Kearney in 1889
In 1889 – [from the Hub]
Young Ladies’ Art Society of Trinity church was having a
prairie chicken supper. Public invited. Fund raiser for
their new building.
Cornerstone laid in September. Rev. Crow was pastor and
membership had increased from 90 to 180. (Those original 90
came by transfer from the other Methodist Church)
Rev. Crow went from here to
the Methodist Church in Gibbon and Asbury Collins followed
him as pastor of Trinity until his death the following year.
Saloonkeepers and others of the city served an injunction to
not serve Mr. Mott intoxicating liquor. Saturday night
someone bought him some and they both ended up being
arrested and fined.
The new city hall was being built – replaced in a WPA
project in about 1939 over objections of some Kearney
citizens.
Two Kearneyites won the state tennis tournament – age or sex
not given.
“Cupid’s Cruel Capers” Oct. 22, 1889 – [see article from
Hub]
Buffalo County in 1890s
1894 – [from miscellaneous county papers in the
Archives]
Application was made to the county for construction of a
bridge over Timber Gulch. Judging by the signers of the
petition, the location was north of Odessa but none of us
working at the archives have heard of it. Maybe some current
or former residents of that area could provide some
information.
The Gay Nineties??? Not in Buffalo County – Kearney’s
industrial boom went bust in 1892 leaving the city with half
its population and in debt for the infrastructure
improvements which had been installed. 1893-4 were drought
years resulting in crop failures as evidenced by these two
pieces of correspondence found in those miscellaneous county
papers in the archives.
7 Feb1895 – Petition for Election to Vote Bonds for
Seed and Feed purposes for the year 1895.
Petition to County Board for special election on the
question of issuing $50,000 in bonds for purchase of grain
for seed and for feed of farmers teams in the county during
1895. Needed because of failure of crops for the past two
years.
27 Mar 1895 – letter from Buffalo County Clerk to our
representative in the state legislature. [Remember, this was
pre-Unicameral days]
“I have good reason to believe that this County is being
discriminated against by…the state relief Commission in the
distribution of supplies and further that unless the matter
is looked after sharply the farmers of this county will not
receive their share of the $200,000.00 appropriated by the
legislature for seed and feed purposes.
In fact [the chair of the state relief commission] has
written a long letter to our county relief commission here,
stating that, owing to the fact that some person up in
Miller has written a complaining letter to the ‘World
Herald’, that this whole County will be allowed to suffer
therefore, by the relief Commission at Lincoln shutting off
further supplies. The letter certainly shows a very
revengeful spirit…and I appeal to you as a representative of
this County to bring what influence you can to bear upon the
state relief Commission to the end that Buffalo County gets
her prorata of the money appropriated by the state.
We shall send two members of our Commission here, down to
Lincoln the latter part of this week to see about the
matter. Thanking you in advance for what trouble you may be
too. I am very Respectfully yours, W. S. Hormel, Co Clerk”
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