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From the Sargent Leader: March 18, 1920, page 1

Joshua Perkins
We did not learn in time for publications last week of the death of Joshua Perkins, who was recently buried in Kent Cemetery. He was another of the old pioneers gone to his reward.

A man of Southern extraction who at the outbreak of the Civil War espoused the Union Cause, enlisted in the Union Army and served to the end of the war.

He came to Nebraska at an early date and homesteaded down about Boelus, later moved to Round Valley, Custer County. About 1900 he again removed to Loup County over north of Taylor where he resided until his death.

From the Sargent Leader: March 18, 1920, page 1

SOME RAW FUR SHIPMENT FROM GARFIELD COUNTY

Probably the highest valued shipment of raw furs ever shipped out of this county was billed out Tuesday morning by Charlie Rumbaugh, the up country raw fur buyer. The shipment was made up of musk rat, skunk and coyote pelts and the valuation placed thereon by Mr. Rumbaugh was sixteen thousand dollars.

The fur market is the highest that it has ever been and it does not take a very large pile of raw furs to run into a lot of money. Considering the valuation placed thereon it was not a very big pile of furs. The owner was shipping the furs to St. Louis, Missouri, which is considered to be one of the largest raw fur markets in the world. He accompanied the shipment to make sure that it arrived safely on the market and to look after the disposition of the same.
Source: Burwell Tribune