FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
August 6, 1907
Hamburg News
-Joe Bush and Mrs. Mary Nix have added telephones to their
household fixtures
-Charley Frazer and wife shipped their good to Lincoln this week
to permanently reside.
-Mrs. Rena Bowers accompanied her brother, A. J. Good, home
Saturday evening from Watson.
-Mrs. Ida Strong and daughters are visiting Mrs. Strong's sister,
Mrs. Williams, at Brownville, Neb.
-Oliver Whetstone is home again after a pleasant visit with his
brother Will in Big Horn Basin, Wyo.
-Mrs. Joe Light left the first of the week for her home at Carrol
after a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hatten.
-H. R. Wright, one of the most successful merchants ever in the
city, has decided to retire for the present at least from his
long twenty-two years of active business as a merchant. He came
to this city a very poor man, but by long and close application
to his business makes him today the owner of several !
valuable pieces of city real estate. His big closing out sale
began the first of the week.
The sad news of the death of Mrs. Bettie Brown was circulated
last Saturday when at 1:30 p.m., August 3, the patient spirit
took its flight after a long lingering illness of three years of
cystic tumor. Bettie Chapman was born in Michigan May 9, 1854 and
at an early age united with the Methodist church under Rev.
Rooker, present pasor of the South Methodist church of this city.
September 25, 1879 she was united in marriage to Henry H. Brown
in Atchison county, Missouri and then moved to Kansas in which
state Henry Brown, her husband died December 4, 1891, leaving
three children: Prof. George Brown of Shenandoah, Mrs. Hurtle
Jackson four miles north of town and Miss Nettie Brown of this
city. Two years later leaving Kansas they became residents of
this city till the present. Mrs. Brown lived a devoted christian
life and through all the long sad months of her illness was ready
at any moment to meet her Saviour. She lived long enough to
instill the noble christian character into the noble young son
and two daughters. The funeral was conducted from the family
residence by the Revs. Rooker and A. E. Buriff of the two
Methodist churches at 10 o'clock Monday morning and interment was
made in our city cemetery. The pall bearers consisted of four of
her nephews.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
August 13, 1907
GONE TO HER REWARD
After weeks of patient suffering the winged messenger of death
called for Mr. L. S. Trowbridge at 11 p.m., August 10, 1907, at
her home in Green township and she peacefully passed to her
heavenly reward. Mrs. Trowbridge was born at Belle Plaine, Iowa,
June 10, 1861. Her funeral took place in the home this morning at
9 o'clock and the remains were buried in the Sidney cemetery. Her
bereft husband and a host of friends are left to mourn the loss
of one of the best of wives and neighbors.
MRS CLOUD HAS GONE
Last Friday at Randolph there was a good woman called away from
this to another world. Mrs. Cloud obeyed the final summons that
must come to all. She had suffered long and patiently and was
glad when the Master's call to come up higher was given her. The
remains were laid in their last earthly resting place on Sunday.
From Sidney among those who attended the funeral were Mr. and
Mrs. W.L.Van Eaton, Sr., Roscoe Van Eaton, Mrs. W. W. Van Eaton
and Mrs. J. J. Van Eaton.
WAS AN OLD RESIDENT
Ellis Bebout, who had been a resident of Fremont county for many
years, died Friday of heart disease in his home near Percival. He
was the father of 15 children, nine of whom survive him. His
brother was one of the first pioneers of Nebraska City and put in
the first ferryboat and transferred soldiers across the river in
1846. His funeral was held Saturday and the remains were buried
in the Rector cemetery near Knox.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
August 16, 1907
THE HOME COMING
It is a pleasant thing for children who have long been separated
from each other to return to the paternal home, to receive again
the welcome smiles of those who love them, as did Mr. and Mrs.
S.S. Orr, who on last Sunday was permitted through the goodness
of God to sit at the table with their entire family of chidlren
whose ages run from 37 years down to 21 years, and to see them
all the pictures of excellent health. Their family consists of
two sons and six daughters, and they had not eaten at the same
table with their parents for more than a score of years. To the
parents it was a source of much joy to behold their children
together with their 14 grandchildren and not a feeble person
among them, sit and meet with their great-great-grandfather,
Henry Keyser, who was at the head of the table and presided over
the luxuries, being almost 95 years old and who presented such a
healthy appearance, looking as if he would be with them for years
to come. Those present besides the parents and the grandparent
were:
Emma L. GIBSON with her three children of Thurman.
Mary A. MASON with her five children of Council Bluffs.
Chas. C. ORR and Margaret J. ORR of Thurman.
Francis L. ORR of Omaha.
Frances L. RAWLINGS with her six children of Knox.
Stella E. TOMPSONof Sidney.
Alpha C. WILLIAMS of Ogallala, Neb., with her adopted daughter
Alpha O. Mason.
-besides John R. Rawlings of Knox, Ed Thompson of Sidney and
Miller Gibson of Thurman, sons-in-laws of Mr. and Mrs. Orr. The
reunion of these children with their parents was very pleasant
indeed and each goes back to his or her home and avocation with
the assurance that however cold the world may seem, there is one
spot on earth where there is warmth and love and that is called
by the endearing name "home".
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
August 27, 1907
SOME BIG TEETH
Yesterday afternoon W. M. Savage brought to our office some
petrified teeth that must have belonged to a prehistoric
mastodon. The weight of one of the teeth is two pounds, and of
the other, two and a half pounds. Mr. Savage found these relics
upon his farm about five miles southeast of town in Slippery Elm
district. These monster teeth have been examined by a large
number of people, none of whom have been able to guess from what
kind of an animal they came. These teeth should be sent to some
competent person that it might be ascertained from whence they
came.