The Sutton Museum is the home of the Sutton Historical Society and is dedicated to the collection and preservation of historic artifacts and information about the Sutton, Nebraska community.
Several auto dealerships passed through the Main Street Garage - the current location of Mustang Media. This ad is from The Sutton Register of February 5, 1920.
As one who has an FFA jacket dating from about 1957, may I suggest that there are a couple of things different about the 1995 Sutton FFA Chapter compared to ours...
The photo appeared in The Clay County News on February 9, 1995.
Gold & Co. in Lincoln had this advertisement in the Clay County Patriot newspaper in Clay Center on January 8, 1920. That was 30 years after Billy Gold had closed his Sutton store moving to Lincoln to do business as William Gold & Company.
Didja know that Goose Tatum of the Harlem Globetrotters played basketball in Clay County?
The Harvard Courier carried these stories about the basketball team at the Air Base. Harvard played in a league with the Lincoln base where the Army Air Corps had recruited a couple of members of the Harlem Globetrotters to entertain the troops.
Here is a sampling of league play locally in the Army Air Corps:
The Sutton city council authorized the Fire Department of purchase a site for a new firehouse at this January 1970 meeting.
The bonus article to the left indicates my uncle paid a fine for speeding - hard to believe while remembering that 1940 Chev he used to drive at a max speed of not much more than 35 mph when he drove out to our place to work his garden.
This train derailment occurred northeast of Clay Center as the engine was pulling nine cars to Clay Center.
This would be along the CB&Q tracks that at one time connected Fairfield to Clay Center to Verona to Sutton to Lushton and McCool Junction, as I understand it.
The track, or the train, or more likely, just the engine was unofficially called the "Pook-Eye" for some reason I've never determined.
