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61 published stories · 20 tour stops · 748 source references · Growing with every discovery
Matching passages and citation notes from our published collection.
In “The Woman’s Club: organized in 1894”
On March 6, 1919, the club affiliated with the Nebraska Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Nine Hooper members took part in organizing the Dodge County federation in March 1930, when Mrs. T. M. Tillman was chosen as its first county president. Hooper’s club therefore belonged to a wider network while pursuing projects at home.
In the summer of 1956, Hooper had more than one baseball story to celebrate. Its American Legion players were making a run at a state championship, while the town team was battling neighboring clubs in the Dodge County League. The photographs preserved in Hooper’s centennial book show both groups, along with earlier teams whose uniforms carried the town’s name long before those victories.
In “The shell went up in 1955”
The town organized a second kind of building campaign, this time around finishing and furnishing the space. The Woman’s Club held a community sale for kitchen needs. Veterans’ groups, the Commercial Club, firemen, Lions and women’s organizations planned benefits and a rural fundraising drive. The chronology records more than $1,000 in receipts from a December 1955 Fun Frolic and later contributions from church groups, clubs and individuals.
In “Music on the street, the bluffs and the stage”
A separate photograph is marked “1908” and “Mozart Glee Club.” The centennial book describes it as one of Hooper’s early musical clubs and identifies its members. Its mixed group of women and men broadens the picture of local music beyond the uniformed band. Together with the vocal quartet in the 1901 program, it shows that Hooper’s musical life included organized singing as well as instrumental performance.
In “Help put names to the bowling story”
Continue with Hooper’s school history and student teams, or search the database for Hooper clubs and organizations.
The November 5 issue of The Hooper Sentinel gives us a remarkably detailed look at that evening—and at a town where Halloween belonged to children, churches, clubs and neighbors. The “ghosts” in these accounts were people in costumes, and the newspaper made room for the food, games and hosts who helped everyone enjoy the occasion.
The house at 302 North Nebraska Street has two named chapters in Hooper’s self-guided tour. The Historical Committee says it was built in 1934 for Ernest M. and Marguerite Luther and sold in 1969 to Dr. William G. and Mona M. Heusel. Those names lead beyond a property transaction to local clubs, veterans’ service and family medicine.
In “Read the preserved account”
Do you have records of Hooper’s women’s clubs, a dated park photograph or a family account of a community project? Share it with the Hooper History Project.
In “Agriculture, academic honors and student clubs”
Agriculture, academic honors and student clubs
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Fremont Area Community Foundation, printed p. 10, “Hooper Area Community Foundation’s Signage Project Complete.”
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Hooper Mrs. Jaycees, 1976, printed p. 140. Woman’s Club: organization, Federation affiliation and civic activity.
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Hooper Mrs. Jaycees, 1976, printed p. 33–34. Elim’s organizations and the Hooper Methodist women’s activities/Ladies Aid.
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Hooper Mrs. Jaycees, 1976, printed p. 136–137. “Extension Clubs,” by Gertrude Alperstedt: county context and Hooper Project Club.
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Hooper Mrs. Jaycees, 1976, printed p. 131. Town and junior bands; retrospective account of Paul Peterson’s arrival in 1927.
Cited in How Hooper Got Things Done: Women’s Clubs, Lodges and Community Groups
Hooper Mrs. Jaycees, 1976, printed p. 80, 168. Epworth League camp photograph, about 1905; Laura McGran’s recollection of a men’s club room called the Hooligan Shack.
