KIMBALL CITY GOVERNMENT T0 1920; 
                        KIMBALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA              

From "HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA AND ITS PEOPLE" by Grant L. Shumway
(The Western Publishing & Engraving Company: 1921) Submitted to the 
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              HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA AND IT'S PEOPLE
                         GRANT L. SHUMWAY 1921

                        KIMBALL CITY GOVERNMENT
    
    Kimball was incorporated shortly after its change to that name about 
1888. Its officers about 1890 were:  L.R. Markley, L.E. Shaefer, J.M. 
Bearse, P. Maginnis, G.F. Hark, Isaac Roush, clerk; N.O. Calkins treasurer; 
J.W. David , attorney; Henry Phillips, marshal.
    The records that would show the officers' directorate for the city from 
1891 to 1910 seems to have been misplaced or at least could not be located 
at the time of this compilation and no complete roster could be prepared 
for that period.  It is known that H. Marshall served as chairman in 1892 
and C.A. Schooley in 1893.  L.W. Bickel was holding this honor by 1898.  
F.H. DeCastro was mayor in 1900,  W.D.  Watkins was also serving in 1903 or 
1904 and was succeeded by S.R. Carlyle and B.K. Bushee in 1907. Isaac Brush 
was clerk in the early nineties and I.S. Walker in the later nineties.

From 1903 to 1907 the members of the town board were:  W.D. Atkins, 
                    Isaac Roush, Gus Linn, L.W. Bickel, F.J. Bellows.
1904:    W.D. Atkins, J.S. Brady, Gus Linn, S. Carlyle, Henry Vogler, 
                    L.W. Bickel.
1905:    S.L. Carlyle, J.S. Brady, Gus Linn, B.K. Bushee, Peter Nelson, 
                    Henry Volger, L.W. Bickel.
1906:    B.K. Bushee, P.Maginnis, Peter Nelson, F.W. Whitman, P. Mockett, 
                    Henry Volger, L.W. Bickel. 
1910:   I.S. Walker, F. Lemon, B.K. Bushee, F.H. Cunningham, D.L. Regione, 
                   Geo. Volger, treasurer; Jas. A. May, clerk.
1911:   B.K. Bushee, F.E. Reader, Frank Cunningham, Fred Eichenberger, 
                   Wm. Young, W.J.    Ballard, Geo. Volger, treasurer; 
                   James May, clerk.
1912:   B.A. Lathrop, F.E. Reader, Frank Cunningham, B.K. Bushee, Wm. Young,
                   Fred Eichenberger, treasurer; ,  J.A.May, clerk.
1913:   A.B. Beard, F. Reader, Wm. Cronin, B.K. Bushee, Wm. Young, J.A. May,
                   clerk.
1914    A.B. Beard, B.K. Bushee, John Filer, Wm. Cronin and Isaac Rouch.
1915    G.L. Volger, R.D. Wilson, F.R. Morgan, Isaac Roush.
1916    G.L. Volger, R.D. Wilson, W.S. Rodman, F.R. Morgan and Gus Linn.
1917    G.L. Volger, R.D. Wilson, F.R. Morgan, Herbert Linn and W.S. Rodman
1918    Frank Cooper, G.L. Volger, F.R. Morgan, Gus Linn and Wm. Young
1919    J.R. Tritt, J.A. Irwin, Wm. Cronin, Gus Linn and Wm. Young.
       
In 1917 Kimball voted to put in sewers by a vote of 98 to 49.  In June, 
1918, electric lights bonds were voted upon with a vote of 56 to 17.At the 
spring election of 1920, new councilmen chosen were: F.E.  Reader, F.J. 
Eichenberger and Thomas Campbell.  For school directors, C.L. Alden and 
Mrs. O.A. Hedlund were chosen.  City Clerk Overton was retained at that 
post of duty and J.D. Renne made superintendent of the municipal light 
plant.