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Title: Collection of Nebraska pioneer reminiscences
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: (Cedar Rapids, Ia., The Torch Press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the stock and then tosee which one could shoot the largest number of holes throughthe building. This gave the town quite a boom and new settlersas far away as Valentine began hearing of the new town ofBuchanan. Soon after another venturesome settler brought ina general merchandise store and then the rush began, all fearingthey might be too late to secure choice locations. The next pub-lic necessity was a newspaper, which soon came, and the townwas given the name of Nonpareil. It was regularly platted intostreets and alleys, and a town well sunk in the public square.Efforts to organize a civil government met with a frost, every-one preferring to be his own governor. A two-story hotel builtof rough native pine boards furnished lodging and meals forthe homeless, three saloons furnished drinks for the thirstytwenty-four hours in the day and seven days in the week; twodrug stores supplied drugs in case of sickness and booze fromnecessity for payment of expenses. These with a blacksmith 22
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Mrs. Angie F. Newman Second Vice-President General from Nebraska, National Society, Daughtersof the American Kevolution. Elected 1898 FRONTIER TOWNS 23 shop and several stores constituted the town for the first yearand by reason of continuous boosting it grew to a pretentioussize. The second year some of the good citizens, believing ithad advanced far enough to warrant the establishment of achurch, sent for a Methodist minister. This good soul, believinghis mission in life was to drive out sin from the community, setabout to do it in the usual manner, but soon bowed to the in-evitable and. recognizing prevailing customs, became popular inthe towTi. Boys, seeing him pass the door of saloons, would ^hail him and in a good-natured manner give him the contents ofa jackpot in a poker game until, with these contributions andsums given him from more religious motives, he had accumulatedenough to build a small church. After the organization of the county, the place was voted thecounty-seat, a

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