Gresham News

The Champion Chimaine/Chiangus Bull was Lot 1, consigned by T-T Cattle Co of Gresham, NE and later sold to Garrett Smart of Atwood, CO for $5,000, making him the High Selling Chimaine/Chiangus Bull.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.

Dozens of books stuffed full of newspaper and magazine articles were stacked on the dresser and television set of Walter Schmitt's spartan room the day he died last year.

A blacksmith from the tiny town of Gresham, Neb., who never went to college but yet loved to learn, died in January and left his multimillion dollar estate to the University of Nebraska.