POOLE in the Past...

   The Following is from an article which appeared in the “Kearney Hub,” probably in the early 1900’s:

HUB MAN AT POOL’S SIDING
Found a Prosperous Shipping Point
With Flattering Prospects

   Pool’s Siding (photo) is a way station on the Pleasanton Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad and is a trading place of considerable importance.  The large department store here is now managed by Walter Tillson.  Miss Tillson presides over the Post Office and Messrs. Stark and Crooks wait on customers and care for the store.  A new hotel has been erected by T.J. McConnell and will be run as a first class hostelry, where the hungry will be fed and the weary may rest.  Mr. McConnell will also look after the grain elevator of J.P. Gibbons & Co. of Kearney.  The power for the elevator is furnished by a large gasoline engine.
   Wort Bros. have an elevator here with a capacity of ten thousand bushels, with all modern improvements, which since last October has handled 25,000 bushels of corn.  They sell farm machinery and Deering harvesters.  W.S. Eldridge is the local manager.
   Here is located one of the numerous plants of the F.H. Gilcrest Lumber Company with headquarters at Kearney, carrying lumber, coal, farm implements and machinery, etc.  Stewart Thomas, the local manager says the sales have  been quite high this Spring.
   B.F. Moore, contractor and builder, is kept busy at his trade.
   George Duncan, the stock buyer, is feeding two hundred head of cattle at this point.  He had bought and fed over 15,000 bushels of corn this past Winter, which has made the Siding one of the best grain markets in the country.
   Mr. Goodby is the ‘village blacksmith,’ and is a good one.
   It is thought that the railroad company will soon erect a station building here with an operator attached, all of which is greatly needed at this time.
   A prosperous and well-settled farming country on both sides of the Loup River lies adjacent to Pool’s Siding, which is destined to be one of the best little towns inside of Buffalo County.  Messrs. Abrams, Bourne, Barker, Hanna, Sullivan, Houston, Duncan and many others have fine farms, good buildings, and plenty of stock to show for their farm labor.

   (map of Poole, Nebraska, courtesy Winona Snell)
 

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