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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
5
A crowded Osceola column records visits from Lincoln to Stromsburg and Grand Island, sales at Dorsey Bros. and Young’s, half price sewing machines, and a ground dune for poultry feed. Community events include Fraternal Picnic August 23, and monument dedication for Albert Q. Newcomb.
Fine ranch offering 430 acres 200 acres first class farm land and 230 acres pasture and hay land. Improvements include a good house 18x26 granary 16x24 crib 16x28 hay shed 32x36 stock barn 20x150 windmill and tanks all in excellent condition. Price 35 dollars per acre. Enquire of Win Ingalls Shelby Nebraska ten miles from Shelby.
Gust A. Peterson advertises hay for sale from Osceola depot. Available are new clover and timothy hay stacked by the ton, with eighty rounds described for pricing and pickup.
An urgent note from Osceola Chief Weeden requests 60 Saturday night announcements for August. The supply aims to promote the Praternal Picnic event slated for Wednesday next week.
Stephen Leatherbury states he will not be responsible for persons trusted on his account from the date of notice.
Last week the Clarks Enterprise printed four home pages making it a neat quarto. Editor Woods delivers a solid paper and readers respond to the treatment.
List of uncalled for mail for the Osceola Nebraska post office for the week ending August 17 1905 includes Irvin Brown Mr Willie McDonald and G O Stromer.
Mr L V Douglas is authorized to collect and receipt money due this paper for the county. He will call on you in the next 30 days. Kindly give him your order for The Record.
In a humorous sketch the editor profits from various local rites from birth to death, receiving large sums while others such as the physician, minister, and doctor get modest payments. The piece satirizes editors growing rich through community notices and celebrations.
Osceola precinct voters are called to a caucus in the district court room at 2 p m on Friday August 25 to choose a precinct ticket and elect sixteen delegates for the county convention in Osceola on Saturday August 26. J A Snider Gilbert Johnson committee.
Prof and Mrs M R Snodgrass are in the city visiting friends before heading to Kearney where the professor has been elected instructor at the new Normal School opening Sept 20. He taught at Wayne four years and here nine years, described as a noted mathematician. They visited Stulls on the Valley and were joined by Dr Smith, cousin of Rising City, and Mr and Mrs O M Pulver. Snodgrass departed for Kearney yesterday, Mrs Snodgrass remaining a couple of weeks.
Olson and Miss Mattie Smith wed at the bride’s mother home in Shelby on Wednesday August 18 at 7 am. Rev L W Grisby officiated as they begin a honeymoon trip to Chicago and Racine and plan to reside in Osceola after September 10.
A Stromsburg Democrat calls for fielding distinct candidates instead of fusion with populists. He denounces past alliances that sidelined party principles, urges Republicans to stay firm, and predicts political realignment as fusion wanes.
I F Kelley of El Reno sends a clipping praising Shady Nook farm apples Duchess of Oldenberg and fail pippins with a 16 inch circumference fruit weighing 14 pounds. He notes a 20 bushel per acre wheat yield and some over 30 bushels per acre. Also York buyers purchase exclusive bus and transfer business.
Advertises De Witt s Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for sunburn skin diseases and piles. Claims to draw out fire burns heal without scarring and cure sores carbuncles and related conditions. Warns to avoid substitutes sold by others, endorsed by G T Ray & Co.
In Polk County Nebraska the administrator for the estate of Sarah Ann Cunningham has filed a final account and petition for final settlement and discharge. A hearing is set for September 1 1905 at 10 o'clock a.m. at the county court. Interested parties may appear and contest. Dated August 15 1905 F H Ball County Judge.
An advertisement promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a fast healing remedy that draws out inflammation cools and soothes cuts burns and bruises. It claims to cure piles and skin diseases and warns against counterfeit products sold by G T Ray & Co.
The W. C. Johnson Co announces the finest water melons in the country will arrive Saturday and invites all to come in and try one. Frank Power returns from Lincoln where he attended summer school and now directs Shelby school this year. The German Camp Meeting opens on the Valley and runs through next Monday with Rev. C G Ponath leading services assisted by Presiding Elder J G Leight and others. Next Sunday's services are expected to be especially interesting.
Representatives of the Brown Scovill Publishing Company are in the city to issue illustrated atlas and map of Polk county if they receive sufficient encouragement. They express hope local support will help the project go forward.
A reader ridicules a chronic taxpayer who laments rising state and county levies. He argues the state debt burden exists while the county is allegedly debt free and dismisses the critic as promoting prejudice and deception.
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