Death of W B Bishop in Nebraska bridge accident
W B Bishop a traveling salesman for Page Woven Wire Fence Co died after falling from a bridge near Wilcox Nebraska while crossing with a freight train. He lived about thirty minutes after the fall and his body was returned to Fairbury for services. He was born in 1847 in Stillwater New York and leaves a wife and one son Jeremiah in Lincoln. He and his wife had moved to Nebraska nearly thirty years ago. Additional items note bridge construction and an active ice crop forecast, plus a Women’s Club music program featuring Russian composers and performances by local residents.
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Fairbury
W. B. Bishop
Bishop
Page
Fence Co
Wilcox
Nebr
Cline
Blue Springs
Wm. B. Bishop
Stillwater
Bonn County
New ‘York
Marion. Dodd
Saratoga County
New York
Jeremiah Bishop
Lincoln
Nebraska
Harms to Deshler as cashier of new bank
Harms resigns from the First National Bank of Fairbury and will become cashier at the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Deshler Nebraska. He plans to start around March 1 after a vacation and visits across the state.
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Q. Harms
National Bank-of
Fairbury
Deshler
Nebr
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Sixth Annual Ball of the B. of R. T. at Opera House
The sixth annual ball of the B. of R. T. will be held New Year's Eve December 31 at the opera house instead of Tonere hall as first announced. Bachoritch's full orchestra will provide music and additional arrangements have been made to enhance the dancers' pleasure.
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Opera House
Tonere ‘Hall
Bachoritch
Great Big Show Melds Next Annual Corn Exposition in Omaha
The Great Big Show unites with the next annual Nebraska exposition at the Metropolis of Nebraska in Omaha. More than 100000 attended the corn expo Saturday night December 19 with 5560 senior and 2131 junior entries and over 900 in gold premiums. Indiana won grand sweepstakes and paid premiums over 2890. the champion ear sold for 250 to E E Favile of Successful Farming. West and Midwest growers across Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Illinois Kansas Missouri shared most prize corn, boosting future production by millions of bushels. The National Corn Association endorsed Omaha as the home for the show, to gather world grains and grasses for comparison.
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Omaha
Indiana
E.E. Faviile
Successful Farming
Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
South
Dakota
Ilinois
Kansas
Missouri
National’ Corn Association
Eugene _ Fank
Illinois
International
Mexico
Lépher‘ Domingues
Weathy
Diaz
Iowa College ‘of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Country Life Commission
Henrry Wallace
Bryan
Gas Plant At Fairbury Begins Commercial Gas
Readiness marked the Fairbury Gas Company's new plant as steam and compressed air cleared lines. Generators went into operation and Tuesday afternoon the first gas was sent into the mains for consumer use. The plant serves up to 20 000 inhabitants and aims for long term service.
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Fairbury Gas Company
Discreet Opera House Manager Faces Mixed Show
The local manager Rain had a kerosene circuit class guest and a troupe led by Peekey Poole perform A Gay Old Girl. The production included suggestive speeches and near obscenity but offered a brief redeeming tumbling stunt between acts.
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Toy Ster
Rain
Pegey Poole
Mr. Rain
Advertising space shows advertisers value in Fairbury News
The latest issue notes that the amount of advertising space by Fairbury advertisers over the last weeks proves they view the News columns as publicity. The editorial says they have always aimed to impress upon advertisers the value of using our columns.
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Fairbury
Sheriff and county attorney nab Steele City burglars
Sheriff Chirnside and County Attorney Denney quickly identified suspects in Steele City and Diller burglaries. They gathered circumstantial evidence, secured written confessions from Polak, and compelled five others to plead guilty. Within two weeks the burglars were en route to the state penitentiary. This rapid action earned notable praise.
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Chirnside
Denney
Steele City
Diller
Polak
State Penitentiary
State’ Penitentiary
Polack
Wymore
Jack Hughes
Ara Cox
Muth Deserves Credit For His Christmas Souvenir
A Mahaska Leader Christmas souvenir issue earned high praise for E Muth of Mahaska Kansas. The 28 page magazine style paper featured half tone pictures of local interest and strong advertising. deputies transported five burglars to the state penitentiary with varied sentences. A bright meteor fell south of the area at sunset visible for seconds. Births announced include a son to Mr and Mrs Wilson Shoebecham on December 2 1908 and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Aden Youck on December 16 1900.
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Mahaska
Kansas
Twety
Halfetone Pictires of
Srany
Malta
Mat Os
Muth
Wilson Shoebecham
Aden Youck
Burned Children in Poorly Controlled House Fire
Henry White and his daughters Marthe and Cora suffered severe kerosene related burns after Cora tried to douse embers with a kerosene can causing an explosion. White and the girls were hospitalized with extensive burns to hands faces and limbs.
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Henry White
Marthe
Cora
Twelfth
Oak Streets
White
Martha
Mr. White
Pritchett
Perry
Dodge
Andrews
Fall Injures Henry Koop at East Ward School
Henry Koop, a worker at the East ward school house, suffered a broken leg when an elevator allegedly dropped while he was present. He fell about fifteen feet onto bricks, was taken to his room, and doctors Hawes and Pritchett were summoned to set the fracture. He rests as quietly as possible.
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Henry Koop
East Ward
Will Move to York Nebraska Farmer Plans Move
W W A Chorn, a progressive farmer near Helvey, will rent his farm and move to York Nebraska where two of his sons attend college. He expects to go immediately after selling his current property.
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Ww. A. Chorn
Helvey
York
Nebr
Postoffice Faces Christmas Mail Surge At Peak
It has been a strenuous week at the postoffice as Christmas packages boost mail volume. Saturday marked the office’s busiest day for money orders, with the registry department stretched to handle outgoing and incoming packages. An extra clerk and extra carrier were added to manage deliveries and unregistered parcels.
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Uncle Sam
Married in Lincoln Sentence
Henry Fehlman son of Mr and Mrs Chas Fehlman of this county wed Miss Mae Bell of Ainsworth Nebraska in Lincoln Monday with Rev Dr Long of the Second Presbyterian Church officiating. The newlyweds visited the groom’s parents in Fairbury before settling in Ainsworth.
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Henry Fehlman
Chas.Fehlman
Mae Bell
Ainsworth
Nebr
Lincoln
Long
Second Presbyterian Church of
Fairbury
Aine
Assessor Fehrman Rushes to Ill Mother's Bedside
County Assessor Chas H Fehrman received a telegram from Geneseo stating his mother, 80, was very ill and failing rapidly. He left on the first train for her bedside with reports no hopes for recovery.
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Chas
H. Fehrman
Geneseo
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