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
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