History of Buffalo County and Its People by Samuel Clay Bassett
ELM CREEK TOWNSHIP-EARLY SETTLERS -- ELM CREEK STATION AND
EATING HOUSE -- COLD TEA SOLD EMIGRANTS AS "WET GOODS" -- CORD
WOOD SOLD AT SHERIFF SALE AT EIGHT CENTS PER CORD --
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9 -- LIST OF POSTMASTERS;
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS -- THE FIRST NEWSPAPER -- INCORPORATION
OF THE VILLAGE -- CHURCHES -- BANKS -- LODGES -- FIRST CHURCH
SERVICE A FUNERAL OCCASION -- ODESSA TOWNSHIP -- FIRST SETTLERS
-- REMINISCENCES -- GRANT TOWNSHIP -- REMINISCENCES. When the
Union Pacific Railroad was completed across Buffalo County in
the years 1866-67, a station was established and named Elm Creek
and D. C. Bond appointed agent. Also at Elm Creek was located an
eating house, Charles Davis proprietor, and the emigrant train,
carrying passengers, was scheduled to stop twenty minutes for
meals at this point. Mr. Davis also kept a saloon and in 1872 an
advertisement of his dining hall and saloon appeared in the
Buffalo County Beacon, publi