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Hall County Wheel Clubs
This page is about the various fraternals, organizations and societies of Hall County, Nebraska.
Wheel Clubs of Hall County
In sharp contrast to the automobile associations, golf and country clubs and aeroplane companies being organized in 1919 stands the wheel clubs of twenty years ago, when the bicycle was the up-to-date and somewhat aristocratic method of transportation for pleasure, and later almost a business necessity.
The Grand Island Wheel Club in 1891 had as officers (see list below) . . . with 35 wheels; in 1893. In 1896 and 1897 the [officers of the] Oriental Cycle Club . . . and the Puckwana Cycle were (see list below).
GRAND ISLAND WHEEL CLUB OFFICERS
| W. R. King, President (1891-3) | R. A. Powell, Vice President (1891) Captain (1893) | C. H. Menck, Secretary (1891) | Arthur C. Mayer, Road Captain (1891) |
| Otto Killian, Road Captain (1891) | Max Egge Lieut. (1893) | Harry Andrews Lieut. (1893) | A. C. Mayer Secretary (1893) |
ORIENTAL CYCLE CLUB OFFICERS, 1896-7
| D. A. Finch President | H. B. Peters Secretary | W. R. King Treasurer |
PUCKWANA CYCLE CLUB OFFICERS, 1896-7
| John Geddes President | W. R. King Treasurer | Harry Culbertson Secretary |
Grand Island Wheel Club In The News
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS, 1891
The Grand Island Wheel club have adopted old gold and black as their colors. The Nebraska State Journal Friday, April 17, 1891.
Grand Island's wheel club now boasts a membership of forty. The Nebraska State Journal Tuesday, May 19, 1891.
OLD RIVALS MEET AGAIN.
Ten-Mile Road Race Between
Hastings and Grand Island,
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., May 30. ---(Special.) ---A great ten-mile race between the Hastings and Grand Island wheel club teams was held this afternoon at the fair grounds on a half mile track. Wanzer of the Hastings club was the only man who was in it to any extent. Grand Island scored 35 points and Hastings 20. The men came under the wire at the end of the
tenth mile as follows: Theodore Beehr, Ord Hayman, Daniel Fishburn, E. E. Ridgeway, Herbert Wanzer, Henry Jacobsom, Wade Roush, L. C. Lardis, Jay Lawson, W. S. Duer. Teams Grand Island, Beehr, Hayman, Fishburn, Ridgeway, Roush. Hastings: Wanzer, Jacobson, Landis, Lawson, Duer. Time for ten miles: Thirty minutes. Beehr won the gold medal. The same rider won the one mile open-to-all. Time 2:53. The qurter-mile dash was won by Weber of Grand Ialdn. The boys' race was won by of Boquet Grand Island. Hastings was not in it in a single instance. The Nebraska State Journal Thurday, May 31, 1894
A NEW NAME.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Aug. 15.---(Special).---The Grand Ialdn wheel club re-organized last night by changing its names to the Pukwana cycle club and adopting a new constitution and by-laws. The Nebraska State Journal Thursday, August 16, 1894.
Source Cited:
A. F. Buechler and R. J. Barr, editors. "Fraternals and Social Organziations of Hall Cuonty: Wheel Clubs" History of Hall County Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1920): 382-383. Provided by the Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society, Grand Island, Nebraska.
Nebrask State Journal, The (Lincoln, Nebraska). Friday, April 17, 1891, p. 4 col. 4. Provided by Newspapers.com.
Nebrask State Journal, The (Lincoln, Nebraska). Tuesday, May 19, 1891, p. 4 col. 5. Provided by Newspapers.com.
Nebraska State Journal, The (Lincoln, Nebraska). Thursday, August 16, 1894, p. 2 col. 4. Provided by Newspapers.com.
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