Poole in the Past, Miscellaneous photos

POOLE in the Past...

Miscellaneous photos...

**photo courtesy Winona Snell**

The Poole Methodist Church (originally Presbyterian) about 1915 viewed from the NE.
Note in the distance the Wort Elevator on the left; Wm. Hughes came in 1921 to operate it.
And note the Whitcomb elevator on the right. He operated it until his death in 1936.

   The residence at the NE corner of "A" Street and Hanna Avenue. Note the church in the background.
   This home was occupied originally (?) by Ralph and Minnie (Harvey) Drown , then about 1920 by Ed and Susie Pool.
   It was the home of Bert Standage in the 1940's and later, and was/is still standing in the early 21st century.

**photo courtesy Joyce Drown Brennan**

**photo courtesy Joyce Drown Brennan**

   The dance hall at the NW corner of Main Street and North Avenue next to the Duncan store.   This building is also pictured in one of the Main Street scenes.
   Pictured are Ralph and Minnie Drown (and Rod Stover thinks John Pesek).
   The full photo (232 kb) shows a broken window, mud puddles, and a downed (?) power line, or is it a line to the equipment parked near the construction zone on the right (?).

**Early 1900's postcard photo courtesy Kim Stover**
Most likely the Edson store near the middle of Main Street. The sign on the roof says "Drugs." On the original, one can make out signs below the windows that say "Drugs R__ goods, sundries" "___ Paper" "Stock feed and Veterinary Supplies" and "Rexall ?___"

**Early 1900s pnoto courtesy Kim Stover (full photo 116kb)**
Annotated in Mary May Clayton Stover's hand:
Ora McConnell, Mrs. Clark, Jennie Edson, Mrs. Jergenson, Mrs. Heapy, Nellie Hanna, Mrs. Mahoney, Katherine Mahoney, Merle Mahoney, Edith Hanna, Laura (?) Hanna, Alice Jergenson, Amy Jergenson, Pearl Whitcomb, Blanche Whitcomb, Marjorie Clark, Hazel Clark, Ruth McConnell, Vanda McConnell, Mary McConnell, Ella Watt, Ella Grammar, Bertha Reese, Art Jergenson, Louise Schneider, Bud Clark, Friday Hanna.

**Photo courtesy Tommy Mahoney**.

Some Poole folks about 1917.

From left to right:
Mrs. Stover, Minnie Perry, Edith Clark, Mrs. Schneider or Mrs. Heapy (in back), and Keith Stover.

(Identification by Winona Duncan Snell)

Poole Grandmother's Club,about 1936.

Top row: Mrs. Bullock, Mrs. Anna Jergensen, Adella Harvey, Jennie Edson, Maggie Standage, Clara Brabham.
Next down: May Stover, Mrs. Gruhn, Mrs. Luce, Lutitia Whitcomb. Then Mrs. A.H. Harvey, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs Goodwin. Then Granny Brabham, Mrs. Dekker.
Front: Mrs. Heapy, Mrs. Schneider

**Photo and names courtesy Winona Snell**

**Photo courtesy Winona Snell**

Union Pacific work engine; certainly
before 1947, and possibly before 1900.

**Photo courtesy Joyce Drown Brennan**

**The Union Pacific depot in the early 1900s. The dignitaries are unidentified, but surely include J.C. Mahoney, and possibly Ed Pool.**

The depot in the 1930s or early 1940s, courtesy Tommy Mahoney, who was born in the family quarters and raised in Poole while his father, J.C. Mahoney, was the agent until his death in 1938.
Tommy graduated from the 10th grade at Poole in 1931, and from Ravenna High School in 1933. Other members of the class of 1933: Allen Stover, Dorothea Gruber Stover, her twin sister Bernice, and Winona Duncan Snell. Tommy rode to Ravenna with Allen during their school years there.
Glenn 'Pat' Stover shipped a single batch of cream from the depot before the 1947 flood took out the tracks. The depot was moved in the early 1950s to become a turkey barn near Sartoria, and has since been demolished.
[Photo taken from the NE ? Note the boxcar on the right on another set of tracks. Which is the main line? I think I remember the living quarters being on the east end of the building, but possibly mistaken. - RRS]

**Photo and names courtesy Winona Snell**
**The Bissell place, west of Poole and SE of Tillson's about 1914.George Bateman, Art Klein, Wayne Standage, Webb Dow.**
**[In the 1940's and 50's, we knew this as the Perry farm worked by Dick & Minnie Perry and Art Luce. - RRS]**

**Photo courtesy Kim Stover**

A rather sad and empty Main Street in the 1940s. The building to the right was just west of the Duncan/Stover store. Jess Robinson and family lived in the middle building in the 1950s.
The bank building is on the far left.

**Photo by Rod Stover, 1999**

   The Poole Bank building in 1999, but doubt it ever looked much different. Used as an election hall after the bank business moved to Ravenna in the 1930s.
   Attempts to grant the building historical status have not succeeded.
   Some miscellaneous paper records from the 1930s were discovered during a Poole School reunion in 2002 and removed to the Ravenna Historical Society.

**The South Loup River looking east from the bridge south of Poole**

**Surely it will remain nearly the same....**

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