CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - INTERESTING HISTORY OF WYNOT, 1938
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Wynot Tribune November 3, 1938

INTERESTING HISTORY RECALLED BY MOVE

HERFKENS HOUSE BUILT FROM LUMBER IN ST. JAMES CHURCH, SALOON

Wynot - The moving crew which last week prepared the John Herfkens 
house for removal to Hartington, started the building on the way to its 
new location Friday evening. The removal of this house from the 
community recalls to some of the older residents memories of an 
historic old building which was torn down and the lumber used in the 
building of the Herfkens house. According to some of the "old timers", 
part of the lumber in this house has a history and if it could talk, it 
might tell many tales of long ago when it housed various activities of 
the business life of St. James in the days when St. James was a 
hustling business-like little village.

The old St. James building saw varied activities carried on under its 
roof, even the extreme of changing from a saloon to a church building.

It also was a general store and postoffice, a residence and a bowling 
alley. In the early days if the memories of some of the early residents 
are correct, Charlie Locke operated a general store in the building and 
it also housed the postoffice for some time. The building was then 
located west of the Dickenson Hotel. 

When Locke moved his store farther east on "Main Street" the building 
was used as a barber shop and "hole in the wall" (meaning saloon) which 
was run it is said by a man by the name of "Pistol Grip".  Then along 
in the early or middle '90's the Presbyterians bought the building and 
remodeled it for a church. Several years later, when a new church was 
built the old building was sold to Cal Brewer who moved it near to what 
was then known as "Buzzard's Bay" and rented it for a dwelling. 

Later Frank Scougall bought it and used it for a saloon moving it to 
Wynot when the new town was started and later operated a bowling alley 
in it. The First National Bank next acquired ownership of the building 
and tore it down and used the lumber to help build a larger modern house 
which later was bought by Mr. Herfkens and is now being moved to 
Hartington.



NOTE:  THE WYNOT TRIBUNE CEASED OPERATIONS IN THE LATE 1930s.