bara, age 9 (Barbara passed away as a young girl), Edward T. age 8, Leona age 5, Onieta age 2, and a daughter Magdeline three months old." Mrs. Robert Scott passed away in January, 1963, at the age of 96.

Frank E. Martin, father of Frances Barkdoll, our friendly and accommodating postal employee, was engaged to publish the Battle Creek Enterprise during Mr. Scott's illness and later bought the paper from Mrs. Scott and published it for 52 years until his health failed. It was then sold to Francis E. Blackman of Tilden who in turn sold the paper to Les Falter, the present publisher. Mr. Martin was married to Anna Zimmerman, a sister of George and Peter Zimmerman. Mrs. Martin faithfully helped her husband in the newspaper office and in 1934 she was appointed post mistress to serve until she resigned because of ill health. Issue number 1 and issue number 2 of the Battle Creek Enterprise dated April 20 and April 28, 1887, are most interesting historically as they contain an abundance of information to go into the history of Battle Creek.

The land office was by that time located in Neligh with E. S. Butler as register and B. Lambert as receiver.

County officers were listed as follows: Treasurer, A. B. Richardson; Clerk and Recorder, W. E. Barry; Sheriff, George Davis; County Judge, D. T. Graham; Commissioners, C. D. Buroughs, H. D. Kelly and Charles Olsen; Superintendent of Schools, L. B. Bohanon; Coroner, Dr. Edward Tanner; Surveyor, W. H. Lowe; County Attorney, J. S. Robinson.

The members of the town board were: George S. Hurford, F. J. Hale, R. H. Maxwell, William Bates, and Henry Neuwerk. At the time of the first publishing of the Enterprise two men held the office of the Justice of the Peach, namely Mr. Hurford and Mr. Maxwell. Apparently there was considerable "judge" business at that time.

W. M. Klllinger was by then postmaster and had a business on the corner directly south of the Mary Tegeler home.

The church directory included the German Lutheran Church with Rev. H. A. Caemerer, pastor; Baptist Church with Rev. Harrington pastor; and the Catholic Church with Father Lichleitner as pastor.

There were secret orders listed, namely, the A.F. and A.M. Lodge with John Brasher, Master, and J. L. Avery, Secretary; I.O.G.T. Lodge with Rev. Harrington, W.C., and Monty Willis, Secretary.

As this would probably be the only reference to M. Lamont (Monty) Willis in this history, it should be noted that Monty was a fine young man with the promise to become one of the leading citizens of the community when he met an untimely end. Monty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. L. Willis, had homesteaded the land one-half mile south and four miles west of town where Monty grew to manhood. He had acquired one of the modern horseless vehicles of the day, a high wheeled bicycle, which he

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