POOLE in the Past...
Miscellaneous photos...
The Poole Methodist Church (originally Presbyterian) ca. 1915 Taken from the North side. (Photo courtesy Winona Snell) Note the elevators; ...the Wort Elevator on the left; Wm. Hughes came in 1921 to operate it. (just across from the Duncan (Pat's) Store.) ...the Whitcomb elevator on the right. He operated it until his death in 1936.
Poole Street scene, Anderson Building?? Early 1900s. Postcard courtesy Kim Stover
Photo early 1900s, courtesy Kim Stover (full photo, 116kb), annotated in Gram 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.
Some Poole folks, ca. 1917. Photo and names courtesy Tommy Mahoney. From l. to r.: Mrs. Stover, Minnie Perry, Edith Clark, Mrs. Schneider or Mrs. Heapy (?), Keith Stover.
(Names identified by Winona Duncan Snell)
Poole Grandmother's Club, ca. 1936
(photo and names courtesy Winona Snell)
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
The Union Pacific depot in Poole, 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.]
Union Pacific work engine; certainly before 1947, and possibly before 1900.
(Photo courtesy Winona Snell)
George Bateman, Art Klein, Wayne Standage, Webb Dow. Taken at the Bissell place, SE of Tillson's about 1914. (photo courtesy Winona Snell)
(Later In the 1940's and 50's, we knew this as the Perry farm
west of Poole; Dick & Minnie Perry and Art Luce ran it.)
Poole, Main Street, about 1940. Photo courtesy Kim Stover.
The Robinsons lived in the center house in the early 1950s.
The name "Bullock" comes to mind. (why?)
The Poole Bank building in 1999, but doubt it ever looked any different. Used as an election hall after the bank moved to Ravenna in the 1930s.
Photo by Rod Stover, 1999.
One of two hand-drawn fire engines that lived in the "fire cave." Pressure was generated by breaking a bottle of acid into a white powdery stuff. Photo by Rod Stover at a Kearney parade in July, 1976. The engine now at the "Trails & Rails" museum in Kearney, NE.
The South Loup River looking West about a half mile west of Poole.
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