Editorial

As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this month for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, attention to the rights of the unborn and laws regulating abortion soared. While there has been no shortage of speculation about the outcome and consequences of the case, there is good reason to believe this could be a landmark case for the pro-life movement.

“Lubber, Biggest of Horses, is Dead,” said the Norfolk Press on June 9th, 1927, headlining an obituary for an animal exhibited throughout Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Mississippi, as the largest horse in the world. At 21 hands high and 3,120 pounds in weight, Lubber certainly looked the part. Born in 1921, “Lubber was raised at Red Bird, in Holt County, where men and women grow big, are big and have big vision as well as big live stock and big farms,” said the Press. “His dam was percheron and broncho crossed and his sire was cross bred Belgium (Belgian) and Shire.

December 1961

The annual event at Eustis, the Methodist German Smor-gasbord as usual attracted a huge crowd. Nearly six hundred persons from a 100 mile radius drove to this community to eat a variety of foods strange to the, except for this once a year event.