. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . MILU YOUNG ROY BARNARD fixed in the old town, whither it had been taken by the inspector at the timeof his visit. Soon after this the entire old town capitulated and moved np tothe new town, followed by the postoffice some months later. The year 1891was a season of big crops and the new town enjoyed quite a boom. Moneywas plenty and the business men had a fine trade. Many new buildings wereerected, among them being two large grain elevators. The town was fullof traveling men and strangers, and th
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . MILU YOUNG ROY BARNARD fixed in the old town, whither it had been taken by the inspector at the timeof his visit. Soon after this the entire old town capitulated and moved np tothe new town, followed by the postoffice some months later. The year 1891was a season of big crops and the new town enjoyed quite a boom. Moneywas plenty and the business men had a fine trade. Many new buildings wereerected, among them being two large grain elevators. The town was fullof traveling men and strangers, and the townsite syndicate had succeeded ininteresting a number of eastern capitalists in the town. Arrangements hadbeen made for a big excursion at some future date, but in the meantime poorcrops and partial failures followed, culminating in the drought period of1894-5, which drove away half the population of the state, and in which Calla-way dwindled down from a hustling town of 000 people to a dead village of alittle over 200. The people became almost panic stricken, and a cry went outfor help th
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