District 54 social notes and visits in Silver Creek area
Sunday evening visitors helped Teri celebrate her birthday with the Wyman family. Several households hosted or attended dinners and birthday celebrations including the Schott and Tooker families. A Romanian agronomist Angelin Bruno will spend six months with the Wyman and Carlson families to learn American farming. Community programs at the Silver Creek Methodist Church and Jr Sr banquet at Silver Creek were noted along with neighborly welcomes for the Klein family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Wyman
Teri
Johnnie Carlson
Dale Carlson
Chris Gaedeke
Louis Jarecki
Platte Center
Walter Armatus
New York
N. Y
Otto Little
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Josie Armatys
Frank Stanczyk
John Thomson
Silver Creek
Robert Tooker
Vernon Peterson
Bill Imhoff
Clarence Cole
Broken Bow
Ed Saalfeld
Lewiston
Idaho
Alfred Hanson
Osceola
August Schutt
Columbus
Phyllis Gondringer
Marilyn Saalfeld
Darrell Atkinson
Rising City
Gross Country
Dale Nowak
Ted Wyman
Marvin Klein
Nellie Benson
Hospital Notes List Of Patients By Name And Status
A hospital notes section catalogs current patients by name and location, including Mrs. Si Davis and Mrs. Edna A. Anderson in Osceola, Mrs. Nora Willits and Mrs. Grace Malcolm, and others in Shelby Stromsburg Benedict York Polk and Osceola. Dismissed includes Mrs. Ernest Svoboda. Deceased listed Mr Daniel Alvin Sheets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Si Davis
Shelby
Edna A. Anderson
Osceola
John Iske
Wallace Sandell
Polk
George McMeekin
Nora Willits
Grace Malcolm
Stromsburg
Harry Wallberg
Harry Wilson
Donald Kreis
Clifford F. Lamb
Walford Nelson
Irene Kops
Osce
Osceola Village Officers Through 1889 Proceedings
Records show officers elected or appointed from 1885 to 1889 including village marshal street commissioner and treasurer with changes in 1885 1886 and 1887. Actions include sidewalk and street issues hardware building complaints a tree bill a new hose order stallion parade ban muzzling dogs road scraper and board orders ending with citizenship notice in Osceola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Carmine
H. A. Scott
F. H. Saunders
H. M. Marquis
Sol H. Joy
Paul Cunningham
Myers Brothers Hardware and Implement
Albert Ryan
Osceola
A. L. Strang and Company
Omaha
T. H. Utterback
Smith
F. J. Osborne
Board of Trustees
Letter to the Editor on school district consolidation
Dick Howe commends Jack Wieseman’s views on school improvement and outlines consolidation options for Polk County and nearby districts. He notes costs, valuations, and pupil counts, urges official talks to gauge interest, and warns against delaying new facilities or risking overcrowded, unsafe schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Wieseman
Wieseman
University of Nebraska Department of Education
Polk County
Columbus
Osceola
Clarks
Silver Creek
Polk
County Reorganization Board
Central City
York
Seward
Village fire safety plans and ordinances c 1890
In 1890 Osceola village records show the board voting to buy a number 4 hook and ladder truck from North Western Rubber Company of Chicago for 500 dollars with hoses and couplings. Subsequent ordinances set curfews for minors, building codes and fire limits. Appointments include W Albert Lewis as marshal and street commissioner, J D Kelley as night marshal, and Mrs. Lewis's annual pay set at 109.96 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Western Rubber Company of
Chicago
Osceola
W. Albert Lewis
J. D. Kelley
Polk County Historical Society Visits St Johns Lutheran Church
Thirty eight members traveled by cars and a Swede Capital bus to attend services at the St Johns Lutheran Church near the Old Ox Bow Trail. The church, started in early days, became known as St Johns Lutheran Church in 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk County Historical Society
Capital
St. Johns Lutheran Church
Ox Bow Trail
Historic church tour traces Nebraska landmarks
A Polk County Historical Society group toured Osceola and Columbus sites built in 1909, visited a cemetery with historical interest, viewed Platte College in Columbus, toured the remodeled Farmer's State Bank in Rising City, and saw Terence Duren's Shelby Cemetery monument. Mrs. Flodman plans a summer tour of the Terence Duren Art Gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
New Platte College
Rising City
Farmer’s State Bank
Shelby
Terence Duren
Residence Legal Description in Stromsburg Block One
Legal description for a parcel in Block One Headstroms Second Addition Stromsburg. Commences 156 feet west of southeast corner runs north 144 feet west 72 feet south 144 feet east 72 feet to start. Terms require 207 on sale day and 20 on June 1 1971 with possession then, balance when marketable title provided by Nov 1 1971. 1971 taxes apportioned. Purchaser pays curb and gutter assessments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Headstrom
Stromsburg
Household Goods Auction in Stromsburg
A large home listing items from a refrigerator to a piano and many other goods will be sold at public cash auction. The sale starts at 1:00 p.m. with the residence offered at 2:00 p.m. Clarence Austin and Orville Dodds are the auctioneers. Warren E. Johnson is the administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Austin
Orville Dodds
Warren E. Johnson
Mills, Mills & Mills
Stromsburg Bank
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Leona Imhoff
Heritage
Dick Howe
Farmers Co-op Grain Co
Wembley
Tie Maker
Nebraska
Him
Town & Country
Bertha Taylor
Gue Haiy
Attiom
Kroehler
Zenith
RCA
Hoover
Kenmore
Spade
Copeland China
Hamilton Beach
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