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. V. B. Cargill, has been in charge of this enterprise for almost another decade.
Very seldom is it possible to find a newspaper that has been so consistently and carefully managed through a period of thirtylive years as has the Observer.
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Other business people in Kimball as early as 1886, were Randall & Company, conducting the main store. N. E. Gassman. groceries, drugs, feed and llour. Schaffer P.ms., in dry goods, clothing, groceries, hardware, lumber, hats, and boot-.
Teliol & Marel & Company, dry ^>"d>. and Stanley Bros., wholesale and retail groceries of Cheyenne were advertising in the Observer in 1886.
( )ther business people in Kimball were L F. Crain, drugs; A. M. Treat, lumber; I.. I.. Feltham, attorney at law; C. C. Clewitt. contractor; I>. I. Sullivan, contractor;
HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA
P. Magihnis, blacksmith shop; Jas. Lynch, meat market ; Minnie Shirley, millinery ; Miss M. Marston, millinery; J. McAllister, barber; L. K. Markley, physician; Geo. W. Beard, Hotel Martha'; C. C. Clewett, contractor; N. E. Gassman, groceries; Jas. M. Bearse, postmaster and drug store ; S. N. Paulson, shoes; L. A. Ballenger, livery stable; Bank of Kimball, real estate and insurance ; S. Wooldridge, groceries ; C. F.