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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
8
The piece discusses balancing collective strength through unionism with preserving individual freedom. It argues community organization benefits society while individual liberty remains essential. Local notes report farm and shop activities, including windmill work, threshing engine shopping, livestock purchases, and repairs.
About forty friends and relatives gathered Sunday evening for a surprise party in honor of Mrs. Frank S. Larson’s fortieth birthday. Mrs. Henry Westerne is visiting Frank 8 Larson this week. A. W. Peterson had a runaway Tuesday but no one was hurt. John A. Lindquist and others are busy with farm work and chores around Frank Shogreen’s place.
Mrs G B Hochkiss slowly recovering from tonsillitis and quinsy. Parents Mr and Mrs I D Red return to their home in Gutbere Lurg.
John Krumback harvested 3600 bush els of corn from 60 acres. George relu shelled about 8000 bushels of new corn for J C Tutch Kiss. C Herban shelled corn last week. W W Gierbart plans a fine wood lot. Mailboxes snowbound delaying carrier. Tru Ireland offers fire shooting services. Geo Canipphbell teaches Boirview school at Osceola. H A Seavera building a new block sled.
Wayland school will convene for sober quarter at Victor. The Victor Literary last Wednesday evening drew a good crowd and program. Meetings set for Friday nights, next Dec 9. Several families visited, with notable runaways causing vehicle damage but no serious injuries. Local residents attended, including Sanfrid Anderson and Gresham visitors Earl Hawley and Jess Burgess.
Nebraska library catalog lists FICTION for adults and children and young people. Entries include authors and titles such as Baskett Do Have and to Hold Hurd Bennett Twois Longheed Man who was Guilty and Brooks Master of Strong Hearts. Several non fiction items appear like Annual Report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society of 1898 and Colonial Life in New Hampshire.
In New York City's Eighth Assembly district the 172125 residents in the federal census produced only 4748 votes in November, signaling a stark turnout gap in a district with a high alien population.
A Tippecanoe monument honoring General William Henry Harrison and his 1811 victory over Tecumseh at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers in Indiana is proposed. Congress would be asked to appropriate $50,000 for the project.
Miss Annie Blalock of Georgia is engaged in founding an industrial school for the negroes of her state modeled after the Tuskegee Institute. Her father has given her a plantation of 260 acres with buildings for that purpose.
Dean Slattery of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior Faribault Minnesota has issued a circular requesting donations to finish the church tower as a memorial to the late Bishop Whipple.
Nevada shows minimal fluctuation in vote totals over the decades with figures of 10 878 in 1892 10 508 in 1894 10 805 in 1896 10 011 in 1898 and 10 196 in 1900 making it a uniquely steady pattern unmatched by other states.
The article notes a series of early droughts in England. The first great drought on record occurred in 678 with subsequent years having virtually no rainfall. In 879 springs dried up making outdoor work impossible. In 993 and 994, nuts on trees were roasted as if in an oven.
Col Sir Vincent Sheffield, back from South Africa, spoke at Eaton England in February. He said about 200 Boer commandos still ranged, totaling roughly 16 000 to 18 000 fighters still in active field service across the region.
During a Goslar visit in the Harz mountains the German crown prince was showered with snow drops by women and mobbed by schoolchildren. He distributed generous sweets to the children before departing, drawing a warm reception from locals.
The first year of the new century produced a record surplus for U S farmers with exports of field and farm products totaling at least 500 million dollars.
Henry H. Edes told Colonial Society of Massachusetts that Professor John Winthrop was the first person to receive Harvard College’s degree of doctor of laws, not George Washington, according to a paper he read at a recent meeting.
New York's Astor Hotel installs an automatic dish remover as a service feature. Waiters transfer dishes from table to the remover and the soiled china is whisked automatically to the washing room.
The Om and Winnebagos of Nebraska tribes held a meeting on their reservation last week and formed a solevenir trust. Great Thunder, a bow specialist and lead financier, was elected president. Green Rainbow, Prairie Chicken, and John A. Logal were named directors. The trust aims to raise prices for Indian souvenirs.
A young pupil amused her teacher with a playful misquote of a Bible verse. The girl answered the next Sunday with a lighthearted rendition claiming the line as It’s me, don’t get scared at me, showing a charming misunderstanding of It is I be not afraid.
Ex Judge Augustus Van Wyck at a Georgia society dinner tells how Willis Jones a former University of North Carolina janitor left Durham to work in manufacturing then returned to say the commercial life is not for him and that literary men are not fit for such work.
French smokers face high costs as government revenue rises from matches and tobacco. Last year profits on matches reached 23,799,098 francs with 35,205,000,000 wood and 86,000,000 wax matches sold. Tobacco profits totaled 2,825 francs amid continued deficits.
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