On This Day - August 28 August 28, 1920 – One hundred years
ago Women Got the Vote In accordance
with the nation-wide plan, Gov. McKelvie is asking that all bells be rung at
noon Saturday to celebrate complete ratification of the suffrage movement.
Mayor Andrews will officially see to ringing of the bells in Kearney.
Rain
More than
½ inch of rain fell that morning
Lincoln Highway
In “excellent condition
due to recent grading and dragging” [which means it was not paved] In Kearney the sidewalk along the Lincoln Highway
had been extended to 12th Ave.
Big Fair Exhibits to Be Shipped Monday
First
display at State Fair promoting Buffalo County Over 300 specimens of
farm products raised in the county ranging from grasses to fruit with a few
“freaks” scattered in the display to attract interest.
Display was assembled by
county agent John Ludden [1920, age 29, county agent; 1929 with Agnes Horton
at Odessa HS, 1930, age 40, teacher; 1940, age 50, farmer in Collins
township]
Assisted by L W Chappell [maybe a retired farmer or feed store operator]
Grub,
Money, and All Entertainment Will Be Free To Members Chamber of Commerce members were planning on a
picnic at the Kearney Amusement Park on the first Friday in September.
Everything on the grounds would be free to the members and their families.
A picnic at 6
p.m. would consist of sandwiches, coffee & lemonade, ice cream & cake, and
melons.
Among
other activities was to be a baseball game scheduled to be 7 innings “if
they last that long. Why?
Members of both teams, the East Siders and the West Siders, were chamber
members.
[men in their 20’s 30’s]
Losers were to provide an oyster supper for the winners about December 1. The evening was to be topped off with a dance
August 28, 1930 –
Ninety years ago Trash Removal City trash trucks had removed 15 loads of
trash so far from downtown business district alleys. So far they were
picking up the big stuff like cartons, boxes and barrels which were taken to
the city dump and burned. Next
they were planning to go back and remove dirt piles The
last time through they would pick up whatever was left and sweep the alleys
This was being
done after the regular pick up of trash put out by businesses each day.
When the job was
done the businesses had promised to keep the alley behind their business
clean.
They would then be charged according to the amount of trash they generated
each day.
August 28, 1940 – Eighty years ago State Industrial School Exhibit to
State Fair [it was
truly an industrial training school in those days.]
The exhibit would show
“work from each department, such as shoes, printing, woodwork and laundry,
and agricultural products”
The truck taking the exhibit materials to Lincoln
was to backload cement tile from the penitentiary for the dining room
Industrial
School Bought a Bus The school got a new 22-passenger bus to
replace the cattle truck which had been used to transport the boys. It cost
$1,706 [which today would be $31,573]
County Fair The grand champion sheep was a runt lamb
rescued by a 4-H member who nursedit by hand back to good health and full
growth and then brought it to the fair.
There were many flower displays. One of the most
interesting was a farmer’s “windmill garden.”
Not having the convenience of those living in town who can use a garden
hose, he planted his flower garden near
his windmill.