MRS. IDA ALLEN
Mrs. Ida Allen, 827 B Street has
been named as woman of the year
Each year The Voice selects some
person of the city who has. made
an outstanding contribution to the
community.
Mrs. Allen’s long years of serv
ice as an employee of the Miller
and Paine department store is a
commendable record. She was
employed there in 1909 and is the
oldest in years of service of the
four Negro employees.
Mrs. Allen retired December 1,
1951 under the Miller & Paine Re
tirement Law but continued in
active service.
Mrs. Allen is a member of Quinn
Chapel AME church where she is
affiliated with the official board,
the missionary society and calen-j
dar club. She is also active in the
Urban League. Her husband is
employed at the Gas Company.
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Drug Co.
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•TATS HISTORICAL ROCIITT
I have frequently discussed in
this column the diaries kept by
overland emigrants, making their
way in wagons across the plains
to California, Oregon and Utah, as
sources of information on the
early history of Nebraska. Many
emigrants also wrote letters along
the way, and often these were
published in the newspapers back
home. A recently published book
—California Emigrant Letters, by
Walker D. Wyman—contains a
collection of these epistles from
the gold rush, many of them writ
ten from what is now Nebraska.
Letter writing was difficult. As
I one emigrant wrote from near
! Chimney Rock, June 3, 1849, “in
the first place we have just as
much labour to do as keeps us
constantly busy, and in the next
place a fellow must tuck himself
up on the ground, in the open air,
with his legs crossed like a tailor’s
and write on his lap.”
Once a letter was composed, the
problem of getting it mailed was
apt to be even more difficult. Oc
casionally a returning emigrant
could be persuaded to carry let
ters back to the states for mail
ing, but the surest way was to
leave them at a military post.
Fort Kearny in central Nebraska
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O’BRIEN PLUMBING
& HEATING
116 S. 15th
Phone 2-2733
was the first such establishment
encountered by the travelers after
they jumped off from the Missouri
River, and many a letter was
mailed from there.
From these letters we can ob
tain good descriptions of eastern
Nebraska and of the emigration
as it appeared when once fairly
out on the plains. As one writer
said, Fort Kearny was “an excel
lent point from which to see all
that is desirable to be seen,” as
all the roads united before reach
ing there.
The gold rush looked this way
to one observer at Fort Kearny,
May 18, 1849:
“Every state, and I presume
almost every town and county in
the United States is now repre
sented in this part of the world.
Wagons of all patterns, sizes, and
descriptions, drawn by bulls, cows,
oxen, jackasses, mules and horses,
are daily seen rolling along
towards the Pacific, guarded by
walking arsenals. Arms of all
kinds must certainly be scarce in
thq States, after such a drain as
the emigrants must have made
upon them. Not a man but what
has a gun or revolver or two.”
A letter written from the fort
on June 19, reports: “The cry is
still they come. Five thousand
and ninety-two wagons at sun
t
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down last night had moved past
this place toward the gold re-1
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gions of California, and 1,000
more are still behind, I think.”
Congratulations From
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, AF & AM of Nebraska
Clayton P. Lewis, M. W. Grand Master
Robert Harris, R. W,
Deputy Grand Master George W. Althouse, R. W.
Leonard V. Turner, B. W. Grand Treasurer
Senior Grand Warden J. H. Andrews, R. W.
T « , rtr Grand Secretary
Jasper Johnson, R. W. J
Junior Grand Warden
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