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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

SSgt. Jack W. Pumphrey Missing in Action - October 14, 1943

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This news item appeared in The Sutton News in October, 1943 Our research on the 75th anniversary of the report found further deta...

Early I. N. Clark Businesses

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These photos of early I. N. Clark businesses came from the Betty Sheridan archives. We understand the Isaac Newton Clark and his broth...
Friday, October 12, 2018

WWI Inductees in October, 1918

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The pipeline for draftees in World War I accelerated throughout the war and was showing no signs of slowing even as peace talks were rumo...

1918 Flu Epidemic comes to Clay County

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The earliest mention of the 1918 flu epidemic did not appear in county newspapers until September. The disease spread quickly and was deadl...

1943 -The Wartime Farmer - Milk & Cream Production

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Advice about wartime food production was almost an industry of its own. The October 21, 1943 issue of the Sutton News carried this eight-pa...

Sutton Mustang Newspaper - 1968 - H. C. King comments

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The King newspapers of Clay County were owned by the King family and came to own all the county papers eventually consolidating all into ...

Jan McKenzie announces for the legislature - 1993

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State Senator Jan McKenzie announced her candidacy for the 34th legislative district in October 1993. She had been serving in the post for ...

WWI Vet Earl Buchtel died 1993

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Long-time Clay Center resident and World War I veteran died on October 15, 1993 at the age of 100. He left only four surviving WWI ve...

1943 - Nebraska Public Power Districts created

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The Nebraska public power system is uncommon, maybe unique. This ad in 1943 described the new seven districts created by the legislature t...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Walter H. Ochsner - Sutton's 3rd WWII Fatality

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 Walter H. Ochsner, son of Frieda Ochsner, was killed on September 27, 1943. He was a gunner on a bomber operating in New Guinea. His last ...

Portrait of Sutton boy - labeled Gerard Soderberg

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Anyone poking around old Sutton photos has run across the work of the Soderberg Studio in Sutton. This photo is labeled "Gerard Soderb...
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Early Sutton Portrait of Sutton Youth in the Park

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We have the identity of three of these early Sutton youth. Josephine Silver is standing on the right. Verne Burnett is in the middle front ...

Early Sutton Portraits - Mayme Wieden - Agnes Roberts - Grace Gray

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 From our collection of portraits of the early Sutton residents. Miss Mayme Wieden was active in numerous civic organizations in th...

Account of the 1918 Clay County Fair

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Our Clay County predecessors in 1918 were proud of their county fair claiming it to be one of the largest county fairs in the state. Perhap...

World War I Satire

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This satirical piece appeared in the Harvard Courier newspaper in September 1918. It reads somewhat awkwardly today but illustrates the sta...