Berge, twice candidate for governor of Nebraska, and once for attorney general lives near Broadwater, and has a splendidly equipped modern farm. The village is situate upon the Union Pacific North Platte valley branch, or Medicine Bow cut-off. The place has ample backing and mercantile facilities, churches, schools, and the like, to make it a live community center. The Kings, the Smiths, the Wehns and the Beerlines are among the families that have helped to make Broadwater an enterprising town, and a good place to reside.

North port On the north side of the river, north of Bridgeport is the town of Northport, which, because of the fact that the Union Pacific and the Burlington lines cross at that point aspired to higher things. The Harpers, the Howards and the Montzes were among the families that sought for a time to make it the metropolis of Morrill county. C. D. Casper here ran the Northport Herald for a time. The railroad, however, failed to give the place the support that was anticipated, and the canal construction on the north side was delayed so long that the hope of a large town vanished. Bridgeport largely attends to the needs of the Northport community in every line.

Other Places Atkins and Simla, are small distribution centers, where the railroad offers loading facilities, and mercantile business is carried to a very limited extent. The last named is at the site o<f old Mud Springs, famous in the history of the pony express, overland stage, and early cow days, but its importance is not large in modern history of the county.