The town of Wheeler was designated as the county seat in 1908.

The county was established in 1908 and is named for the Hood River, a tributary of the Columbia River.

Fairview, which had been settled following the Land Run of 1893, was designated the county seat and voters reaffirmed the choice on December 22, 1908.

Medford became the county seat through an election held on May 27, 1908.

The county courthouse in 1908.

The first county fair was held in 1828 ; in 1908 Lucasville became the official site when three fairs ( Mount Joy, Portsmouth and Lucasville ) merged into one.

The county government was first organized on December 24, 1908 ; McClusky has always been the county seat.

The county government was first organized on February 10, 1908 ; the county seat has always been Manning.

This mine was in operation in 1895, and by 1908 it was considered one of the best equipped longwall mines in the county.

In 1908 he kicked-off his campaign for president from the steps of the Crawford county courthouse in Girard.

Although the matter was frequently debated the county seat remained in Frankfort until 1908 when citizens voted to move it to an abandoned church in the Village of Honor.

Holst Township was named after a Norwegian pioneer farmer, H. J. Hoist, who from 1904 to 1908 was the county sheriff.

However, the county held a special election on August 20, 1908 to decide whether the seat would remain in Bristow or move to Sapulpa, which claimed to be more centrally located.

The town is the county seat of Delaware County, having won that distinction from Grove, Oklahoma in a special county seat election on December 8, 1908.

Around 1908, the Delaware County Improvement Association hired a survey team to pinpoint the exact location of the center of the county.

Okemah was chosen as county seat in a county election held August 27, 1908.

Additionally, certain boroughs were deemed to be county boroughs, outside the administrative counties ( Cardiff and Swansea in 1889, Newport in 1891 and Merthyr Tydfil in 1908 ).

The gold output in 1907 was over $ 8. 4 million, the year in which the town became the county seat ; in 1908, output was about $ 4, 880, 000.

The name was changed to Evelyn ( the name of the county ) in 1908, then to Mount Evelyn in 1913.

The host Great Britain was represented by Cornwall, the 1908 county champion.

The Gazetteer was revised in later series, the second edition comprising 14 volumes published between 1885 and 1887, while the third comprised 26 volumes, including an atlas, and was published in 1908.

Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12, 000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4.

This postcard, published c. 1908, shows a white minstrel team.

Beginning in 1908, Bushnell was home to one of the largest horse shows in the Midwest.

A photo, taken in 1908, shows a cyclist resting there ;

Other shows that were popularly successful include It Happened in Nordland ( 1904 ), Miss Dolly Dollars ( 1905 ), Dream City ( 1906 ), The Magic Knight ( 1906 ), Little Nemo ( 1908 ), The Lady of the Slipper ( 1912 ), The Princess Pat ( 1915 ) and My Golden Girl ( 1920 ).

The Lantern Bearers, 1908, oil on canvas on board, created for Collier's magazine, the painting shows Parrish's use of glazes and saturated color in an evocative night scene, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Conversely, Mark Chapman's England's Amateurs site states that the 1908 and 1912 teams were Great Britain, and points to the fact that photographic evidence shows the team playing with the Union flag on their shirts.

: 1908 – Trouton-Rankine experiment shows that length contraction of an object according to one frame does not produce a measurable change of resistance in the object's rest frame

At the time of Goldfaden's funeral in 1908, the New York Times wrote, " The dense Jewish population on the lower east side of Manhattan shows in its appreciation of its own humble Yiddish poetry and the drama much the same spirit that controlled the rough audiences of the Elizabethan theater.

For several years from 1908, open-air movie and variety shows known as ' Continentals ' were held at the park, and proved enormously popular, drawing up to 5, 000 people a night.

The map attached to C. W. Gwynn's account of his 1908 / 09 triangulation survey of southern Ethiopia shows that Gore had a telegraph station.

In his best patriotic poems – Stara pjesma ( Old Song ), 1909 and Iseljenik ( Immigrant ) – the poet, who returned to his homeland in 1908, shows his disappointment with the Croats under Hungarian oppression.

However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

After returning home he went on a lecture circuit and wrote The People of the Polar North ( 1908 ), a combination travel journal and scholarly account of Inuit folklore.

The US explorer Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole on 21 April 1908 with two Inuit men, Ahwelah and Etukishook, but he was unable to produce convincing proof and his claim is not widely accepted.

This may have seemed like the end for North, but the local community re-established the North Melbourne Football Club as a new identity, and the VFA re-admitted the new club to the Association for the 1908 season.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

* April 15, 1908: Asheville, North Carolina Dr. C. O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute.

As eventual congressionally recognized " attainer " of the pole ( not " discoverer " in deference to 1908 North Pole claimant Frederick Cook's supporters ) Peary was given a Rear Admiral's pension and the Thanks of Congress by a special act of March 30, 1911.

The North Carolina General Assembly founded ECU on March 8, 1907 as a teacher training school and selected Greenville as its seat on July 2, 1908 with the first classes beginning in 1909.

The chairman of its original Board of Trustees, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, a former Governor of North Carolina now known as the " Father of ECU ", participated in groundbreaking ceremonies for the first buildings on July 2, 1908 in Greenville, North Carolina and ECTTS opened its doors on October 5, 1909.

In 1908, Village Ordinance # 21 created a North Aurora Village Fire Department and a charter was given to that effect.

In 1908, the name of the village of Nunda changed its name to North Crystal Lake.

This was the Roosevelt, which carried Robert Peary from New York to the Arctic in 1908 for his final expedition to the North Pole.

Image: Elm Street Looking North, Gardner, MA. jpg | Elm Street, c. 1908

Another source, " A history of the origin of the place names connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railways ( 1908, p115 )" claims the village was named after " Edward Powers, a civil engineer engaged in constructing the railroad there.

The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad ran from the Arkansas resort town of Eureka Springs to Neosho where it connected with the Frisco and Kansas City Southern tracks in 1908.

Image: Deer Park Hotel & Depot, North Woodstock, NH. jpg | Deer Park Hotel c. 1908

Portions of the township were taken to form Cape Island Borough ( March 8, 1848, now known as Cape May city ), Cape May Point borough ( created April 19, 1878, restored to Lower Township on April 8, 1896, recreated April 6, 1908 ), Holly Beach ( April 14, 1885, now part of Wildwood city ), South Cape May ( August 27, 1894, restored to Lower Township after the borough was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ), Wildwood Crest ( April 6, 1910 ) and North Cape May ( March 19, 1928, restored to Lower Township after it was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ).

The North Tonawanda City Market, established in 1908, is the oldest farmer's market in Niagara County.

Rhame was founded in 1908 as Petrel, North Dakota, when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, the " Milwaukee Road ," established a station here.

Indiana was the birthplace and hometown of actor Jimmy Stewart ( 1908 – 1997 ), who was born there and lived at 104 North 7th Street.

North Main Street c. 1908