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Bayard H. Paine, 1889
Grand Island High School
Graduation Portrait
Photographer: W.F Kilborn
In 1889, Bayard H. Paine, in celebration of his recent graduation from Grand Island High school, loaded up a wagon and team, and joining forces with friends, undertook a trip on a road along the tracks of the Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Grand Island to Victoria Springs near Anselmo, Nebraska. The "Dunphunny Rustlers" included J.H. Thompson, a teacher at Grand Island High School, Charles D. Searson and Gus H. Rose, students. They were later joined by Bayard's cousin Fred Bentley, after Mr. Thompson dropped out of the venture. Bayard kept a blow-by-blow account, laden with high school humor, of the trip, and his journal gives us great mental images of travel by wagon in 1889.



Grand Island High School, 1889
Exterior portrait of students
and faculty at Dodge School,
Grand Island's high school.
Bayard H. Paine, Gus H. Rose,
and teacher J.H. Thompson are
identified, also Paine's future
wife Grace Bentley.


Gus H. Rose
June 1892
Photographer: Julius Leschinsky

Table of Contents

Pages 1-10

Pages 11-20

Pages 21-30

Pages 31-40

Pages 41-76


Grand Island Bachelor's Club
organized March 17, 1896
Charles D. Searson featured
at center of top row.



Fred Bentley
December 1890
Photographer: J.R. Moeller
created: September 30, 2003 by Karen Keehr
up-dated: September 30, 2003