Forty and Fifty Year Ago Local Notes Chronicle Rural Life
Forty years ago residents of Fairbury Beatrice and surrounding areas are described visiting relatives traveling for work and attending events as assessors made rounds. Mentions include Peter Remley Rebecca Ballard Al Ballard Jansen nursery Hod Diller Sherd Henderson and Jas Kerr among others. Fifty years ago weddings farmland purchases and construction are noted along with Beatrice marriage of Chas H Gaisford and Nency Erhard and Jesse Hadaby Lizzie Ford nuptials. A side item describes a NY conservation department project in Saratoga using a grubbing animal with daily grub bonuses.
Diller School April Activities Calendar and Events
April 2 and 8 are spring vacation. April 7 local music exhibition at the school house with 57 students. admission ten cents. entries to Reynolds. public invited. April 15 J CAC at Endicott. April 16 rural grade school music. April 17 Fairbury invitation track. April 20 seniors pictures at Guiles. April 21 Pioneer Conference grade school track meet at Diller. May 1 Beatrice Southeastern Nebraska track meet junior senior banquet. Regentes Test Duane Clark and Duane Wolken take Regents Scholarship exams. Verne Hubka and Duane Woken compete in Nations High School Contest on world peace organization. First prize trip to South America. second prize fifty dollars. four cash prizes of five dollars each. High school regrets Mr Cevett’s illness and wishes for a speedy recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer
J.C.A.C
Endicott
Fairbury
Beatrice Southeastern Nebraska
Reynolds
Unusual Tribal Folklore Folio From Hindson’s Bay Company
Ernest Thompson describes a local custom where Indians and half-breeds in Hindson’s Bay company employ a peculiar hearing ritual for outstanding achievements. A tall tree is marked as a living monument after a white man performs a feat, and a man is sent to lop off branches, leaving the stump known as So and So’s lob stick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Thompson
Seton
Hindson
Bay Company
Civil Rights Restored and Iraq Oil Field Mention
The report notes the restoration of civil rights for individuals who served sentences for opposing World War I. It also references the Oi Field, described as the world’s largest oil field at times, located in Iraq, with “Christmas 1 fame” and 28 cited in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Iraq
Traq
Also Mentioned on This Page
Zago
Peter Remley
Rebecca Ballard
al. Ballard
Beatrice
Alex Bell
Jansen Nursery
Diller
J. B. Wright
Kanees
Sherd Henderson and Son
Hollenberg
Jas. Kerr
F. Hartzell
J. W. Sutton
Table Rock
Ada Calkins
Sarah Carr
Southeastern Nebraska District Reunion Association
Wrmore
Nickajack Relief Corps
Jas. Bodell
Sod
J.H. Friday
Steele City
A. Breuser
Chas. H. Gaisford
Mies Nency Erhard
Geo. H. Bailey
Nebraska
Jesse Hadhey
Lizzie Ford
Bestrice
Moulton
Frank Pell
J. M. Price
Prairie Home Cemetery
Skunk
New York State Conservation Department
Saratoga
Holle
Marilyn Miller
Duane Clark
Duane Wolken
Verne Hubka
Duane Woken
League of Nations Association
Organization of the
South America
New York
Ness
Hope
Bonham
Fairbury, Nebraska
Betty Greble
Victor Mature
Walter Houston
Aleo “Flying Cadets
Brian Donlevw
Tahiti
Sonora
Showa
Iete
Comfort
Journal
Ol 'Pacer
RFD
Post Office
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