In 1961, my Great-Grandmother's Sister-in-law, Madge Bischoff Dickerhoof, wrote "THIS IS A STORY of NORWAY VILLAGE and NORWAY TOWNSHIP in REPUBLIC COUNTY, KANSAS from 1869 to 1961". My copy has some damage, but this blog is an effort to transcribe the text as accurately as possible (including embedded flaws), and make it available to other members of our family...however distant.
Monday, December 6, 2010
NORWAY BANDS
Norway's first band was composed of nine of its earliest settlers--Joseph Melhus, Adolph Larson, Charles Hugos, Frank Dickerhoof (1852-1942), Peter Hammer, E. Vollen, John Hugos, Iver Tiller, and Gust Nelson. (Frank Dickerhoof was the snare drummer. When he was a boy of eleven and twelve, he played the drum and sometimes the fife for the militia drilling in the village street during Civil War Days in Illinois.
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