1922
J.H. Krug Light & Power files bankruptcy. This company supplied power to Steele City & Diller.(2)
Work had begun developing the acreage added to the former Highland Park, to be known as McNish Park,Fairbury(2)
Four filling stations were under construction in Fairbury. (2)
Endicott joined Jansen as the only towns in the county outside of Fairbury to have electric lights. (2)
J.V. Switzer who had established a lumberyard in Fairbury, Deckendorf & Switzer died. He had retired after the 1903 south-side fire. (2)
Frank Gage builds a brick building in the 300 block of E. St. , Fairbury. (2)
A larger grandstand for the State League baseball games was being built. (2)
Fairbury Oil Co. filling station opens, owned by I.B. Friesen, A.C. Friesen and D.R. Weins.(2)
Part of dam on the Little Blue collapses causing problems for the power plant due to lowered river levels. (2)
De Hansen and Ray Wilfley pioneers in radio. Hansen manufactured his own receiver and could reach as far as Omaha. (2)
Forrest Barlett, age 13, drowned in the Blue River. The river had claimed a life nearly every year. Public asking for a swimming pool.(2)
Summer drought conditions.
Band concerts given weekly at the Fairbury City Park throughout the summer.(2)
Chris Lien, Fairbury blacksmith and his family return to their native Norway. (2)
Reynolds and Gilead officials asked Fairbury's plant to supply them with electricity. (2)
The county commissioners agreed to match membership in the Fairbury Goods Club with $2.00 a month. (2)
Four hundred shop men of the Rock Island in Fairbury went on strike, after the U.S. Labor Board reduced their wages by 10%. (2)
The local price of gas was 26 1/2 cents a gallon.
The Endicott bank went into the hands of a receiver, after several changes of ownership.(2)
Fordson Tractor was advertised at $445.45 f.o.b. by C.G. Catlin Company in Fairbury.(2)
Fire destroyed the barn on the Frank Warren farm a mile north of Reynolds.(2)
A county Sunday School picninc was being planned.(2)
The temperature reached 108 degrees on September 1st.(2)
Union Pacific Railroad Company and the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad Co. announced the 10 week shopman's strike had been settled.(2)
Reported that the plum and peach trees in the Jansen are were producing an outstanding yield. (2)
The new Methodist Church at Endicott was near completion.(2)
Fire in the third story of the First National Bank building (5th & E sts.) involved several businesses.
Fire affected Fairbury Buisness College, Divan Drug, J.A. Axtell, C.H. Denney, J.C. Hartigan, Claude Lambert, Roy E. Riley and others.(2)