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.
Dr. John W. Thompson was a doctor in Sutton in the early 1900's. His daughter-in-law wrote this biography of him which was serialized in The Sutton News in early 1946.
Edgar and Clay County made national news in an Associated Press news
story about an Edgar meeting of 216 farmers led by V. Hubert Johnson, a local
farmer. Johnson proposed a national “strike against strikes” with farmers
withholding products from the market in protest of the numerous strikes in
various industries.
Two weeks later this follow-up story appeared in The Sutton News on February 14, 1946
A
new Gamble Store owned by Clarence Clouse opened in Edgar in the old J.G.
Walley building on the First of February 1946. Mr. Clouse was an Edgar resident since 1932. The first Gamble
store opened in St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1925 (Bert Gamble) and there were 513
company owned stores, 1487 authorized dealer stores, 14 warehouses in 24
states.
Sallie (Matteson) Barbee and her parents escaped from a very serious situation in their farm home in January 1946.
We stumbled upon this story while researching the 75-years-ago segment of our weekly newspaper column in the January 10, 1946 issue of The Sutton News.
I think we surprised Sallie when we told her we had found this.
