COUNTY FAIR
| The county fair was held at Indianola and horse racing was a popular
entertainment. Farmers from all over the county would bring their
fastest horses and enter them in a race or two. Lebanon had it's own
race track located northeast of the present FARMERS GRAIN ELEVATOR
operated by F. J. "Buck" Haag.
Circuses were always welcome to the early pioneers, much the same as they are today. In an account from the June 18, 1908 "Lebanon Leader" was this item: CIRCUS |
Chautauqua — Lebanon, Neb., Aug. 10-14.1914
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Remember some of the good times you had in Lebanon in years past? Chautauqua used to come to town and these young people from Lebanon toured with the Chautauqua as a singing group: Leon McCarty. Winnie and Faye Stephens, Mildred and Hallie Campbell, and Irene Ingram. Remember all the homemade ice cream socials the church used to put on and the bake sales, bazaars and church dinners? Remember those Saturday night dances when everybody came to town and also the Saturday night fights? Remember when they used to toll the church bells when someone passed away? The bell tolled for each year the individual had lived. How about when Walter Devoe was appointed mail carrier out of Lebanon in 1903? Did you read in the paper: "Lost: by the RED carrier, a fifteen cent watch chain. Finder please leave on fence post and receive liberal reward. W. Devoe, carrier — P.S. Also a Missouri corn cob pipe; been used some." Walter Devoe's route was extended into Kansas. He made this 36 mile drive with a team of small ponies and an open buggy. In 1914 he bought an automobile, but retired that same year. |