J.M. Gray added a second story to his residence in 1892?

This excerpt from the Sutton newspapaer The Advertiser-News in 1892 indicates that J.W. Gray added a second story to his residence. Gray owned the house on North Way Avenue that houses part of the Sutton Historical Society. This is evidence that the house began as a one-story building. A surprise to us.

1911 Catalog for the Luebben Baler

We were recently contacted by the family of J. F. Buchmayer of Northern Missouri. Mr. Buchmayer was a farmer with an intense interest in the history of farm machinery.

Among the treasures left by Mr. Buchmayer, the family found this 32-page catalog about the Luebben round baler published in 1911. 

Sometime in these 111 years, Father Time, some chemical, critters, or some other misfortune found the catalog resulting as a through-shot of deterioration to the catalog, but we are going to overlook that blemish and enjoy the remaining fragile content.

The first image reveals the front cover of the catalog.

This image illustrates the gathering of hay, the stationary operation of the machine, and a fellow showing off the finished product. Note that the Luebben baler produced bales with a hole in the center.

The catalog contained a few pages of testimonials by farmers who had used the Luebben round baler. Here are two pages of those.

This drawing gives a good idea of what the machine looked like. The hole in the paper does not detract from the image at all.

 

This straight-on view is, I believe, the view of the rear of the machine.

Stats for the Blog as of July 1, 2019 - after 11 years.

The Sutton Historical Society's blog dates from May of 2008. 

At the end of June 2019, we have 650 posts with 181,000 pageviews and are averaging more than 2,000 pageviews a month. 

 The geographical distribution of pageviews for the Sutton Museum's blog, all-time, is:

United States	93181
Russia	21600
France	11853
Germany	6398
Ukraine	5743
South Korea	3993
China	2590
Poland	1920
Unknown Region	1816
Canada	1770

Very nearly 1/2 of the pageviews come from outside the U.S. Not sure what that means.

May 2019 Flooding at the Wolfe School Museum

Several days of rain stressed the capacity of School Creek raising water level forcing overflow through back through the drain from our school house yard. 

The water level did not reach that of 2015 when the water covered all the cement blocks reaching inches below the level of the school house floor.

In 2000, before the city sold us this plot of land and we moved the school house from Clay Center, we consulted City Manager Virg Ulmer. Virg brought copies of the flood study done when School Creek was straightened and confined by levees. He estimated that we would be safe from all but the rarest of floods by raising the school house on five cement blocks. So far, through 12 years, Virg's advice has served us well. The 2015 flood reached exactly the level we anticipated. This flooding fell short by 1 1/2 blocks. We'll take it.

Commemorative Plates of Sutton

Commemorative Plates?

Yep, we got some of those.

And, there might be a few more around the museum.

Museum Front Porch Memorabilia

The front porch of the Historic House provides a convenient place to display memorabilia from Sutton and from Sutton High. Join us in a walkabout on the porch:

Do you remember where you use to see this?

There have been numerous designs for school banners.

Sutton schools have enjoyed excellent support from community businesses.

Music badges for school sweaters.

The FFA jacket joins plaques recognizing Adeline Nolde who designed the FFA emblem in 1934.

FFA and Fire Department togs - there are more.

A vintage Sutton baseball shirt.

Memorabilia from the Sutton Country Club

Remember where Grothe's Pharmacy was located?

Another Red & Black pennant. 

Plettner Produce went on a multi-year classic car binge for their Christmas gifts. 

And the 70th anniversary of the Runza Drive-In approaches.

Occidental Hotel where the Legion is today. The Carson was on CPI property.
The Oakland Hotel was on the south bank of School Creek, west side of Saunders.

Timmerman's - Boehler's

Gibb Wieland, also know for basketball   Gibb Wieland and the 1922 team

From an early prominent Sutton family.

Les Bauer Began His WWII Hobby - Sutton News - 1943

The July 22, 1943 issue of The Sutton News had this item:

The Sutton Museum is proud to have the ensuing collection of Les Bauer in our collection as of a several months ago as a donation from the Gene Bauer family.

Read about the result of Les' hobby here:

Les Bauer WWII Autograph Books, etc.

Decorative Plates - Wach Collection

Among the hundreds of items in the Shirley Wach treasures recently donated to our museum were several decorative plates:

The Heinz & Dulaigh General Merchandise Store produced this plate for their 1909 calendar. This was likely a store run by
30-year old John Heinz and 33-year old Dwight Dulaigh. However, Dulaigh was a dentist and listed himself as one in the
1910 census. His wife Frances was listed as a "sales woman". Do you suppose she was the Dulaigh in the business?

A nice plate here but we can't tell you much about it. Any idea who produced this? When? What occasion?

This plate comes with a mystery - what was the occasion and who sponsored this one?

There are several plates in this collection. We'll post more later..

This one from the Sutton Methodist Church is undated.