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This picture is at Christmastime either 1951 or 1952 in the lounge of the Fairbury office of the Lincoln Telephone Telegraph Co. employees. Standing r are: Rika Schenk, Martha Vculek, Annabelle Stocker, Bery Leslie, Jean Litton, Mary Jackson, Dorcas Slater, Juanita Little, Emilie Bliech, Matilda Alpers and Charlotte Jordan; sitting are Helen DeBoer, Francis Erwin and Lillian Austin. Front row are: Miss Viola Dunn, chief operator, rene Smalldon, Geraldine Hirsch, Charlene Hoover, Pauline James (?), Eileen Robinson and Nellie Shepard, and behind them are Vera Sweetser and Juanita Waring. (contributed photo) 120 YEARS AGO, 1885 The Fairbury Gazette No newspaper was printed this week. 110 YEARS AGO, 1895 The Jefferson County Journal A.L. Schiermeyer, Day kin publisher, planned to get out three papers: a week at Fairbury, one in German, one in English, and one a combination of the two languages. John C. Kesterson took charge of the Fairbury Post Office,.under ap pointment from Demo cratic President Grover Cleveland. Kesterson then appointed Hiram Parks assistant. Bob Higgins was the other member of the local post office staff. Jane Speenberg began to study law in the office of Hartigan Barnes. Henry ,Hunzie, and Gottlieb Brokelman, Ger man ancestry farmers liv ing near Plymouth were lost in the sinking of the steamer Elbe in the Atlan tic. Brokelman was single; Hunzie left a wife and five children. James Hammond, at one time connected with The Journal, was publish ing a Democratic newspa per at Cook. Later he moved further west, pub lished a Republican paper and was elected Congress man from this district. A CENTURY AGO, 1905 The Jefferson County Journal Eighteen inches out of a total winter accumula tion of 231% were on the ground in Fairbury Feb. 10. It was cold too, with below-zero readings of 15 28, 22 and 20 in one week. Mentioned in a report from District No. 44 (1% miles east and 3% miles south of Thompson) were Charlie, and Frankie Hadden, Arlow, Clinton and Harold Meyers and Pearl Titzell. Maude Bundy was teacher. 90 YEARS AGO, 1915 The Fairbury Journal Pioneers in business use of automobiles in Fairbury were Gibson Son, Frank Gage and B L Oil Co., which were using trucks, Jefferson County roads and bridge fund registered warrants totaling $40,000. Honor pupils in District No. 41 (two miles north of Fairbury) were Gladys Armstrong, Florence Jones, Grant and Jessie Koontz and Lowell Schroeder. 80 YEARS AGO, 1925 The Fairbury Journal The Journal predicted that the increasing price of gasoline would reach 25 cents per gallon by sum mer. The Fairbury School Board reelected Supt. Nelson at an annual salary of $3,500, to be later raised to $4,400. The Jefferson County Fair Board decided to build a new grandstand. 70 YEARS AGO, 1935 The Fairbury Journal Farmers were signed up for federal corn and hog production control pro grams. The federal government had allotted the county $20,000 for the month of February to help care for 888 families receiving aid. The city and county had to match the federal funding. Richard Hopkins of Hastings moved to Fair bury to manage the Bi-Lo Grocery which he and C.H. Coates had estab lished on the west side of the square. Ten families had been picked to occupy the “farmsteads” southeast of Fairbury. La. Niuteman, a £ 34 former county judge, died. He had served 14 years. 60 YEARS AGO 1945 The Fairbury Journal Ralph P. Howell and Ivan C. Riley were, co chairmen of the county Red Cross drive. Mrs. Bennie Rempel was secre tary. Jane Tuttle won the Quivera Chapter DAR es say contest. Mrs. Lelaid Krause was contest chair man; judges were Aileen Cox and Mrs. Fred Hadley, Harry Ahrends, Henry Brett and Ed Jones were re-appointed to the county fair board by the county commissioners. Farmers market top prices included — butcher hogs $14.15, stock hogs S16, beef cattle $12.50, stock: cattle $13, white corn S5.01, yellow corn 93 cents, wheat: $1.46, oats 66 cents, barley 92 cents, prairie hay S5- 10, alfalfa $12-20, butter 45 cents, eggs 30 cents, but terfat 45 cents, poultry: spring hens 21-22 cents, hens 17-20 cents, roost ers 11-13 cents: 50 YEARS AGO, 1955 The Fairbury Journal The Fairbury Presbyte rian Women's Association honored five long-time members with honorary litermemberships in boards of the national church. Honorees were Mims. A.D. Ackerman, Dod Kesterson, Je. McAlister, Minnie Meenan and B-L. Park, Roscoe H. Vance was appointed to the city’s Per sonnel Board, succeeding A.J. Williams, who had become a member of the municipal power board. The announcement came at a city council meeting when wives of the council men, Mayor and treasurer WETE GUESTS: Mrs. Olive True, 90, life time Fairburian, died at the home of her daughter Mae. «Mrs. Charles Richardson, in Colorado. She had reared her family of four alone, supporting then, by “teaching in county wand Fairbury schools and had been 20 Years in the: county schools” superintendent's office. Her other children were. Reba, Mrs.Lewis Meyer, of Fairbury, Owen of Pawnee City and Lloyd of Lincoln, Marilyn Houser, daugh ter of the William Housers of Daykin, and.Bill Zabokrtsky, son of the Louis Zabokrtskys. of Sreele City, were the FTA royal couple at Fairbury Junior College. 40 YEARS AGO, 1965 The Fairbury Journal Bidders: cane [from seven states as a crowd estimated at 500 watched the auctioning of automo biles dam wed in a Union Pacific derailment near Endicott six weeks earlier. The railroad had the ve hicles: on display at the City Park football field on a haul-away, tow-away or drive-away as-is basis. Lee city council. ap proved four-lane paving on 14th Street from C.to:K with the city, state and fed eral governments sharing costs. In a light vote, due to unfavorable weather, vot ers of the Fairbury school district, approved a bond issue for a science-library building for Fairbury Jun ior College. Former Fairburian James Denney received the George Washington Honor Medal, for his pho tograph, “Flag Day --- One Nation Under God.” He was a member of the Omaha World-Herald Magazine of the Midlands staff, 30 YEARS AGO, 1975 The Jefferson County Journal The Rev. Bernhard Lien 20 YEARS AGO, 1985 The Journal News The District 8 School Board approved the con solidation of the junior and senior high schools, closing of Park Elemen tary and the initiation of all day kindergarten, de spite public opposition, one group of which was gaining a recall of four aad members because of their vote in the matter. Fairbury police arrested nuclear protestor Marian Todd of Fairbury, who blocked the Union Pacific tracts to a train carrying nuclear warheads from Amarillo.’.: Texas; 10 Bangor, Wash.. could not.
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Fairbury Journal News
Fairbury, Nebraska, US
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