Looking Back Archives

July 25, 2023

Looking Back

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

July 3, 2023

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

June 13, 2023

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

May 23, 2023

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

May 16, 2023

1941Sam Kelley, local Hested store manager, received an outstanding community service award presented by Mayor Homer S. Yeakle.The sixth annual…

May 9, 2023

1892E.E. Powell and Lew Davis of Fairbury designed and made a contrivance by which all locks in the new jail…

May 2, 2023

1888The village of Thompson, first named Buckley, was founded on May 7, 1888.1919World War veterans organized locally, with E.S. Goodrich,…

April 25, 2023

1892Conrad Zimmerman, formerly of Fairbury, had taken over the hotel at Jansen.1922To take advantage of prevailing lower prices, work was…

April 18, 2023

2018The Fairbury Journal-News took home 16 awards from the Nebraska Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including six first place finishes…

April 11, 2023

1903A telephone company was organized at Steele City.Word from Congressman Hinshaw of Fairbury was that there were to be several…