A Happy Schoolhouse

Our Wolfe School house enjoyed its best day in many years as twenty-two fourth graders from Sutton schools visited on Friday afternoon, October 12th.

The sound of enthusiastic school kids filled the one-room school house at the Sutton Museum.

The one-room school echoed with the sounds of bright and curious kids making the most of a field trip to a giant visual-aid for their current block of studies.

It was a day for the Sutton Historical Society to realize some of the potential of our prized historic building. Speaking for the school building, it was the greatest of days to relive a moment of its past. And I'm sure the kids took away a much better understanding of what it must have been like to attend such a school.

Just as happened thousands of times across rural America, kids posed to capture a memory before a one-room school house.

Thanks to Mrs. Wademan for allowing us to share our afternoon with this great bunch of kids. Good luck to all.

Sutton's Kindergarten Class of 1987

This photo appeared in September 26th, 2012 issue of The Clay County News in the "Clay County in the Rear View Mirror" column. The photo first appeared in the October 1, 1987 issue of the paper and was identified as the Sutton Class of 2000.  I promised to identify the young people on this blog - here goes.

This was the morning class:

Front row, l to r: Michael Stuhmer, Jason Lorenzen, Brandon Scheidemann, Amy Griess, T. J. Jones, Scott Ulmer.
Middle Row: Mike Kleinschmit, James Majors, Amanda Leininger, Joe Waddell, Jaana Eckhardt, Lyndsay Miller.
Back Row: Kiley Domeier, Jennifer Grothe, Jamie Smith, Angela Majors, Tiffany Stahl, Taylor Pope, Jessica Moody.

The afternoon class did not appear in the recent issue of the paper but they did appear in the original 1987 issue, also identified as the Sutton Class of 2000.

Front row, l to r: Angela Huber, Anna Hultine, katie Sheridan, Lisa Hofmann, Brian Zimlich.
Middle row: Jed Sharkey, Nicky Brown, Carisa Ramsey, Danielle Stevens, Danielle Nuss, Antonio Hemsath.
Back row: Kelly Jasnoch, Sandy Gowen, Ben Kauk, Amelia Nuss, Michael Dennis, Aaron Plettner.
Heather McCann was not pictured.

Passion for the Past

It has been almost seven years since the founding of the Sutton Historical Society and three since we began contributing to Sutton Life Magazine. It is time to report on what we are doing.

The mission of the Sutton Historical Society is to collect and preserve the artifacts and information about the past in the Sutton community. The first need when we started was a home for the artifacts, the Sutton Museum.

The three museum buildings, the Historic House, the Wolfe Country School Museum and the museum in the original John Gray house soon became an established part of the Sutton scene.

Six of the active young people in and around Sutton about 1900: Carl Spielman, Ada Gray,
Homer Gray, Irene Honey, Albert (A.W.) Clark and Mayme Wieden.

The Historic House displays the home of John and Emma Gray much as it might have looked soon after they built it in 1908. Their original home serves as to space for museum items and the Wolfe school provides visitors, especially kids, a look at country schools fifty and more years ago.

The museum supports that part of the mission of preserving artifacts. Visitors enjoy hands-on access to household items, furnishings and other artifacts that have a Sutton story. The artifacts, the stuff of the past, comprise an important and expected part of the role of a museum. People enjoy the butter churns and bed pans as well as other items common in the past but gone from our everyday life now. We appreciate the many, many contributions from people who have made possible our collections.

Among the items in the museum are the original dining room set in the historic house, the baggage cart from the Sutton depot, a bedroom set from the early Honey furniture store, high school annuals, Ebert sister paintings, Beulah Ochsner’s hats, and veterans’ stuff  – uniforms, memorabilia, photos; the list goes on and on.

The second part of the historic society’s mission involves finding and preserving information about Sutton’s past, not only preserving that information but distributing it for the education and entertainment of those with an interest in Sutton’s past.

This series of articles in Sutton Life Magazine has played an important part in distributing information that we uncover about the history of the Sutton area. There are so many stories about the deeds of earlier Sutton residents that have been lost from our collective memories or are known to only a few. The various outlets from the historical society give exposure to these stories.

A few of the forgotten, or almost forgotten stories we’ve uncovered include the story of William Wellman, a 14-year old Sutton newspaper publisher who became obsessed with hot air balloon travel attempting to reach the North Pole and Europe in his balloon; the Umma Luebbens’ invention of the round baler; Adeline Nolde’s design for the FFA emblem, the breadth of Ted Wenzlaff’s military career; Alida Curtiss’s Grafton and Sutton-based novel about her friend Nellie Stevens; Eugene Bemis’s book “The Squawker” and his career as publisher of the York New Teller newspaper; Herbert Johnson’s Saturday Evening Post covers; Betty Swanson’s immigration story from Sweden to Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs to Sutton and many, many more.

We’ve retold the stories of several better known Suttonites plus the stories of groups of people in the town’s past. Remember the article about Satch? All of us over a certain age remember that man. He was the identity of the town for several years. Out-of-town athletes knew Satch but how many in our younger generations had heard of him? If stories like his are lost our town will lose some of its personality.

Our newspaper column has also been in place for three years. There are stacks of old county newspapers in the basement of the news office. You could spend your own time going through those old papers to learn something of the story of Sutton’s past. Instead, we lay out the highlights from 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago each week. Besides, one hundred year old deteriorating newsprint will not withstand much more handling.

Our online presence at www.suttonhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com offers yet another outlet for information about Sutton’s past. The advantages of the blog are that it is easily updated, can be as timely as today and it reaches people world-wide – it really does.

So there are two major categories of things the historical society does: stuff and stories. My personal preference is the stories part. And yes, I do have a passion for finding and retelling those stories.

We all need something to be passionate about. But those of us in the historical society are the first to admit that historical matters are not everyone’s interest, much less passion. If you don’t share our passion in historical matters I hope you have found your own. But if that is the case, why have you come this far in this article?

The Wolfe School District #55, a part of the Sutton Museum and fully furnished with desks, piano,
pot-belly stove and an assortment of period grade school textbooks.

Maintaining and developing the historical society demands effort and some money (yes, we have a light bill, insurance and lots more.) There is a small, and yes, passionate cadre of loyal workers and supporters of the historical society. We are proud when visitors comment on our products and acknowledge the work. But our small number constrains how much we can do.

Our visitors and those who contact us via email, phone calls and letters are actually skewed towards the non-residents, even the out-of-staters. People who once lived in Sutton or whose parents or grandparents were once residents maintain their interest in our town. We field a steady stream of requests for information about people who once lived here and someone is trying to reconstruct the memory of them. There is real satisfaction in fulfilling that kind of request.

Do you have even a glimmer of passion for the past? Or would you like to develop an interest? We would be thrilled to have you join us. There are numerous projects on our TODO list, projects that we think would add to our understanding of Sutton’s past and would educate and entertain. Just contact us and we’ll talk. We can show you what we’ve done and the kinds of things we’d like to do if we only had more hands involved.

The museum is open from 2 – 5 PM on Sundays or call 773-0222 for an appointment. Our monthly meetings are the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 at the historic house, 309 N. Way Avenue. We have a fun gathering the first Saturday of each month with our Pancake Breakfast at the American Legion from 7:30 to10:30. The breakfasts provide a steady revenue stream that keeps our financial head close to the water line. Your enjoyment of the pancakes and conversation is an easy way for you to help out with that funding part of our challenges. Another kitchen volunteer or two would be great too.

So visit the museum and the blog, read the newspaper and continue to read our Sutton Life articles to enjoy our work. Better yet, join us and help us expand this service to the greater Sutton community.

This article first appeared in the July, 2012 issue of Sutton Life Magazine. For further information about Sutton Life Magazine or for a subscription, please visit: http://www.suttonlifemagazine.com/ or call 402-984-4203.

Kuchen in Sutton and Around the World

The kuchen is a big part of the heritage of the Germans from Russia in Sutton. We celebrate this food product with a Kuchen Baking Contest each year during Dugout Days, typically the last weekend in June.

You can learn a bit more about this food at such sites as:  http://www.karenskuchens.com/   or  http://eurekakuchenfactory.freeservers.com/ .

Besides Sutton, Nebraska and the Dakotas, we found kuchens in a bakery in Lodi, California run by a woman from North Dakota. Her racks were filled daily with at least a hundred of the tasty custards of many flavors. And we were not especially surprised to find a food product for sale in Germany and Switzerland that was very similar to the kuchen. Both of those locations were in kiosks in train stations. The Friedrichstrasse Train Station in Berlin had a busy place dispensing kuchen but calling it by another name, something that started with an "s" and my have been 'spiesel" or something like that - memory fails.

A custard that looked and tasted much like the kuchen we are used to
 in Sutton , Nebraska purchased in the main train station in Zurich, Switzerland

The main station in Zurich also had a product for sale that looked and tasted much like kuchen. It certainly hit the spot early in the morning heading out on a day of sight-seeing.

It made sense to find kuchen in those places in Berlin and Zurich. Zurich is in the German speaking portion of Switzerland.

The real surprise was to find an item called "German Pastry" on the menu at a Chinese bakery in San Francisco.

I had to try out this German Pastry and guess what. This is what it looked like.

This is an item called "German Pastry" at a Chinese bakery in San Francisco.
It looks and tastes a whole lot like a plain kuchen from the Sutton Bakery.

I spoke with the owner of the place and the "chef." They said that one of their cooks in the past had introduced them to the German pastry and they had continued to make it after the fellow left. Neither of them could remember where the fellow had come from.

The Chinese bakery is pictured below. It is at 1941 Irving Street in San Francisco, just south of Golden Gate Park and between 20th and 21st Avenues.. There are two Sheng Kee Bakeries on Irving Street, the other being further to the east near 9th Avenue.

There are other Sheng Kee Bakeries in the Bay Area.

The Chinese Bakery that features a German Pastry, or kuchen - who'd a thought?

Teddy Roosevelt stopped in Sutton September 20, 1912

A Presidential Candidate Made a Brief Stop in Sutton 100 Years Ago

Theodore Roosevelt, candidate for president on the Bull Moose Party ticket, stopped at the Sutton Depot on the afternoon of September 20, 1912. 

Retail politics at that time made good use of the railroad system making "whistle stops" along the route speaking to hundreds at each little town covering a lot of ground in a day. Compare with today's two or three, maybe four appearances a day with a few thousand people in each crowd.

News item in the September 26, 1912 edition of the Sutton Register

Roosevelt became the youngest president in September, 1901 following the assassination of William McKinley and was re-elected in 1904. He was succeeded by Taft in 1908 and attempted to earn the Republican nomination again in 1912. When Taft was renominated, Roosevelt formed a Third Party called the Bull Moose Part and became the third major candidate in the race. The split in the Republican Party assured the victory of Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election. 

1912 Pyrotechnic Entertainment

Entertainment in 1912

So what was there to do 100 years ago? It looks like a drive to Hastings might have been worth it. Sorry I missed this...

Ad from the Sutton News newspaper September 27, 1912.

1940 in Sutton

Let's take another look at a particular year in Sutton, this time 1940.

Ads from 1940 Sutton Newspapers

The 1940 census was released on April 2^nd after being locked up for 72 years giving us a glimpse of who was doing what in our town. We also used the 1940 Sutton Register newspapers for a better image of the year.

Right off the bat, two things stand out. The country and especially our area were well on the way towards crawling out of the Great Depression. There is optimism in the tone of the newspaper articles. One newspaperman insisted that Nebraska was just one good crop away from recovery illustrating he saw weather as a bigger problem than economic and banking issues. Farm mortgage debt was 7 billion, the smallest figure in 20 years and down from over 9 ½ billion in prior decade. The record high was 11 billion in the early 20’s.

The other news that took up newspaper column space was the expanding war in Europe. Stories from the German side almost matched that of the English and the tone was much like a spectator of a sporting event. Writers seemed almost certain the US would not be dumb enough to get involved in another intra-European squabble.

Locally, florescent light was new at the Central Café. News reached town that local sports star Vic Kohler was wed in Hawaii during a bowl trip with his brother Morris and the rest of Oregon State football team. New license plates were red on blue drawing criticism that they would be better employed advertising for a carnival company.

Changing times threatened the K. C. & O rail line from Clay Center to Fairfield and the sixteen mile freight line from Sutton to Clay Center appeared doomed too.

Mystery birds appeared in yards, black, but not a blackbird, white bills, short tails and smaller than a robin. No one knew what it was.

The Sutton Register was $1.25 per year.

The county board of supervisors was Chairman Henry F. Tjarks, E. L. Smock, O. B. Percival, Fred Mock, Fred Kreil, John H. Schmer and Emil Hutline. Brothers-in-law Roy Oakley and Henry Vauck were in the midst of their long-running act as County Clerk and County Judge. Sheriff John J. Harr and Deputy Ralph Spencer policed the county.

There were a number of excuses to socialize: the Golden Rod Club, S. N. T. Club, Sutton Women’s Club, Fortnightly Club, P. E. O.’, J. U. T. and Fairview Club among others.

Prominent town boxers included Ray Roemmick, Allen Bender, Earl Plettner and Elmer Plettner.

But it is hard to beat the census for a cross-section of what people were doing and where. Sara Ebert was the enumerator for the census in the town of Sutton, Lee Lilliedahl counted noses in rural Sutton Township and my Dad, Clarence Johnson was the enumerator for School Creek Township. Yes, School Creek was the first thing I looked at when the census came online.

Let’s concentrate on businesses in Sutton. First, the gas stations stand out. William Ebert, Orville Levander, Alex McDonald, John A. Mathewson, Albert Hust, Herman Griess, George Reutzel, Chester Wesson, Adam Rasby, and William Wasson (gas station and café) all claimed to own or operate gas stations.

There were mechanics: Adolph Ekhardt, Reuben Wiard, Carl Unterseher, William Stertz plus Art Wach and LeRoy Cronin at the Ford garage,   

A fine figure of a vehicle - the 1940 Chevrolet

Four people, Gerald Nuss, Henry L. Rothrock, Ronald Spielman and pianist Helen Levander were listed as being with an orchestra.

Alexander Bauer and Ewald Nuss were bakers. (E.T.’s name was Ewald, didn’t know that.)      

Blacksmiths were William Steward and Fred Ehly. John Reifschneider called himself a junk dealer. Sibyl Jarrett was the librarian, of course.

Grocery stores were operated by Robert M. Figi, William Wieland and William Schmidt (also with dry goods).

Remember the produce stations? Floyd Sinner had one, John Eberhard listed himself as “cream tester” – that lasted a while. Emil Ochsner and son Milton ran a hatchery and developed an incubator as was done in Clay Center. (One of Emil’s is in the porch at the historic house.) Henry Haberman Jr. told the enumerator that he was a hired hand at a chicken ranch.

Henry Scheideman and Peter Scheierman were butchers; barbers Earl Atkins, Paul D. Welch and Goss Randall checked in and Frank Weston was a hardware merchant. 

Paul Ebert had a café, wife Nora was the cook and daughter Ursula was the waitress. Reuben Nuss was also a cook in a café.

Other merchants included: Earnest Jones, retail; Gottlieb Tesler, grocer; Fred Hanke, tailor shop; Albertis Lewis, jewelry store; and Carl Bruckner, variety store;

Herman V Nuss and Joseph Welch identified as Medical Doctors and Dr. Welch doubled as the mayor. Dentists were David J. Pope, Dwight Dulaigh, Herbert J. Ocshner and Gilbert Wieland. Dr. James S. Barbee had begun the long association of his name with Sutton veterinarian services. George Miller, Lee Lilliedahl and Theodore McKibben all plied the pharmacy trade.

Alfred Snedgren was superintendent of schools.

There were bankers: William and Nellie Hoerger, Edd and Walter Kirchefer while Samuel J. Carney listed his occupation as banker and his industry as hardware. Margaret Carney was “Editor – talking books.” (What was that?)

Lillian Phelps had her millinery shop, Jess Giffen managed a Ladies Ready-to-Wear shop as did Anna Bauer, Charles and Lila Gibson were manager and cashier at the Lyric Theater, Clarence Hurst was the bookkeeper at an implement dealer, Clair Nelson managed the bowling alley and Gottlieb Ehly was a cemetery sexton.

Five Sutton city residents listed rural mail carrier as their job: George Barnell, Olen Whitlcok, Wesley McDonald, George Schwab and Guy Swanson (our mailman on RR #2 northwest of town).

On Maltby Street we find sisters Anna, Martha and Selma Ebert, ladies this farm kid never knew, regrettably. Francis Lombardi was the priest. The hospital staff was Anna Stockham, manager; Maxine Johnson, trained nurse and Gracie Urbauer, practical nurse.

John Fuehrer was a painter and paper hanger but his son Edwin was trying his hand as a meat cutter at a grocery store – that worked out well. Fuehrer’s cheese spread is good today but who remembers his braunschweiger and his efforts to reverse engineer the Kraft product?

Tavern owners and bartenders Walter Green, Jacob Serr and Lucas Trebelhorn were serving that thirsty market. The insurance business was represented by John C. Grosshans, Martin Challburg (he had two dogs in the fifties, or were those ponies?) and Mrs. Mayme W. Clark was a hail and tornado insurance agent, really.

Herman Lorenzen sold Rawleigh products. Victor Kohler was the gymnasium janitor. This would have been between seasons of professional football in Boston and dad Otto was the undertaker. William Rickard and a few others identified with WPA road construction.

Emma Huffman was the supervisor, NYA Sewing Project. There were several young seamstresses learning that craft in Sutton in the Sewing Project. The National Youth Administration was a New Deal agency in the WPA from 1935 through 1943 and unlike the CCC, the NYA also served women. Lyndon Johnson once served as its Texas director.

John Helzer and others reported their occupation as “Book Repair, WPA Library Project.” Employees of this project repaired and re-conditioned tens of millions of books in school and public libraries in 45 states in another New Deal employment program.

This has not been an exhaustive list of Suttonites in business, professions and trades but a cross-section of those listed in the 1940 census. To calibrate the population, kids who were five in 1940 were in the high school graduating classes about 1953 and are approaching their 60^th reunion, a lot of folks, to be sure. Many in the ’40 census carried on in the same or similar positions for decades and are well within the memories of many more of us.

We hope you enjoyed this look back at Sutton 72 years ago and at the people who were walking the streets, buying and selling in these store buildings and doing their part to prepare the town for us, today. The 2010 census will be released in January, 2082. What will that little kid in the stroller you saw today think about when she sees your name in that ancient 2010 census record?

This article first appeared in the June 2012 issue of Sutton Life Magazine. For further information about Sutton Life Magazine or for a subscription visit http://www.suttonlifemagazine.com/index.html

Carolyn Ackermann Doll Collection

The historical society will soon be able to proudly display the extensive doll collection of the late Carolyn Ackermann of Geneva and of the Sutton Ackermann and Scheiermann families.

Carolyn's family recently offered the collection to the Sutton Museum as a means to meet Carolyn's wish that her collection remain intact and not be sold.

Members of the historical society are making plans about the best ways to display and to honor the collection and the pride of the collector.

Sutton History TIDBIT - the Bemis Cow

Mrs. George Bemis (Ada Augusta Gray) told this story in her "Reminiscences of a Sutton Pioneer" in the October 19, 1933 issue of the Sutton Register when she was living in York. The story probably took place about 1871 or '72, soon after they had settled in Sutton. The "spouse" in the story is George Bemis, one of the early attorneys in Sutton.

"We bought a cow, and it was brought home one night and milked with great ceremony. The next morning when my spouse made no move to repeat, I finally asked him if it was not time to milk, and to my great amazement, he said, 'Why, are you out of milk already?' Heretofore, he had owned only driving horses and the care of other domestic animals was a mystery to him."

1880 Sutton Advertisers - Clay County Globe

We have received a dandy little scrap book titled "The History of Clay and Fillmore Counties" from the Sheridan family, another of Betty Sheridan's gems.

The book contained a clipping from the Sutton Register in 1931 in which they quote from a copy of The Clay County Globe that was printed in Sutton on Friday, November 5, 1880. It was Vol. 6, No. 20 implying that the Globe had been in publication for some time. The issue included the news that Garfield had defeated Hancock for the presidency. But a very interesting piece was the list of advertising in that issue of the Globe. This was not an extensive list of Sutton businesses in 1880 but just the list of advertisers in one issue of a weekly newspaper.

Attorneys:  H. W. Gray, R. G. Brown, Bagley & Bemis, Stone & Stone, A. A. McCoy and J. S. LeHew

Doctors:  A. O. Kendall, M. V. Clark and A. H. Keller

Druggists:  W. J. Keller and H. H. Keller

General Merchandise:  M. Wittenberg, Merrill & Co. and John Honey & Sons

Dry Goods & Clothing:  Stein & Kramer

Hardware:  I. N. Clark & Co. and Way & Hoerger

Implements:  Thompson & Bros. and A. C. Clyde

Bakery and Confectionery:  W. W. Wieden

Dentist:  J. H. Johnson

Masons and Plasterers:  H. B. Batteshill and C. M.& W. A. Heusel

Wells & Pumps:  J. S. Lewis & Son

Harness: John A. Ling and Jos. Grice

Jeweler:  Paul Braitsch

Hotels: Clark House and French Hotel

Groceries:  Roberts Bros.

Photographer and Tin Types:  W. A. Fowler

Millinery: Mrs. C. Braun

Livery: Hawkins & Torrey and Moon & Roberts

Wagon Maker:  K. T. Jones

Blacksmith:  Lehrman & Nagel

Meat Market: Bemis & Barnhart

Tailor:  Geo. H. Sporl

Flour and Feed:  J. W. Heusel

The Cast of the 1892 Sutton Performance of the Chimes of Normandy

The Cast of "The Chimes of Normandy" from a Sutton performance in 1892

We are grateful to the Sheridan family for this photo, one of dozens, maybe over a hundred that they donated. We are further grateful that most of the photos included identification of the subjects.

Some of the names are illegible but we'll make a best guess here and continue to research the identification of each actor.

The long row of girls and women is identified as (Mrs. Dr. Vradenberg), Gertrude Merrill, Lila Brown, Grace Walton, Rose Merrill, (Mrs. Dr. J. M. Birkrier), Mrs. J. B. Frederick, Minnie Clift, Edith Braitsch, Eva Meyer, Ada Gray, Irene Honey, Mayme Wieden.

Seated in the front: P. Sodeberg (a rare instance of Sutton's photographer on that side of the camera) and Mrs. L. (Murtz) pianist.

Standing Center: Professor J. Henri Seacrest of Lincoln with  J. B. Frederick reclining.

Back row: Gus Neuman, Fred Scott, j. H. Towns, Gaul Rice and Fred Keller.

I'm sure I've misread several of the names. Any help or new guesses are welcome.

The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War Sutton Performance

The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) were a welcome and major addition to Sutton's 2012 Dugout Days celebration. We thank the men and women who came to Sutton, camped for two nights and gave us a look at the sights of Civil War units.

Confederate Cavalry officer putting his steed through its paces at the Sutton Civil War Reeneactment

A Civil War reenactment was held in Sutton during Dugout Days on June 30th and July 1. We had a small group of gents and gals and they put on two fine little shows. 


We had small units representing Union and Confederate infantry plus seven Confederate cavalry troops from Missouri led by this officer, with a Sutton connection.

The band of Union infantry marching towards the field of battle.

A couple of our local scouts joined the camp and participated in the action.


The Chamber of Commerce and several Sutton folks contributed (straw, food, water, etc.) to help make the visit go smoothly.


During the preparations for the event the story of Sutton's local hero, Orion P. Howe came up prompting the reenactment planners to include a piece of that story in the action of the battle. Howe's story took place at the Battle of Vicksburg and the general flow of the reenactment followed the  action of that battle.

Howe starts his ammo run under fire.

The incident at the Battle of Vicksburg that earned Howe his Medal of Honor involved his successful run through confederate lines to tell General Sherman that the 55th Illinois Infantry was trapped and running out of ammunition. 

The little piece of that story in the action by the reenactment group was a touch of class for the local crowd.,

The crowds both days enjoyed the performance. The Saturday afternoon actions were especially enjoyable as a solid could cover held temperatures down after days of serious heat.

A bit of smoke and mayhem as the cavalry pins down a couple of infantry troops.

The event illustrated to the Sutton folks that these men have taken a hobby to a very serious level. The realism of the uniforms and the equipment have a certain beauty that emphasizes and connects the spectator to the soldiers of 150 years ago.

A big part of the SUVCW mission is to identify and document the graves of Civil War veterans and the monument throughout the country that have been erected to the memory of the Civil War. At noon on Saturday a small group of SUVCW members met at the Civil War monument at the west side of Sutton's City Park to perform a solemn ceremony dedicating the monument.

This band the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War were impressive in their quiet, private celebration of Sutton's monument to the Civil War Veterans.

A single honor guard and the Sutton monument.

1908 Plat Map of School Creek Township, Clay County

School Creek Township, Clay County, Nebraska - Township 8 N, Range 5 W

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago - 1908

Earlier 1886 plat maps are at NE Gen Web Project

1908 Plat Map of Eldorado Township, Clay County

Eldorado Township, Clay County, Nebraska - Township 8 N, Range 6 W

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago - 1908

1908 Plat Map of Harvard Township, Clay County

Harvard Township, Clay County, Nebraska - Township 8 N, Range 7 W

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago - 1908