IN 1977

John Vogel, widely known farmer-businessman and eventual state representative, was named the Douglas County Farm Bureau’s Man of the Year and became eligible for a corresponding state award.

IN 1962

Property taxes in Douglas County were due to rise about 5 percent the coming year, officials estimated.

IN 1902

On Oct. 2, 1902, a bitter, five-month-long coal miners’ strike in eastern Pennsylvania was drawing comment. Roosevelt had summoned to the White House the mine owners and John Mitchell, the union President. The Lawrence Journal editorialized, “Neither the president nor Congress has the right to interfere in a matter like the coal strike and force one side or the other to terms. But the moral power behind the president is almost as great as the power of legislation. It is sometimes even greater. This moral force President Roosevelt has it in mind to use is an effort to end the difficulties and open the mines again to labor. It may be that he will succeed; every right-minded person hopes he will. And if he does, a precedent will be set that will be of vast benefit to the country in the future. In a month the consumers of coal will be suffering as much as the striking miners, and far more than the mine owners. A serious condition confronts the country, and if President Roosevelt can and the trouble he will make for himself is a place still deeper and warmer in the hearts of the American people.”