CUSTER COUNTY, ARNOLD, NEBRASKA 69120 (USPS 032480) VOLUME 104, NUMBER 18 SINGLE COPY: 75 CENTS

The Arnold Sentinel THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020

“Serving the South Loup River Valley”

Eggleston Building Has Long History of Ownership

This week The Sentinel con-tinue its series on historicalmarkers being placed on build-ings in Arnold. A project ofArnold Rotary, Berni Crow isorganizer. The marker placedat the Krista and Tony Eggle-ston building on Highway 92reads as follows:

Alex Robertson’s Bank -Built in 1884

In 1886, the first building tobe placed on this corner wasAlex Robertsons’s Bank, an or-nate building built by SylvesterEdwards in 1884. (Arnold wasestablished in 1883.) His bankpictured above, facing west,started out as Blum’s Clothingstore, but in 1886 when it wasmoved to this site, from the cor-ner where Forrester’sGarage/Sandhills Motors was,

Alex Robertson transformed itinto a bank. As the new owner,Robertson became the firstbanker in Arnold. Variousbusinesses occupied the siteafter Robertson moved out. Itwas A.G. and M.E. Hoffman’sGeneral Store before they soldto F.W. Spegal in 1910. A Caféwas run by Mrs. Harry Reed onthe lower floor while sherented out rooms on the upperfloor. Spegal’s building hadalso housed Mrs. Bedford’sNovelty Shop, Charles Beards-ley’s Optometrist Office andJewelry business, and Mrs.Beardsley’s Lunch Room.Beardsleys shared the lowerfloor with Harold Bedford forhis Sentinel Office. The build-ing was torn down in 1917 dueto fire damage. In 1918, EdCleveland was the next to build

on this site located along the“White Way” highway. His staywas short-lived, selling his RealEstate office to Charlie Clarkwho reopened it as “WhiteWay” café in 1924. ~The caféwas painted entirely white in-side and outside.~ In a seriesof business changes, FrankAlexander left his manager po-sition at the Farmers UnionStore, bought the Sylvester Ed-wards corner, sold the grocery(north of Finch drug), movedCharlie’s café off the Edward’scorner, and then built a mod-ern Gas Station, in 1925.Alexander’s Gas Station re-mained on the corner for 40years, the longest any buildinghad stood on this site up to thattime. ~Meanwhile, CharlieClark managed to sell 40 mealswhile his café was on skids

waiting to be moved to its newhome.~ In the next 10 years,Alexander sold to Harry Will,who then sold to W.A. (Lonnie)Brewer and Emery Messer-smith in 1935. In 1939, Brewerand Lonnie Swisher took it overfrom Persis and Vernon Tubbs.~ Harry Weber was the lastowner of the gas station on thissite. While he was owner,Weber tore down the canopy.He remained at Weber’s GasStation for 30 years, beforemoving to the Swisher Gas Sta-tion (Grazer’s Corner). Bill andMarge Hagler tore down theWeber station in 1965, in orderto build their modern café. Acontest to “name the café” washeld, with Kenneth Nansel’sentry “Model Café” earning thewinning vote. The move to thisfinal corner was the third movefor the Haglers who had firsttaken over Archie Geiser’s caféin the building catty-cornerfrom this site. After two years,they moved their café to theFinch Drug Store building, be-fore finally building and set-tling on the third corner(present) at the same intersec-tion. The construction wascompleted on their “ModelCafé”, opening its doors in Jan-uary of 1966. Marge employedmany people through thoseyears in her café and manytravelers came back throughArnold just for her ‘homemade’meals. ~Fresh out of teacher’scollege, I paid off some of mycollege loans while working atthe Model Café in the mid1970’s…Marge was an amazinglady! Many Arnold residentstoday can tell you about theirfond memories of working forMarge Hagler. Patty Lambertyshared, “If you worked for her,your meals were free (even ifyou weren’t on shift at thetime).” For years, Arnold Ro-tary had their weekly meetingsin the large east room of thecafé. Many remember the arti-cle that was in the New YorkTimes featuring Arnold’s

Model Café!~ The stores east ofthe Model Café (presentlyKrista Eggleston’s “KreativeEdge”) were built in the 1930sby local carpenters. ~Carpen-ters still had jobs during the de-pression. Lon Smith built allthree buildings.~ HaughtGarage (H & O Motors, For-rester’s) was at the east end ofthe block while the Model Caféwas at the west end. Smithbuilt a shop attached to the eastside of Kreative Edge, that wasa barber shop. ~Foran’s Barbershop was located where the va-cant lot is now. Prior to that, itwas owned by Andy and“Fussy”Comer” in their com-bined ‘barber and beauty’shop. Their daughter Lucilleworked with her mother andlater, after she married HarryPeters, opened Lucille’s BeautyShop in her home.~ The long-loved Model Café was sold toVic and Jeanie Allen who ran itfrom 1995-2000, before sellingto Sid and Reta Siddal. The Sid-dals ran it a short time until itwas purchased by John andMary Beshaler around 2001.Other businesses that hadpassed through its doors were:John and Karla Rockwell’s“Country Corner Café” 2001-2002. During the years 2003-2006, the café was then rentedto Mike (Kiwi) Forest and TamiKoubek, who named it “Kiwi’sCafé”. Duane and Joyce Kautzhad a Donut and Sub Sandwichplace, Circa 2006-2007, and afeed store was in the back dur-ing that time. Around 2008,John Beshaler sold the buildingby auction. Carmen Purcellpurchased it and subsequentlysold it to Krista and Tony Eggle-ston in December of 2011.Krista Eggleston opened theSalon in March of 2013. She re-modeled the west café sectionand transformed the cafe into a‘beautiful’ beauty salon withseveral styling stations, namingit “Kreative Edge”. SpracklinChiropractic had his business

Another Historical Marker In Place

Tony and Krista Eggleston stand by the historical marker that has been placed on their building onHighway 92.

Courtesy photo

When Holly and Scott Re-mund purchased Arnold Win-some Inn & Suites in 2012 thefurnishings, décor and linenswere pretty basic. In August of2019, the couple set out to up-date the motel to a modernfarmhouse style, and with theexception of a couple of rooms,they’re almost finished.“It has been a family project,”

said Holly. “My sisters and sis-ter-in-law came up with the de-sign ideas. All of them travel somuch that they had the experi-ence of seeing different designs

and had some ideas that wouldwork for us. Our kids, niecesand nephews have all helped –it has been a whole family ef-fort. “Son Rio made knotty pine

benches for the lobby and thetables were refinished. Theknotty pine motif has beenused in all of the rooms, withfamily making the bedframes,headboards and shelf pieces. Kerry Gunther did a lot of the

painting, changing the wall col-ors from green to light grey,which has brightened the

Winsome Inn Owners Updating Motel

Arnold Winsome Inn & Suites owners Holly and Scott Remund have been updating the motel sincelast August. Holly says the project has been “a family affair” since the beginning.

Photo/Kristi Dvorak

whole motel up.Quilts, Navajo blankets, straw

hats and old-time photos ofArnold decorate the walls.Quilts came from all over, thefamily already had the strawhats, and several Navajo blan-kets were purchased fromSugar Sand Boutique inArnold. Old-time photosweren’t hard to find. Hollychose some from her grandpar-ents’ collection and SuanneLind donated from hermother’s - Norene Hall-Mills –

collection. Others donatingwere Genevieve Collier andDee Hall. New comforters andlinens were purchased for therooms.Over the months, updates

have been made as revenue wasavailable. COVID-19 helpedwith time, but not with rev-enue, until funding becameavailable.

“It has made a huge differ-ence. The rooms are lightenedup,” said Holly. “The style oflinens is very common now inthe industry and guests likethat style. They like the cleanli-ness and are responding verywell. The intent was to modern-ize, but be flexible to changethe design in the future. “

Photo/Kristi DvorakMotel rooms are now furnished with knotty pine headboards and

bed frames made by the Remund family, with new linens and com-forters. A new coat of light grey paint brightened everything up.

Burwell, NE – As of Friday, Oc-tober 9, 2020, three hundredand ninety-seven (397) COVID-19 cases have been reported byLoup Basin Public Health De-partment (LBPHD).This increase is the largest sin-

gle week jump in LBPHD’s dis-trict. Single digit (less than 10cases) increases occurred

Loup Basin HD Reports Largest Single Week JumpIn COVID-19 Cases

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within the district from May22nd through July 31st. An av-erage of 16 new cases a weekwere reported each week in Au-gust and 23 cases per week inSeptember. The first two weeksof October have had surges of48 and 75 cases.

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