Saturday, February 29, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Chinese Laundries in Clay County in the 1890's
A few years ago we posted a story about the Sanborn maps that were published for insurance companies around 1900. On the Sutton map for the north end of downtown, we saw one building identified as a "Chinese Laundry."
You can visit that site at http://suttonhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2017/10/did-sutton-once-have-chinese-laundry.html
Further poking around found a similar reference in the Harvard maps suggesting that at least these two area towns had Chinese laundries, or was that a generic, perhaps somewhat racist reference for the time.
More recently, we stumbled upon this item in The Harvard Courier newspaper for March 6, 1895:
So we can now state, unequivocally, that there were Chinese businessmen operating laundries in Clay County in the 1890's.
We can imagine that Chinese entrepreneures from communities that had been associated with railroads in the 19th Century had followed the lines looking for new markets for their services.
This is definitely a topic calling for more research.
Clay County Sheriff's Department - 1995
Our weekly old-newspaper-exercise produced this documentation naming the personnel of the sheriff's department 25 years ago.
The 1995 Clay County Sheriff’s department celebrated the arrival of their new breathalyzer machines with a group photo for the county newspaper. Left to right: Jeff Franklin, Tim Rudloff, Brad Hulse, and Troy Starr.
This week’s photo was in The Clay County News on March 3, 1995.
County 4-H Leaders of 1995
These 4-H leaders were honored for their service at the 1995 Appreciation supper in Clay Center. The photo appeared in The Clay County News on February 16, 1995, but did not identify the folks.
Feel free to display the results of your own memory test in the comments below.
Friday, January 31, 2020
1920 Ad from Esch-Schrer Motor - Liberty Autos
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.
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.
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