Mother Lynch relates an incident connected with the storm of 1873, the biggest that this part of the country had ever known. She says a train got as far as Kimball and had to stop here. They faced starvation unless they could get succor from outside. The conductor worked his way over to Lynch's to get meals. With him he brought a lawyer from Chicago named Clayton. This "high-toned" lawyer at once said that their place looked like they could get a good breakfast, and asked if he could also get a breakfast for a lady. They had a breakfast of sausage and potatoes and biscuits. When they had partaken of the repast he remarked that she must make a good fortune there and when he went to pay his bill he handed her a ten-dollar bill for three meals. She did not have any change, but they were satisfied, and insisted on letting it stand at that.
Starting a School When Mrs. Lynch first came to Kimball there were of course no school facilities. Mr.
Kinney who had been section foreman did not want any school there. Sidney was using its influence to keep a school out of the west part of the county, for they wanted all the school money in Cheyenne county to go to their schools there. Mrs. Lynch said she soon attended to influencing him into having a school here anyway. She relates while Mr. Kinney sided in with them, "I told him we were going to get it." Mrs. Lynch gave notice that she could not stay there without a school building. A train man came in about that time and asked her why she was leaving town and she said on account of there being no schools. The trainman said he supposed then she was leaving for Sidney and she said.