This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Memories of The Past Forty Years Ago
Forty years back in 1899 P W Price shelled a crib of corn cribbed in 1896. Mint Willems died of pneumonia forty years ago last Saturday. About half of Jansen’s business houses burned forty years ago. seven stores destroyed. The Misses Christie Lulu Stevens and Lillie Brandt drove to Wymore. 80 bad roads made the five hour return. Ben Hicken and Ida Mitchell married forty years ago at Beatrice. Hicken family now in Arkansas. Gage Wright finished a well at L LCatlin place yielding 15 ft of water at 56 ft, then started another for W A Snyder. The Fairbury Journal forty years ago noted Diller Record twelve years old, started partisan then nonpartisan, one of county’s newest papers. Brothers opened in Diller. The Diller Cornet Band joined by locals attended a blowout at Odell with athletics and dancing. The new Presbyterian church bell, weighing pounds, cost about 135 dollars, placed fifty years ago this week. tower fund payment urged. George Tunnemaker set Pleasant precinct valuations: raw land 450 per acre, cultivated land 5 per acre, buildings added to land. horses and mules 25, cows 5, stock 2-year-olds 8, yearling calves 2, hogs 75c per 100, sheep 50c, oats 5c, wheat 5c, wagons 15.