Dorchester Times: Attention All Area Businesses: Free Advertising At The Times

Friday, December 27, 2013

Attention All Area Businesses: Free Advertising At The Times

Dorchester is lucky to have its share of great businesses. Some have been here for decades, while others are new on the scene.

Here is an offer for all area businesses, whether you have a storefronts on main street (Washington Ave., for those who don't know) or you're in the countryside: You can advertise your business for free on the Dorchester Times.

In the comments section of this post, business owners are encouraged to let readers know about specials or new offerings for their customers. Let us of why and how we can do business with you. Share your business hours, website addresses, contact numbers or e-mail addresses, and perhaps a brief history of your business.

Those of you who patronize Dorchester area businesses, tell us which are your favorites and why others should give them a try.

Many services and products are available right here in the Dorchester area. It is important to keep our dollars close to home, to ensure that our community businesses not only survive, but grow. The best way to do that is by spreading the word about our community's top-notch businesses.

So go ahead -- tell us where we should be spending our dollars.

13 comments:

AnonymousDecember 27, 2013 at 4:04 PM
I always fill up at the Dorchester COOP. It would be great if there were a convenience store here in town, but I'm thankful we have the filling station and car wash and garage. Those guys are friendly and the prices are always competitive. Best of all they still offer the no ethanol blends for those of us who don't like putting alcohol in our engines.
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CSDecember 28, 2013 at 12:09 AM
I miss our grocery store....
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AnonymousDecember 28, 2013 at 10:20 AM
If you havent yet checked out the awesome antiques at Hedgehogs, you owe it to yourself to do so. neat stuff out there!
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AnonymousDecember 28, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Can't beat the Friday night fish special at City Slickers! I don't care for fish, but this is the BOMB!!!
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AnonymousDecember 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM
RAVE REVIEWS COMING IN FROM BENS IRON GRILL 2
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AnonymousDecember 29, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Good food served at Ben's Iron Grill 2. If you haven't tried it, stop in and find out for yourself.
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AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 9:15 AM
LJ Barley does really good work!!! Barley Specialties should be your first stop if you need any auto work done.
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AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 12:16 PM
The BEST fish around!!!!
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SteveDecember 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Here's a plug for a Crete business ... Crete Glass did a great job repairing my windshield. A++++++++++++ Highly recommended
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AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 9:50 PM
City Slicker's for an awesome burger.....Thursday night wings is also a must!!!
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AnonymousDecember 31, 2013 at 11:23 PM
Ben's was packed tonight on New Year's Eve! Awesome place and Dorchester is so lucky to have it!!!!!!
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AnonymousJanuary 1, 2014 at 12:44 PM
Went to City Slickers for New Years Eve dinner, and all I can say is WOW! The steak and crab legs were excellent! Nice cozy atmosphere with friendly people. Will definitely be going back!
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."