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1922Taken to court after they failed to shave a railroad strike-breaker. Charles Vestal and David Stowne, Fairbury barbers, were fined $25 each.John Monroe received an average of $30 a head at his hog herd reduction sale.Ford prices, f.o.b. Detroit, were reduced to $295 for a touring car. It was $323 with demountable rims, and $393 with rims and starter.1926Heavy rainfall in September and early October following a severe summer drought, had brought an abundance of fall feed for livestock. Even so, said The Fairbury Journal, alfalfa hay was selling for $18 to $22 a ton. Butterfat was bringing 41 cents a pound.1932Nothing much came of a proposal to establish a pottery industry here.1938Dan Garton was Jefferson County cornhusking champion. Pete Wenz was runner-up.Sixteen houses and apartments were advertised for rent in The Fairbury Journal. One downtown apartment with garage was offered at $18.50 a month.1942The 240-acre farm of the Gottfried/Grabowski estate, southwest of Plymouth, brought $9,800 bid from John Eggerling.Good crops, more livestock and higher prices made farmers more prosperous; bank deposits were up and debts reduced.1946It was discovered that the city of Fairbury had not had a police judge for 33 years, though Justice of the Peace J.G. Hotchkiss had been acting as magistrate for the preceding 20 years. A corrective ordinance was introduced in the council.1956Jefferson was one of 29 counties in Nebraska designated for federal drought relief. Farmers could buy grain and hay at reduced prices from government-owned stocks, to maintain foundation herds of livestock.1966The office of Supt. Lewis Patrick was moved from the senior high school building, where it had been for 40 years, to the former Robert Roode, which had been bought by the district.1976A total of 6,341 voters were registered in Jefferson County.Crop loan rate increases set by the ASCS included wheat, $1.51 to $2.25 a bushel and corn $1.27 to $1.52, grain sorghum from $1.98 to $2.40 a hundred pounds. Soybeans remained at $2.41 a bushel.The UNL Bureau of Business Research estimated that Jefferson County population had increased by 1.6 percent from 1970 to 1975.1986Emergency services volunteers in the county attended a demonstration of new equipment that had been donated by the Salvation Army through the Adam Waggoner Trust Fund. The demonstrations included use of a cutter, a ram and a torch that could be used, along with the Jaw of Life, to remove accident victims from cars.2006Fairbury Jr.-Sr. High School students Thomas Dux and Stephanie Ebke were nominated for Wendy's High School Heisman Award.

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