Bob Dole and Russell’s Main Street are inextricably linked. It is the site of Dole’s first job, working a soda fountain at a downtown drugstore, the same place locals fundraised to help ease the financial strain of his war wounds years later. Later, its stores and railroad crossing served as a backdrop where the powerful U.S. senator campaigned on two presidential runs, projecting the 4,600-person community to international recognition. But the town was quiet Friday morning, with a few locals out running errands at the bank, marveling at the lack of media attention — a rarity since Dole died Sunday morning in his sleep at 98 years old.
Source: CJonline
