Courthouse Would Put India Has Own All Under Same Roof
The Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners approved preliminary plans for a new courthouse to house all county offices under one roof with parking on court house square. Cost estimates run about 445000 with main floor 17 per sq ft and basement 8 per sq ft, building around the present courthouse to allow continued use of the old structure during construction.
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Cheyenne County
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Courthouse Square
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Veterans’ Service
Consolidated Motor Vehicle Department
Welfare
Sidney
S. G
Betty Allen
S. G. Allen
Irish-born John Sutton rose from frontier service to Lincoln writer
John Patrick Sutton, born in Ireland and arriving in 1865, served in the U S Army from 1866 to 1869 including duties with the 18th Infantry and escorting U S War Secretary Rawlings and Gen Grenville Dodge. After discharge he promoted Irish independence in Canada, edited pro Irish papers in New York and Chicago, moved to Lincoln in 1886, and later wrote for Lincoln papers. He was made Knight of St Gregory in 1913 and died in 1934 at age 88.
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Nebraska Military Frontier
Nebraska State Historical Society
John Patrick Sutton
Sutton
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St. Louis
Henry B. Carrington
Fort Kearney
Reno
Fetterman
Sedgwick
Canada
Irish National League of America
New York City
Chicago
Lincoln
John Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Wa
Irish National League
St. Gregory
Pius X
Hawaii closes first railroad after 187 years
The Kahului Railroad on Maui ends operations after 187 years since its 1878 founding in the Kingdom era. Passenger service ended in 1936. About a score of workers, represented by a union, have been laid off or retired. Nearly 40 miles of track and five diesel locomotives will be sold along with other rolling stock. Only Oahu Railway remains in business.
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Mau
Hawaii
Kingdom of Hawaii
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Kahulu Railroad Company
Jack Singlehurst
Oahu
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