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Grand Island Independent,
January 9, 1890
WOOD RIVER NEWS
They do say.....
.....that a public library is about to be established.
.....tha E. E. Thompson took in New Year's in our burg.
.....that 48,000 sheep are being fed right around Wood River
.....that M. J. Garret drew Baldwins's gold watch New Year's Day
.....that both Sunday schools had a grand blckboard last Sunday.
.....that the Ladies Guild nette $48 on their Christmas dinner and supper.
.....that everybody in five miles of Wood River has or has had La Grippe.
.....that Billy Randall and family of Gibbon, spent New Year's Day with R. Wescott.
.....that even the doctors agree for once, and like the rest, take a dose of La Grippe.
.....that Eva Green is clear behind reporting weddings, so many of them marry during the holidays.
.....that the Odd Fellows made the holidays happy for several poor people, who were in no way related to the order, by the distribution of flour, fowls and clothing. Practical religion, that.
.....that Rev. Storms came up and united W. F. Thompson, brother of our county superintendent and Miss Lettie Brittin, daughter of our post-master, in the bonds of matrimony Jan. 1st, at 7:30. That the wedding was immense, and many fine presents were received.
.....that about fory visiting members mostly from Gibbon took to Odd Fellows lodge her New Year's night, and that two were initiated, a 1st and 2d degree conferred and new officers installed, and a genuine old Odd Fellows supper eaten. That Odd Fellows and Workman lodges do boon exceedingly.
DEATH
Died at her home about 4 miles north of town on last Tuesday, Lizzie Sprague, aged 16. She had been somewhat sick for several months. Her parents were absent in Colorado, and when she was taken with a dangerous attack a few days ago, they hastened home to care for her. Her mother arrived just before her death, her father not until afterwards. Rev. Harper conducted the funeral at the M. E. church. It is sad to see one departing thus in the morning of life, but:
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay"
The Reaper said, and smiled:
"Dear tokens of the earth are they
Where He was once a child."
They shall all bloom in fields of light
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
these sacred blossoms wear."
And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love,
She knew she would find them all again,
In the fields of light above.
O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
the Reaper came that day,
"Twas and angel visited the green earth
And took the flowers away."
EVA GREEN
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Grand Island Independent,
Monday, January 13, 1890
HISTORY OF HALL COUNTY
Over a month ago, the work of writing a documentary history of this county was entered upon, and a good deal accomplished toward summarising the more imortant record books of the commissioners and district court. To-day, the writer of the general hisoty takes up the old newspaper files, and eill subject them to the same sytem of summerization; so that, by this means, little of all that has happened here since the county was established will escape notice.
Comtemporary with his work, other gentlemen will follow up the threads of pioneer history, thus leaving nothing undone to make a complete record of names and events since the very first settlement of this section.
Such a volume will undoubtedly be a most creditable one, foreign entirely in its character to directory or gazetteer. It will be purely historical and more than it is represented to be - well printed and beautifully bound, a volume of from 700 to 1,000 pages which will portray every action of the county's life, and one that will be read long years after the builders give place to their children, and the buildings of the present make way for the the palaces of the future.
The state history which will form the introduction, is being written specially for their work.
[Kaylynn's Note: This may be the 1890 "History of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton Counties of Nebraska,"
Published in 1890 by Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill. The Hall County History section is located 1890 History]
DONIPHAN ITEMS
One of Mr. Scudders horses has the La Grippe.
We are all tring to "lose our Grippe." Everybody has it.
Fred Fellows, of Inman, Holt county, is visiting at Mr. Parks.
Mr. DuBoise has sold his farm for $1,800 and moved to Portland, Oregon.
Miss Maggie Compton, of Mead county, Kan., is visiting relatives here.
Sherwood Howerton and family have returned from Colorado and moved into the Kelso hotel property.
The Indians who have been in camp on the Platte, north of town, concluded to hunt for greener pastures, so they started for the Big Blue last Monday.
The farmers on the south side are going to try raising sugar beets this year. The S. J. & G. I. Co. will put in a side track near the south bridge, for their benefit.
Mr. and Mrs. Hidebrand and Mrs. Weston are being tried in Doniphan to-day (Saturday) for highway robbery. The drift of the evidence is, that they assaulted John Shultz while he was out hunting one day last week, and robbed him of his gun. They offered to return the gun on payment of $10 ransom. Shultz will be tried in Grand Island for assault upon the parties above named.
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