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The opera stage in the town hall was used for plays, graduation events, traveling vaudeville performances and as a gymnasium.
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The Opera House served as the town hall and gymnasium. In 1949 it housed the first library. Voting machines were used the same year.
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Seth H. Todd became famous throughout the United States as a breeder of Todd's Chester White Hogs. At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 he won the champion prize. At the International Fat Stock Exhibit in 1907 he showed Shropshire graded sheep and won the grand champion prize for the best car of 50 lambs making him the champion sheep man of the United States. He became a popular lecturer.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Gamber
In 1893 Albert Gamber began breeding Delaine Merino sheep. At the Omaha Exposition he won all first prizes. The same year he entered five state fairs and won fifty two of a possible fifty seven prizes. His purebred animals were shipped all over the world.
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Independent Basketball Team. Standing -- Hugh Whitney, Ken Buckley, Curt Todd; Seated -- Bob McLaughlin, S. Scutt, Smokey Kingsley, and Bill Dunn.
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