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Stockville,
Nebraska, February
15. -- Stockville
is the county seat
of Frontier County,
the banner county
of Southwestern
Nebraska, and is,
all things considered,
the best town in
the county.
Stockville
is situated on the
west bank of Medicine
Creek, a beautiful
stream of clear,
pure water,fed by
living springs,
and affording as
good water power
as can be found
in the west; the
water supply being
not only inexhaustible,
but one that does
not vary in volume
from one year's
end to another.
The
Stockville roller
mills are operated
by the stream, and
scores of Industries
might be placed
along it course
within a short distance
of town, with successful
results. Immediately
surrounding our
little city is a
fine productive
country, unsurpassed
for fertility anywhere
in the state of
Nebraska.
Stockvill
is situated on the
proposed line of
the Deluth, Sioux
City & Pueblo
Railroad, which
has been surveyed
directly through
the county, touching
Stockville from
the east.
This
road will be built
through to the Gulf
of Mexico, making
a through line
from the Gult to
Duluth.
Notwithstanding
the hard times,
which has had its
effect everywhere,
Stockville has made
a good steady growth
during the spring,
summer and
fall of 1893, and
there are a number
of commodious residences
which testify to
this fact.
There
are also a number
of new enterprises
contemplated, and,
with the opening
of spring, our people
expect to witness
an unprecedented
growth in the building
of good substantial
business houses
and residences and
in business circles.
There
are three church
denominations represented
in our little city,
and the Methodist
Episcopal denomination
owns a commodious
church edifice.
The pastor,
Rev. Allen Kenworthy,
who recently came
among us from Indiana,
is a worker in the
master's vineyard,
and great good has
been accomplished
in our town through
his untiring efforts.
The
people of Stockville
are a reading people,
as is evidenced
by the fact that
more daily papers
are received and
read in Stockville
than in any town
of its size in the
state, chief among
which is the Omaha
World Herald, it
being a general
favorite because
it always gives
the very
latest
news.
Omaha
World Herald - February
19, 1894
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