Looking Back

  • Looking Back

    LOOKING BACK1904A Hastings firm was buying potatoes at Powell for shipment at 25 cents a bushel. Hannibal Helvey had raised…

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  • World War II’s “Second Front”

    By Gordon HopkinsSome citizens are looking to resurrect a long vanished item from Fairbury City Park in downtown Fairbury: a…

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  • Looking Back 8.23.23

    1964The Diller Community High School annual was dedicated to Mrs. Dora O. Miller, whose Diller Record page in The Fairbury…

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  • Looking Back 8.16.23

    1952The Jefferson County Fair Board put a call out for all "Old Settlers" who had lived in the county 50…

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  • Looking Back 8.9.23

    1912The county Democratic convention debate over resolutions mirrored the state split in the party between W.J. Bryant and Gilbert Hitchcock…

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  • Looking Back 8.2.23

    1963Storms swept the Alexandria Daykin-Gladstone area and damaged numerous farm buildings. A lightning bolt killed a farmer living about four…

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  • 1988 new school Fairbury Nebraska

    Looking Back

    1983Father Paul A. Fuessel was installed as vicar of Episcopal churches in Fairbury and DeWitt.Top awards in the “Super Reader”…

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  • 7.5.23

    1928Water was turned into the new water tower near 16th and E streets, and the former standpipe just east of…

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  • Looking Back

    LOOKING BACK1892The old county jail, formerly in the courthouse square was sold for $77.50.1902The Fairbury Sewer Co. was planning to…

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  • 5.24.23

    1965The first Gage County Home Extension club scholarship, for $150, was awarded to Carol Novotny at Odell High School.Monsignor John…

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