W.D. Fisher, secretary of the Community club at Alliance, Neb., is to succeed Tilden Morris as secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club. He will start on March 10. Tiverton Tynan, who has been attached to the local selective service board as military aid and clerk, left today for Fort Logan, Colo., to be mustered out …