That bridge's life was short lived and by the summer of 1886 the Beemer Times reported the building of an iron bridge, a Pratt truss with a span of 150 feet.

As the West Point News reported, " Some of the beards for this event are history, but memories of three-day Beemer Q125 celebration will linger longer for many of the people in the Cuming County community, which lived up to its Q125 theme: ' Small Town, Big Spirit.

In 1995, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan ) and Best Sound Effects Editing, winning the latter two.

His efforts on behalf of the area were rewarded in 1886, when Congressman Edward K. Valentine secured a post office for the settlement, naming it the Beemer Post Office.

In that year Mr. Beemer founded a newspaper, the Beemer Times ; and the rail company changed the name of the station from Rock Creek to Beemer, although its telegraph call signs remained " R C " ( for " Rock Creek ") until the depot closed in 1963.

The steam power plant would position Lambrecht to win the business of pumping water for the future waterworks of Beemer.

Beemer was to be transformed from a mere stop along the tracks to an active village that constantly worked to keep up with the times and care for its citizens.

In 1897, funds were raised to build water works for Beemer, with Lambrecht and Doescher agreeing to pump water using the coal-fired, steam power plant in the flour mill.

In 1904, Beemer carried out further modernization of the village water works by installing new, larger underground pipes in many parts of town, additional fire hydrants, and building a large water standpipe 10 feet in diameter and 85 feet in height that would become an icon of Beemer's main street for decades to come.

The Cuming County Independent Telephone Company commenced in 1902 and operated telephones in the Wisner and Beemer area for many years to come.

Among those present for the celebration were Chad Beemer and Pat Beemer, descendants of the town ’ s founder, AD Beemer and some of Beemer's longest, living resisdents: Tom and Barbara Delmont, Irene Drake, Vern and Jan Balak, Merle Martin, Clarence Tichota, and LeAnn Spangler.

Road to Perdition was nominated for six Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor ( Paul Newman ), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography ( Conrad L. Hall ), Best Original Score ( Thomas Newman ), Best Sound ( Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and John Pritchett ), and Best Sound Editing.

The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, Best Sound ( Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Tim Cooney ), Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects.

Beemer was nominated for several Academy Awards, and as of 2007, has won Academy Awards for four films: Speed ( 1994 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), Ray ( 2004 ), and Dreamgirls ( 2006 ).

Beemer has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another three:

Beemer residents welcomed visitors, including many past residents of Beemer to mark the 125th anniversary of Beemer's founding over the weekend of 22 – 24 July 2011.

** Independence Day-Chris Carpenter, Bill W. Benton, Bob Beemer and Jeff Wexler

* 2006: Dreamgirls-Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie D. Burton

The title character was played on radio by George Seaton, Earle Graser, and most memorably Brace Beemer.

One of the most recognizable voices throughout the nation was that of Brace Beemer, the radio Lone Ranger.

Beemer is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, United States.

Beemer is located at ( 41. 930439 ,-96. 809862 ) on the table lands adjoining the Elkhorn River bottoms, 84 miles from Omaha and nine miles northwest of West Point, near the geographic center of Cuming County where Nebraska Link 20A meets U. S. Route 275.

Nearly 100 percent of Beemer ’ s neighborhood streets are paved and complete with storm sewage systems.

Recreational facilities include the school gymnasium, the Beemer park which is complete with tennis courts and picnic areas, and the near-by Indian Trails Country Club, an 18-hole course on the bluffs of the Elkhorn River colloquially known as the ‘ Beemer Golf Course ’. Indian Trails Senior citizens are entertained at the Senior Citizen Center collocated with Post 159 of the American Legion.

The Beemer Elementary school which is located in Beemer is part of the West Point-Beemer Public School system.

The Beemer area is included in the West Point-Beemer school district whose high school is located about 10 miles from Beemer.

The first settlers of European descent arrived in the Beemer area by prairie schooner in 1864, seeking land under the Homestead Act.

The earliest settlers in Beemer Township included M. Brayrerton, George Graham, Joseph S. Emley, Robert Fehlmann, Dr. H. H.

And, after all, he has lived comfortably at both Oxford, Mississippi, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

Oxford later insisted that ' the Howards were the most treacherous race under heaven ' and that ' my Lord Howard the worst villain that lived in this earth.

Another modern hypothesis ( the so-called " Jutish hypothesis "), accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary, states that the Jutes are identical with the Geats, a people who once lived in southern Sweden.

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

Historical documents confirm that Oxford lived in Venice, and travelled for over a year through Italy.

" However, the Oxford English Dictionary mentions an etymology relating to a cult that modelled themselves on the Cynics and lived off of lupins that they gathered ( tiraient ).

He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived and taught was formed into a mediaeval academic hall in his name and eventually incorporated as the current college St Edmund Hall.

It is named after St Edmund of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the first Oxford-educated Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived and taught on the college site.

Taylor lived in Disley, Cheshire for a while, where Dylan Thomas ( who was his first wife's lover ) was his guest ; he later provided Thomas with a cottage in Oxford so that he could recover from a breakdown.

This documented the poor quality of these castle facilities ; prisoners in Norwich Castle lived in a dungeon, with the floor frequently covered by an inch of water ; Oxford was " close and offensive "; Worcester was so subject to gaol-fever that the castle surgeon would not enter the prison ; Gloucester was " wretched in the extreme ".

He died at the age of 70, on December 29, 1919 in Oxford, during the Spanish influenza epidemic ; his wife, Grace, lived another nine years but succumbed to a series of strokes.

In his adolescence, he visited large cities in countries such as The Netherlands and France, and lived for a short period of time in Rome ; and for a longer period of time in Oxford, England ( 1706 – 1708 ), which was rare during that time as intellectual life was centered in continental Europe.

His father, Martin Robertson, was an internationally distinguished professor of classical Greek art and archeology at the University of London and Oxford University, and in his youth Thomas lived or worked in France, Italy and Greece.

The British decadent writers were much influenced by the Oxford professor Walter Pater and his essays published during 1867 – 68, in which he stated that life had to be lived intensely, with an ideal of beauty.

For two years after leaving Oxford he lived chiefly in Glasgow before settling to the study of Scots law in Edinburgh, where he was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1816.

The Sermon Preached on the Sunday before the Prince his funerall in St James Chappell before the body ( Oxford, ( 1613 ; see 1613 in literature ): " He, He is dead, who while he lived, was a perpetuall Paradise, every season that he shewd himselfe in a perpetuall spring, eavery exercise wherein he was scene a special felicity: He, He is dead before us [...] Hee, Hee is dead ; that blessed Model of heaven his face is covered till the latter day, whose shining lamps his eyes in whose light there was life to the beholders, they bee ecclipsed untill the sunne give over shining.

He returned to England shortly before the restoration of King Charles II, and lived at Queen's College, Oxford where Thomas Barlow was provost.

He lived at the Leonard Hotel just behind Oxford Street in London for three years where he recorded most of Bono's vocals for ' Electrical Storm '.

They lived in Oxford, England until they moved their residence to Switzerland in 2006.

From the age of nine, since his father has just remarried to the heiress Flower Backhouse, he lived at Swallowfield in Berkshire and he matriculated at Oxford on 23 January 1675, a month after his father had succeeded as 2nd Earl of Clarendon, making him Viscount Cornbury.

He was the son of Ebeneezer and Deborah Haynes Learned, and was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, and lived his entire life in the area.

Carpenter was born, died, and lived practically all of his life, in the city of Oxford.

As a child, he lived in the Warden's Lodgings at Keble College, Oxford, where his father served as Warden until his appointment as Bishop of Oxford.