History
Sorted by date Results 76 - 100 of 127
By 
Jewell County Poor Farm operates from 1881-1968
Jewell County was organized on July 14, 1870. The U. S. Census for 1870 found 205 persons living in the county. By 1880, the population had grown to 17,475. A tremendous increase in population in a relatively short period of time. Not all the...
NRDs Celebrate 50 Years of Natural Resources Partnerships
Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) have worked hand-in-hand with conservation partners to support landowners for 50 years to accomplish the mission of protecting lives, property and the future. NRDs deliver several state and federal p...
Happy Birthday, Kansas
It is January, time for cold weather, New Year's resolutions and the birthday of the State of Kansas. It was on Jan. 29, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed the document establishing Kansas as the 34th State in the United States of America. This...
History of Jewell County townships
Jewell County was named and the boundaries established by the Kansas State Legislature on Feb. 26, 1867. The government of the county was organized on July 14, 1870, when James Harvey, Kansas governor, appointed C. L. Seeley, E, T. Gandy and A. I....
Nuckolls Co. painting may have attracted Grand Duke to Nebraska
This week marks the 150th anniversary of a buffalo hunt that some credit for being the inspiration of famous paintings created by Alfred Bierstadt, a western landscape artist. But an event which happened in Nuckolls County in 1863 is claimed by local...
Looking back to 1951 Expanded Penney's Store big news for Superior
October 17,1951, was a big day in Superior. Both the Crest Theatre and the new J.C. Penney store were having grand openings. The J.C. Penney Company arrived in Superior in 1929. The store was moving t...
An overview of the physiographic features of Jewell County
Physiographic features of Jewell County By Kerma Crouse In a relatively obscure 1955 publication, "Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Jewell County, Kansas," authors V. C. Fishel and Alvin R. Leona...
Preserve Family History using digital formate
You can't turn on the television today without seeing advertisements for Ancestry.com or hear about how DNA is connecting people from all over the world. You may not have an interest in genealogy, but...
80th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941, was a long time ago – 80 years to be exact. Hopefully President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's words still ring true. "Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in i...
Unofficial JC election results
Last Tuesday was general election day in Jewell County. There were only a few races to be settled and in many cases no one filed for the office. In the contested races, the following unofficial results were posted after the election on this...
Three days honor veterans in U. S.
There are three days in the year the United States honors its military service men and women. They are Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May. The day’s purpose is to honor all men...
District No. 39, one room schoolhouse stubbornly remains in Walnut Township
One room schoolhouses are hard to find as most have deteriorated through the years by weather and abandonment. These one room schoolhouses dotted the country side, and were only a few miles apart,...
Odessa named after large Ukrainian port city
The Odessa Post Office, the "flourishing" community of Odessa, Odessa Township, Odessa School District No. 130, the Odessa Cemetery and the Odessa Methodist Episcopal Church were all named after...
Athens Rural High School - District No. 164
Athens Rural High School was truly one-of-a-kind. No town, just a township seeking to have a high school for their students. It was organized by the citizens of Athens Township, independent of any...
Rubens, once a flourishing town, now lies under lake
During the late1800s, near where Jewell County's Limestone and John's Creeks come together, the town of Rubens flourished. Today that area lies under Lovewell Lake. Rubens began on Jan. 31,1871, when...
Jewell County's first school formed in 1871
Ionia High School It was early in the history of Jewell County, Jan. 28, 1871, that the county's first school district was formed. Citizens met at the county clerk's office in Jewell City and formed...
1946 fire upset Superior grain markets
It was 75 years ago last February when fire destroyed a Superior elevator located across the street south of what is now the Petro Plus Station. At that time the Day & Frees Lumber Yard was located...
Fire trucks continue to grow larger
Monday night a member of the Superior Fire Department spoke to the Superior City Council and told about the need to address the budget and the need for new equipment and adequate space to house that...
"The Big Dig " Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) International Conventioncomes to Kansas
With historical equipment crawling, rolling, moving or being displayed about as far as the eye could see, arriving at the site of the "Big Dig" was a bit of a "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in...
JC steam engine heads to "The Big Dig"
After a "Long Wait" (the event was cancelled in 2020 because of COVID-19) the "Big Dig" will be here Friday through Sunday! The full name of the event is the 35th Annual Historical Construction Equipm...
Comstock family serves three Jewell County post offices
The March 11, 1886 Burr Oak Herald proclaimed, "It is stated upon good authority that Ibaton, in this county, and Cora, in Smith, were named for Iba and Cora, two daughters of Thomas Comstock, one of the first settlers above Burr Oak, on White Rock...
120 Years Ago County was asking for 28 bridges
3 Years Ago August 9, 1901 Jewell County was asking for 28 bridges for the year, but the commissioners were going to cut the number down to those that seemed an absolute necessity. The commissioners were going over the ground themselves before pass...
Man fined $10 for shooting his wife five times
3 Years Ago August 2, 1901 Twenty-nine acres of wheat belonging to Elwood Butts yielded 829 bushels. It was estimated Kansas would raise 25 million bushels of corn during the year, a little more than twice as much as Jewell County alone used to...
What ever happened to the annual Wheat Harvest ? ? ?
Many of us here in rural Nebraska remember wheat harvest. It was usually about a two week period that came around the first week or two of July . . . each and every year. Everyone on the farm and often people from the towns were involved in the...
After the Oregon Trail, Nuckolls Co. commerce followed the railroads
Members of the Nuckolls County Historical Society held their annual meeting, Sunday, in Pioneer Hall, on the museum campus in Superior.. Society members and guests were present. Richard Schmeling, a...
