Haigler Happenings - March 28, 2011

On Friday the 25th Daneen and Phil Hilger of LeCompton, KS arrived at the home of Daneen's parents, Dale and Dode Faylor.  They came to get a saddle horse Daneen's brother, Dwight Faylor, had for her.

 

Dwight and Kim joined the family for dinner Saturday.  Ed Robinson visited in the afternoon.

 

Daneen and Phil returned to their home on Monday the 28th.

 

Charlie and Myrna Mulligan were Friday night guests in the home of Steve & Jody Crouse and family.  They were excited to see all the renovations to the farm house.  Charlie had made pizza to celebrate the occasion and Jody and Alicia had made other goodies to complete the dinner.  Alicia was home from college for Spring Break.  Earlier in the week, Jody and Alicia were visitors in the home of Charlie and Myrna.  Alicia had brought music and entertained everyone beautifully on the piano. 

Robert and MerryLu Simmons visited Laura Pearl Wall on Thursday.

 

Sophia Zuege was a dinner guest of Laura Pearl Wall on Friday.

 

The Spring Snow storm left a covering of snow over the week-end.  Many people celebrated by staying indoors at home, which was the most common news item for most people.  Alice Gregory reports beautiful weather in Tucson, AZ. 

Haigler Happenings - March 21, 2011

Saturday night Jim and Jerrie Wheaton and several other firemen and E.M.T's from Haigler, traveled to Benkelman for dinner.  It was a tribute to the firemen and E.M.T's of Dundy Countyand was sponsored by businesses and individuals in Parks, Benkelman and McCook.  The honorees and spouses were treated to a prime rib dinner and live entertainment.  It was a very pleasant evening.

 

Brent Wheaton was home Monday March 21 for a short stay during his Spring break.  He celebrated his first day home with breakfast at Aunt Barb's. 

 

Stan and LaNeta Carlock were informed last week that they were the recipients of the FENCE POST-Plains Edition Good Neighbor Award.  The FENCE POST is a widely read farm and ranch newspaper in our Nebraska plains region.  The award was given in recognition of the many things the Carlocks have done for the Haigler/Dundy County community, including a challenge grant for new roofing at the Haigler Golden Inn Senior Center, and the Country Schoolhouse Museum Project.  A quote on the certificate they received reads, "I shall not pass this way again.  Any good I can do or any kindness that I can show--Let me not defer or neglect it.  For I shall not pass this way again."  They were nominated by Gerald and Betty Myer of Haigler.

Dwight Wall of Lewellen, NE, came Saturday to visit his mother, Laura Pearl Wall, and other relatives.  MerryLu Simmons came on Sunday to visit Dwight and Laura Pearl.  All attended church in Haigler.  Following the services MerryLu and Dwight spent some time visiting in the Wall home.  Dwight and Laura Pearl enjoyed the pleasant weather by spending some time raking leaves in the yard.

 

A community baby shower for Jenni (Olsen) Evans and new little son, Samuel, will be held Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m. MDT in the Haigler United Methodist Church basement.

 

Last Monday, Lois Zuege and her sister Edith from Benkelman visited Manona Moore and Marvin Van Horn at the nursing home in Yuma.  Other family members, Evelyn Stover and daughter, Linda Scott and granddaughter, Ella Clear, had come there from the front range making it sort of a mini- family reunion.

 

On Sunday, Lois Zuege had lunch with her sister, Edith, at her home near Benkelman.   

 

Last Monday Dode Faylor's sister-in-law, Virginia Rathbun, and grandson, Jay, and a friend, from Denver visited in the Faylor home.  They had come down to make arrangements for Leroy Rathbun's gravestone.

 

Floy Fisher's son and daughter in law, Garry and Sharon Fisher, arrived safely from Hawaii at the Las Vegas airport  on Sunday afternoon having enjoyed a memorable vacation in addition to attending their daughter, Chere's graduation.

 

CHEER for Benkelman (DCSD)

By Cheering for Benkelman in this Reader's Digest contest, you cheer for Dundy County!  (Haigler, Parks, Benkelman, Max)


Cheer at www.wehearyouamerica.readersdigest.com
cheer for zip code 69021
cheer 10 times each day!!!

Doane, Nebraska

I just finished looking at the towns in Dundy County in 1895 and found that Doane was located almost exactly halfway between Benkleman and Parks.  I remember that my Great Aunt May Mahagan who lived on a farm just east of my folks, used to tell of her and Uncle Ernie Mahagan  going to Doane after baby chicks.  Was there a hatchery there or was it part of the elevator complex?  


When did Doane fold up it's sidewalks and cease to be?


~Kay Haptonstall

Sanborn Beet Loading Facility

I do not ever remember the sugarbeet loading facility at Sanborn ever operating during my years of recolection.  I believe that Guy Smith was the last farmer to raise surgarbeets in that area.  He had property just east of Jude Lemmert's, just east of the state line, that had a house located about a half mile south of the highway that Guy used for his migrant laborers to stay in.  From what I understood, at that time, Guy planted and harvested surgarbeets where he used to live,  so the migrants would have to have been transported from this house to the work site.  I used to walk down to Lemmert's to play with Ranny.   This would have been late fourties and early fifties and I don't remember him ever using it for that purpose during that time frame.  It was always vacant.  There was a two track trail that went down through there and a bridge over the Pioneer Ditch.  We also drove this track a few times.  I also had information that there used to be a man that lived south of this house, south of the ditch in a dugout who had a moonshine still and provided spirits for the Laird, Sanborn and Haigler communities.  Anybody have information to confirm this story.  Neal Clegg was one of my sources with others in the Laird area.
~Kay Haptonstall

Sanborn

I can remember that in the late fourties that Sanborn had a set of cattle pens to load cattle on the railroad.  A nonfunctioning sugarbeet loading facility, also, was located at the railroad.  The school was about a half mile south of the railroad.  When was the last year they held school in that building?  I have heard from various sources, Tom Brown, being one, that there might have been a store as well.  Can anybody fill in the blanks for me.  I can remember Dad herding some of our cattle down to those pens and along with Lee Clegg  and his cattle would load them on the cattle cars and then they would ride the train in the caboose to "Saint Jo" to sell them.  That was the best regional cattle msrket in those days.  Reading the postings on this site brings back a lot of memories.  Thanks to those of you who do.  
~Kay Haptonstall


- - - - - - -

Sanborn got its name from a man who worked on the railroad.  He lived down by the highway in the orange house.

The cattle pens were operational still in 1953.

The sugar beets loading dock was operational also.

There was a store and post office just down from the school.

Sanborn school district boundary was west side of the road that went south from the highway down to Freehlings.  It included the Workman kids, Bragg kid, Cleggs. 

In talking to Don Webster, he said he would go back to his books and do some reading and I'll send more when we talk again.  The years seem to be a little fuzzy about when things changed and things happened.

Don says he remembers the Haptonstalls.

DALLAS

House at top of hill by water tower

Picture from the 1976 Haigler Centennial Book

Can someone give me some information on the house at the top of the hill at the south end of main street, such as when was it built, who built it, how long did they live there?  The usual stuff that is in a good story.  


While in my days as a carpenter I did some remodel work on that house when Bob and Linda Northrup moved into it.  It was a neat house and I always wondered what its story was.  I am sure it was built before the water tower was.  Please fill in the blanks.  


~Thanks.  Kay Haptonstall

2007

Haigler Happenings - February 28, 2011

On the 17th of February, Karen Harford left for Benicia, California to make the acquaintance of her six month old granddaughter, Ahnkeetah Jones. She spent six days with her son, Torre and daughter-in-law Seelu.

Kurt Zuege of Colorado Springs, CO, came on Monday of last week.  He visited Robert Simmons as Robert was leaving the Hospital.  Other relatives that were there included MerryLu Simmons, Quentin Simmons family and the Perila family from Westmister.  Kurt then visited his grandmothers, Laura Pearl Wall and Sophia Zuege, at Haigler.

Kurt Zuege was a guest of his grandmothers Laura Pearl Wall and Sophia Zuege on Tuesday then all went to the Robert and MerryLu Simmons’ home.

On Wednesday, Kurt went to Funk, NE, to visit his sister Kimberly and friends.  He returned to Colorado Springs on Friday.

Dwight Wall of Lewellen, NE, visited his mother Laura Pearl Wall on Sunday.

 Late Saturday night, unbeknown to Floy Fisher, her son was involved in an accident at the intersection of Highways 27 and 36 west of St Francis.  Traveling south from Haigler, the fog was so dense he did not realize he was at the dead end until his lights hit the barrier in front of him.  He successfully steered the truck, avoiding the barrier and the trees but did not upset his truck or the loaded trailer.  But it was a rough ride as he was standing hard on the brakes through it all.  He came out with a few bruises, sore spots and a bleeding hit on the head, leaving a knot, spending the rest of the night in the St Francis hospital.  The truck had some damages but was able to be driven to the repair shop.