Dorchester Times: NEWS ROUNDUP: Lincoln Paper Spotlights Crete Vet's Patriotic 1946 Chevy

Friday, November 11, 2016

NEWS ROUNDUP: Lincoln Paper Spotlights Crete Vet's Patriotic 1946 Chevy

Here's what is trending in the Dorchester area...

Lincoln Paper Spotlights Crete Veteran And His 1946 Autographed Chevy: Lincoln Journal Star has featured a Crete veteran, Sam Aughe, and his unique, patriotic 1946 Chevy Delivery Sedan, covered in some 1,300 autographs by area veterans. See the story here.

Community Foundation Chicken/Burger Dinner This Sunday: The Dorchester Community Foundation Fund (DCFF) is planning its popular grilled chicken dinner and hamburger feed for this Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Dorchester Legion and Community Hall from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Profits raised from the dinner will go to a splash pad at the Dorchester City Park. Donations will be accepted anytime, made payable to the Dorchester Foundation and mailed to: Peg Bergmeyer, 101 Washington Ave., Dorchester, NE 68343; or Dale Hayek, 652 County Road 1200, Dorchester, NE 68343.

DHS Greek Mythology Play Will Be Nov. 19, 20: It appears Dorchester High School's full play will take place Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. on the DHS stage. The play will be "The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza" by Don Zolidis.

Trump Will End Up With More Than 300 Electoral Votes: Whenever Michigan gets around to confirming its presidential election results, President-Elect Donald Trump will end up with more than 300 electoral votes. The final tally will be Trump with 306 electoral votes compared to Hillary Clinton's 228. Not the close election or Clinton blowout the Washington media predicted. By the way, President-Elect Trump won handily in Saline County, beating Clinton 58.5% to 33.5%. Statewide, Trump easily won 60.3% to 33.9%.

4 comments:

AnonymousNovember 11, 2016 at 1:41 PM
Love those Trump results. Heard Rush Limbaugh say today it's just a shame what brainwashing liberalism has done to 20- and 30-something aged men in America. He said it has de-masculinized them, neutered them. So true! Bet you know a few, especially in the public schools!
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AnonymousNovember 11, 2016 at 9:30 PM
What are the results of the rest of the election like school and village board?
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Don HoffmanNovember 12, 2016 at 3:52 PM
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the voters who took the time to write in their candidate's name for School Board in the recent election. The fact that 197 voters used the write in process for their choice is a clear reflection of the commitment our community has to continue the high quality leadership the Board has provided over the years. Dorchester is a strong and thriving community and we all realize that a quality education for our children is the best way to continue that growth.

No matter how the election turns out, we all benefit from the process. You have all shown that folks who participate in this process are concerned as to how their elected officials do their jobs. I want to thank all the voters for their time and participation in this most basic privilege of our democracy. You have set an example for many to follow.
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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."