Memories of the Past Fifty Years Ago in Nebraska
Rural mail delivery began with routes from Benson Elk City and Tecumseh. Community figures include Blauser selling Peninsula steel ranges and Townemaker selling Canon City coal. Several residents moved to Diller and Rock Creek, schools cited, and local tales touch on politics, church life, and a fatal accident near Pickrell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Benson
Elk City
Tecumseh
Albert
Redden
Shively
Deachs
Fowler
Stele
Sth
Joe
W. de “Line
Peter Remsey
Rock Creek
Folkers
Presbyterien
Remley
Diller
Diller’s
Oil burning heater and household items for sale
Item list describes oil burning heater suitable for heating one or two rooms and a 9 by 9 Wilton rug. Includes dining room chairs, Coronado electric items, various furniture such as bed and dresser, lamp, pictures, coffee table, kitchen table, Galion glass churn, scales, cot, chair, wash bowl, pitcher, jars, lantern, potatoes, lard press, sausage grinder, shotgun, cobbler outfit, dishes, fruit jars, Richmond piano and bench, electric fan, porch chairs, rocking chairs, and a 9 by 12 congoleum rug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coronado
Charter Oak
Steve
Richmond
Farm machinery inventory and hay yields with oat and alfalfa notes
Listing of farm equipment including John Deere sulky mower rake cultivator corn cultivator walking plow hand corn sheller and grain gear. Notes volumes 80 bushels oats 115 bales 2nd cut alfalfa 6 tons 1st cutting hay in stack 50 bales 3rd cut alfalfa 40 bales and loose barn alfalfa straw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John’ Deere
John Deere
Sulky i. McCormick
Deering
McMck
Grinder i Tribell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jefferson County
W. Sc Fields
Fairbury
Tolabo
Colorado
Typedi
Burlington
Towa
Belizer
University of ‘Nebraska
Asa
Colman
Crocker
Dkve
Carmichael
Cal ‘Waggoner
Max ‘Habicht
Billy Tiistman
Tristman
Shickley
Pearce
Everett” Clark
A. Mayboro
Kansas City
A. Friday
John Friday
John Mathias
Geo Hiemap
Ben. ‘Franzen
Io Colorado
J. W. Starr
Will ‘Sterr
Cisco
Texas
F. L. Spear
Pickrell
Jas Packer
Thos
Walter Fratton
Alfred Oake
Erie Roelfs Meadow
Dan Gretzinger
Hastings
G. B. Pearce
Odell
Mabel Sparke
Golda Miller
Daisy Lamb
Earl Pearce
Lincoln
Daily State Journal
Curtis Gear
Telephone Company
Billy Tristmen
Fred. Nieuman
Steele City
Lutheran Church
Prairie Home Cemetery
Willis Clark
Roy Tritt
Hod Green
Ora. Wright
Ray
Green
Billy Tinstman
Odellin
The
Tivatman
Auto
0. C
Weiger
Mere
Beo Blythe
Stanley Blythe
Wesleyan University
Ica Culp
John Steiner
S. C. Moser
Herbert Stotts
Cheyenne River
Standing Rock Indian
Patrice McElwee
Galbraith Nurseries
First National Bank
Sam Clark
Wymore
Broking
Ditleé
HAY & Grain
Jersey
the Congregational Church
Oscar Amos
Irvin Schultis
Rod Tiller
P.O. Fairbury
Neb
Sumerfield
Kans
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