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.
Friday, January 31, 2020
1995 Sutton FFA Chapter Photo.
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.
Sutton 1920 Downtown Photo - North East section
This photo of downtown Sutton dates from about 1920. It was published on page 250 on Jim Griess's book - Germans from Russia.
Boy Scouts Order of Arrow ceremony, December 1969
This Sutton Scouting event took place on December 30, 1969.
1920 Gold & Co Ad in Clay County
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.
Clay County Plat Map - Date Quiz
This collection of Clay County plat maps came into the possession of the Sutton Museum years ago, date of publication unknown.
A challenge: can you figure out the date from the snapshot of land ownerships on these maps? Clues welcome in the comments.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Goose Tatum sparks win in Harvard
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:
1970 Decision for new Sutton firehouse
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.
Sutton Wrestlers - January 1970
From The Clay County News of January 8, 1970
Sutton Wrestlers at Friend and Stromsburg
1970 Train Derailment on the Back Track to Clay Center
From The Clay County News
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.
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