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1910Top local farm market prices were wheat 85 cents, corn 44 cents, oats 28 cents, baled prairie hay or alfalfa $10, hogs $8, sweet cream 25 cents and eggs 23 cents.1920A tract of 10 acres near Jansen was sold by F.K. Sawatsky for $350 an acre to Henry O. Kroeker.Top local farm market prices were wheat $1.90, corn 90 cents, oats 45 cents, baled prairie hay $10, baled alfalfa $15, hogs $14.25, beef steers $16, butterfat 54 cents and eggs 53 cents.1930The eighth annual county Sunday School picnic encountered a temperature of 96 degrees.1943The average corn yield in Jefferson County was 22 bushels per acre before hybrid varieties and irrigation.Fairbury’s 1944 Community Chest budget was $10,776, including $3,500 for “war relief.” Jefferson County citizens bought a total of $1 million in War Bonds.1953Jefferson County was to get $16,968 in federal funds for roads, providing it matched that amount with local money.Officers-elect of the Fairbury Kiwanis Club Vince Nelson, president; Frank Gaughenbaugh and L.F. Schroeder. Tom Longdon was 1954 president.Henri’s infants and children’s clothing store moved from the south side of the square to the east side. Helen McLarity was manager.1960Mrs. Frank Schnuelle of Crab Orchard, former Jefferson Countian, won first prize of $25,000 with “Dilly Casserole Bread,” in a national baking recipe contest.Purchase of a new chlorinator and repainting of the municipal swimming pool had resulted in a $930 deficit, reported Dr. Darrel Hull, secretary of the pool board.Following elevation of FHS principal Lewis Patrick to superintendent was appointment of Harold Dietrich as principal and William Cummins as junior high principal.1962FHS musicians selected for the state high school clinic were LaMoyne Chancellor, Bill Hansmire, Bill Lynch and Kaye Staley.The standard warning system proposed by the city and county civil defense chairman, Robert Bedlan, was approved. This system consisted of one long blast of the warning system to warn of probable danger and short blasts of the whistle to warn of immediate danger.1970First services of the Fairbury Christian Church in its new edifice at 27th and H streets.Rollie Riggins and Harold Vance were to head the Community Chest drive.Marsha Schmidt was champion cattle showman at Ak-Sar-Ben. Larry Birkett showed the champion Jersey and Cindy Arbuthnot of Haddam,Kansas, champion Hereford breeding heifer.Top local farm market prices were wheat $1.42, white corn $2.20, yellow corn $1.33, heavy oats 65 cents, milo $1.87, soy-beans $2.55, alfafa $25, butter-fat 62 cents and eggs 20 eggs.1972Two young local artists were chosen to be part of the Nebraska Elementary Traveling Art exhibit. This was to be a 35 picture showing. Eddie Coatman, age 10, whose tempera is entitled “Birds in Forest” and Matt Schoenrock, Age 9, whose tempera wash and crayon is titled “Blizzard on the Plains.”Area senior citizens were taking part in the “Foster Grandparent” program.Eighteen graduates of the two week inservice and orientation were assigned to duty in the Beatrice State Home. Their responsibility was to establish a stable adult child relationship with the clients living at the Home.1980The County Commissioners bought a 7.24-acre tract north-west of 14th and A streets as a future county highway department shop and storage site.1982A North Central Association Commission on Higher Education recommended full accreditation for 10 years for Fairbury SCC. Milford, Lincoln and Beatrice campuses or Southeast Community Colleges were also recommended for 10 years.Nebraska Department of Roads officials said their “present plans” called for elimination of the K Street viaduct over the Rock Island tracks.The Fairbury High School posted its first shutout since 1988 in the Jeffs' 47-0 homecoming victory against the Wildcats at Quinn Field.

Verna Horky

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