This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monson, Shannon, Axtell Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1682 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 10, 1907."Automobile Balked".--Charles Monson and wife came over from their home in Prairie township yesterday in their automobile. The machine balked on the Jordan hill east of town and Mr. Monson sent word to Shannon & Axtell to come to his relief with a goodly supply of gasoline and the firm responded to his call immediately and the Monsons came into town under favorable circumstances. It is a first-class machine and doubtless will give Mr. and Mrs. Monson the greatest pleasure to be derived by rapid transit over the highways. N.B.: The top of Jordan Hill is the loess ridge east of Sidney on the highway where it overlooks the Nishnabotna Valley. In fact, the panorama to the east, northeast, southeast which one sees from this vantage point made up what, around the beginning of the 1900's, was called the Nishna Valley neighborhood. The Monson's lived on the east side of the Nishna Valley neighborhood.....When the Monson's built a "shed" expressly for the purpose of having something for storing their car in, the papers called it the Monson's "car house".... The Monson's during the 1930's and 1940's ran a gasoline station along the highway at their farm, it being the westernmost of the three along the Sidney - Shenandoah stretch of No. 2. The Farwell's --we lived about two and a half miles south--often would buy a loaf of bread along with a few gallons of gasoline. (John Jorgenson also had a gas station along the highway where it passed over Singleton Creek, and the Teachout's (?) operated one afte! r you descended into the East Nishnabotna valley just west of Shenandoah.)--W.F.