There is also one hardware store, a drug store, a shoe shop, and a first-class lumber yard. The Bank of Kimball was recently established and opened in a neat and commodious building. A newspaper, the Nebraska Observer, was started here in the spring of 1885; it has flourished and done much to promote the settlement of the country. The fact that Kimball is sure to become a county seat when the county is divided has caused it to grow very rapidly. A glance at its location on the map will convince any one that this anticipation is well founded. Kimball now contains about two hundred people, and has a good, well-attended school. Recently the voters of this district have voted a bond for the purpose of building a schoolhouse to cost not less than $2,500. A Methodist church society was organized here over a year ago, and they expect to have a church building within the next twelve months. Town lots can be had at a fair price and on long time. There are opportunities here for all classes of people who are industrious and persevering. As in all new countries, the conditions that insure success are in a measure to be created ; so it is here, and those who come now and aid us in building up the town and developing the country will reap a rich reward."

Mrs. Mary Lynch

One of the picturesque characters who has played an inseparable and invaluable part in not only starting but building the community of Kimball, is Mrs. Alary Lynch, who upon June 24. 1919, celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday and at the same time marking practically the period of forty-six years' residence in Kimball. At that time this noble "grandmother" of the town of Kimball was in a very remarkable good condition of health, for one of her years and experience.