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Blair,
County Seat of Washington County,
---- Population 3,000 ----
Is Recognized as the Most Beautiful City in
Nebraska.
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Shaded Streets, Fine Residences, Rich Grounds,
dotted with Trees of Forest, Fruit and Ornamental
varieties. Spread here, there and everywhere
by lovely bowers of nature's beautiful flowers.
Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, manufacturing
and commercial interests up to the standard.
We cordially invite visitors to our city. We
see at night by electricity. We drink the
purest water, available from the city's fount.
See our Horse Collar and Manufacturing institution,
employing one hundred and twenty-five men, with a
weekly pay roll of about one thousand dollars.
Last year the Company Manufactured between 6,000 and
7,000 dozen Separable Horse Collars, and expect to
nearly double the capacity soon and make between
10,000 and 12,000 this year. President Wambold
and Secretary Bennett are men of push, sterling
enterprise and untiring energy.
The Blair Canning Factory products are sold all over
the United States. Cleanest, brightest, best.
Just try them.
The Pilot, Republican, Courier and Advertiser are
solid newspapers, edited by able writers.
Our City extends to you a whole-souled, hearty,
earnest invitation to visit us.
City Officers.
Mayor
W.D. Haller.
City Clerk
Joe S. Cook.
Treasurer
E.C. Jackson.
Police Judge
S.M. Sherman.
City Engineer
W.H. Hill.
City Attorney
W.H. Eller.
Chief of Police
Rice Arnold.
Street Commissioner M.
Glennon.
Water Commissioner Ed. J.
Farr.
Councilmen:
First Ward
Patrick Quinlin.
C. Dunn.
Second Ward John
McQuarrie.
C.W. Wadsworth.
Third Ward
M.H.B. Rosenbalm. W.G.Harrison.
Fourth Ward
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This Souvenir
---- is Presented with the Compliments of the
Merchants of Blair.
Keep it as a Memento of the fourth of July, 1890. |
