SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
We now have the results of our ACE fund grant request as a result of the city council meeting on April 7th. The council voted to divide the $3,000 they had appropriated equally to the seven applicants, or $428.57 each. The historical museum will be discussing the next step at the museum’s monthly meeting on Monday, April 20th. By the way, all are welcome to come to any of the society’s meetings.
More fire stories from earlier days need to be told. A report in the Loup City Northwestern and Sherman County Times, February 2, 1900, told of a Loup City business building fire that was discovered about 4:30 a.m. by Mrs. Thomas Inks when she was letting her house dog outside. The fire was in the saloon occupied by Peter Slobodny. The fire bell was rung in short order and the “fire company was out with hose cart and hook and ladder truck.” Even so, the building and contents were all destroyed. This was not the only building in jeopardy by the fire—on the west was the barbershop, only two feet from the saloon building, to the east was the H. Dolling shoe shop, east of the Dolling building was Conhiser & Co., a large, frame building. The barbershop was not even scorched; Dolling’s building was badly burned and sustained damage to his stock of shoes and some tools; Conhiser’s general store escaped any fire damage.
