Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1881, Page 2

GIBBON'S HISTORY. A Beautifal Educational Centre of the State, Location of the Baptist State Seminary, Natural Advantages For Manuface | turing and Agricalture Cotrespondence of The Ree | Ginnox, August 30,— Almost every state has towns devoted to education, Massachusetts has its Cambridge, Ohio its Oberlin and the future may | make Gibbon fill the honored place in the economy of our state. At the meeting of the Nebraska Baptist state convention, one year ago, a proposition from the citizens of Gibbon Baptist stato was ac ted locating the | seminary in this town. Two terms have since been taught in | the three-story brick edifice which is admirably adapted for being the centre about which ally cluster a series of collegiate build- ings, a block of land having been fine must eventu- secured immediately east and adjein- Prof. G. W Read, the principal, is a western man, a graduate of the Shurtleff college, Al- ton, 111, and is fully alive to the needs of our people. He is notltrammeled with the fine spun diletante ideas of the castern professors, but is broad, manly and progressive in theory and practice. Just the kind of a man to succeed in building up a grand insti- tution of learning in our young and thriving state. Prof. George Sutherland, late of Towa, Miss Emma Buckley, a gradu- ato of Shurtleff college, and Miss Annie E. Tag a graduate of the Nebraska State Normal school, com- prise the faculty for the coming year, provided the attendance '1s not larger than expected. A course of three 8 has been arranged for the present, which will prepare students for a first grade state certificate or to enter any of the colleges. While this is a denominational school it is not scctarian. 1t is opon to both sexes and the attendance in this respect is about equally divided. In the academic and teachers' course $6 per term is charged as tui- tion, and in the preparatory depart- ment 8. The fall term will bégin September 1st. ing the school. GIBBON was settled by a colony of seventy families in the year 1872, There has never been and probably never will be a saloon in the town. On the first Sunday afterthe arrival of this colony religious sorvices were held in a freight car, and the Union Sunday school orgamized. The latter is still maintained and has grown to mammoth proportions, Gibbon was made the county town, Kearney hav- ing at that time only o paper exist- ence, but as Gibbon was on_ the edge of Buffalo county Kearney éventually got the county seat plum, but not until a substantial court house had been erocted at Gibbon, and this tem- ple of justice is now transformed into a temple where the young are taught to be just. Gibbon was to have the B. & M, terminus, but through the inattention of a committee appointed to confer with the managers of the road Kearney captured that important bonanza, and Gibbon settled down to the cultivation of the magniticent sur- rounding farms and the improvement of its neat and well kept homes. THE PRESENT semina; or college, for it is designe to eventually be a full fledged collegiate institute, has marked the dawn of a new era for the beautiful village, and now there is an urgent and steadily increasing de- mand for buildings. House hunters were very numerous while I was in town, and everywhere the wish was expressed that some Omaha or other capitalist would come out and build a dozen or two of cottages, and realize twenty per cent on the investment. Improvements are many. Among the best of the private structures is a residence for Rev. John M. Taggert, president of the Baptist state conven- tion, and a gentloman who had the honor of being a Nebraskan when Fontanelle was the great city of the territory, and Omahu was ~bribing, bulldozing and killing tho men who did not want her to have the eapitol. Wood river, a crystal stream, flows half a mile north of town, and fur- nishes water power for one of the best flouring mills in the valley, The nat- ural groves that nlmunj along the banks of this river make a beautiful fringe to the landscape on the north, while artificial groves and orchards on the south serve the same purpose, The surrounding farm houses are not only comfortable, but they are elegant. Mr. 8, B. Lowell, one of the best farmers in this locality, and also a merchant and notary, has by his experience amply demonstrated that farming pays in this country when properly conducted. The people of Gibbon stand fully abreast of the most blue-blooded east- ern towns for intelligence and enter- pri The business transacted here is not perhaps large enough to warrant any spread-eaglo remarks, but it makes oney for those who are engaged in Lumber is as cheap and plenty & itis anywhere in this vicinity, M, | J. E. Kelsey tells us and he sell lots of | it, and we sée no reason wiy the home- seeker should not consider the advan. | tages for his family and make a home | in Gibbon, the most cultured and moral of the Platte river towns, POLITICALLY, Gibbon has been the home of statesmen(/) of the *‘farmers’ friend” class. Among these honorables(?) are D. P. Ashburn and 8. C. Ayer. They pledged themselves for everything that was good when they ran for the legislature, but U, P, groenbacks, and U. P, and U. P, positions are valuable covsiderations, and after they were elected - well "the old, old story was told again. There are those here who declare that the next man | y | The howling knaves who sold them | % | than from four to six, |to the inter@ts of his constituents, | shall die the death of traitor, and to [that Tur Bek says amen and amen. 1 am under obligations for favors kind and many, Mr. J. E. Kelsey, | Mr. Putnam, the postmaster and « | physician whose name in the hurry 1 missed, but who is a late arrival from | the east, all materaly helped Tis Beg along by good words and earnest efforts in its behalf. selves conldn’t transfer the people of | Gibbon for they think and act commendable ~ independe hbon was \\)H»‘ My | ied in the face of the loud-mouthed opposition of these political prostitutes. For business review see 5th page. Raxcen, success i Pawnee County Itoms. Correspondence of the Gmalia Bee Pawser Crry, Neb., August 28, Tt 18 now conceded that crops will be about an average, And the near ap- proach of the campaign as well as the watchful anxicty as to the recovery of the president (whoit is feared wil) not live to sco the day on which this will bo published, has somewhat changed the base of anticipated hope and de- sitous ambition of our people. Candidates for the various county offices are now springing up from all parts of the county and are making haste to announce theirnames through the county papers. Thus far no farmers have been announced, and it now looks ns 1f the professional poli- tician thinks he will beable v carry tho field without the consent, other- wise than a vote,from the *“sons of toil.” A, E. Hassler, senior editor oy the Republican, appears to bo the most promiment candidate that has ns yet come to the front. Mr. H. has twelve years of active sc the republican party backi and method jusiness qualifications as woll as n public sympathy for his | losses during the recent fire that makes him take the lead of all other candidates in the fi Mission Creek precinct, in thes west corner of the county, ne Otoe reservation, is one of the b the county. Tt stole all the laurels from other parts of the county for a long time by holding the only agri- cultural fair in the county. It not reof unoceupied farming laud swibhiti jta Hordera! ¢ his miti fine stock owners and enterprising farmers than any other in the county. TIn re- ligions and political matters it is thor- oughly organized, and takes the lead, thus making it one of the best locali taes in this part of the st The bus line between Pawnoe City and Table Rock enjoys in its last hours o lively competition, There are four different parties that are now competing for this business between these two points, but within thirty days the stately trains of the B. & M. will run into Pawnee City and thus allay all opposition in _that direction. T, W. l'c]mnn, of Table Rock, has bought a half interest in the Falls City Journal, Mr. P. is a good farm- er and one whom our county cannot afford to lose, but his pumicfi sun sot with the Paddock dynasty, and it is perhaps for the l}y‘urpnw of causing it to rise again that he now casts his hook in the murky political waters of Richardson county. Pawnee City has more fine churches and a better school building and less dissipation within its confines than any other town in the state. Our social and civil affairs are on such a sound basis that it does not pay a good lawyer to reside in the county. Our city came near having another incendiary fire on last Wednesda; night somo wretch set firo to A, M. Henry’s corn crib which contains 100,000 bushels of corn and is located midway between the town and the de- pot. The fire was put out before it mado any headway, but the villian was not captured, who originated it, or a ‘hemp pulling pic-nic” would have been the order of the day. Burchard, the new town located on the B, & M. R. R, 12 miles west from Pawneo City, bids fair to become arival in the near future, Already eeveral new business houses have sprung up, and with such a fine loca- tion in u good country, it bids fair to prosper. The immense coal fields which lie near Cinciunati, in the south-east cor- ner of the county, are recoiving the attention in a private way of several prominent railrond men, who are in- vestigating with a_view to buying thoy prove profitable. This w the near future briug to this little burg, with a sealed destiny, a railvoad. Table Rock wants a hotel and news- | paper. 1t ought to have both, for it being one of the oldest towns in the county is far behind its youn in many of the clements of civilivation and the arts of peace. The Hon, G. W. Collins, M. D., of this county, and of ex-candidate-licu- or-fame is now installed in his dutics as superintendent of the stato reform school at Kearney, and has practically abandoned our county, He roceived his first victim from Omaha, and it is to be hoped that he will administer discipline in homeopathic doses that the pleasant relations between Douglas and Paw- nee counties will remain undisturbed by our two representatives in that in- stitution. Pawner Chigr, | P Columbus News. Covvanvs, Neb., August 20, —Crop prospects in this county, with the ex- ception of wheat, ar Some fieldsof whoat that have been threshod ood, go as high as fifteen bushels to the acre, but it will not ave The indica- tions for a good wheat erop were never | better to within two weeks of harvest, | when the rain and hot sun sealded it. | Oats will go forty to fifty Lushels to| the acre. Early corn will be immense; late corn, fair; potatoes, good in quantity and quality; flax, from ten to fifteen bushels to the acre, The lmuy Fork wagon bridge at this place, which was carried out by the ice last spring, was completed two weeks ago, and the Platte bridge will be finished in another weeck, when our Bouth Platte neighbors will have | froe uccess to Columbus, | The school teachers of Platte coun- ty are holding an institute, and doing - [outside the company worth litigating for, Blackstone has given place to Borchave and duty to the Lord's wore| ¢ the teachers in charge of classes we noticed Mr. Tedroe of Platte Center, Miss Woods of Columbus, Mr. Hale of Monroe, Mr. Dickinson and others The political | nuing to | simmer and eandic ecoming | active, particularly the aspirants for | the sheriffalty and their name is legion. Those who nsually do the setting uy | nominating 1y active ) the pins one day to kne | the next and try a new se farmers pay no attention to the pri maries, but let political shysters do the nominatin b better men and thencomplai nated, OMEGA cause re not A LINGERING DEATH. Deadwood Approachit Last Stages of Dissc lutioa. Correspandence of The Deapwoon, Black Hills, August 25, —Business appears to tionized in the Black Hills within the have revolu- | paet two yeare, which redu Deadwood to ashes | some time since the town was splen- didly rebuilt and goods were shipped in to supply the place of those de- stroyed; but the merchants for the most part were in debt not only for their goods but for their buildings, and the people in the upper camps had learned in the meantime to trade at home, Since then the business of Deadwood has gone rapidly into a de- cline. The great Homestake company has absorbed everything worth having on “‘the belt,” and as this company sells its own goods—through a proxy does most of its work by machinery and employs its own mechanics to do the rest. Business outside the com- pany is dull, and as their is no one to litigate with, and not much prayer and the preaching of the gos- pel and practice of medicine are the only o flourishing condition in Deadwood. Much has been hoped frow the f and a bonus of bourd of trade for the building of a grist mill in Deadwood, when it is rms likely to boas useful as a quartz mill would be on the * the drouth which s spread the county I up our fertils vall other of Spo: will be elle Ranche,” but ave over- turned and before an- agon the commercial interests sh, Creek City and Sturgis, ater t our own and there will be nothing left ns but to move out. Great hopes have been entertained respecting the new car- bonate camp on Squaw ereck, but this tin cmbryo and is likely to be still-born and shouldit prove a success Central City which is two nearer to it than Deadwood, will take the trade until a new town is built, and then the freight wiil leave the Deadwood road at Sturgis and pass around the foot-hills through Crook City and Spearfish and up False Bot- tom creek, rather than go over the hills and through the numerous toll- gates by way of Deadwood,- and this town will be left on our side, and.in- jured rather than benefited. 1In this case, smelting works would probably be erected at Sturgis to reduce the ores from the new camps, as well as those from Bald mountains and Galena, the latter of which is constantly storing ores at Sturgis, from whence they are shipped by bull train to Omaha, and it is smd that the shippers get £100 per ton net. RasnieR. —_— Curtis on the Pig. F- D, Curtis in the New York Tribune., T have found that it costs as much or more to winter a young pig as it does an old hog, and “have abandoned the practice of wintering anything but brecders, A breeding sow may bo al- lowed to have a litter of pigs in the spring which can be sold, and the old one will got in fine condition, almost, if not fit, for butchering, on clover corn stalks and roots, And we couut tho incomo derived from the pigs as an extra gain, There is always a do- mand in the spring for young pigs at from $2 to 84 cach for fatter u o higher price for Jbreeding stock, which makes the profits on a breed- | ing sow equal to that of a cow with a great doal less Jabor and less cost of | keeping. By a little puinstaking and | effort a farmer can make market for | his pork at a price more remunera- tive than what is usually paid for it | in the carcas. Townspeople will buy and eat more pork if they know that it has been grown and fattened on wholesome od, We could have sold in Schenectady for 10 s a pound a ton of spareribs produced on our farm if we had had them. Our headeheese sold at the same price, and we expect to realize from 12 to 156 cents for the bacon, hams shoulders, The highest pri was paid in our local markets for pigs was 7 cents per pound. The lard was sold for frow 8 to 10 conts per pound, according to quality, Our pigs are cut up so that they may be wholly marketed in the above forms. 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