History of Hall County, Nebraska, Part 66

Author: Buechler, A. F. (August F.), 1869- editor
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Pub. and Engraving Co.
Number of Pages: 1011

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On June 2, the second action was taken that reminded the people of Central Nebraska that the railroads were under government operation. Four trains each way, daily, were taken off on the Union Pacific main line and the motor service on the Ord branch discon- tinued. Increases of 50% and an 8% war tax upon passenger fares; increase amount- ing to 83% upon handling baggage, and a flat increase of 25% upon all freight rates went into effect about this time, and were in

The fourth registration was held on Sep- tember 12, 1918. At that time 2,760 citizens of Hall County between the ages of 18 and 21, and 31 and 45 stepped up and filled out their registration cards.

Divided as to precincts the registration was as follows: Lake, 61; Prairie Creek, 34; Mayfield, 85; South Loup, 45; Cameron, 64; Harrison, 72; Center, 68; Washington No. 1, 90; Washington No. 2, 17; Alda, 83; Wood River, 156; Jackson, 100; Martin, 51; South Platte, 63; Doniphan, 128; Grand Island No. 1, 340; No. 2, 177; No. 3, 211; No. 4, 361;

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No. 5, 226 and No. 6, 216. In addition 112 traveling men, railroad men and others regis- tered with County Clerk Lyle. Two thousand three hundred eighty-one of the 2,760 were native born residents of the United States, or more than 86 per-cent, a fact which somewhat disputes the tendency of some to label Hall 'County a foreign-populated county. There were in addition 108 registrants who had been naturalized, 56 because their father was naturalized before they became of age; 106 were aliens who had taken out their first papers and 109 were aliens who had made no declaration. This made a showing that more than 92 per cent of the registrants were citi- zens, and less than four per-cent, non-declar- ant aliens. Divided as to color and race, 2,724 registrants were white, 27 negroes, eight were orientals, and one an Italian citi- zen.

VARIOUS REGISTRATIONS

On June 5, 1918, occurred the second regis- tration for military service. On this first anniversary of the original registration all young men who had reached the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, registered. The second drawing was held on June 27. The number of registrants in Hall County on June 5, 1918. was 154, while a later registration on August 24 of those whe became twenty-one during the intervening six or seven weeks, brought forth 24 registrants.

On June 17 a general registration of women for war purposes was held. On June 15 under the auspices of the council of defense and county agricultural agent all men were asked to register and fill out a short questionaire, so a list might be available of all potential farm-labor if assistance was needed for emerg- ency work. This registration brought a very complete response, but it was necessary to call upon the business and professional men of Grand Island and other towns in the county to respond.

Grand Island College was saddened by its first gold star, upon the death of Lieut. Gros- venor P. Cather, who had been commissioned at the Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling,

and gone to Europe shortly thereafter. On July 22, 69 men left in one contingent for Camp Dodge, under direction of Walter H. Sinke, with Geo. E. Funk of Doniphan, Donald Hanna, and Frank Scoville, as assistants.

On August 18 another echo of the railroads being upon the war basis came with an order to consolidate the handling of all freight in and out of Grand Island through the Union Pacific offices and depots. The Red Cross canteen service, which had been organized earlier in the summer, was now working full force, and the Red Cross work-rooms were going at full steam.

THE THIRD DRAWING

While the armistice arrived at a timely mo- ment that rendered it unnecessary to call upon the men of 31 to 45, and in Hall County saved those of 18 to 21 from call, the drawing that determined the order of these 2,760 registrants ranked next in interest to the first drawing in July, 1917. This third drawing was held in the caucus room of the senate office building. There were 17,000 numbers drawn, the first capsule being taken from the same glass bowl that had been used in the first drawing at noon, Monday, September 30, and the last at 8 a. m., Tuesday, October 1, 1918, elapsed time, twenty hours. The first fifteen capsules were drawn by the government officials, and the numbered drawn when low enough to affect Hall County were held by the following Hall County Registrants :

1. President Woodrow Wilson, No. 322. Paul Roy Ofield; (1).

2. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, No. 7277.

3. President pro-tempore of Senate, Sena- tor William Saulsbury, of Delaware, No. 6708.

4. Speaker Champ Clark, House of Representatives, No. 1027, by Thomas Joseph Bulger. (2)

5. Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels, No. 16,169.

6. Acting Secretary of War, Benjamin Crowell, 8,366.

7. Senator Geo. E. Chamberlain of Ore- gon, 5,366.

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8. Senator Senator Francis E. Warren of everbody showed up in town and there was Wyoming, 1,697, Rimer Hargins. (3)

9. Representative Dent of Alabama, 7,123. 10. Representative Julius Kahn, California, 2,781, Thos. Kolb. (4)

11. General Peyton C. March, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, 9,283.

12. Admiral Wm. S. Benson, chief of operations, U. S. Navy, 6,147.

13. Lieut. Gen. Samuel B. M. Young of U. S. Army, retired, 10,086.

14. Provost Marshal General Enoch H. true than in Hall County, Nebraska. Crowder, 438, Emil A. Graf.

15. Col. Chas. B. Warren, Judge Advocate Army, 904, Harry A. Hirman.

THE HAPPIEST DAY HALL COUNTY EVER KNEW

During October, preparations were made to send an unusually heavy contingent of men, but the Spanish influenza epidemic which was then raging in the various cantonments and spreading rapidly to the civilian population, necessitated another postponement of the call. On November 4 the United War Work fund drive was inaugurated and Chairman Thomas E. Bradstreet and Vice-Chairman Slusser were making good daily progress. On Novem- ber 7 came a false report that the armistice had been signed. With repeated announce- ments from The Independent that no official confirmation had been secured from the gov- ernment circles by the Associated Press, a celebration was withheld. Although one other false alarm leaked out, and it became known that other cities were celebrating, no pande- monium started in Grand Island, such as many neighboring towns indulged in on that day. But at 2:30 on the morning of November 11, 1918, the official word was received that the armistice had been signed, and Hall County gut up out of bed en masse and started in on the wildest, happiest day known in its sixty- one years of settlement, and there was ample occasion for the joy that raged unrestrained all that day and the following night. It was not a celebration with a program of speeches, but the whistles were tied down and blew for hours in Grand Island, everything stopped and

one continuous parade all day in each town of the county.

THE HALL COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

One of the brightest chapters in the history of every American county during the period of the Great World War will be the noble response made to every call of the American Red Cross. And nowhere will this be more

TANK AT GRAND ISLAND

The first meeting held with a purpose of forming a local chapter of the Red Cross was on April 10, 1917, in the Guild room of the St. Stephen's Episcopal church, in Grand Is- land. Temporary officers chosen there were president, Mrs. L. A. Arthur; first vice-presi- dent, Mrs. W. R. Stearns ; second vice-presi- dent, Mrs. C. G. Ryan; third vice-president, Mrs. C. H. Tully ; fourth vice-president, Mrs, Aug. Meyer; secretary, Mrs. Arthur Glade; , treasurer, Mrs. W. R. King. Steps were taken to ask for a charter for a local chapter. This meeting was held about four days after the official declaration of war had been made, so the work started about as early as it would have been possible.

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The discovery was made within the next few days that an organization of the men would be necessary in the formation of a local chapter, so on April 14 a meeting was held at the Koehler Hotel in Grand Island, attended by the following gentlemen: Fred W. Ashton, Bayard H. Paine, L. H. Donald, Ralph R. Horth, Elmer Williams, J. R. Geddes, C. H. Tully, J. L. Cleary, C. C. Han- sen, C. W. Brininger, W. H. Thompson, E. L. Brown and A. E. Cady, Jr. A temporary organization was effected by the election of Elmer Williams as chairman and C. W. Brin- inger as secretary. This meeting was addressed by Arthur F. Bentley, of Chicago, a field secretary for the American Red Cross. It was quite appropriate that the man who should explain the purposes and methods of the Red Cross organization at these early meetings should be a man who had been reared in Grand Island and educated in Grand Island's public schools. Mr. Bentley is a son of the late Charles F. Bentley of this city. During the war Mr. Bentley dropped private affairs and devoted his time to the work of the Red Cross as chairman for the state of Indiana and was a close assistant to J. R. Garfield, chairman of the Great Lakes dis- trict.

THE GRAND ISLAND CHAPTER

A formal request was made for a charter as a result of this meeting. The officers chosen for the new chapter, were: Charles G. Ryan, chairman, Mrs. Louis A Arthur, vice-chairman, C. C. Hansen, treasurer, C. W. Brininger, secretary.

The following were elected as an execu- tive committee, of nine members: Chas G. Ryan, C. W. Brininger, Fred W. Ashton, S. N. Wolbach, C. H. Tully, L. H. Donald, A. F. Beuchler, Richerd Goehring, Sr., and Emma Sheeley.

On motion, a committee consisting of F. W. Ashton, W. H. Thompson and C. W. Brin- inger were appointed to select a representative board of directors throughout the county. ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY ROARD OF DIRECTORS

Another meeting was held at the Court House in Grand Island on April 16, 1917, at

which time addresses were made by Hon. Chas. G. Ryan, Hon. F. W. Ashton, Mayor J. L. Cleary and District Judge Bayard H. . Paine, explaining the aims of the Red Cross.

The board of directors chosen for the county were : A. D. Burger, Doniphan, D. D. O'Kane, Wood River, John Thomssen, Alda, C. Hugo Hehnke, Cairo, Robert Taylor, Ab- bot, Mrs. W. H. Laughlin, Mrs. Hettide D. Boehm, Bayard H. Paine, Ralph R. Horth, Wilmer Williams, Dr. Geo. Roeder, J. L. Cleary, J. R. Geddes, C. C. Hansen, W. H. Thompson, E. L. Brown, A. E. Cady, Jr., Thos E. Bradstreet, Henry Schuff, J. L How- land, J. D. Whitmore, J. E. Hanna, Fred W.Shultz.

WOMEN'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

On the same day a second meeting was held by the women to form an executive com- mittee of women to carry on their phases of this Red Cross and other war work. Those selected from the various organizations of the city to assume this task were: Trinity M. E. church, Mrs C. B. Helling; Lieder- kranz Society, Mrs H. Stratman ; Y. W. C. A., (its General Secretary) Miss Emma Sheeley; Howard School Mother's Club, Mrs B. F. Davis; Christian church, Mrs E. E. Mack; St. Mary's (Catholic) Alter Guild, Mrs. Wm. Laughlin; Cangregational church, Mrs. Al. Rasmussen; Missionary Society, First Metho- dist, Dr. Edith S. Spence; Aid Society of First Methodist, Mrs. D. H. Carson; Park Association, Mrs. A. F. Buechler; Lutheran Aid Society, Mrs Guy Harrison ; Book Club, Mrs. E. L. Brown; St. Cecelia's Society (Musical), Miss Edith Boyden; Civic League, Mrs. L. Donald; Ladies Guild (St. Stephen's Episcopal), Mrs. F. W. Ashton; U. C. C., Mrs. A. L. Snider; Eastern Star, Mrs. J. L. Edwards; Presbyterian Society, Mrs .. August Meyer.

It is not out of place to divert at this point long enough to emphasize that for the next nineteen months these various organizations devoted practically their entire efforts to Red Cross and various other war work activities. Lodges merely kept their formal organizations

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working, many of the societies cancelled their meetings altogether, and guilds and societies transferred their meetings at the hours they had usually held them to the Red Cross work rooms and worked there, and abandoned their discussions of church, musical, other civic or general work they had been carrying on, and subordinated these matters inasfar as practical and possible to the tasks assigned to the Red Cross chapter. Social features were prac- tically abandoned in these societies, and gen- erally through the community were greatly curtailed. .

GETTING STARTED ON THE WORK

The men's committee, the regular directors of the Red Cross, met on May 2, May 11 and 22, June 1, June 11, June 12, and June 29. The women's executive committee met on April 16, May 2, May 5, May 31, June 11, so it will be seen that the local organization at once went to work. Steps were taken in May toward organizing a first aid committee, and a committee on instructions to the women was assigned by the directors to consult with the ladies' organization, with full power to act. The matter of purchasing supplies was left to the ladies' committee with the request that they co-operate with L. H. Donald, a wholesale drygoods merchant of Grand Is- land, who undertook the responsibility of pur- chasing agent for the chapter.

The matter of organizing for a membership campaign was next taken up, and J. L. How- land selected as chairman of the membership. campaign committee with full power to divide the county into districts and appoint sub- committees. Action was taken to lend the ladies' committee financial assistance in se- curing the services of a lady sent by the Denver organization or office to assist them in forming their working organization.

Later in May, steps were taken toward the organization of a council of defense for Hall County. Messrs. Ryan, Ashton, Cleary, Kauf- man and Howland were appointed as the com- mittee which formed the organization of the Hall County council of defense.

ver was present and explained the methods and requirements in raising the special fund of $100,000,000.

MEMBERSHIP AND FINANCIAL CAMPAIGNS

The campaign week was fixed by the nation- al chapter at June 18 to 25, 1917. An execu- tive committee of seven members were chosen to handle this membership campaign in this county : Ralph R. Horth, J. D. Whitmore, J. L. Howland, C. H. Tully, F. W. Ashton, Richard Goehring and Bishop J. A. Duffy. The publicity committee chosen were: A. F. Buechler, Grand Island Independent, O. M. Quackenbush, Wood River Interests, J. W. Mehaffie, Cairo Record, W. H. Daily, Charles Wasmer, Grand Island Herald.

The campaing was carried over with won- derful success. Mr. Ashton acted as chair- man, Mr. Howland vice-chairman, Mr. Horth as secretary, and Mr. Whitmore vice-chairman outside of Grand Island. Ten soliciting teams were selected and eighty patriotic citi- zens volunteered their time for team work. The finanical results of the campaign were as follows :

Grand Island City $19,030.00

Wood River Twp. 2,037.50

Jackson Twp. 1,453.50

Doniphan Twp. 1,390.00

Mayfield Twp. 1,206.50

South Loup Twp

1,087.00

Harrison Twp. 1,039,00

Center Twp. 789.50

Prairie Creek Twp.

649.00

South Platte Twp. 600.00

Cameron Twp. 415.00

Washington No. 1 335.00

Lake Twp.

311.00

Alda Twp.

251.50

Washington No. 2

205.00

Martin Twp.

76.00

Total

$31,080.79

In discharging the clerical work required

On June 1, 1917, Edgar A. Burton of Den- in such a campaign, Mrs. J. L.]

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volunteered to assist the committee, and Mr. J. F. Matthews, principal of high school acted as cashier, enabling compliance with the re- quirements of daily reports and deposit of receipts in the name of the American Red Cross each day.

RECORD OF HALL COUNTY MEN IN MILITARY SERVICE

In June, 1917, a committee of four, with O. A. Abbott, Jr .. as chairman was desig- nated to keep record of the names of all boys enlisted, and later inducted, into any branch of the war service from this county. It might be remarked that the work of this com- mittee, later voluntarily taken over by the Daily Independent, when the work began to involve more detail than was expected, and because of its better facilities for handling it, resulted in such a thorough task that Hall County has a roster of over 1,200 men who went into service.

FURTHER STEPS TAKEN

Steps were taken by the chapter to have $5,000 of the thirty-one thousand dollars raised in the recent campaign appropriated to the Grand Island chapter. Work was being instituted each week that required funds; the materials and supplies, including surgical dressings, yarn, hospital garments and other supplies for the ladies' auxiliary in its work in the rooms on the second floor of the U. S. Post Office building, where scores assembled each day and worked for hours. Civilian re- lief came for families of soldiers in service and canteen purposes came on a little later.

Several additions should be made to the list of the Women's Executive Committee. Mrs. W. R. King, Mrs. W. R. Stevens, Mrs C. G. Ryan and Mrs. C. H. Tully, officers of first meeting, Miss Chairrie Paine of W. C. T. U., Mrs. J. C. Froyer, Women's Relief Corps, and Mrs. L. S. Moore, of Baptist Church, should be included.

PROGRESS OF WORK OF CHAPTER

On October 22, 1917, the first change in J. E. Hanna, Miss Emma Sheeley and Mrs. the official roster of the working organiza-

tion of the chapter was made, when the resig- nation of L. H. Donald as purchasing agent was accepted. The resignation of Mrs. L. A. Arthur, as vice-chairman was later made nec- essary by the condition of her mother's health. Mrs. Arthur and Mr. Brininger were selected as delegates to represent the chapter at a con- ference of Nebraska chapters at Omaha on October 31st.

The report of the secretary on October 10 showed receipts from membership of 7 life members, 2 sustaining members, 9 contribut- ing members, 216 subscribing and 2,523 annual members, or a total of 2,757 memberships, amounting to $3,195 and donations of $1,- 490.47, or a balance of $4,685.47. Expendi- tures were: amount turned over to National American Red Cross to cover memberships, $1,800.50, merchandise for women's work room, $1,289.01, instruction expense for women's committee, $32.35; red cross pins, $23.60, miscellaneous items, $9.00, leaving a balance then on-hand $1,531.01.

HALL COUNTY CHAPTER

In compliance with a communication from State Director Frank W. Judson, the name was changed to Hall County, Nebraska, Chap- ter. Thereafter the local organizations in the other towns were auxiliaries to the county chapter. Another digression might be par- doned to mention the fact that the state direc- tor, Mr. Judson, now a very prominent, suc- cessful man in Nebraska business circles and in 1918 elected a member of the board of regents of Nebraska State University by the people of this state, during the late 'eighties conducted a grocery store in Grand Island, and has always held a sincere personal interest in our city through the quarter-century or so that has passed since he left here.

In January, 1918, the 'following civilian relief committee was appointed: L. T. Greer. chairman, a member of the county board of supervisors; other county supervisors, Wm. Stoeger, Cairo, Fred J. Miller Wood River, and W. H. McDowell, Doniphan, and Mrs. E. C. Burger. Further steps were taken to-

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ward the organization of auxiliaries in the the departments and instructors of classes in various towns of the county. Auxiliaries were the women's work rooms, to whom the selec- formed at Cairo (Liberty Auxiliary) No. 1, Mrs. Susie Robinson, chairman, Mrs. Ella Alford, treasurer, Mrs. Mabel Baird, secre- tary, Mesdames Dove, E. Brown, C. Hugo Hehnke, J. E. Cox, C. Congrave, Wm. Schlund, Susie Spousler, W. B. Waite, organ- ized June 29, 1918. No. 2, Doniphan auxil- iary, organized June 13, with Mrs. J. P. Button, chairman, Kate Timmons, secretary and treasurer, Mesdames P. L. Wolfe, Daisy Frank, G. W. Wagner, Annabelle Wilte, H. J. Mclaughlin, Belle Quiglle, Kate Clarno, A. A. Beagle, A. D. Burger and H. E. John- ston. No. 3, Lutheran Trinity society, Grand Island, Anna Gloe, chairman, Ella Bosen- koelter, treasurer, Matilda Scheffel, secretary.

BASE HOSPITAL WORK

Late in 1917, the chapter took steps to appro- priate $500 toward the expense of the organ- ization and equipment of a base hospital, and the secretary was authorized to forward a check for that amount to C. A. Hull, 1200 First National Bank building, Omaha. Later a similar amount was appropriated to this same purpose by the Hall County chapter.

EXTENSION OF CHAPTER WORK

Beyond the formation of the three regularly . bers at $5, 90 magazine members at $2, and oraginzed auxiliaries noted above, the work was carried on through local organizations or groups of workers, who assisted the county chapter very materially, at Wood River, where Mrs. Carrie Abbott, and Mrs. H. W. Slawson, were leading workers; Alda, where Miss Pearl Balmat and Miss Agnes Mclellan were among the leading workers, and the Cameron workers, under leadership of Mrs. C. O. Jameyson. Miss Kate Fanning later served as secretary- treasurer of Doniphan auxiliary.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S WORK

The executive committee of the Hall County Chapter held one or two meetings each month during the entire year, 1918. In February the resignation of Mrs. Arthur as vice-chair- man was accepted. In March, the heads of

tion of her successor had been delegated, re- ported that they had selected Mrs. J. H. Mer- riam, but Mrs. Merriam could not accept the position permanently. The work was then placed in the charge of Mrs. D. H. Carson, with Mrs. J. L. Edwards assisting in the cleri- cal duties of the office, until May 10, when Mrs. Carson was elected vice-chairman, and Mrs. Edwards continued as her assistant in the office clerical duties. In March J. L. How- land resigned on account of removal from the city. A vote of thanks was tendered by the executive committee to Mr. Howland for his efficient service as chairman of the member- ship committee. In April, R. R. Horth, chair- man of the war activities committee was re- quested to take charge of the management of the war fund campaign for $100,000,000 to be put on from May 20 to May 27, 1919.

THE MAY DRIVE

The war activities committee took charge of . this membership drive and put it over success- fully. Its success is indicated in the increase shown in the report of membership made by Secretary Brininger, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, when he reported; two sustain- ing members ($10 each), 10 contributing mem- 7,398 annual members at $1, or a total of 7,506 members, and membership receipts of $7,660. Other items of receipts, donations, $764,60, miscellaneous, $18,650.31, sale of merchandise, $503.55 and sale of Liberty bonds, $1,500, with balance on hand from July 1, 1917, report of $1,531.01 brought the balance carried in the treasurer's account to $30,622.47 ; with disbursements of $25,429.60 and a balance of $5,192. 87; It is only just to the local officers to mention that the letter written in acknowledging receipt of this local report said "Your report is the first one to reach my office and it appears so complete and clear that I expect to use it as a model."

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the executive committee in the summer of E. S. Fairbanks, asst. secretary, Mrs. Susie 1918 were: An appropriation of $300 ex- Robinson, Cairo; Mrs. Carrie Abbott, Wood tended to the home guards for their fund in River; Mrs. H. W. Slawson, Wood River; Mrs. J. P. Button, Doniphan; Mrs. C. O. Jameyson, Miss Pearl Balmat, Alda. purchasing remembrances for Hall County soldiers leaving to enter the service ; the organ- ization of canteen service of which more will WOMEN'S BUREAU be said later on in this chapter; and in the fall, adoption of new by-laws suggested by the The history of the Hall County chapter of the American Red Cross would not be com- plete without a similarly detailed history of the work accomplished by the faithful women who handled the numerous branches of work entrusted to the women's burean. National Red Cross association, and arrange- ments to hold an election October 23. The committee appointed to act as an election board on October 23, 1918, were Messrs. Jas. F. Rourke, Rev. J. R. Martin and Rev. T. A. Dungan. The committee appointed to take charge of the Christmas packages for 1918 season were: Jas. F. Rourke, chairman, Mrs. C. W. Brininger, vice-chairman, D. A. Geil (Postmaster), Mrs. Guy L. Harrison, Mrs. A. C. Scott, Mrs. F. A. Glade, Mrs. A. T. Conner, Mrs. Wm. Neitmeldt, Mrs. Louise Frank, Mrs. John Geddes and Mrs. Hanger.

THE NEW BOARD AND OFFICERS

At the fall election of 1918, the following were the directors for the ensuing year: S. N. Wolbach, C. W. Brininger, Mrs. D. H. Car- son, R. R. Horth, Robert Taylor, Abbott; Judge Bayard H. Paine, Mrs. H. M. Bishop, Lake; John Thomssen, Alda; J. L. Cleary, David Kaufman, Charles .G. Ryan, C. H. Tully, Ed L. Brown, John R. Geddes, Elmer Williams, Mrs. Louis Veit, Mrs. Carrie Abbott, Wood River; Mrs. C. O. Jameyson, Mrs. C. Hugo Hehnke, Cairo; and D. D. O'Kane, Wood River. The officers elected for the current year were: Charles G. Ryan, chair- man, Mrs. D. H. Carson, vice-chairman, C. W. Brininger, secretary, Judge Bayard H. Paine, treasurer, with David Kaufman, S. N. Wol- bach and C. H. Tully as the three additional members of the executive committee.

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History of Hall County, Nebraska, Part 66

Author: Buechler, A. F. (August F.), 1869- editor Publication date: 1920 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Pub. and Engraving Co. Number of Pages: 1011

Author: Buechler, A. F. (August F.), 1869- editor
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Pub. and Engraving Co.
Number of Pages: 1011