A T.P.C., an Electrician, Old Nick’s Rat Killer, the Atomic Bomb, & Nickerson Farms

It’s the Story
Above: Empty bottle of Old Nick’s Rat Killer found in an attic at the Table Rock Opera House. Manufactured in 1945, its label proclaims hits rats and mice like “the atomic bomb.”
Above: Empty bottle of Old Nick’s Rat Killer found in an attic at the Table Rock Opera House. Manufactured in 1945, its label proclaims hits rats and mice like “the atomic bomb.”

Don’t you just love a good story? 

Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. 

Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.

In 1884, the Table Rock Argus published a story about an event in Pawnee City. It obviously was unplanned. It involved a rat. Before I relate the story, let me define two terms: the “city herd law” presumably like Nebraska’s present herd law,…