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Bryan's Public Park

 

Twelve acres of the Silver Champion's Fairview Farm to be Given Over to the Project

 

Lincoln, Neb. - Feb. 4 - W. J. Bryan will build a park on his farm east of Lincoln.

 

Twelve acres east of Fairview will be given over to the project. Picnic parties and concessions will be allowed free use of the park. Work is to begin on it early in the spring. While it will not be a public park in the strictest sense of the word, Mr. Bryan proposes to have it easy of access

to any party desiring to use it. It is located between the interurban trolley running from Lincoln to Collegeview, Neb.

 

Walnut Valley Times, El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas, February 6, 1903, Volume XXXIV, Number 3

 

Contributed by:  Peggy Thompson

     

     

 

 

Senatorial Vote in Nebraska

 

Lincoln, Jan 18, - The national conflict has been formally inaugurated.   The first ballot was taken in the two houses.  Thirty-one induviduals were favored with a complimentary vote, but the leaders were Powers, for the Independents; Paddock, for the Republicans, and Keiper, for the Democrats.  Their votes were respectively in the aggregate - 30, 30, and 5.

 

Decatur - The Daily Review, January 19, 1893

 

 

 

Nebraska Sheriff Suspended in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 6

 

 

Nebraska Sheriff Suspended

 

Lincoln, Neb., April 6 -- Sheriff J. L. Schelk of Gage County was suspended from office today by order of Governor McKelvie.  On information contained in affidavits that he violated prohibition laws by selling liquor.

 

Impeachment proceeding charging among other things, opression and extortion were started

against the sheriff at Beatrice yesterday.

 

 

The Deluth News Tribune - April 7, 1921

 

 

 

     

     

 

 

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