City. The Bellwood Yard has the largest shedding capacity in the Platte Valley. He handles hard and soft coal, barbed wire, sashes, doors, mouldings, etc. He is also serving as mayor. HARRIS AND CO. POSTMASTER MISS LILLIE PAIGE J. W. GRISINGER LEOPOLD JOE BOCK DR. A. A. RITTENHOUSE PETER KURT J. E. KELLOGG B. TAYLOR SUDDARTH AND YATES H. T. BENEDICT These are some of the people who were instrumental in providing the basic groundwork for Bellwood as we know it now. Everything has a beginning and they helped make Bellwood's. |
Following are
excerpts from a nicely printed and bound booklet. David Belsley
E.
L. Carpenter General
Ordinances of Bellwood |
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offense. Offenses, Sec. 7 Sidewalks & Crossings, Sec. 1 Domestic Animals, Sec. 1 |
CIRCA 1914 As Bellwood prepares to celebrate its
hundred year anniversary, poignant memories of my youth, as
my three brothers and I were growing up in this small
Nebraska town, come winging back.
-Dorothy Bell Becker
June 1980 |
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Nebraska Centennial, 1967 The Bellwood community staged its
largest celebration since the "dirty thirties." The three
day event, planned for Nebraska's Centennial year, goes into
the record books as most successful.
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Nebraska Centennial parade.
Nebraska Centennial parade, July 17, 1967.
Our Centennial
celebration wouldn't be complete, if we didn't honor the
families who have been on the same farm for one hundred
years or more.
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© 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Ted & Carole Miller and Carolyn Wilkerson