Nebraska advertiser., 1880-01-29
- BEAD Allen Coates letter.

- Bead Allen Coates letter.
Finch will be down this way
presently.
- Have you seen the new butcher
shop?
Work has been resumed on the
Christian Church.
Rev. Weber preached in the
School House on Sunday afternoon.
The Steam Elevator is receiving /
a hoist of several feet at the present
time.
The many friends of DIR. An
drews in this vicinity will be very
glad to have him become a resident of
Nemaha City.
Every business man In Nemaha
City ought to have his name, and
business card in this department. of
THE ADVERTISER.
Rev. Matthew Henry OF the T.
E. church commenced a series of ser
mons on baptism on Sunday eve last.
Our new hard ware store has made
its appearance; you will soon see its
al advertisements.
- Several more converts were add
ed to the Christian church by Elder
CoryeIl during the past week,
A number of our citizens attend
ed the opera, the Sorcerer, and were
delighted with the entertainment.
They state that the arrangements were
excellent for IL Thorough understand
ing of the plot.
Not town on the whole eastern
front of Nebraska has as good pros
poets as Nemaha City. Not one cent
of Indebtedness the best location.
live business men already here. and
more coming, and but one draw hack
from havinga clean moral character
| ALLEN L. CoATE - old settlers
remember him. He is recorded as a
surveyor, the first one, We believe of
Nemaha county. Allen was the orig
NAL owner from Government of the
Billy Hoover farm. adjoining Nemaha
City on the north. He was an eccen-
trio genius, and those here yet of bis
old friends will be interested in bear.
ing from him. Allen is, and has been
for many years, a resident ofNew Or
leans. Recently VIM. H. Hoover re-
ceived a letter from him, which he
De mai us to read, and from which
we take the liberty to excerpt ss- fol-
lows:
NEW ORLEANS. La, Jan. 6, 1880.
w. H. HOOVER, Eso.-Yesterday j
reed your favor of Jan. I'd; glad tC
hear from Nemaha once more. But
tits hard to get the Information that
want. In fourteen years have'l mol
heard one word from there except
what / saw in oneor two newspapers
I don't know whether your father Ii
dead oralive, or about Bill. or John
son Hoover, what they are doing
whether A. Skeen, Crother, Sanders
Barns, Upton. Mcpherson, Lev
Sprinkle, and many others, are there
vet or not. -. Nemaha always seems
to me like home every time L think
OF it, and that is pretty often. l lived
there 10 years in my time of life that
was most sacred to memory, and
, where my hopes aspired beyond sub
seuuent realization. had pick and
choice of all that border, and
thought then, and think yet, that
Nemaha had,more natural ad van tages
, than any point above Kansas City
, but has failed to get the artificial ad'
vantages.
Even yet if capital would build. 9
bridge across the Missouri, immedi-
ately below the mouth of the Nema-
ha. it would give you an outlet; and
that Is the narrowest place on the
Missouri, or used to be. | measured
it on the ice there once and found II
to be between 1906 and 1900 feet
which is the length of the open span
dJ SlDCluudIl. hS lOhB 90 Nh"N pm
can beskept on the Missouri side in
tact, it is safe place for bridge. II
is such an elbow in the river that all
the driftwood and ice always drags
against the FUekbound shore of Ne
braska, leaving a pillar amid-stream
free from driftwood and les; and
section of Eads' jetties well put in
just above the point, on the Missouri
side. would preservethat sandy point
81 900, 900 ought to make the whole
thing permanently secure.
Leok here, Bill Hoover, your whole
country, from FIT. Scott north to the
Platte river is the richest soil and the
most mex hausbible, to-day, of any on
all the face Of Gods green earth.
| IThe writer then undertakes to show
the advantages that would accrue, OF
a railroad running through this rich
country down to the Port of n. o.
ED. ADV.
Well, this has been the finest whit
err ever saw. Thermometer is $50 In
nv room at this minute. go. Only
.|ABB0TT g. EMERY,