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Blue
Valley Record
August
1868
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Kansas
& Nebraska Stage
Company, from Nebraska
City, Nebraska, to
Tecumseh and Beatrice,
and intermediate points,
carrying United States
Mail, Passengers and
Express Packages.
Leaves
Nebraska City Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays,
connecting at
Beatrice with a stage
line to Lincoln, the
Capital.
Returning,
leaves Beatrice on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays,
connecting
at Tecumseh with the
stage line for Brownville
and intermediate
points, and at Nebraska
City with the Council
Bluffs & St.
Joseph Railroad for
all points east, north
and south.
Blue
Valley Record
February
20, 1869
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The
county needs a daily
mail between this point
and the river towns.
This want,
already a pressing one,
is growing more so every
day, and the increased
amount of business which
will be transacted here
in the spring, and
the rapid growth of
this country will render
it a demand of such
a nature
as not to be much longer
resisted. The
question of having it
is only a
question of time, how
soon we shall have it
is one which our citizens
can
in the main determine
for themselves. Petitions
should be gotten up
and circulated
along the route, and
we, who are most interested,
should be first to move
it. Brownville
and Nebraska City have
already shown a willingness
to
assist in having it
established, for they
well know the importance
of having
close connections with
this country and will
not be wanting in efforts
to
accomplish it. The
matter should be attended
to at once. The
roads are being
good, the days longer
and the trip can be
easily made in a day.
Let us
for once lay aside old
fogyism and inhale enough
of the spirit of the
age in
which we live to show
some energy in so important
a matter.
Volume
1
Beatrice
Clarion
May
8th 1869
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A
daily mail over the
Kansas & Nebraska
Stage Line from Nebraska
City and
Brownville to Beatrice
and intermediate points,
connecting at Beatrice
with
the stage line to Lincoln
and leaving Beatrice
on its return trips
every morning
at seven o'clock, Sundays
excepted, for Brownville
and Nebraska City;
and connecting at each
point with the Council
Bluff & St. Joseph
Railroad
for eastern, northern
and southern destinations.
Decatur
Weekly Republican -
Thursday - April 19,
1883
Barkey,
Neb.
April
10
Editors
Republican
Sirs,
You
will be somewhat surprised
to receive a letter
from this part
of the world,
especially from a person
yon do not know. Through
the kindness of
one of your patrons
I have been reading
your paper and am very
much
pleased with it, Barkey
is not much of a place—only
a post office.
It
is 13 miles north of
Beatrice, the county
seat of Gage county.
It is the "boss"
city in southeastern
Nebraska. It has over
4,000 inhabitants, three
railroads
and a fair prospect
for two more; has five
elevators, six hotels,
dry
goods and grocery houses
in proportion, one opera
hall, quite a number
of churches, and one
of the finest flouring
mills in the state run
by
water power. Gage county
is well watered, There
are ponds in the "Draws"
from two to five feet
deep that hold water
the entire season.
Gage
county is filling pretty
fast with emigrants
from all parts of the
east. Most
of the people in this
vicinity are from Illinois,
your Humble servant
included.
I like this part of
the state real well.
It is some broken,
but not too
much to drain well.
Farmers are about done
sowing oats, while a
great
many are plowing
for corn. The weather
is nice as one could
ask
for.
As to the roads they
are excellent—the nicest
I ever saw for this
time
of the year. If you
think this letter will
not take too much room
in the
columns of your valuable
paper, I would like
for yon to publish it.
As
this is my first, your
readers will probably
excuse mistakes.
G.
T. W.
Believes Ward of State a Suicide
(Special to The Star.) Beatrice, Neb.. Aug. 29.—
Mr. and Mrs. John Freed who were called to Kerline, Wyo.. recently to investigate the death
of their granddaughter, Teressa McCrosson, 16 years old whose charred body was found in
the ruins of the Mat Harlan home near Kerline after the building had been destroyed by fire, early
last June, returned home Monday convinced that the girl committed suicide by firing the house and
burning to death.
The girl was a ward of the state of Nebraska and had been taken to Wyoming by Mrs. Harlan,
who expected to provide a home for her.
According to the grandmother of the girl, she told friend's at Keiline that she intended to end
her life.
Teressa McCrosson was raised in Beatrice and was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. McCrosson,
who have been separated for some years.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Double
Tragedy on Farm
Nebraskan
Fatally Shoots Neighbor's Son
and is Killed by Victim's Brother
Sioux
City, March 25 -- George Kucera,
a Bohemnian farmer living near
Clatonia, Gage
County,
Nebraska was shot and instantly
killed by George Herzor, son
of a neighbor.
Today
George and Will Herzor took
a herd of cattle to the stock
field adjoining Kuceras farm.
While they were herding
the cattle and repairing the
fence, Kucera approached with
a shot gun. After a few
words he fired and Will Herzor
fell.
Kucera
raised the gun to fire at George
Herzor, but the latter was too
quick and shot Kucera between
the eyes with a revolver. Will
is said to be fatally wounded.
Oxford
Mirror, Oxford Junction, Iowa
Illinoisans
Indicted for Purjury
Omaha,
Neb., Dec. 4.—The United States
grand jury has indicted twenty-three
residents
of
Illinois, principally Chicagoans,
for perjury in taking out final
papers on homestead and preemption
claims near Valentine, Neb.
The
names of the indicted parties
are kept secret by order of
the court until the warrants
can be served.
Register
Parker, of the United States
land office at Beatrice, Neb.;
N. K. Griggs, Capt. Ashby, C.
K. Wheeler, and Dr. Barnos,
all of Gage County, Nebraska,
have also been indicted for
frauds in connection. with the
sale of the Otoe Indian reservation
lost December.
The
Janesville Daily Gazette - Janesville,
Wisconsin, Thursday, December
4, 1884
Wymore Teachers Elected
Same Faculty as Last Year, With the Exception of a Few.
Wymore, Neb, Aug 8—The board of education has elected the following teachers:
E. M. Short, superintendent,
A. W. Starkebaum principal of the high school.
Miss Helen Phillips principal of the junior high school.
Miss Anna E. Craig principal of the east ward.
Miss Anna S. Batten principal of the west ward,
F. A. McCorkle manual training and director of athletics.
Fern Houseman, commercial,
Inez Wells, assistant commercial,
Amy Stowell, home economics,
A M Harms, Oliver E Barker and Hildegarde Swanson, high school,
Bertha Pratt, Verda Chapman and Evelvn Sage junior high,
Lucille Heatherington, Maude Baumgardner, Nelle Biggs, Isabel Rankin, Orcella Perry, Marry Wright, Rose Brehn, Alice Moran, Marjorie Custer and Vernell Griffin grades.
All of these, with the exception of some of the grade teachers, are the same as last year.
The school census this year shows an increase of nineteen pupils over last year and last year was the largest enrollment of the history of the school. Twenty non resident pupils from farm districts have signified their intentions of enrolling here this year.
Last year the graduating class contained thirty four members the largest on record here. Fifty four pupils enter the high school this year from the junior high of last year, and seventy will enter junior high this year from the grades of last year.
The Lincoln State Journal - Thursday, August 9, 1923
Separator Is Burned
Special to
The Star
Beatrice, Neb.
July 26
A separator belonging to Elmer
Tietjen was destroyed by fire on the Edward Harrifleld farm
northwest of here near DeWitt while threshermen were threshing oats. One stack
of grain burned. The loss is about $1,200 with no insurance.
The Lincoln
Star – Saturday, July 26, 1930
An Awful Tragedy
Husband, Mother and Four Children
Found Dead in Their Home
During last night the most terrible tragedy ever enacted in Gage County or this section of Nebraska occurred. About 4 o'clock this afternoon, Mrs. Dr. Allen, of Beatrice, came to Ellis on a visit to her brother, John H. Puterbaugh, who lived a mile and a half south of town. No one answering her knock an investigation was made, Puterbaugh lay dead on the floor. The mother lay in bed with a bullet through her head. In a bed with her was a two-year-old baby, also shot through the head. In the room above was another bed occupied by two young girls, one 13 and one 15, both dead, with bullet holes in their heads. The dead were Puterbaugh, his wife and four children.
How they met their terrible fate is as yet unknown. The general belief is that the terrible deed was the work of the husband and father. The motive is unknown, as he was a peaceable man in comfortable circumstances, and it is believed that no trouble existed in the family.
Under Puterbaugh's arm lay a 32-caliber, six-chamber revolver, with all the chambers empty.
All his victims seemed to have been killed while sleeping, as there were no signs of struggle.
Wheeling Register - July 11, 1891
Married 50 Years; No Family Deaths
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3 – Mr. and Mrs. George Wright of Liberty
Saturday celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary in the presence of their children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
They have an unusual record for half a century of married
life in that there has not been a death in the family among the children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren.
They were married April
1, 1866 and came to Gage County
in 1886 where they purchased the farm on which they reside for $22 per acre.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
Young Man is Killed When His Auto Turns Over
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3 -- John Meints, 20 year old son
of Mrs. John Meints of Pickrell, was killed yesterday when his automobile
turned turtle three miles east of Pickrell.
The body was found underneath the car by John Day,
a farmer.
Meints’ feet had been driven through the windshield. The skull was crushed. Young Meints’ father, John Meints, was killed
at Lincoln a few years ago by
falling down the steps of a hotel.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
Big Primary Vote Likely at Beatrice
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3 – Indications are that a heavy vote will be polled at the city election
to be held here Tuesday, as 2,225 voters had registered when the registration
board closed the books Saturday night.
Six candidates, three for the commissioner plan, the same as
is now in force in Beatrice, and three candidates for the commissioner system
are J. R. C. Field, J. P. Saunders and G. T. Reynolds, and for the manager
plan, H. A. Thompson, E. L. Hevelone and Conrad Stroh.
The license question will also be an issue, but it is
practically conceded that the saloons will be retained.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
Held for Breaking Coach Windows
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3
Spencer Horn, formerly a resident of Wymore, was arrested
Saturday in this city by Marshal Chinnock of Wymore on the charge of malicious
destruction of property.
Horn, with two other men, was taken in custody by officers
for breaking windows in a Burlington Coach.
Two of the men paid fines of $10 and costs each and Horn was
released on bond to appear Friday.
He failed to do so and was taken back to Wymore to answer
the charge filed against him.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
Burlington Pays
Judgment to Dobbs
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3 – The Burlington Company Friday paid the judgment and cost of $1,250
recently awarded to Rexford Dobbs by a jury in the district court for injuries
received last summer when his auto rolled over an embankment along the Burlington
right of way near Holvey, Jefferson County.
Dobbs sued for $25,000.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
Sister Prevents Groom From Getting License to Wed
Beatrice, Nebraska,
April 3 – While Joseph Gray, wealthy farmer of Wymore, was seeking a marriage
license here Saturday, his sister, Mrs. Mary Chaffin, appeared to renew an old
application to have a guardian appointed for him. The license was held up.
Gray is said to have deeded some valuable property to his
intended bride a few days ago.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Monday, April 3,
1916
A
Run away Captured
A lady from Beatrice arrived is the city yesterday in search
of her adopted daughter, thirteen years old, who had ran away from home
for some trivial cause.
By
the aid of the police the woman soon found her charge, and left on the afternoon train for home. It seems that the girl has a sister in this city two years older than herself who is
living a life of shame, and when the runaway arrived here she sought out her and expressed her
desire to follow her example.
The older girl would not hear to it, and was herself influential in
getting her sister back into the charge of her mother.
The
Daily Nebraska State Journal – December 10, 1885
Eightieth Birthday Party
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
June 6 – Mrs. Macy Mumford, a pioneer of Gage County,
celebrated her eightieth birthday anniversary in this city Saturday evening, in
the presence of a few of her friends.
She is the mother of E. P. Mumford, formerly private
secretary to Governor Morehead and L. E. Mumford, of Lincoln.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Tuesday, June 5, 1917
Creamery Robbed
Special to the Star
Beatrice, Nebraska,
June 5 – The plant of the Beatrice Creamery on lower Court Street was entered
by burglars early Sunday morning.
Some sugar, about $10 in cash and other articles were taken.
Bloodhounds from this city were used in the case, but as yet
no arrests have been made.
The Lincoln
Daily Star – Tuesday, June 5, 1917
Gage Federation Ready
(Special
to The Star) Beatrice, Nebraska,
March 4.—The dry forces of Gage
County met at the court
house Saturday afternoon and organized for the campaign by electing these
officers:
President,
J. R. Quein
Vice president, H. E. Sackett
Secretary,
Marynard Spink
Treasurer,
C. S. Chandler
An
executive committee of twelve was organized to assist in managing the
campaign.
About
100 were present and they will work from now on in an effort to make the state
dry this fall.
The
Lincoln Sunday Star - Sunday,
March 5, 1916
McMullen
For Senator
(Special
to The Star) Beatrice, Nebraska, March 4.—Adam Mc-Mullen, for the last two
years mayor of Wymore, Friday evening announced that he would be a candidate
for state senator from Gage and Pawnee counties as a republican on the dry
ticket
His
opponent is A. D. Spencer of Barneston, who is a candidate for re election.
The
Lincoln Sunday Star - Sunday,
March 5, 1916
Delicacies
Sent to Soldier Boys 
(Special to
the Star) Beatrice,
Nebraska, September 18-- A large box
containing cigars, tobacco, chewing gum, candy, etc., gifts from residents of
this city, will be sent to Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, this week by Drew
Jamieson, at whose place of business contributions are being received.
The Lincoln Daily Star –
Tuesday, September 18, 1917
Damage Suit for $25,000
For Injuries Resulting in Death
of Beatrice Man
Beatrice, Nebraska, August 8 – A damage suit for
$25,000 was instituted in district court against S. F. Nichols and wife, Mrs.
Marie Roe Nichols, by Eliza P.Davis, executor of the will of Rhodes
DeHaven Davis.
Attorney W. B. Comstock of Lincoln, appeas as
attorney for the plaintiff. According to
the petition an automobile driven by Mrs. Nichols is alleged to have struck the
buggy in which Mr. Davis was riding on South Sixth Street, May 31, 1922,
throwing him out and causing injuries which resulted in his death.
Mr. Davis at the time of his death was
manager of the Davis Grain Company.
The Lincoln State
Journal – Thursday, August 9, 1923
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