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Editorial

FAMILY FARMS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

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As Nebraskans know, I serve on the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives. The Third District is both an economic powerhouse and one of the most rural districts in our country. I initially sought to join the committee to provide a voice for Nebraska on tax and trade issues which are critical to our rural communities. These issues are still front and center now.

A Question Of Business: Will Machines Replace Stenographers?

In 1877 Thomas A. Edison invented a machine that could record and reproduce the human voice using a tinfoil-covered cylinder. Edison’s phonograph, his trade name for his device, was followed in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone that used wax cylinders. The possible use of such devices as business machines and the effect this might have on stenographers, was widely debated during the latter 1880s and 1890s.

Flashbacks:

September 1961

THE GARDEN OVERFLOWETH

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Once again the garden at Hof Batie is experiencing an end of the season surge in produce. This year most of the bounty can be attributed to Hubby’s green thumb as after July 21 I didn’t set foot in the garden for a month and since then only on occasion.

20 YEARS LATER

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On September 11, 2001, the United States of America was changed forever. The world watched and held its breath as terrorists attacked our nation. In New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, Americans lost their lives at the hands of ruthlessness. While we commemorate that terrible day annually, it is receiving special attention this year, on its twentieth anniversary.

New Washington In Nebraska:

A traveler to Republican City via Kearney described his journey in a letter published July 4th, 1872, in the Nebraska Advertiser of Brownville. The author, “W. D. B.,” described the site of the former Fort Kearny as “deserted, except one soldier, who remains with his family,” and noted his meeting with “Moses Sydenham, proprietor of the Central Star, who is diligently advocating the claims of the (Fort Kearny)Reservation as a central location for the New Washington.”

Flashbacks:

September 1961

.A. Stewart Jr., Lexington this week Wreported that a total of $665,-517 Series E and H savings bonds were purchased in Dawson County during the first eight months this year. This is 62.6 percent of the county quota for 1961.

Norman Wilkins has been named special gifts chairman for the 1961 Cozad Community Boy Scout Fund Campaign. The announcement was made by general chairman, Bob Hime.

September 1971

A BUSTED BUDGET

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Not long ago, I wrote about the unacceptable spending levels set by Democrats in appropriations bills, which annually fund the federal government. Now, just a few weeks later, the Democrats are moving forward with additional spending plans for fiscal year 2022 and beyond. The primary goal for Speaker Pelosi and President Biden is to enact a massive $3.5 trillion wish-list on top of the current federal spending. This is occurring only months after Democrats enacted President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, a major contributor to our economy’s rising inflation.

Dodge County Seat Removal, 1884:

“There is no necessity for any bad blood over the county seat controversy,” said the Fremont Weekly Herald on August 21, 1884, in referring to a “re-location scheme” that proposed to remove the county seat from Fremont to a more central location within Dodge County. The plan was to establish the county seat of government in “a tract of land in Section 31, Town 19, Range 7, in Everett precinct,” at a location called Centerville, which it was hoped, would grow into a prosperous city. According to the Herald, the move was prompted partly by a recent storm that had damaged the roof of the courthouse in Fremont. Dodge County commissioners responded to a petition asking for removal by submitting the question to the voters in an election held on September 9, 1884.

THE CASE OF THE LOST SCOTCH - AND OTHER HIDDEN ITEMS

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At Christmas I gifted Hubby with a bottle of high-end Scotch whiskey, one of the things we as older adults have started enjoying. Both because we can finally afford such small luxuries, but also because our adult palettes have developed to the point where the flavor can be savored and enjoyed without needing to gulp a glass.