A Look Back in Time: December 8, 1920

Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, by reporter Pat Blair as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on Dec. 8, 1920.

W. D. Fisher, secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club, is urging legislation that would allow a community to assess a levy for promotion of itself.

Mrs. J. J. Marshall, temporary chairman of the Young Women’s Christian Association, has announced that, thanks to a gift from Senator Kendrick, the association will open upstairs in Sheridan’s old city hall on Jan. 1.

A bootlegger was fined $200 in Sheridan’s police court after pleading guilty to a charge of selling Canadian whiskey to Chief of Police McPherren this past weekend.

A meeting has been called this afternoon for organization of a hot lunch program at the Beckton school.

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