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Newspaper
The Fairbury Enterprise
Location
Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
5
Lincoln visits and travels fill the week as residents including Dawson Diller Heasty and Master Mechanic Cole appear in town on business. Social visits at Diller, Blue Rapids and Champaign County noted along with family trips, new arrivals, and minor town incidents.
Yesterday morning inmates found a man hanging in his cell. Sheriff Case cut down the body, coroner Dodge held an inquest, ruling death self inflicted. Earlier, Mrs Busboom’s husband was jailed for peace breach then released to leave town. he returned drunk and fought, later sobered up in custody. He was about fifty, left a wife and five children.
Arrangements rest for the big bass ball game next Tuesday at 3 30 PM on local grounds. The lineup features Al Westling J Paulee Morris Lloyd C E Clark E O Cole H A Day J C Kesterson Charisy Breese Taylor Brown with substitutes and leaners. Also reports senate and float convention actions noting W H Jennings named state senator for the twenty third district and Cropsey as float representative candidate with party committee appointments. Nearby items include school friends visits smallpox quarantine and a large annual picnic of Diller Lodge with hundreds present and Pettits Concert Band leading the parade.
At the grove the Aeolian Quartet led with a song by four Misses Sheldon of Fairbury whose singing drew frequent applause. Prof. D Chappell of Fairbury performed two feats of extraordinary contortion, and the picnic committee recommends him to other picnics and street fairs.
A lyric sketch of August as the hot month between September and July, describing threshing time, heat and flies, animals suffering, misbehaving chickens, and the endurance of farmers as they face rough harvest and summer woes. It reads like a rural verse about August living hard on farms and homes.
A Chicago Tramp, a comedy drama in four acts, will be seen at the north side opera house on August 23 with an all star cast. The company delivers a clean well written domestic comedy full of humor and pathos and up-to-date vaudeville acts. It is billed as the season’s first attraction and promises to be one of the best.
An editorial calls for a Pawnee county brotherhood to meet monthly and discuss nursing care for the sick and elderly. It urges a nonprofit, mutual aid society with no profit motive, invites wider newspaper publication, and notes community leaders and locals: H J Lambert, Mrs H F How, Rich of Rock Creek, Olivier Starling, Mike, C R Mitchell, George Cross.
The M E church organized a league last Sunday. S R Gillispie was in Fairbury on business Tuesday. E Frost delivered wheat at the elevator Wednesday. L E Baldwin was in St Joseph last week on grain business. Road Overseer Knispel is securing help to make roads passable after the flood. G Y Smith plans to start another threshing outfit to keep operations moving.
Recorded transfers list numerous deeds in Fairbury area including Madden to Curtis Lindell and Hansen additions. Names include Diller Brunke Spencer Priessen Grebe Schmidt Stockman Lightbody Ochs Brott and Wilkinson with multiple lots and blocks. One Fare Round Via Grand Island Route to St. J August 25-30 noted as travel promotion.
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