Elsie, 84, is the United states of the smallest city's only resident - works as a bartender and as a mayor, collect taxes yet you self

Monowissa one of the people forced to work in many of the assignment and to collect the taxes themselves.Monowin on the high street does not appear congestion. ANDREW FILER FROM SEATTLE (EX-MINNEAPOLIS)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

When it popped up in the Us, Nebraska to be located in the Monowin restaurant, meet at the same time the city's total population. Customers are served to Elsie Eiler, 84, is the city's only resident. According to the BBC, the place, the population will be halved in 2004, when his spouse Rudy died.

the U.s. population register, Monowi is the only place which is officially only one permanent resident. Not only a restaurant connected with chef-bartender-waiter, there Eiler also Monowin the mayor, the municipal secretary and the chief financial officer. Every year, he hung the place with the only company, that used to run his bar wall sign, which shall be notified to the mayor's election.

the Election, he will vote himself. Women must submit to the authorities every year road maintenance plan, without which the state does not finance their maintenance. The mayor of Eiler will also need to collect taxes the city's total population, i.e. the self, and that $ 500 tax pot of funding to Monowin of water pipes maintenance as well as to prevent the three street lights went dark.

most of the Monowin buildings have gotten quite a poor state. ANDREW FILER FROM SEATTLE (EX-MINNEAPOLIS)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

- When applied for from the state each year from alcohol and tobacco sales licences for renewal, they send the papers on to the secretary, which is me. Receive them, therefore, as secretary, signed by a notary, and I deliver myself to the bar owner.

Side Eiler also keeps a list of available land and housing, in case anyone would like to change Monowiin.

Elsie Eiler insurance BBC he likes to be quiet in his hometown.

I grew up here, I'm used to this and know what I want.

internal panoramic Monowin restaurant, which Elsie Eiler rotate. Customers there from miles around. LIUMIAO999/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Monowin population peaked in the 1930s, when the railway route located in the city lived 150 people. There were several shops and restaurants and even a prison. The population began to dwindle after the second world war. The last funeral Monowin in the church was held in the year 1960, when eiler's father was blessed there. The post office and grocery store closed in the early 1970s upon entering, the school year 1974. In the 1980s residents were no longer 18, in the turn of the millennium two. Today no one.

Lonely Eiler does not feel the feeling, as his running-to-day restaurant use customers as from the surrounding area than even hundreds of miles away. Regular customers are like family, and many parents and grandparents have had in a restaurant.

- it Is pretty cool when people you remember as babies are now coming to look like their own babies.

the restaurant of the guest book signatures from customers, who have come from different parts of the world.

I Feel good that I have brought attention to this part of the world, said the United states smallest city's only resident.

live Here officially one resident. ANDREW FILER FROM SEATTLE (EX-MINNEAPOLIS)/WIKIMEDIA commons location began the depopulation after the second world war. ANDREW FILER FROM SEATTLE (EX-MINNEAPOLIS)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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