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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
4
Osceola Record highlights subscription terms and advertising rates, along with community notes and a long feature on the Garden for Allah at the Auditorium. It covers prize results from the Boys and Girls Industrial Club contest, local arrivals and departures, and wedding and obituary notices.
Stromsburg highlights list many residents visiting relatives for Christmas and holidays. Local students from the state university return home, while others travel from Lincoln Des Moines York and west to stay with families. Community members express travel delays and plan gatherings plus a charity appeal mentioning Armenians and Assyrians.
Ernest G. Johnson announces that after January 1 the Record will be under new ownership and management. He thanks readers and business supporters in Osceola for eighteen months of patronage and notes possible future newspaper ventures in Polk County.
A Christmas night crash north of Shelby killed brothers Lee and Howard Goff, prominent local farmers. Earl Harbert survived with minor injuries. the men died within hours at a York hospital. The Goffs had moved from West Virginia five years earlier and married J. D. Harbert’s daughters.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a poetic line about the eye in the desert, mentioning tombs and sands and a refrain of endurance through ages. The text is incomplete, hindering clear identification of names, places, or concrete events.
A Baptist church invites all to attend Sunday services with sermons on The Temptation of Jesus in the morning and Redeeming the Time in the afternoon. A Christmas children’s program drew a good crowd and donations toward Syrian Armenian relief were sent to the Nebraska branch. The town of Reinbeck reports a 100 percent church membership after a new unit enrollment.
Nebraska Food Administrator Wattles proposes a fair average of three pounds of sugar per person per month. He urges individuals to limit intake to 12 pounds monthly for a family of four and asks grocers to cap sales at five pounds for cities and ten pounds for rural areas to prevent overuse of the 60 day supply provision.
Nebraska became the first state to report savings under the meatless and wheatless day program. Gordon W. Wattlen and John F. Letton received commendatory letters from Washington for the totals: wheat flour 20,419 pounds. meats 422,822 pounds. sugar 198,441 pounds.
The Nebraska Corn Improvers Association will discuss field crops relation to war problems soil and climate and the land problem at its meeting during the State Farm Organized Agriculture week January 14 to 19. The association meetings occur Tuesday and Wednesday.
The administration plans to inform Nebraskans about rules for traveling salesmen representing mercantile firms direct to consumers. Bakers may donate products to churches and charitable institutions. The rules address direct shipping, use of skim milk, and storage or handling of flour and meal.
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