The Sutton Museum is the home of the Sutton Historical Society and is dedicated to the collection and preservation of historic artifacts and information about the Sutton, Nebraska community.
This ad in The Sutton News on July 31, 1947 announced that Merele Lohmeier would be delivering groceries in Sutton from all four of the town's grocery stores.
As we interpret this story, this was the purchase of the first school bus for the Sutton schools. It happened in the summer of 1947 when a used Burlington Trailways bus came to town.
The story appeared in The Sutton News on July 31, 1947.
Issues with phones in 1947 did not involve display resolution, apps, camera quality, etc. Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph was busy beefing up circuits between numerous towns to increase their capacity for long distance calls.
And remember, young folk, long distance calls, those out of town, were metered and you paid based on distance and time connected. A half hour call to an uncle in California might impact your monthly budget. Birthdays could be handled with a card and a three cent stamp. People cringed when told they had a long distance call. A high percentage of long distance calls involved death notices.
LT&T posted this notice in newspapers in July 1947.
Sutton did not miss out on the huge Flying Saucer stories of 1947
Henry Fuehrer stepped up first in town to report seeing stuff in the air. By the next week, two more Sutton men came forward to tell their story - Marshal Henry Trautman and Doc Ochsner, one of the two dentists in town.
This article ran the same week in The York Daily News
The hotbed of flying saucers was in New Mexico, Roswell for instance. This article made the Albuquerque newspaper.
And here is the report in the Hastings Daily Tribune.
