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                         A CKNOWLED GEM.IENT S 
 
     Besides the sources of information previously mentioned, I am 
indebted to the following individuals who graciously shared their 
knowledge of Omro history-- 
 
     Ethel Bishop who has loaned so much of her accumulated newspaper 
clippings and data, besides her own knowledge, her husband Cary, Jr., 
having been an Omro history buff. To Warren Brooks, having written 
and told much about early Omro as he remembered it to add to these 
facts. To Sherm and Marie Barnard with accounts and facts remembered 
of Omro's early history.   Other information, stories, and specific 
recollections of persons and happenings of years ago are from Maude 
Stearns, Bonnie Flanagan, Hazel Moger, Ruby Buell, Arden Sheldon, 
Carrie Calhoon, Luella Reinert, Sumner Blake, Mary Darrow Bennett, 
Archie Daggett, Earl Calhoon, Jr., Edith Pohl, Irene Zellmer, Lillie 
Lockwood, Clayton and Grace Stearns, Tony Kolbus, August Birkholz. 
Ken Cady, Butkiewicz Brothers, Ida Mvlay Bower, Bernard Sielaff iAW.3A io
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Other individuals, also, have added a note here and there that have 
added interest.ing facts. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     And now we close and put aside all clippings, books, papers, 
stories and experiences that gave us glimpses of a pioneer Ornro. 
As someone else had noted, "We see again the old lumber town in its

beginning as well as during the last years of the Civil War and the 
reconstruction period that followed.   In these ancient records, we 
have climbed the shadowy stair ways from Water Street to the second 
floors of old store buildings that have long been swept away by 
fires.  We have entered kerosene lighted halls and gathered around 
great heaters filled with huge chunks of wood. We have leaned on 
the counters of grocery stores that dispensed at least ,three kinds 
of cider', and have noted the difference in the prices of commodities 
on the shelves. We have even peeked into the open saloons at the 
jovial card games and the accompanying 'flowing bowl,. Vie have ad- 
mired the conscientious adherence to principles practiced by the 
men and women who have stood for all that was best in the village, 
even though we have smiled at their austerity.    Their varied talents 
have been our pleasure and their loyalty, our pride. And as we close 
the covers, we are glad that through some fate that stored these old 
records among the dusty relics of other days, these accounts have 
been preserved to us."