George Honey's business in Sutton's early days was furniture and carpet, and like many who sold furniture in those early days, he had the additional role of the town's undertaker.
George Honey built the building that served as the Sutton High School Auditorium for several years before becoming a blacksmith shop, catching fire, and being replaced by the Sutton Community Center.
Bayer AG was founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863 was a dyestuffs factory. Their first product was aspirin and is still the best known.
In 1898 Bayer trademarked the name heroin for the drub diacetylmorphine and sold it as a cough medicine and a substitute for morphine until 1910.
This was a 1920 ad in The Sutton Register.
Didja know that Jacob Bender & Son had a Buick dealership in 1920?
These were 3 to 7 passenger cars priced from $1795 to $3295.
The next challenge is to see how long the Bender - Buick relationship lasted.
The Basket Stores was a huge chain of grocery stores with numerous stores in Omaha, Lincoln, and St. Joseph, but with smaller stores scattered around the area. Saronville had a Basket Store for a time.
This is an ad for the one in Sutton. At the time, there were 73 of these, according to the text on the basket. What do you bet they had baskets just like the one in the ad for use in the stores. Wonder if one of those might be gathering dust in someone's attic or basement.
The Fowler additions are between Myrtle Street and Highway 6 in the south part of Sutton. Fowler was a banker and he named Helen, Anna, and George Streets after his kids. He also had a daughter named Madge but she didn't get a street.
Do you find that troubling too?
This two-page spread was the ad for the George Leininger farm sale in 1920.
The auctioneer was Henry Bender, one of three sons of Jacob Bender. Gus Bender was the partner in the implement store. Johnny Bender was a college football coach among other things.
This ad for Dorothy's Style Shoppe on the North side appeared in The Clay County News during 1970.
Do you suppose it would be likely to appear today?
Or have we moved on?
Clay Center native Helen Moger Schroder recounts her story in the Navy in World War II, holding a photo of her son Jack Schroder who was one of three Clay County men to die in the Vietnam War.
Author and Nebraska humorist Roger Welsch and Sutton's Roger Sheridan enjoyed an Allis Chalmers day at Old Trusty Days in 1995.
Unfortunately, we miss out on the highlight of the day. This B&W photo fails to give us the full impact of two men in orange overalls celebrating the branding of their fav tractors. Shame, that.
These ads appeared in The Clay County on September 14, 1995 at the beginning of the football season.
OK, I know it's a crummy picture - a photo of a faded newspaper, but the names are there and it's the thought that counts, isn't it?
This would be your 1970 Fightin' Mustangs.
This is what you missed out on when you couldn't make it to the 1945 Clay County Fair.
From The Clay County News on September 14, 1995
A Sutton kid at The Point - West Point
From The Clay County News September 3, 1970.
From the September 3, 1970 Issue of The Clay County News
