9 Feb 1998 7:00 P.M. PROGRAM: BROWSE NITE: Books were donated by Boyd Mattox of Fremont NE who is moving.
There are four Volumes of Guizot's Popular History of England, copyright
1876. He also included some old Nebraska State Historical books which
have some very interesting and stories of the state. There are papers written
up about early history, Indian raids, etc. If you like to read about our
early Nebraska History you may wish to check into some good reading.
Dr "Bill" Christensen gave us a very good program
regarding Fremont Midland Lutheran College, showing slides of the buildings
from their original placement on the campus to the latest buildings.
Some of his slides were of old postcards, showing the Fremont
Normal in 1884-he even found a piece of stationery with a lovely photo
on it. None of the old buildings stand, but it is truly a beautiful
campus and building continues. I must say, the old buildings were
of great beauty and a shame to destroy them, but we also have to make room
for the expanded number of student enrollments.
Thanks to the both of you!!
Each Valentine's Day in England during the 1700's, unmarried women pinned
bay leaves to their pillows. If the charm worked, they saw their
future husbands in their dreams.
A woman named Esther Howland of Worcester Mass., was the first person
in the U.S. to manufacture Valentine's Day cards. She went into business
in 1847.
By the mid-1880s, comic cards became very popular. Selling for
a penny each, the cards came to be known as penny dreadfuls. Today,
penny dreadfuls & other old valentine cards have become collector's
items.
The earliest records of Valentine's Day in English tell us that birds
chose their mates on this day. But the day soon became the time to send
rhymed love notes.
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Dues are $15.00 this year-some
are mailing in the traditional $10.00 and we have to request the additional
$5.00.
18 October 1884 -Corn is dry enough to shell from the field.
The corn crop is not uniformly big, the yield ranges from 30 to
75 bushels to the acre and the quality is excellent.
The family of Jacob Glenn, the blacksmith, arrived last Friday from
Pennsylvania, and have moved into the old parsonage.
Webster precinct republicans nominated for assessor A R Hasson; Justices
of the Peace, Jas Glenn and B F Burch.
Mrs Mary Ann Finch, late of New York City, died at the residence of
her sister - Mrs Sarah Watson - last Thursday from the effects of a paralytic
stroke and was buried Friday. The deceased had many relatives here.
Do you have a desktop computer and still wish that you had a laptop
computer to take notes during research trips to libraries, courthouses,
and cemeteries? Here is an item that you might find interesting.
How about a 1 pound wireless keyboard that runs on 4 AA batteries and
can store 50-70 pages of text? A 4 line x 40 character LCD display
is a part of the 12" x 7"x 0.7" keyboard. This
is a QuickPad wireless keyboard from H45 Technology for about $200. Text entered on the 86 key laptop style keyboard is easily uploaded
to an IBM compatible computer for printing or long term storage.
The QuickPad includes an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver
that can be connected to the keyboard cable of a PC. This transmitter/receiver
combination is used to transfer files from the QuickPad to a PC.
I have tested the upload process with a variety of IBM compatible computers
at Midland Lutheran College with brand name and "clone" systems running
everything from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. The only system that did
not cooperate initially in the upload is Claire's Compaq Deskpro 2000 that
is used to produce this newsletter. To solve the Compaq communication
problem, H45 Technology exchanged our first QuickPad for a newly released
model.
For more information on the QuickPad or H45 Technology, set your web
browser to www.H45.com or call 800-220-6346. You will find the receptionist
to be friendly and helpful and technical support good, but a bit short
staffed. If you live near Fremont, you should be able to purchase
a QuickPad at the Midland Bookstore in the near future - we are just working
out the details.
How does Claire like her "New toy?" Well,
it is the greatest for doing research where you don't wish to have extra
baggage. She is currently getting Book 12 of the Dodge County Marriages
ready for publication.
Oh sure, she makes mistakes, and has to call on Renee, but to make a
correction is so easy after it is transferred to the PC. In a week
she has completed 253 document transcriptions, working only a few hours
at a time. The yellow screen does give her a problem, but adjusting
it for above lights helped her . Everyone should have one of these
"toys" if you don't have a lap top. Thanks to Renee it made a lovely
Christmas gift!
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Dodge county NEGenWeb site
SHELF NEWS
We had a very good program for January-not always the best of weather,
but we had a good attendance. Renee Bunck made our arrangements in
"quick style"-our original one had been booked in September, but then it
was not possible to give an evening program.
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Karon R Mazie
P O Box 1124
Okanogan WA 98840-1124
Barbara Ranta
5510 Pike St
Golden CO 80403-
Now for a report on our reader-printer
donations - we are half way there, so if you have not mailed your contribution,
please do so. The Jacoby's and Claire will check out the machine
in the near future-Claire would prefer good weather to make the trip into
Omaha and icy and snowy streets.
We
extend our deepest sympathy to Iola Hargens of Hooper Nebraska, in the
loss of her husband, William on 26 Dec 1997. ****************************
Claire also apologizes to Sandra Barton-her father's name was Chester
Hackett, not Charles. Charles was one of Sandra's ancestors that
we had researched.
This page was submitted to the Dodge county NEGenWeb site
by Renee Bunck -renee@campus.mlc.edu