125 Years

Thursday, February 21, 1901

D. N. Graham, buyer for Graham Bros. & Co.’s stores, left yesterday for New York and other manufacturing centers to do a lot of buying. It goes without saying that he will reap all the advantages that come to heavy cash buyers, and the patrons of the stores will in turn get their share of these advantages.

The ladies of the Baptist Aid Society will give a dime social at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Herring on the evening of Washington’s birthday, Friday, February 22. A literary and musical programme will be rendered and refreshments will be served. Every one is invited to attend.

W. A. Wadhams stepped off the G. I. passenger Wednesday afternoon, on his return to Oklahoma, from Florence, Colorado. Bert prefers the red soil and climate of Oklahoma to the snow slides and high altitude of the Rockies.

100 Years

Wednesday, February 24, 1926

We the undersigned have opened service station at the old Holcomb garage. Ready for night and day service. Repair work, car washing, greasing. Two closed cars for taxi service, phone 93. Red McKinnie and Cavender.

Soil terracing to make hillside farms profitable will be shown in Nemaha county this year. Methods have been developed that save the soil. Erosion does not occur from rains. The land is plowed around or along the hill with a succession of terraces, each but a few inches high.

The roomers at M. C. Kreitzer’s entertained with a taffy pull Thursday night. Those present were Mildred Hiskey, Cecelia Meisner, Bernice and Sybil Carpenter, Lyda Humphrey, Elta Mae Hiskey, Irene Hoffman and Louise Livingood as guests.

75 Years

Wednesday, February 21, 1951

Jerry Voorhis, executive secretary of the Cooperative League of America, didn’t say this in so many words, but the gist of his speech to the annual meeting of the Nemaha Cooperative Creamery Association held in Sabetha Tuesday might be put something like this: “If the nations over the world would work together like the members of the Nemaha creamery do, we wouldn’t be worrying now about another war.”

The Sabetha Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary organizations have voted to present to each of the boys leaving Sabetha for service in the armed forces in the present draft with a present. Monday the group met the bus in Sabetha and gave Waymer Strahm and Norman Thomas of Sabetha cigarettes, gum and playing cards.

Workers were busy the first of the week remodeling the Farmers State Bank. This week the Grove Bros. of Axtell are putting Nu-Wood on the ceiling. In the next few days Don Stallbaumer will be in charge of painting the walls. New venetian blinds have also been purchased.

50 Years

Wednesday, February 25, 1976

Those folks who may have been feeling a little “short-changed” by winter, got a real dose of it Friday night and Saturday. A good, old-fashioned Kansas blizzard blew into town on the heels of howling winds and driving snow. It started with rain Friday night and then switched to snow and by Saturday morning visibility was down to zero. Cars were stranded all over the place and truckers were stopping and waiting for things to clear up a little. There were no reports of serious injuries but a lot of inconvenience. Mailmen also were reported stranded in various locations.

Proponents of the proposed new Sabetha Manor Rest Home in Sabetha announced this week that final commitments had been made in regard to capital investments in the venture. A majority of the stock will be held by local investors, it was reported.

25 Years

Wednesday, February 21, 2001

Moisture starved northeast Kansas has been taken off the government’s severe drought list for now, but the area may be back on that list this spring if weather patterns like last year persist. For the first time in five months, a five-county area of northeast Kansas (Nemaha, Jackson, Marshall, Pottawatomie and Washington counties) has been removed from the U.S. Drought Monitor’s severe drought classification, thanks to the winter storm that dumped as much as a foot of snow and ice earlier this month.

Nemaha County has been ranked sixth in the state for the number of bridges that are considered either functionally obsolete (FO) or structurally defective (SD) by the Federal Highway Administration. According to the FHA’s new state-by-state rating of bridge conditions, Nemaha County has 37 bridges that are functionally obsolete and 109 bridges that are structurally defective for a total of 146. Overall, Kansas was ranked 32nd in the nation in the percentage of bridges. 25.8 percent rated either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

10 Years

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

With a desire for Sabetha to have a community foundation to help meet local needs and promote philanthropy, the idea for the Greater Sabetha Community Foundation was born. And, with that idea, a number of local community members sought to bring the GSCF to fruition. Those community members now make up the GSCF Board of Directors, and they held an official “Launch” for the GSCF on Sunday, Feb. 21.

Westar Energy kept its promise and completed the first item on the timeline provided to customers following the Jan. 22 meeting with area businessmen and women. Westar representatives said they would install new, automated 34 kV reclosers by Feb. 29, which would feed the line to Bern and the line to Sabetha. This equipment will reduce the number of people affected if an outage occurs.

PHOTO: Sabetha High School Bluejay wrestlers qualifying for the 2016 Class 3-2-1A State Wrestling Tournament are Front Row (L-R) Seth Harrell, Cauy Rokey and Brandon Brownlee. Standing behind are Assistant Coach Kyle Allen (left) and Head Coach Ricky Creek (right).