And he was "going to stay there forty years longer and if he did not have a railroad by that time he was going to move out."

the first institutions was a band. Geo. Luft arrived from Seward, in May, and went into partnership with Dr. Charlesworth of the Gering drug store. There had been some talk of a band and with the arrival of Luft, it became a surety. He was the band leader. The other members were : A. B. Wood, Ed. Gering, Oscar and Charlie Gardner, Bert Hubbard, Frank Garlock, John Gorten, and Horatio Knapp. They were short of instruments, but the band at Kimball loaned them their horns for the Fourth of July celebration of 1887.

One of the curios displayed in Gering windows in the early days of the town was a set of hoofs from a dead mule. These were found

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On May 3, 1887, Phil Jurish and L. B. Calaghan came up to Gering, and then went up on top of the mountain. They came back down to the young town, and told the folks that they could see a train coming up the south side of the river. This of course w'as what was hoped would some day occur and for long years it was Gering's fondest wish. Eventually the dream came true.

In the same month Ed Gering came to the new town and pre-empted a half mile south. He said he was near enough to the business part of town. Also that he did not want his children playing around the cars.