Clarkson owned the land that part of the town site is formed from and has large interests adjoining the new town. A. Burg laid out part of the town. F. W. Schaffer has been east projecting a line of lumber. Theo. Menges is a leading land agent and locater. Others have been Jones, Fleharty, Root and Robertson. Mr. Wolf keeps a restaurant. J. J. Kinney has a horse ranch three miles west of town. J. J. Mcintosh has a ranch near town. T. 11. Gridlv and

Jas. Lynch have large gardens. J. H. Coghlin runs a railroad eating house. Peter Roolman has a extensive line for brick kiln.

Including the rapidity with which the development of this region when it once started, attention was called to the fact that eight hundred timber culture entries were made in Cheyenne county in the season of 1885, and five hundred homesteads taken in the same time.

The name, Antelopeville, was changed because it conflicted with Antelope postoffice and the new town was named Kimball after General Manager Kimball of the Union Pacific railroad.

Kimball, formerly Antelopeville, had a newspaper from the very start. The Nebraska Observer started May 1, 1885, by C. H. Randall, editor and publisher. A. M. Randall was manager in 1885. C. H. Randall in recent years became a member of the national congress from California, being the . first and only Prohibitionist congressman ever elected, as a member of that partv.

The name of the Nebraska Observer was changed to the Kimball Observer after the change of the name of the town. This paper was published in 1887, by Beard & Riddle and later by A. B. Beard, who sold it to G. L. Carlyle, who in about another decade later turned in to R. D. Wilson, and its present active and efficient publisher.