CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - 1907 Bits & Pieces of News ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission Granted by Rod Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== Cedar County News (Wynot Tribune follows) 1-25-1907 – St. James Items St. James Hotel for sale, cheap if taken at once. Inquire, Mrs. Clara Fracks. 2-28-1907 A large crowd of Hartington people attended the Wynot Lot Sale yesterday. 5-29-1907 - St. James Items Wynot has taken quite a boom lately, several new buildings are the course of construction. Joe Koch has sold out his business in Murdo, SD and is thinking of locating in Wynot. Hoe has a level head and an eye for business. 6-29-1907 – St. James Items Wynot is growing like weeds, yes weeds and all! Mr. Cable Will give a dance at his hotel next Monday night. Come and have a good time. 7-4-1907 The dance at Cable house in Wynot Monday night was the best had in the city. There was a good crowd in attendance and everyone had a good time. Thanks Cable and come again. 8-1-1907 Some of the railroad contractors have finished their work her and are moved to other fields. The masons have been laying brick on the Konegi State Building in Wynot. 8-8-1907 – St. James Items Everybody gets busy over in Wynot these days. George Lammers is moving some store building to Wynot this week. 8-15-1907 – St. James Items Alex Schulte has moved his drug store to Wynot and will remodel soon and have it ready for business. 9-19-1907 - St. James Items The Sioux City Fair and Schutzenfest has passed, next comes the Jubilee for Wynot. 9-26-1907 – St. James Items The telegraph lines are extending into Wynot. 10-3-1907 – St. James Items The dance at Wynot on Friday night was well attended and fine time was had by all present. Oyster supper at Cable house. 3-28-1907 The New town of Wynot begin to grow. St. James is on the boom, standing room only. Dave Anderson of Newcastle, was visiting friends at the St. James hotel. He says Wynot is a fine fish pond. The river has resumed its normal condition after four weeks of flood and the settlers are going back to their homes again. 9-29-1907 We are happy to announce that a railroad to St.James is a reality. That the people of this community have at last realized their long looked for expectations. The track was laid into Wynot Wednesday and the road will be completed and regular trains running in a short time. That Whistle sounds good to me. For round trip tickets call at Sweet’s lumber office and buy a bill of lumber for that house. Fall 1907 Sale of lots at Wynot New town to be started on the Omaha Extension The town lot sale held at the new town of Wynot in the northeastern part of Cedar county Wednesday was well attended and there was quite a demand for business and residence lots in the new town. About thirty business lots were sold ranging form $.00 for the choice lots of $75. Residence lots for from $40 to $60. the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad will be extended from Newcastle to St. James or rather Wynot, which is the name of the new town this summer and it expected for the new town will be operation before the first of next year. The lot sale for the new town of Maskell near the west line of Dixon County, was held Thursday and while the demand for the lots was not as great as at Wynot, there were quite a number sold at fancy prices. 2-14-1907 Mr. Chamberlain who recently moved from here to Irene SD has decided to come back to Nebraska. He has invested at Wynot and will open a blacksmith shop in the new town. Mrs. Chamberlain is visiting in the Perry Home at present. 10-31-1907 The first passenger train went out from Wynot Monday morning. F. Asbre shipped out one load of hogs and cattle from Wynot on Tuesday. The Old Happy Corner building pulled out of town for Wynot Monday. Don’t know what kind of a corner it will find there. 10-10-1907 There is a large force of railroad men working in Wynot this week, building the depot and section house laying side track, ect. Art Whirry, the house mover from Canada, had Jeff Brewer’s house on wheels Weds. Morning ready to start for Wynot. Newell Brothers are moving their implement stock to Wynot. 11-12-1907 We stated in our last week scrap book that John Goodwin was working for Wynot dairy line. Now we are ready to take water on that proposition. It’s the Bell line for we saw the bell strapped to the hind axle of his dray. The Millie and Sheffer hardware stock will soon be moved to Wynot Contractor Nelson and Stiles are pursuing their work on the brick building in Wynot this fine weather. 11-12-1907 Everybody is busy in Wynot these days pushing the construction of their buildings to completion. Wynot is a very wet town now with two saloons running at full blast on one side and an artisian well through the center. 11-7-1907 The Cook Meat Market took a slide over to the new town last week. What next, Mr. Wherry? All there is left on our once famous “Happy Corner” is the corner. WYNOT TRIBUNE 12-05-1907 The Cable house of Wynot has changed hands this week. A gentleman from Sioux City will have charge. There will be a newspaper started in Wynot in a few days. The machinery is all in and will soon be in place. 12-12-1907 the first issue of the Wynot Tribune was just laid on our des, and is a bright and newsy sheet, which bespeaks a prosperous future for its publisher, H.a. McCormick. T.N. Jones is building a large flour and feed store in Wynot. 12-27-1907 The dance at Woodman Hall last Friday evening was well attended and a pleasant time is reported. Manager Ed Klopping expects to have his new telephone exchange installed and in operation by the 15th of January. H.C. Kirkpatrick and family left Tuesday for their new home at Wynot. They have a new house ready to move into and think they will enjoy living in the new town which bids fair to be a very pretty place. They take with them the best wishes of many Emerson friends. (Emerson enterprise) J.S. Emerson has a large force of men at work packing and moving his immense stock of merchandise from St. James to his fine new store building in Wynot. IT will take today and tomorrow and probably longer to complete the work and until such time as he is straightened in his new quarter he will not make city delivery of goods in Wynot and St. James. The St. James post office will remain at the old stand with Mr. C.C. Newell in charge. Ed Klopping has let the contract to J.L. Grantham for furnishing and putting in the Wynot line of the Ames Creek Telephone company. At a meeting of the St. James Telephone company last Monday evening it was decided to turn the management of the company over to Elmer Klopping providing he has his local exchange in operation by January 15.