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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1925
Page
4
Frequent nightly dog noise suggests a promising revenue from a dog license tax. Village authorities aim to enforce ordinances and other regulations. Rev Eckels planned a statement for publication but has not yet submitted it due to trip preparations and moving.
The Nebraska Weekly Industrial Review notes that pursuing work that continuously enhances a community’s wealth and living standards is far harder and more meaningful than simply making money, stressing long term societal benefits.
Paxton Nebraska News reports on P W Toews of Swalwell Alberta visiting relatives in Jansen and Fairbury before travelling to Kansas. It notes Toews supporting three Mennonite immigrant families in western Canada and prospects for land through the Canadian Pacific railroad. Also covers local social items, sickness, farm work, and community notices with names like Flaming Krause Jansen and Thiessen.
January 9 1925 Meade Kansas notes report an extended deep freeze with 10 to 14 below zero and frozen water pipes. Local churchs Nebo and Kleine Gemeinde build new houses of worship while residents like Pete Bartel and J F Friesen attend to farm and town affairs. Newborns bring joy as H H Reimer and I B Regeir welcome babies amid ongoing winter hardships.
Mrs. Peter Wiens Sr has been quite sick with pneumonia but is showing signs of improvement. Mr. Jacob Krause of Bessie Oklahoma visits relatives here. Mid week prayer meetings begin conducted by Rev J Z Wiebe. A birthday party honors Miss Anna Harms on her 20th birthday. About twenty young folks attend. Mr J B Ratzlaff works on I B Thiesen's house. Farmers thresh maize and shell corn.
Moving into Mrs. Jacob Brandt’s residence prompts a private sale of surplus items including dining set, rugs, stove, beds, dressers, tables, chairs, jars, and more. Also notes travel tale, Barter Players event, and a plug for Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.
A reflection on the average laboring classes adapting to their new surroundings as they have yet to learn sole dependence on physical ability the slow but only way to accomplish anything.
Enclosing remittance for renewal of subscription to the Jansen News from Mr H F Isaac Meade Kansas dated January 7. Mentions cold weather, milder conditions, melted snow, and some people hauling wheat with a pride of 1263 per bullet.
Notes from Harbine show Mr and Mrs Herman Sixel visiting Fairbury on Monday. The Wolters family and Miss Clara visited John Wrigley, with Gus Kroetsching making a business trip to Fairbury Friday. Ben Angus works in Beatrice this week. The W C T U met with Mrs P A Buller on Thursday. Otto Sehouelle and Fred Braasch were Fairbury visitors Thursday. A Sunday show drew a large crowd. Tom Murray made a business trip to Beatrice Friday. A Springfield road meeting appointed a committee to obtain cost estimates for gravelling the Louisville to Lincoln highway. The piece adds a stray anti remote comment about Americans and girls and boys.
Boys discover a skeletal remains in ancient Spanish armor 18 miles south of La Junta. Historians link the find to a band led by J Don Vasques Coronado. Ivory decorated armor plate shows marks like Roman numerals. Copper gun stock and an old flintlock blunderbus found nearby.
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