C. W. Baysinger was chosen marshal.

In 1905, Morrill was re-elected and L. A. Larson made the new member, and chairman of the board, with Raymond again chosen clerk and attorney.

were bought and piled into the streets during the summer, and covered with gravel. On July first. Tom Hall was allowed a bill for hauling one hundred and thirty loads of gravel at seventy cents a load, or less than fifty cents a yard.

In 1906, the board named an election board for the first time. Tohn \Y. Gaddis, W. A.

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In the spring of this year the main street of Hall, and John Koenig were the judges; and ottsbluff. now Broadway, looked like the A. Crawford and Ed Denison were clerks. A

llage board were elected : E

Scottsbluff, now rJroaclway streets of Venice. The sidewalks, which were of plank and extending ten feet from the lot line, bordered on a foot of water. Frogs sang merrily in the streets, and called vivid attention to what was necessary to be done. The old sod corrals of John Hall and John Emery

full new village board were elected: E. T. Westervelt and Winfield Evans for the twoyear term ; and S. W. Ripley, A. J. Shumway, and W. H. Gates for the one-year term. Ripley was elected chairman, and L. L. Raymond, clerk ; with II. T. Bowen as treasurer.