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The changing face of Jewell County's Methodist Church
In recent days, the media has reported on the split in the United Methodist Church. The split is real and it has had an impact on all United Methodist Churches in the area. Those reports seem to emphasize human sexuality as the reason for the spli...
Speaker confirms outlaw likely passed through this area
Jeff Barnes, the Nebraska Humanities speaker who spoke at the Nuckolls County Museum Saturday afternoon, neither confirmed not disproved Lew Hunter’s story which tells of the possible visit of the James Gang to the Bostwick area home of his mother...
Memorial Day - Robert L. Greene
Many observe Memorial Day. Businesses close, families gather, reunions are held, graves are decorated and cemeteries are visited. Though all are important and meaningful activities, those are not...
Museum program will feature Superior's Jesse James story
The late Howard Crilly, became publisher of The Superior Express in the 1930s and had the opportunity to talk with many of the early day residents of Superior. Though he was never able to prove their claim, he said those early residents had assured...
former Student remembers Lew Hunter
To know Lew Hunter was to know a force of nature. (The same can be said for his wife, Pamela!) I first learned this in 2007 or 2008 when I saw them at an event put on by the Omaha Film Festival. (I re-learned that lesson every time I was lucky...
Cattle Kate was raised west of Esbon
The Odessa Cemetery is located on Road K in western Jewell County. Nestled within the confines of the cemetery is the family plot of Thomas Lewis Watson. While the Watson name may not be a familiar one outside of Sherlock Holmes novels, a Watson fami...
Nelson has its own Betsy Ross
Throughout history, Elizabeth (Betsy) Griscom Ross has been credited with sewing the first American flag and with helping George Washington finish the red, white and blue design. It is believed that Betsy was chosen to complete this task because...
City of Jewell: Buffalo come to Buffalo Valley
Jewell, Kansas is in the Buffalo Valley with the East, Middle and West Branches of Buffalo Creek flowing nearby. Though now only six blocks long, Buffalo Street is one of the east-west streets in the north part of Jewell. The town is also situated in...
"On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five"
“On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five.” Do understand that the line is not referring to 1975 or even 1875 but 1775! The words come from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” The poem, famous in...
Historical society meeting features History of Nuckolls Co Newspapers
The annual meeting of the Nuckolls County Historical Society was held Sunday afternoon at the museum located in Superior’s City Park. Steve Renz, co-chairman, conducted the meeting and introduced the board members present, The board for the past...
Jewell Grocery - I00F building has long colorful history
After 114 years, another chapter in the history of Jewell was brought to a close as demolition began, March 13, 2023, on the building that, among other things, had provided groceries for most of its...
Scarbrough Hill named after early Jewell City settler
The story is told that Billy Street, in the early days of the settlement at Jewell, walked west and climbed Scarbrough Hill. To the north, south and west, a vast herd of buffalo was all he could see....
Business Women in Jewell County's First Decade
In honor of March being Women's History Month, we will take a look at a few of the business women who helped develop Jewell County during its first decade – 1870 to 1879. When Jewell County's...
Willa Cather had connections to Kearney State College and community
In her final story – “The Best Years” – author Willa Cather writes about the relationship between a school superintendent, Evangeline Knightly, and a young teacher named Lesley Ferguesson. Published posthumously, the story details the...
Valley Home School reopened 70 years ago
Last week a reader asked The Express editor if he remembered the name of a school located about four miles east of Superior. The man said he attended the third grade in that school but had forgotten the name of it. The editor reported he thought the...
Nelson resident led group that picked highway route in 1924
On May 29, 1924, the Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Highway Association (K-N-D) selected the highway's route through Nebraska. The route was to be nicknamed The Fisherman's Highway. The highway...
KFEQ radio station which started in Oak will observe 100th anniversary
John Scroggin was a visionary Oak businessman. He was one of the first Nebraska residents to see the potential in the new technology known as wireless radio. It’s difficult to believe but it’s been 100 years since his pioneering radio station...
Groundhog Day
Folklore tells us “If the groundhog sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.” Here in the United States, Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day. James L. Morris, in his Feb. 2, 1840, diary entry, commented on Groundhog Day. That comment is th...
Statehood out of wars and conflict
The story of Kansas as it became a state of the United States of America is much like a page out of today's conflicts, voting controversies and hardships. Kansas had its start as property of France....
Kansas Day – 2023! The Barred Tiger Salamander
Kansas Day is celebrated on Jan. 29. This year, Kansas will be 162 years old. Kansas has several nicknames "the Sunflower State" and "the Wheat State" being but two. Kansas also has symbols which...
What about the weather flag?
This week area residents received various forms of electronic communication warning of a winter storm expected to impact the area. Based on those warnings the printing schedule for this newspaper was changed. As we listened to the forecasts, we...
The seventh post office in Jewell County organized in 1871, to serve the Ionia Area
The Ionia Post Office, the seventh post office in Jewell County, was organized on April 13, 1871. It served the Ionia area until it was discontinued on Aug. 6, 1982. Seneca Sumner was the first postmaster; 12 other men and women would follow him. Sum...
Early Christmas trees in Jewell County
In 1621, following the first Thanksgiving, there were no Christmas traditions in what would become the United States. Neither the Puritans nor the Pilgrims observed or celebrated Christmas. In fact in 1659, one could be fined for hanging a...
Nondescript record book contains Olive Hill Missionary Society minutes from 1900s
A small non-descript “Record” book as recently resurfaced. This book, purchased for $1.00, contains the “Minutes of Missionary Society.” This Missionary Society was the women’s group of the Olive Hill Church. The first entry is simply...
Jewell County's Mount Pisgah named after Biblical mount
The Hebrew word “Pisgah” means summit. The biblical Mount Pisgah is in the Jordanian mountains east of Israel’s Jordan River and northeast of the Dead Sea. It is also known as Mount Nebo. Mount Nebo was the mountain from which Moses looked at...
