Editing Malcolm, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Malcolm was [[plat]]ted in 1877.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/lancaster/malcolm/ | title=Malcolm, Lancaster County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=126}}</ref> The village was named for Malcolm Showers, the original owner of the town site.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27472 | title=Profile for Malcolm, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=August 19, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701082113/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27472 | archive-date=July 1, 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=92}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref> In 1880, the village was devastated by a prairie fire which burned from Middle Creek to Elk Creek which was followed by an outbreak of diphtheria which killed many local children.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.malcolm.ne.gov/aboutus.php|title=Malcolm, Nebraska|website=www.malcolm.ne.gov|language=en|access-date=March 25, 2018}}</ref>

In 1885, Malcolm Showers purchased two lots and built Malcolm's first church and served as its Methodist minister until he was replaced by Reverend D.Y. Black.<ref name=":0" /> The ''Malcolm Messenger'', a weekly newspaper featuring a popular gossip column, was established in 1891 and was published until 1934.<ref name=":0" />