Looking Back

11.25.20

Published by admin on Tue, 11/24/2020 - 8:59am
1948
Everett Kahler, northwest of Fairbury, won the first annual soil conservation contest sponsored by the First National Bank of Fairbury. Second and third were Harold Hummel, north of Bower, and Arnold Rehm, southeast of Diller.
1958

11.4.20

Published by admin on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 11:07am
1972
Verona Kneip of Byron was Fairbury Junior College homecoming queen. Runners-up were Beverly Hagemeier of Odell, Cindy Preston of Fairbury and Marilee Wrigley of Diller.
1982
Jefferson county farmers were to receive $227,000 in wheat deficiency payment, said Gilbert Luehring, county ASCS committee chairman.
2005

10.14.20

Published by admin on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 10:51am
1872
A “business card” was published in The Fairbury Gazette by “Porter & Parker, Manufacturers of Stoneware, Rose Creek.”
At the first teachers institute ever, County Superintendent Chapman reported he’d made 70 visits to schools during the year, twice at each, staying a full day each time, and putting in 130 days, of which he was paid $3 a day and furnished his own conveyance.
J.R. Nelson started to build the first residence in McDowell’s Addition.

10.7.20

Published by admin on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 10:17am
1930
Several new buildings were going up in Fairbury, 50 years ago, and some were being remodeled. However, building was slowing down as the depression continued, making people more cautious.
The new Union Pacific station in Fairbury, costing $100,000, was about ready for use. This was what would have been called in earlier days the St. Joe and Grand Is-land Depot and was the third since the first railroad came here. The pre-1930 depot had been just south of Fifth Street. It was sold and moved by a Fairbury man who remodeled it into a dwelling.

9.16.20

Published by admin on Tue, 09/15/2020 - 10:20am
1904
B.G. Dawson of Centerville, Illinois, bought the Messmore farm of 240 acres north of Fairbury, paying $11,500.
Diller organized an acetylene gas company to procure light for that village.
A Hastings firm was buying potatoes at Powell to ship and paying 25 cents a bushel. Hannibal Helvey had 1500 bushels.
1914
Elmo Hadley of near Diller harvested three acres of onions, 60 years ago, and got 700 bushels.
1924

9.2.20

Published by admin on Wed, 09/02/2020 - 7:31am

1871

A post office was established at Bryant, Jefferson county, Neb., 100 years ago, with Jas. J. Lawrence, postmaster. The Fairbury Gazette does not state where Bryant was located. George Cross was appointed postmaster at Fairbury. He was the second postmaster of the town. The first postmaster, according to Charles Dawson's history, was Capt. J.R. Brown.

Rev. C.W. Comstock, pastor of the Methodist church in Fairbury published a notice asking all those who were indebted to the church to settle with the trustees at once.

8.26.20

Published by admin on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 8:00am
1955
The Rock Island was substituting tri-weekly for daily service on its lines between Fairbury and Ruskin, and from Fairbury east to the state line Dubois. The 30-year-old announcement claimed a loss of $35.318 the previous year.
The Fairbury Methodist Church, built after the 1903 fire, was used for the final time with Sunday morning services, a wedding and a congregational meeting to authorize up to $70,000 in bonds to finance completion of the new building.

8.19.20

Published by admin on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:52am
1955
Theme of the County Fair parade in Fairbury was “Panorama of Progress.”
At the Diller picnic parade the theme was “Echoes of Indian Creek.”

8.5.20

Published by admin on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 8:54am
1940
Bindweed was the target of a weed eradication district being formed, in Gibson and Plymouth Precincts, and the north part of Cub Creek. Signatures of 81 percent of the landowners had been secured by Ed Nispel in Gibson Precinct, Elmer Heiliger in Plymouth Precinct and William Selk in the proposed area of Cub Creek.

7.29.20

Published by admin on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 9:41am
1898
Farmers were told to ease the pain of a partial failure of the corn crop with the thought that the price would be higher on what they did harvest.
Sells & Forepaugh's Circus was billed for Fairbury, with show grounds to be north of the standpipe (probably in the 11th block between D and E).
The store at Powell owned by Joe Butterbaugh was destroyed by fire.
E.W. Thomas advertised his new horse-drawn "funeral car" in The Fairbury Journal.
1908

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