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PACIFIC CITY .- Was surveyed and plotted October 18, 1856, by G. W. F. Sherman, its incorporators being Alonzo Moses, Joseph Hollman and Andrew M. Hunt. with an addition by Sanford and Martin. The town was situated about where Sonth Sionx City is now built, in township 29, range 9, east, and was incorporated June 7, 1838, with the following trustees: II. C. Tiffey, J. F. Sanborn, D. P. Kent, Charles Kent, and Samuel A. Ayres. In 1857 it contained about ten good frame buildings, but its inhabitants becoming discon- tented with the location, all moved away, Mr. Sanford being the last to leave.
FRANKLIN CITY .- Was situated in section 32 and 33, township 29, range 9, east, abont two miles north of Dakota City, and incorporated June 7, 1858, with the following trustees: Alanson Baker, Nathaniel Watts, Henry Hennings, John Hope and Eugene L. Wilbur, who were appointed by the county commis- sioners. The founders of the town were Joseph T. Turner and John Feenan; the plot was filed for record Jannary 30, 1857. It never had the honor of contain- ing a single honse, although a number of lots were sold to eastern parties.
BLYBURG .-. Was surveyed and founded September 20, 1856, by Col. E. John Pleyel; situated in the ex- treme south-eastern part of the county, bordering the Indian reservation, but contamed only two cabins, and was soon deserted by its proprietors. Its only settlers were E. John Pleyel, John Tulo. Uriah Nickerson and Benjamin Trusedale. The country in this vicin- ity is still called Blyburg.
VERONA .- Founded by Joseph Kerr and W. D. Roberts, was situated opposite the month of the Floyd river, below Covington; incorporated November 20,
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1858, with the following trustees: Joseph Kerr, Ellis W. Wall, W. D. Roberts, W. Cobb and R. R. Hask- ing. The town never contained any honses.
RANDOLPH . - Was a post office until 1877, and sit- nated abont fonr miles south-west of Homer, on Wigle creek : so named in honor of its first mail carrier, Jasper Randolph. The post office was kept at the house of Win L. Covell, who was its only postmaster.
LODI .- Was a post office located at Oak's mill, two miles north of Homer, and its postmasters were Sam. A. Combs, John Oak and John Bridenbaugh. In 1874 Mr. Bridenbangh moved the office to his farm and the following year it was discontinned.
EMMETT .- A post office situated in the northern part of the county, was discontinued in 1873.
CHAPTER VI.
DAKOTA COUNTY TOWNS.
DAKOTA CITY -- COVINGTON -- JACKSON --- HOMER-HUB- BARD-EMERSON - SOUTH SIOUX CITY-ELK VALLEY -- COBURN JUNCTION -- NECORA -- GOODWIN.
Having traced the extinct towns from their rise to decay, the surviving towns and new ones will now re- ceive attention.
DAKOTA CITY,
County seat of Dakota county, was temporarily surveyed in 1855, and the following year it was re-surveyed un- der the direction of the Dakota City Company, of which Augustus Kountze, afterwards a wealthy banker of New York, was president. 4 A plot of the town was filed for record September 20, 1855, by J. D. M. Crockwell, agent for the Dakota City Company, and the city was incorporate I by the county commissioners April 5, 1858 with the following limits: East one-half of section 8, and sections 9 and 10, township 23, range 9, east. On the same day trustees were appointed as follows: Barna- bas Bates, Geo. 4. Hinislate, Win. H. James, E. Wakely and John C. Turk. Sunuel Whitehora, W. H. S. Hughes and James W. Virtne were also selected as
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judges for the first town elcetion, held on Monday, May 3, 1858, at which time the above trustees were re-elect- ed, with the exception of E. Wakely, and he was super- seded by J. D. M. Crockwell. At a special election held February 7, 1559, which was the first to select town officers, the following were elected: Barnabas Bates, mayor; James W Virtue, recorder; Charles F. Eckhart. assessor; J. M. Vanauken. marshal; Thomas T. Collier, treasurer; J. N. H. Patrick, Wm. II. James. John C. Turk, E. F. Mason and John B. Zeigler, aldermen.
EARLY SETTLEMENT .- About the first step in the founding of Dakota City was when J. D. M. Crockwell applied to the Territorial Legislature for a ferry fran- chise at that point. on the Missouri river, January 31, 1855, which was granted February 9, of the same year. The first house in the town was built by Benjamin F. Chambers, in March, 1856, made of logs, with flat dirt roof. ground floor, one hole for a door and another for a window, which was afterwards improved and kept as a hotel by J. D. M. Crockwell. and named the "Chilna- hua Honse." Among the first to arrive were: Wm. II. James, John McQuilken. Wm. Adair. Samuel Mc- Cartney, James Dickey, Jeseph Hollman, W. G. Craw- ford. I . A. Robinson. John Nafziger, John Mischlisch, Chas Reci, I. G. Packard and sister Lorinda. after- wards wife of John Nifziger, and Geo. A. Hinsdale. John Nafiziger opened up the first store and Hollman & Crawford the first law office. Some of the arrivals for 1857 and '58 were Angust T. Haase. C. F. Eckhart, B. Pates, E. F. Mason. John B. Zeigler, Michael Mc- Langhlin, Henry W. Wood. W. F. Lock wood and Geo. E. Nichols. Gło. B. Grafi lailt a steam saw mill in the sonth-west part of town in 1862. Wm. Cheney and B. Bates assisting in the work. The first birth in the town was a child born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reom in the spring of 1857, and the second was Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood's darghter. Stella, now Mrs. Lyman W. White, of Woodbine, Iowa, born December 11, 1858.
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The first deaths were Mrs. Charles Reom and her child and L. G. Packard.
BATES HOUSE .-- The "boom" had struck Dakota City and the town was full of life and activity. A large three-story hotel was erected, with a two-story wing, in 1858, at a cost of $16,000, and called the Bates House, with E. F. Mason as proprietor. The structure was built by the "Town Company." At times this immense building was crowded to its utmost capacity with boarders, but it was doomed to decay. After the close of the war things were not as active here as they had been and the large hotel was no longer needed, which was abandoned and torn down in 1879, and sold as old lumber. It stood on the corner of Broadway and thirteenth streets.
CHURCHES .--- The first denomination to hold divine worship in Dakota City was the Presbyterians, with Rev. Thomas Chestnut of Sionx City, Iowa, as minister, who conducted the first services ever held there in the spring of 1857, in a small log house that stood on Broadway, opposite the Chihnalma Honse. John Naff- ziger and wife, F. A. Robinson and wife and abont a dozen others attended this meeting. Other Presbyter- ian ministers have since held services in the town but no edifice of their own was ever built. In 1881 Rev. II. Wilson was a resident minister, who in October of that year took charge of a new educational institution at Oakdale, Nebraska, since which time they have had no minister.
The Methodists next organized here, in June, 1857, and their ministers from the earliest times down to the present were: Revs. Dorsey. Wm. M. Smith, Y. B. Turmann, Munhall, Amsbury, Reed, S. P. Vandooz- er. J. II. DeLa Matyr, John S. Orr, Gearheart, J. M. Richards, Joel A. Smith, D. Marquette, W. II. Carter, Wm. H. Worley, HI. W. Conley. J. W. Jennings, D. W. McGregor and HI. C. Myers. In 1873 the present brick Methodist church was built at a cost of $4,000.
LUTHERAN CHURCH AT DAKOTA CITY.
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Rev. II. W. Kuhns, a missionary sent to Nebraska Territory, preached the first Lutheran sermon at Dako- ta City in the front room of the Bates Honse, in No- vember, 1858, and on the 22nd day of July, 1859 he organized a church society there. The following names were given in for membership and were the founders of the church at that place: John B. Ziegler, Caroline Ziegler. Charles F. Eekhart, Elizabeth Eckhart, Conrad Armbrecht, Melosine Armbrecht and Augustus Haase. The members at once began preparations for a house of worship. A store building was purchased in the aban- doned town of Pacific City, but it was burned by prairie fire while being moved to Dakota City. In the spring and summer of 1860, the present Lutheran church was erected by Augustus Haase at a cost of $2,000. This was the first Lutheran church in the town, county and state, and is to-day the oldest church edifice, of any de- nomination, now standing in Nebraska. In consequence of the above facts a large photograph of this church was sent to the World's Fair, at Chicago in 1893. Their ministers have been H. W. Knhns (1858), Sam- nel Aughey, J. F. Kuhlman, J. Zimmerman, J. C. Brodfuhrer, J. P. Schnure, W. C. McCool, C. Baird, D Sprecher and HL. J. Hapeman. The territorial court was held in this church for many years.
The Episcopalians also have a church society here, but no edifice or resident minister.
COURT HOUSE .-- For more than fifteen years the county records were scattered around in log cabins and rented honses. January 2, 1860, the county commis- sioners ordered that steps be taken for the building of a court house and jail, but the project failed for the want of sufficient funds. A special county election was held June 18, 1870, to vote on a proposition to bond the county for the erection of a $15,000 court house, $5,000 to be paid by Dakota City, at which time there were 170 votes for and 165 against bonds. Commis- sioners ordered bonds issued September 15, 1870.
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Contract let to A. II. Baker and A. T. Haase. October 8. 1870, for the construction of said court house, brick to be manufactured and furnished by Geo. T. Woods. October 25, 1871, court house was completed and turned over to the sheriff of said county.
POST OFFICE .-- The postmasters at Dakota City have been James W. Virtne, C. F. Eckhart, Barnabas Bates, ITelen Bates, M: O. Ayres, Henry Herweg, D. C. Stinson and Mell A. Schmied. This is a postal note and money order office. The post office was first kept in the Chihuahua House, then moved to a building oppo- site the Bates House on Broadway, then to a honse east of the old Griffey residence, from here it was taken to C. F. Eckhart's store, then to Bates House, to Col. B. Bates' residence on Walnnt street, to M. O. Ayres" stores on Broadway, to Stinson & Herweg's store on corner of Broadway and Fifteenth street, then to its present location on corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street.
SCHOOLS .- The present two-story brick school honse was erected in 1866 at a cost of $4,500 and the frame building near it, which was used as a high school was built in 1874. Prior to this time. in 1857, the first school was taught by Mrs L. C. Packard in the old log conrt house on the corner of Broadway and Nineteenth street. In 1892 bonds of $4,000 were voted and in the fail of that year an elegant frame two story building was completed.
SOCIETIES, -Among the first societies of Dakota City was the Sons of Malta, of which Col. B. Bates was the principal factor, and he relates many amusing incidents of the doings of that organization. See bio- graphical sketch of his life elsewhere in this book.
Omadi lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., was chartered June 2, 1858, with eight members, the principal officers being: Mahlon G. Wilkinson. W. M .; E. G. Lampson, S. W .: A. W. Puett, JJ. W. The lodge was moved from Omadi to Dakota City in 1862, which is located in the
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upper story of the brick school house.
The Dakota City Literary Society, was organized November 30, 1867. J. F Warner was chosen as pres- ident and II. H. Brown secretary. Among its first.
members were: Mrs. Lizzie Aughey, Win. H. James. Thos. Griffey. C. D. Martin, S. P. Mikesell, B. Bates, Mrs. II. M. Bates, J. G. Ogden, Mrs. E. J. Ogden, J. A. Mikesell. II. H. Buckwalter. M. M. Ream, A. G. Lampson, Helen E. Bates, Rev. Samnel Aughey, Mrs. A. J. Bradbrary, Mary Ream, John Oesterling, H. H. Brown, J. F. Warner, Lucy Martin, Chas. S. Ford, C. Calvin Martin, II. II. Wilson. Henry Ream, Wm. Adair. C. F. Eckhart, James Willis, Kellcy W. Frazer, Mrs. Ilettie L. Frazer, D. W. Dodson, Mrs. Mary E. Dodson, Jacob B. Wertz, B. F. Chambers, Amelia Oesterling, Mary E. George, Mrs. A. J. Willis, Emma Whitehorn, Ella Nevelle, Emma Willis, Ellen Mc- Cready, Ella Keel, Anna B. Wertz, Nellie Warner, Dr. M. Pinkerton, John B. Barker, W. W. Grant, Mary Evans. E. D. Ayres, Manly Wright, James Stott, Thom- as J. Skidmore, Charles F. Bayha, B. F. Whitten, A. P. Wilgoski, Alice Warner, Horatio Braunt, B. Brown, Gus A. Frazer, Cyrus Way, Etta Mershon, Leander R. Eckhart, Ilemy A. Bartarff, Ida James, John Davis, Sarah Goodhne, Win. Willis, C. T. Seeley, Ida Woods, W. II. Golty, Lizzy Adair. Anna E Frazer, A. II. Baker, G. W. Wilkinson, Fannie Ream, I nella Hirsch, Dora Baker, D. F. Urmy, Ida Eckhart, and Geo. W. Oberholtzer.
The Dakota City I. O. O. F. lodge, No. 48, held its first meeting in the town August 5, 1874. and elected the following officers: J. P. Eckhart. N. G ; John Mitchell, V. G .: James Stott, secretary; Luther Har- den, treasurer. The society owns the second story of the brick building on the north-west corner of Broad- way and fourteenth streets.
Kelly W. Frazer was president of the first temper- ance meeting ever organized in the county, in the
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Dakota City Lutheran church, January 7, 1871, which has since merged into the Red Ribbon, Good Templars and other societies.
The G. A. R. Crittenden Post, No. 170, was or- ganized in 1893, and was re-organized later and called MeBeath Post, in honor of W. C. McBeath. The charter was surrendered in 1892.
The Dakota County Teachers' association was or- gauized November 28, 1875, at the high school build- ing in Dakota City, with John T. Spencer chairman and Rev. J. Zimmerman secretary. Prior to this, how- ever, on September 5, 1870, the Teachers' Institute of Dakota County was organized at the same place.
The Dakota County Bible society was organized April 28, 1869, by Rev. Win. MeCandish, General Agent for the American Bible society of New York. The following were its first officers: Rev. Samuel Anghey, president; P. Mikesell, vice president; Mrs. John G. Ogden, corresponding secretary ; John P. Bayha. treasurer. This society is not a thing of the past but still lives.
The Dakota City Improvement company com- menced business on the 25th day of October, 1880; its principal agitators being Isaac Powers, jr . G. W Wil- kinson, George T. Woods, C. P. Heath, Win. Adair, T. L. Griffey, Sumner Whittier, A. II. Baker, A. T. Haase, D. C. Dibble, John R. Sprague, Pins Neff, J. O. Fish- er, II. W. Wood and Joseph Hollman. The object of the association was to advance the material interests of Dakota City. After doing considerable business the company was dissolved.
Crystal Degree Lodge No. 53, Daughters of Re- bekah, was chartered September 29. 1890. and the fol- lowing were the first officers elected ; Mrs. Della Bry- ant, N. D .; Mrs. Elia Bryant, V. G .: Mis. Kate Nordyke, secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Schriever, treas- urer.
Dakota Chapter Order of the Eastern Star was in-
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stituted by Mrs. Ada S. Billings, state organizer, on October 19, 1892, with the following as principal offi- cers: Mrs. Martha F. Adair, W. M .; R. E. Evans, W. P .: Mrs. Martha J. Combs, A. M .; Mollie Baker, secre- tary; Mrs. Anna M. Evans, treasurer.
LAND OFFICE .- The land office was established in Dakota City in March, 1857, and closed at 4 o'clock p. m., August 31, 1875. when it was moved to Niobrara It again closed at that place July 1, 1888 and moved to ()'Neil, where it was opened July 16 and still remains there. The following have been its officers and the year in which they were appointed :
RECEIVERS
DATE
REGISTER:
DATE
J. C. Turk
1857
J. N. Il Patrick ..
1857
Geo. B. Graff
1859
Alfred II. JJackson.
1859
Alex. McCready ..
1863
Floris Van Renth . .
1862
Chas. D. Martin. .
1864
Wm. H. James ... 1864
James Stott
1869
G. W. Wilkinson.
1870
N. S. Lovejoy
1880
B. F. Chambers. .
1876
Vac Randa.
1882
M. W. Bruce
1884
Sanford Parker.
1883
Frank Welna.
1887
A. B. Charde.
1887
John R. Markley ..
1887
A. L. Towle
1890
B. S. Gillespie. . . . 1-89
W. D. Matthews ..
1892
PRESS OF DAKOTA CITY,
DAKOTA CITY BERALD.
This was the first paper ever established in the town, and the second in the county. The first issue was published July 15. 1857, by Joseph B. Strickland, and edited by Robert A. Howard. From this issue is qnoted the following extract in describing the 4th of
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July celebration at Logan:
"A meeting was held in a large unoccupied room fitted up l'or the oc casion. Upon motion of Dr. M. Saville, of Logan. Gen. Jos. Hollman was called to the chair. He made a few pertinent remarks, stating the object of the meeting and the propriety of the people thus uniting together, laying asidcall jealousies to rejoice in a common privilege. He concluded by introducing to the audience Mr. J. F Warner, of Logan, who read in an eloquent manner the Dec'aration of Independence. The orator of the day, W. G. Crawford, Esq., of Dakota City, was then presented by the president."
The advertisers in the same issue were: II. D. Johnson, stage line between Dakota City and Omaha; John Naffziger, general store, corner of Broadway and 13th streets; Charles Reom, joiner and carpenter; Geo. A. Hinsdale, land agent; R. A. Howard, attorney: Hollman & Crawford, attorneys; J. D. M. Crockwell, proprietor of Chihuahua House: Dr. M. Saville, physi- cian at Logan.
One column is devoted to the proceedings of a Democratic Mass Convention, of which Win. Il. James was president, held at St. Johns on the 11th of July. 1857. A committee consisting of Ilarlon Baird, of the Bluffs, Daniel Duggan, of Elk Creek, Haughey, of Cov- ington, Gen. Hollman, of Dakota City, Joseph Bran- nan, of St. Johns, D. T. Bramble, of Aoway Creek, Dr. M. Saville. of Logan, James Farrell, of Franklin City, and C. Howard, of Pacific City, was appointed to nominate connty officers but after further consideration the convention adjourned to meet at the same place on the 18th of July.
The Herald was afterwards sold to Diley & Foley and published about one year, when it was discontin- ned. It was again revived in March, 1859, by Daniel MeLanghlin and appears to have been discontinned for a while when that gentleman resumed its publication March 30, 1861, under the name of the
DAKOTA CITY DEMOCRAT,
and from the issue of that date is taken the following: "On Wednesday morning la-t. atan early hour, the pottery at Ziegler &
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Eckhart, of this place, was found in ashes.
MARRIED .- In Sioux City, Iowa, on the 18th inst., by Rev. Mr. Hoyt, Mr. James E. Booge to Miss Anna M. Hubbell, all of that place."
The issue of April 6th, 1861, contains the follow. ing marriage notices:
"On Monday, the Ist inst., by Rev. Father Dillon, at St. Johns, Mr. Thomas Ashford to Margaret Duggan, all of this county.
On Thursday, the 4th in-t., by Rev. Mr. Brown, Mr. William Bouton, of this county to Miss Rose Bates, of Woodbury, Iowa."
In the same issue are the following items:
"The frame work on the new pottery was ready to erect on Wednesday morning.
Dr. Geo. B. Graff had the humanity to present this office with a jug of old Jamaica rum this week. May the Dr. live a thousand years and the Democrat live to chronicle his demise.
Edward Moran, E-q., of St. Johns, left here on Friday last for Denver City with a load of butter, eggs and lard.
On Tuesday night Harlon Baird, Esq., placed four traps on the edge of the lake and on the following morning found securely fastened in them three large beavers and one mink."
Asbury Griffin bonght the Democrat and changed its name to the
NEBRASKA NORTH,
the first issue making its appearance July 31, 1862, from which is copied the following:
"During the present conflict for the preservation of the Government, we will be independent as to party issues, for this is not the time for patriots to wrangle ab ot porty, while Constitutional Liberty is being assailed by traitors. Let us fight 'until the last armed foe expires." and when peace once more resumes her sway and the country emerges from the vortex of war, parties can then enter the arena and pour forth their wrath in floods of spleen,
Our pottery is now in full blast. A large shipment of stoneware was mnade on the d wnward trip of the Florence.
Eligible lote in town are rapid y risingin value.
Our register. Mr. Van Reuth, has fitted upa neatoffice on the corner of Broadway and 14th street ?. "
In the issue of August 7th, 1862, appears the fol- lowing:
"Measures are being taken to build a very neat briek school house with- in our town limits.
Anthony J. Myers makes a good article of lime.
It anywars that Canadian Club wheat is the best adapted to the soif
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about Covington. Wm. Leach has just harvested thirty bushels to the acre.
Chas. Goodfellow, of St. John's, has, we learn, the best crop of Rio Grande wheat in his vicinity. It will average a little over thirty bushles to the aere."
Among the advertisers in this issne are: Henry Ream, proprietor of the Bates House; C. F. Eckhart, dry goods and grocery store; Williams & Very, proprie- tors of new ferry between Dakota City and Sergeant's Bluffs; J. B. Ziegler, proprietor of Dakota City pottery; John Taffe, T. L Griffey and A. HI. Jackson, attorneys at law; J. W. Virtne, cashier Bank of Dakota: John Ilagy. proprietor llagy House, Sionx City, Iowa; H. A. Fuller, proprietor Wanregan House, Sioux City, Iowa; L. D. Parmer, dry goods, etc., Sioux City, Jowa.
The Nebraska North was afterwards sold to A. H. Jackson, who again changed its name to
THE NORTH NEBRASKAN
which paper expired a few months later.
Dakota City was then without a newspaper until July 29, 1870, when the
DAKOTA CITY MAIL
was established, located in the Broyhill house on Broad- way, opposite the court house, with F. M. Mac Donagh and P. F. O'Sullivan as editors.
In its first issne appear the following items:
"The brick for the new county court house is being rapidly hauled on the ground by the contractor, Mr. Woods. The brick was burned by Mr. Wouds in his kiln, in this city, and is of a first class quality-equal to any in this section of the country and excelled by none.
Reports from all parts of Dixm. Celar, L'eau Qui Court and other counties in the vicinity of Dakota, speak well of the rapidity with which they are settling up with staunch, hardy, industrious emigrants."
At the top of one column is found these head- lines:
"CRIME AND ITS EXPIATION.
MAT MILLER EXECUTED AT PONCA FOR THE BRUTAL MURDER OF W. C. DUNN."
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C. F. Bayha took charge of the Mail October 27. 1871, and the paper was again sold to John T. Spencer, October 9, 1874, who employed Will S. Jay as assistant editor December 15, 1876 to August 17, 1877. The Dakota City Mail was suspended September 28, 1877 and revived in Covington, December 21st of the same year under the name of the Mail,and its publication was forever discontinued March 1, 1878, the good will and subscription list being purchased by Hart & Martin, who consolidated it with The Eagle, of Dakota City. John T. Spencer on retiring from the journalistic field said in his valedictory:
"Hoping all may have a successful journey through life, we now lay aside our editorial mantle; how soon we may put it on again, if ever, we can- not say, the future alone will determine."
THE NORTH NEBRASKA EAGLE
began its publication at Dakota City, May 24, 1876, with Atlee Hart and Will S. Jay as editors, and the following appeared in its salutatory:
"Politically, while reserving the right to express independent opinions upon the policy of any administration, or upon the course of any party or its leaders, The Eagle will be devoted to a discriminating support of the Dem- ocratie party."
On October 4, 1876, Will S. Jay sold his interest in the paper to Dr. E. J. De Bell; DeBell selling to C. D). Martin October 30, 1877. Col. Martin commenced the publication of a romantic continned story August 24th of that year, entitled. "The Confhet-Love or Money." The Eagle was enlarged to an eight-column folio paper March 8, 1878. March 18th of the same year Messrs. Hart & Martin bought the Mail, which was consolidated with The Eagle. C. D. Martin sold his interest to Geo. T. Woods May 2, 1879, who, after one issue sold to Will S. Jay. July 15, 1881, Jay cold his half to Hart, who becante sole owner of the paper. On May 20, 1580. The Eagle was enlarged to a six- colum quarto. On the 7th day of April, 1882, John T. Spencer bonght one-half interest in The Eagle and sold to Geo, Herb, January 1, 1884, who sold baek to
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Hart May 15, 1884, this date being the commence- ment of the ninth volume. On March 26, 1885. The Eagle assumed an entire change in typographical ap- pearance, putting on an entire new dress and on March 24, 1887, another improvement was made by the pro- prietors putting in a new power cylinder press, the only one in the county. Mell A. Schmied bought one-half interest in The Eagle January 1, 1889, and the paper is now owned by Hart & Schmied, the senior editor remaining with the institution since its establish- ment. May 15, 1890, it was again enlarged to a seven- column quarto, which makes it one of the largest conn- try weekly newspapers published in Nebraska.
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