50 YEARS AGO:

The Callaway Chamber of Commerce announced they will sponsor a public service meeting with the school board candidates. Questions from the audience will be solicited after each speaker. The candidates are: Gail Clay, Mary Jane Reinhard, Karen Stryker, Richard Ridder, Ronald Jorgenson, and Ole Chesley. On Nov. 2, your ballot will selected three of these candidates to serve on the school board.

Swine flu shots will be given in Callaway on Oct. 18 in the Callaway gym. Since the shot itself is being provided by the Federal Government, it won’t cost the consumer anything. Because the vaccine is made with eggs, if you’re allergic to eggs you shouldn’t get the flu shot.

25 YEARS AGO:

The Callaway school board voted to approve a bid of $30,550 from Kayton Electric of Holdrege to replace the aging lights at the CHS football field. Money for the project will come from the special building fund.

Disaster struck in Oconto when one of the newest homes in the town burned because of a likely short near an answering machine. Arlene Badgley was not home at the time, and only a few family mementos were salvaged from the ashes. The house was only four years old.

20 YEARS AGO:

Maps of Callaway will have to be changed after the Village Board of Trustees voted to annex property owned by Randy and Beth Kimball in the South Loup Addition area on the north side of town.

In what may have been the best performance by a CHS volleyball team in the last five years, the Lady Bears upset the Ansley Lady Warriors 25-17, 26-28, 2520, 25-17, 15-9.