CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - ==================================================================== 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: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== Cedar county news February 22, 1951 Old wall clock has interesting history Wynot-on the dining room wall of the farm home of Mrs. Edith Klopping north of town hangs a unique clock which along with the other clocks of the same design has a history, the story of which has just come to life. Mrs. Klopping's clock was given to her 40 years or more ago by her young nephew, Dr. The rest the Archibald Nissen of Boston. A story about this design of clock was printed in a recent issue of Life magazine. 40 years ago daily paper in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, offered its readers and premiums one of which was a large massive wall clock for 30 coupons and a the the gave the the the a the small cash payment, amount the not specified. Premiums were given out to the amount of several hundred, and do I go and the paper forgot all about the whole thing. Then last month but ever received an envelope containing 30 crumbling yellow coupons and the and letter from a man in new York asking for one of the clocks. The circulation manager who had made the original offer was called from retirement and a citywide hunt was starteded for one of those premium clocks. Several were found, but the owners refused to give them up. And finally the manager found one in his mother's attic and sent it to the man in New Yor, and the man admitted the source of the old coupons. He works for company microfilming back issues of a paper. Mrs. Klopping said her nephew received the clock is a premium from an Omaha paper. Since the story and pictures of the clocks were printed in Life magazine, a Sioux city man wrote the Sioux city Journal that he had received one of the clocks from that paper in 1909 and that it's still kept a good time. Mrs. Klopping was given the clock 40 years ago, she was told "There is not a thing the matter with the it, that only it won't run." She had the it overhauled and it kept good time all these years. The clock is a plain open face model a square of dark wood and the pendulum hangs in the open in front of three narrow panels of the same dark wood.