Local Brevities and Community Notes in Fairbury
The Fairbury column lists residents and visitors including Dr. Leach and Frank Manley. It covers trips to Lincoln Kansas City Chicago and Lawrence, farm and livestock activity, social events lectures at the Methodist church, a burglary at a garage, medical operations, a death, a freak egg find, and upcoming church and club activities with a call to faith and congregation involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbury Woman’s Club
Diller
Steele City
Fairbury Club
Steele City Club
Guy Cassell
R. B. Thompson
C. C. Andrews
F. V. Lowe
Isa
Church of Christ
Lucile Taylor
P. A. Davies
Fairbury
Davies
Endicott Sets Special Election for 4000 Bond for Lights
Endicott schedules a special election on October 24 to approve a 4000 bond for electric lighting. The plan would run a transmission line from the Fairchild brick and tile plant to use surplus power from the Fairbury plant. An earlier vote on September 5 showed 44 for and 30 against, short of the 60 percent required to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endicott
Fairchild Brick and Tile
Fairbury
Machine Harvests Rice From Wet Fields
A newly invented machine travels through deep mud to harvest rice, replacing human labor in waterlogged fields. It moves through the waterlogged paddies and gathers the grain, signaling a potential shift in traditional farming methods.
Apples and livestock for sale at local market ads
advertisements list apples at Crane's orchard two dollars per bushel. hogs sought for market by Co. C Andrews. Rhode Island Red cockerels for sale by Harry C Coons. oak barrels for pork use by W E Willey. farm for sale inquiry by G B Louden Champaign Illinois. Poland China pigs March farrow all cholera immune by WE Willey. Duroc Jersey pigs and Rhode Island Red roosters by B F Henriché Diller phone 102 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
China
March Farrow
Pyre
Duroc
S. C. Rhode
Henriche
Diller
Timber and posts auction listing with stoves and names
A fragment describes a sale of a few hundred oak and elm posts with standing timber and long wood. It notes three heating stoves and references Wm Pearson as a seller or point of contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm Pearson
New Cleaning and Pressing Shop Opens at East Hotel End
New shop offers making cleaning pressing and repair work at the east end of the hotel. All orders will be called for and delivered with satisfaction guaranteed. Prompt a ten ion given all orders. Phone 49 cr 3613 Mre Cockell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mre Cockell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clark’s Store
State Department
Ford
Eck Hd
Arner
Dr. Leach
F. & M. Bank
Frank Manley
W. C. Palmer
Lincoln
C. R. Bracken
Kansas City
Art Miller
Geo. Wing
Chicago
W. J. Hicks
Oberlin, Kansas
Art Hamsey
St. Joe
Elna Arner
Harry Wilson
Marysville
Clarence
Hastings
Louis Bugbee
Lawrence
P. D. Erehart
R. S. Wilfley
Hiawatha
Ralph Leidengood
M. Mitchell Farm
Fay Clark
Minnesota
Ike Woods
Fred Perkins
Abbie Sutton
Winifred P. Jenkins
E. L. Jenkins
Jenkins
Doris Greenwood
E. E. Shull
Frank Mathias
Colorado
Shultz
Mathias
LaMlar
Wright
Opera House
Emma Gerz
Mary Magdalene
Mrs. Bugbee
Matheson
Belleville
Kansas
E. E. Shultz
B. F. Mathias
Rock Island
John Hoeft
Washington State
M. H. Coons
Clarkston
Washington
Hoeft
West
Miss Bethel
Grand Island
Church News
Crane
C. Andrews
S. C
Rhode Island
Harry C. Coons
W.E. Willey
G. B. Louden
Champaign
Illinois
Armour
Libby
T. W. Zoellin
Rullman
Bracken’s Hardware Store
Swift & CO
Bracken
John Pulec
Nebraska
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