125 Years

Thursday, January 17, 1901

The Brown county Farmer’s Mutual Fire Insurance Company held its annual election at Morrill. The following were elected directors: J. P. Stevenson, John Lanning, R. P. Shulsky, Geo. Bird and Wm. Evans. The next meeting will be held in Hiawatha Monday January 14. — Hiawatha Democrat.

E. V. Kauffmann, proprietor of Sycamore Mineral Springs, has just made his report to the government bureau of statistics at Washington for the past year. During the year 567 people took treatment at the Springs, and he shipped to other points 5,200 gallons of the water. The demand in both branches of his business increases just as fast as the merit of the water becomes known.

I understand that some parties have been circulating the report that I have neglected to be on the streets at night in attendance to my duties. Therefore I request the parties that hire and pay me to watch and see for themselves whether I fail to do my duty or not. F. M. BRIDGEMAN.

So far the ice crop has been just a little scarcer than hen’s teeth on account of the extremely mild winter weather. But Kansas weather is liable to go on a rampage some fine day and make us all inquire “how about the ice man now?”

100 Years

Wednesday, January 20, 1926

Some men of this community attended the hunt Friday for the panther, which was reported to be in the neighboring community.

Deputy Sheriffs Gordon Biddle, James Martin returned Saturday morning from Norton, Kans., with the four youths alleged to have broken into two Morrill stores, a store at Verdon, Nebr., Sunday night, who were arrested in Norton, Thursday.

John Brumbaugh said Tuesday that Herbert had recovered all his goods. Part of them were sent to Wichita in four suit cases. The boys were all armed and their car was full of goods. At Norton they drove slowly past a bank several times, which led to suspicion. They were surrounded, two arrested, then, and two after a chase of a mile or more. Mr. Brumbaugh said that while in the jail at Norton the boys sawed out of their cell, but were captured before they could get out of the jail.

75 Years

Wednesday, January 17, 1951

Monday, Ivan Roberts received notification from the federal government that a proposed physical education building for the Sabetha schools will not come under restrictions of construction due to the national security emergency. This means that the school board is free to go ahead with whatever plan it feels the public wants in the matter of construction of such a building, which is proposed to house facilities for physical education, a basketball court, band room and a lunch room.

The agricultural committee of the Sabetha Kiwanis club joined with the agricultural department of the Sabetha High School last week in sponsoring a special welding school. The school was held on Thursday afternoon at the high school and was conducted by John McFetters of the Lincoln Welding Company of Wichita and representative W. F. Cash of Hiawatha.

50 Years

Wednesday, January 21, 1976

The Sabetha Medical Procurement Services, Inc., announced this week that Dr. Victor A. Arana, Falls City, Neb., surgeon, will be visiting in Sabetha on a regular basis starting today, Wednesday, Jan 21. Dr. Arana’s office will be located in the former Malai Clinic building.

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Locher spent the past week with Roger’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Locher, and his sister, Betty Metzger and family. Roger and wife Patty are both Captains in the Air Force, and are on their way to Alaska for their new assignment. They have been at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Roger is a pilot and flies the F-4 Phantom.

Dennis A. Kathrens, a 1974 graduate of Sabetha High School, has enrolled at Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is training as an Aviation Instrument Electronics Technician. The course includes concentrated training in theory and practical application for technical repair of all types of aircraft.

25 Years

Wednesday, January 17, 2001

During the January Sabetha-Wetmore school board meeting, the board discussed whether to renovate the Wetmore Attendance Center or build a new facility in Wetmore. WAC Principal Tim Weis mentioned that there had been talk about the state’s requiring all high schools with fewer than 100 students to be consolidated into larger districts. The Wetmore facility serves 212 grade K-12 students, but only 62 of those are high school students. A Denver firm, Augenblick & Myers, recently completed a 15-month study that recommends reorganizing the state’s 304 school districts by reducing the number of districts by up to 49 districts. But Wetmore’s name wasn’t on the list.

The new Holthaus Autohaus in Fairview plans to open its doors around Feb. 1, according to Manager Larry Rilinger. The facility will offer used cars and trucks and will “hopefully progress into servicing all makes and models,” Rilinger said. He said that Les Holthaus, owner of the new business, has owned Holthaus Motors Inc. in Osage City for 19 years. The Osage City business sells new Chevrolets, Buicks and Oldsmobiles. Rilinger said Holthaus Autohaus will keep approximately 25 to 30 cars and trucks in inventory and will offer an attractive warranty.

Tristan John Edelman, born to Loren and Jeanne Edelman at 9:47 a.m. on Jan. 8, is Sabetha Community Hospital’s first baby of 2001. Tristan weighed in at eight pounds, six ounces, and was 21 and a half inches long. Tristan is the brother of Laura, who is two, the grandson of John and Cornelia Aberle of Morrill and Marjorie and the late Clemens Edelman of Sabetha, and the great grandson of Heinz and Trude Maurer of Danvers, Ill.

10 Years

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Fire District No. 4 hopes all goes well next week at a public hearing set for Monday, Jan. 25. The hearing was set after Tim Krehbiel, Jason Rokey and Eldon Kaster with the Bern Fire Department came before the Nemaha County Commission on Monday, Jan. 11, to let Commissioners know that they wanted to apply for a KAN STEP Grant in order to build a new fire barn in Bern.

The second outage of the year occurred around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. The outage affected the areas of Sabetha, Bern, Axtell, Oneida, Berwick and Richmond. Though Westar Energy restored power to Sabetha in a little over two hours, some areas experienced a longer outage period. We started our generators and all power was restored in Sabetha in about an hour,” said City Administrator Doug Allen. A top 34 kV phase line south of Bern fell into a bottom phase line, causing the outage, Allen said. Westar spokeswoman Gina Penzig further explained that the outage was a result of a failed insulator. Crews made permanent repairs that morning.

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