125 Years

Thursday, October 17, 1901

A number of important real estate deals have been closed this week. J. C. Bigler has bought Guy Furnish’s dwelling for $800. John Masters has bought the John Lorstchers quarter and David Crews eighty adjoining, paying $15,500 for the two. N. K. Boley has bought the C. Hughes twenty acres northwest of town for $1,600. Ab. Lanning has bought Fred Lukert’s 200 acres for $14,000. A Mr. Stevenson from Nebraska, a cousin of J. P., has bought the Carmichael place between here and Oneida for $4,500. W. I. Neil has bought the building he occupies of Roy Hesseltine, paying $4,000.

J. A. Van Akin is a victim of the hardest kind of luck. In June, he broke his left leg and was totally disabled until the latter part of September, when he began to walk a little about the house. On September 28th, he fell and broke the other leg. Surely he has had more than his share of misfortune. His Sabetha friends sympathize with him deeply and hope he will yet conquer all his difficulties.

Ulric Strahm’s boy was thrown from a horse on Tuesday of this week and suffered a severe fracture of the right arm and shoulder. Also Wm. Root’s child two miles west of town fell from a tree last week breaking both bones of the right arm below the elbow. Dr. Herring reports them both doing well.

100 Years

Wednesday, October 20, 1926

You will find a beautiful assortment of desk and boudoir clocks in our stock. Call in and see them. ADOLPH. J. GEIGER, JEWELER. “Gifts that last.”

Get Quilting Done Early. Mrs. Kirkpatrick across from Green House, does fine quilting. Take quilts to her now and avoid the Christmas rush. — Adv.

South Woodlawn. Lester King and children Sundayed at Bud King’s.

On account of the heavy rains a good many farmers are just getting their wheat in.

Billie Brammer filled silo the latter part of last week and the first of this week.

The school board of this district has invested in a set of Compton’s encyclopaedia for use in the school.

Haying was the order of work last week, and it was not a very pleasant job, either. There didn’t seem to be any bottom to the fields.

George Swart is considered a very good financier and started to make an investment in guineas one day last week, but changed his mind.

75 Years

Wednesday, October 17, 1951

Recent announcements indicate personal income taxes, that go to pay for federal government, may go up nearly 12 per cent. You’d be surprised if your local taxes didn’t do the same, now wouldn’t you? And that’s what they’ll do, although there are a few exceptions, such as the Sabetha city schools, which expect to operate on a levy about eight per cent less than last year. We’re talking about what is known as ad valorem property taxes.

The city commissioners have voted to purchase three new signs to be used during the hours that school children are going to and from school. The American Legion post recommended the purchase of the signs which will stand five feet three inches high. On both sides of the signs will be a uniformed figure of a man. His uniform will be bright red with a white belt and black boots. The base will be of heavy iron.

For the second year, Harvey Bechtelheimer, Sabetha, has qualified for the Progressive Breeders’ Award, presented by The Holstein-Friesian Association of America. This honor, the highest recognition bestowed upon a breeder of registered Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle, has been achieved by only 191 Holstein breeding establishments in the entire nation, and Mr. Bechtelheimer is one of seven in Kansas to be recognized.

50 Years

Wednesday, October 20, 1976

FIRST SNOW FELL MONDAY. Temperatures fell into the twenties Monday and Tuesday nights. Monday’s weather brought sleet and the first snow flurries of the season. Temperatures were held in the thirties by cold winds. The outlook is for gradual warming to the low sixties by Saturday.

THESE ARE THE ‘GOOD GUYS.’ Last week The Herald reported some unauthorized people attempting to sell candy in town. Now it turns out that at least some of the young sellers are on the “up and up.” The VFW Auxiliary is sponsoring the sale of candy as a fund raising project and the United Methodist Church youth are selling cards and both groups have proper authorization.

Wichita, Ks. — The Dorothy M. Koch family of Baileyville. Kans., was named Thursday as the 1976 Kansas Farm Family of the Year by the Farmers Home Administration of the USDA.

25 Years

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

Nemaha County Commissioners Monday heard from Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing Business Finance Specialist David Ross about a pilot program that could bring jobs to six northeast Kansas counties. Ross said that he has approached or will approach Nemaha, Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Atchison, and Jefferson Counties. About 80 percent of new businesses fail during the first two years, Ross said. “We want to put together a broad base of support where a business builds from a small beginning and endures,” Ross said. Ross told the commissioners that the state of Kansas is instituting a pilot program through the KDCH “to put together a plan that will use enterprise facilitation to help businesses succeed.”

“This is a case where we took a lemon and made lemonade,” Milt Krainbill said of the work Sabetha farmer Rodney Strahm and he undertook when runoff from his livestock feeding operation was partly responsible for pollution of the small lake north of the Sabetha Golf Club. The problems with the lake were initially reported earlier this year in May. It was reported that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) was made aware by fisherman in late April of a foul smell. Water sample indicated that there were high levels of fecal coliform bacteria, both human and animal in the lake, said Mike Heideman of KDHE.

Reports of the anthrax virus being spread through the mail during the past few days have U.S. Postal Service workers everywhere on alert — even here in Sabetha. “We’re on alert,” said Sabetha postmaster Jack Barnes. “We’ve had a lot of people call us, wanting to know if we are keeping an eye on their mail. We want to reassure them that they are.” So is the U.S. Postal Service as a whole, which issued a statement Monday that there were only two confirmed incidents of mail being used to transport anthrax bacteria. One instance involved a letter that was sent to NBC News in New York; the other involved a letter mailed to a Microsoft subsidiary in Nevada, according to national news sources.

10 Years

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Women in Sabetha and surrounding areas have taken to the crafting craze with Create Sabetha: Girls Craft Night. For the last year, crafty moms and business owners Danielle Rebant and Kelsi Strahm have brought creative craft nights to the community. Create Sabetha hosts craft parties, birthday parties, baby showers and bridal showers, along with their once-a-month girls’ craft night.

The Northeast Kansas Lutheran Partnership — a partnership of Sabetha’s First Lutheran Church, Hiawatha’s Zion Lutheran Church, and Fairview’s St. Paul and Im-manuel Lutheran churches — re-cently welcomed a new associate pastor, Sean Kilgo. Kilgo moved his family to Fair-view after completing seminary and “Answering the Call” for these churches, which had been without an associate pastor since Quentin Nuttman departed in 2014. Se-nior Pastor Michael Dunaway has served the NEK Lutheran Partnership since 2007.

This year, Wetmore High School athletics has undergone several changes in their coaching department. One of these changes is the hiring David Martin of Holton. Martin has stepped in as the high school boys’ basketball coach, replacing Gary Smith.