This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VanEaton, Lamb, Magel, Otte Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4218 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. August 7, 1902. -- Recently W. W. and Thomas VanEaton launched two boats on the Otte Lake--namely, the SHAMROCK and COLUMBIA. The boats are of the latest design of swift sailing crafts and were built by the renowned vessel architect, Fred Lamb, who will encourage a contest of speed between the COLUMBIA and Sir Thomas Lipton's English yatch. N.B.: At least part of Otte Lake was located north of No. 2 just west of where that highway crosses the West Nishnabotna, in the northeast quarter of Section 30. During the early 1940's, the Magel Brothers created settling basin around this quarter section which surrounded the southern part of Otte Lake. By 1945, they were farming this ground.--W.F.