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As Superior residents prepare for the 31st Victorian Festival honoring Evelyn Brodstone, one of the community’s most accomplished residents, many current resident find it hard to envision what life was like in Superior more than a century ago. The Brodstone family came to the new town of Superior in 1876, only one year after William Loudon laid out the original town. Mr. and Mrs. Brodstone brought their two young children with them. They settled on farm near what is now the northeastern boundary of Superior. A portion of the farm is occupied b...
Been thinking about the upcoming Lady Vestey Victorian Festival and how to freshly retell the Evelyn Brodstone story on this, the 31st anniversary of the first festival. The festival founders hoped the annual celebration would help preserve the community’s history and highlight the life and contributions made by Superior High School’s most notable graduate, Evelyn Brodstone. William Loudon is credited with establishing the village of Superior in 1875. The community’s diamond jubilee was celebrated in 1951 and its centennial in 1975. It is proba...
Wow! I suspect you are as tired of reading about this newspaper’s internet problems as I am of trying to fix the problem but fixing the internet has been my focus for nearly two weeks. In addition to reporting our email was still not working as we began assembling this week’s edition on Monday I have a funny to report related our website at superiorne.com. The internet experts have been arguing about how to properly fix the problem and talking about things like ip addresses, DNS addresses, MX servers, name servers, SSL. POP, and IMAP. For all...
The 2022 Nebraska Primary Election is less than a week away and newspaper advisors think it is the duty of quality newspapers to endorse the candidates they believe are the best qualified and deserving of voter support. This newspaper has sometimes endorsed candidates and frequently those candidates lost the election. So I’m not sure if our endorsement helps or hurts a candidate. Quality newspapers are also supposed to write stories explaining the candidates’ qualifications. That sounds like a good idea and we have tried to do so prior to som...
editor’s notebook 4/28/22 A friend and former Nuckolls County resident, Gwen (Jones) Porter, recently shared the following article about a pet’s death. Since graduating from Nelson High School, Gwen married a veterinarian and has helped with his practice in the Omaha area. I expected she has witnessed first hand the death of many animals. I hadn’t thought about it before but since reading the article I have thought about my animal experiences. The death of a cat heads the list. The female cat was a neighborhood stray. I’m not sure where s...
In the newspaper business, politicians have long been considered to be poor credit risks. Many candidates plan to pay for their campaign with the money obtained after winning an election. When they don’t win, donors don’t contribute to the candidate’s campaign coffers and bills go unpaid. Consequently, politicians are often required to pay their bills in advance. I’ve considered funeral homes to be good credit risks and have generally not required out-of-town funeral homes to prepay for purchases. With the pandemic reducing this newspap...
Friday marks the middle of April and the time for Good Friday services. By now I expected there would be leaves on the trees, green grass and my winter clothes stowed away. Earlier I didn’t expect to wear my insulated coveralls to the Easter Sunrise Service but those plans are changing. Should the coveralls be needed, I’ve check the closet and know exactly where to find them. While the grass is starting to green and tiny leaves are looking our from the trees, the National Weather Service includes snow in the weekend forecast. This spr...
After the wildfire last week and traffic accident, I’ve had trouble focusing. My mind keeps skipping from one topic to another. Consequently, I have a number of short topics for this week’s notebook entry. A few days ago I received notice of the annual meeting of the Nebraska Press Women’s group. A former Express co-worker, the late Blanche Bargen, faithfully attended the association’s meetings, shared their reports with me and served at least one term as association president. For a time I was even an association member. Yes, there was a t...
This newspaper office recently received a few copies of newspapers published in 1913. Apparently the contributors found the papers rolled into a bundle and stashed away in a house they were cleaning. I’m sorry I don’t know where the papers were found. I’ve looked at the front pages trying to determine why they were saved. The collection includes the Sept. 14 and Nov. 27, 1913, issues of the Sunday State Journal published in Lincoln, Neb., the Dec. 4, 1913, and June 24, 1948, issues of The Super...
This year the Lady Vestey Victorian Festival will feature a Circus theme. In the early days of Superior, attending a circus show was often a summer highlight. The shows traveled by rail and with five rail lines meeting here it was easy for the shows to include Superior on their routes. A story written by Jennie Small Owen about the times in August when the Ringling Brothers Circus came to Superior was published in this newspaper about 60 years ago. With the 30th annual Memorial Weekend celebration having a Superior Strong circus theme, I think...
Ocassionally we publish columns written by, award-winning, syndicated columnist, playwright, and author named Daris Howard. He sends us two columns a week with the hope our readers will enjoy them so much they will decide to order one of the books he had for sale on his website. Most weeks we get an email late Monday night or early Tuesday morning with his offerings for the week. Usually, but not always I open the email to see what his topic is for that week. Ones I find well suited for this area are processed and put into what we call the...
Earlier this year the Superior development office produced a self-guided video tour of Superior's Victorian-style homes. The video may have missed one of Superior's most notorious homes but it may not have. It appears the City of Superior is preparing to tear down a house at Fourth and National which may have sheltered, Jesse James, a notorious bank robber, and his sister. But the connection with Jesse James may not be true. According to the historical research conducted by the late Stan...
With an angry Russian Bear upsetting world affairs, it is difficult to follow the usual format for Notebook entries. Hopefully, the current war can be contained in Europe but it could easily become WWIII. With much of the West focused on what the Russians on doing, Iran may decide now is a good time to invade Israel, North Korea could use the same logic to go after South Korea and Communist China could invade Taiwan. But we must be careful to not worry ourselves sick about what might happen. We must remember God is in control and we must wait...
Doug Anderson, a former Superior resident, has written at least six books and scores of academic articles and papers. His latest book, “A Lifetime of Remembrances,” resulted from a suggestion made by his wife, Claudia. It was written as a memoir for their daughters and granddaughters. While Anderson is younger than this writer, we have similar memories of growing up in Superior and attending Superior High School. I don’t own a copy of the book but a friend graciously let met browse her copy I suspect the author’s family will long enjoy reading...
A recent story in/ the Council Grove Republican newspaper by Marcus Hernandez and Diane Wolfe reminded me of a nearly forgotten chapter in local history that involved the Ground Observer Corps. I suspect this area’s proximity to the Naval Ammunition Depot at Hastings, the SAC base near Omaha and Wichita’s aircraft manufacturing facilities all influenced the location of the Ground Observer Corps facility. It was here about the same time that a field hospital was stored in the city auditorium and local buildings were surveyed to determine whi...
I’m glad to have attended school when I did. I didn’t have to attend kindergarten and, had my folks not insisted, I might not have attended school. When asked if I was starting the first grade in September, my response was no. I might start in October but September was a busy month at the gasoline station and consequently, I wouldn’t be starting school that month. Today is Kindergarten Roundup at the Superior Elementary School. When enrolling to attend kindergarten next year, the prospective pupils are to have an immunization record, socia...
When I joined The Express staff in 1970, I wanted to be part of a newspaper that showed this to be a good area in which to live and raise a family. I wanted to proved the folks who thought there was nothing to do in a rural community to be wrong. While the activities may be different than those in the city, I knew there are lots of fun things to do in a rural community. This week Wallet Hub ranked all 50 U.S. states from best to worst for raising a family by scoring each according to 50 metrics spread across five categories which include...
I was a grade school student when /Aunt Viola gave me a point and shoot camera. After receiving the box camera with a flash attachment, I started sharing family photography assignments with my father. Until then, my father was the family photographer. He used a box camera he won about 20 years earlier by guessing the number of jelly beans in a Fisher Drug Store jar. His camera took good photos provided the subjects were outside on a bright, sunny day. As these entries are made in the notebook, i...
Sadly, this issue contains the last Panorama column, a popular feature written by a loyal and dedicated Jewell County resident, Fawna Barrett. I don’t know when the column first appeared in a newspaper but I suspect it originally was written for the Jewell County Republican newspaper published at Jewell. Fawna and Karen McIntyre were responsible for gathering the news, features and advertising for the informative newspaper. Through a series of consolidations and ownership changes, they eventually both came to work for Superior Publishing C...
This week marks the 150th anniversary of a famous hunting trip that may have helped draw attention to a painting thought to have been inspired by an earlier buffalo hunting trip that happened in Nuckolls County. But like many of the Old West stories, not everyone agrees about where it happened or even when. For example Robert Landon, a man personally known by people I have known, said he raised Calamity Jane in a abin along the Little Blue River northwest of Oak. Some historians claim Calamity Jane was raised in Missouri. Landon contended he...
With the weekend’s winter weather, this writer stayed home. I went straight home after work on Friday and didn’t leave the house until I walked to the office on Sunday afternoon. Throughout the pandemic I’ve been keeping pretty much to myself and trying to avoid coming in contact with the virus. If our newspapers are to maintain legal status, we must print an issue every week. And for the last 19 years I have been the press operator. I must not miss a press day. Without lots of social contact, I spend more time thinking about past events than...
Last week’s issue of this newspaper had so many Letters to Santa Claus that we had to save some for this week, Those letters contained requests for a number of toys I had never heard of but I don’t remember anyone asking for a new mobility aid I learned about by reading the December issue of the Superior High School newspaper. If I could roll a few decades off the calendar, I would like to have a pair of Heelys. I recall watching Megan Genung effortlessly roller blading down main street as part of a Lady Vestey Festival Parade. I’d like to be...
While helping to organize the youngsters’ letters included in this week’s newspaper, I observed the names of the toys youngsters of 2021 are hoping to receive. Made me thankful to not have youngsters on my Christmas gift list for I didn’t recognize the names of the popular toys. The exercise took me back to my childhood when I learned about the new toys by visiting stores’ toy departments and seeing what my friends were playing with. When given an opportunity, to go where I wanted in downtown Superior, I visited the toy departments and dreamed...
The call letters of KSNB and the television channel assignment of Number 4 still reminds longtime residents of this area of the days when Superior boasted of being the hometown for television and radio stations and a newspaper. That is no longer true. It has been years since the television station that uses the letters and channel assignment has been located in Hartley Petersen's pasture southwest of Ruskin. Fifty years ago big cities like Kansas City, Wichita, Omaha and Lincoln didn't have...
When Highway 14’s concrete bridge over the Republican River, fell into the river, the State of Nebraska chose to replace it with a smaller bridge. The replacement was said to be temporary as it would be replaced when funding became available to construct an overpass over the Burlington and Missouri Pacific railroad tracks. At the time the Burlington line was considered the company’s main line connecting Kansas City and Denver. There were a number of scheduled passenger and freight trains ove...
