elk creek
A sister "city" on the other side of the county line. Here's to you!
1877
The August 12, 1877 Omaha Bee included a sketch of the "love-lit village of Elk Creek," the town with the "high-standing business collar," as it described towns along the Nemaha River one by one.
1878
from an atchison & nebraska pamphlet, "guide to southeast nebraska," in which each of the towns along the railroad was touted
1882 -- Elk creek had a doctor!
Madison Peery, Physician and Surgeon.
1900 -- Elk creek had a photography studio
The Argus has at least one photograph bearing the imprint of Karas Photography of Elk Creek, Nebraska. In 1900, Albert Karas brought his studio to Table Rock for a visit.
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Photo 4610 shared by Millie Buethe. This is one of many photos taken by the Karas Studios of Elk Creek. These children are unidentified.
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1900 - elk creek was working on getting a saloon
Not so easy. The Temperance movement was fierce in this area at that time. May 24, 1900. Argus report from the Tecumseh Chieftan.
1900 - runaway!
A runaway team -- no more fun than having a vehicle with a stuck accelerator and an ignition key that will not turn off. August 9, 1900 Argus reprint of an article from the Elk Creek Herald.
1912 -- A special train stop at elk creek for their carnival
August 15, 1912 -- Train 43, at your service!
1916 or 1917 - 10,000 rabbits?
Did Abe Somberg (now Sonneberg?) really want 10,000 rabbits, or was this the equivalent of ordering 100 pizzas for somebody else?
1920 - table rock school kids walk to elk creek.
February 13, 1920 - some Table Rock high school kids walked to Elk Creek and were a bit stiff as a result. Yes, it made the paper. (Sharla and Sandy Sitzman can verify that it is a bit of a hike. No train stopped there for the Elk Creek festival so they walked there. Once.)
1954 - elk creek versus table rock basketball game
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At Ines Roberts' farm just north of Elk Creek, in the 1940s: Ines's children Jim and Erna, Ines, Ines's brother Ernest McBeth, and Ernest's son Jim, who Ines raised.
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Sharla Sitzman, kindergarten school picture, Elk Creek, Fall 1959
Photo 6398, Arnette Rinne Garris, Elk Creek Class of 1973, according to Theresa Dunekacke. This photo was in the Argus. Apparently there was an article about her.
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painting the knippelmeyer house |
Photo 4004, shared by Wayne Knippelmeyer.
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Elk Creek War Memorial, once in a park with roses cultivated by Lois Miller, far right. Shared by Gary Frank.
Lois Miller at home, shared by Gary Frank.
Back of photo of Lois Miller in her flower garden at home.
The Damm home near Elk Creek, shared by Russ Hunzeker.
One of many photos in the Historical Society's collection taken at Welch's Lightning Studios, believed to be of Elk Creek. This is Will & Carrie Barrett Ward and family, of Table Rock.
Photo 1393, Oscar Foale farm near Elk Creek
Photo 2062, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Foale, Ida & Percy, shared by Kim Vrtiska
twin oaks country school
Teacher Becky Roberts' students at Twin Oaks, circa 1952. The girls probably include Florence, Dorothea, and Pauline Fink and one of the boys is Jim Fink.
the adolph & bernice fink family of elk creek
From the collection of Becky Roberts Sitzman, who taught many of the Finks at the Twin Oaks Country School north of Elk Creek, school years 1951-1952 and part of all of 1952-1953. Becky remained lifelong friends with the family. Florence Fink was godmother to Becky's daughter Sandy.
In front of the house
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Sandy & Larry Sitzman with Bernice Fink at the Fink Farm
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A visit to Peru State Normal School.
Sandy Sitzman of Table Rock with Bernice Fink in Bernice's living room. Bernice died in 1968 at the age of 49.
1947-1948 volley ball team
Miss Carmine, Mary Jane Merwin, Connie Merwin, Jodelle _____, Joan Carmine, Rebecca Roberts, Theoma Damm, Arlene Woltemoth, Elma Gobber, and Eileen Beethe.
Becky Roberts' writing on the back
1948-9 volleyball team
Becky Roberts Sitzman in band uniform. Becky lived in Elk Creek and went to school there, although she commuted to tAble Rock her senior year and graduated from there. Table Rock had this kind of braid across the front but a different color line, so this may be Elk Creek. Somebody from Elk Creek may confirm or deny. She attended Elk creek for school years, 1947-48, 1948-9, and 1949-50
Kids on the bus, taken by bus driver Wilbur Buchholz on the Pawnee County side of the Elk Creek Bridge where Becky Roberts caught the bus to go to Table Rock High School. She is 3rd from the left.
INES ROBERTS FAMILY
Photo 526. Jim Roberts, who lived in Elk Creek, just played ball for a Tecumseh team. Photo from his sister, Becky Roberts Sitzman.
Becky Roberts & Bob Sitzman smooching in front of the Roberts farm home, 1952. They married on January 1, 1953.
Bert, Becky, and Jim Roberts with a friend
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Becky Roberts & her dog Nibs, in the front yard of the Roberts farm home.
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1984
Shared on Facebook by Theresa Dunekacke in 2019
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A country school moved into town an which sat across from the high school for many years. There was a second, much smaller, country school that was brought in and placed nearby as well. The smaller one was sold and moved down into town to be used as a garage. The one here was fixed up and may have been moved down the road to serve as a residence circa 2017. Sharla Sitzman remembers third graders being in the school pictured here, with music lessons for kindergartners and others held in the basement of this school.
2018
Photo 6629, shared by Theresa Dunekacke