Osceola Area Social News Highlights Christmas Week
Local families from Shelby to Lincoln and Osceola spent Christmas with visits and gatherings. Notable events include Evelyn Scholz and Walter Scholz visiting Lincoln, a farm accident injuring 8 year old Eugene Treadway, and a near-matal car crash involving the Crouse, Craven, and Craven party west of Lincoln.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Scholz
Walter Scholz
Reuben Timm
Shelby
Lincoln
Eugene Treadway
L. B. Treadway
Treadway Farm
Clyde Smith
Howard Dixon of
Osceola
Christmas Burden Be Unhappy Rest of Year
A Rural New Yorker editorial argues against disparaging Christmas as vanity and greed. It defends self denial by mothers and daughters who give happiness to others, saying critics reveal their own high living standards year round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Polk County
Christmas gifts to newborns in Norway Sweden
The article notes many Norwegian and Swedish districts give newborns gifts on Christmas day. Bounties come from ecclesiastical and civil authorities and are often invested for the child until adulthood. Some Naples families also have Wise Men visiting with imitation stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Sweden
Naples
In Days Gone By December 381 1908 Osceola Notes
Twenty four years ago on December 31 1908 Mr and Mrs Alex McCormick celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with many friends and relatives. The item also reports local Christmas events births marriages accidents and community updates including the Orr buggy accident and a church Sunday School board election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex McCormick
John W. Orr
Beulah
Orr
Fred Gagan
S. H. Wisely
M. E. Church
W. O. Johnson
Grace McCray
Ethel Dunn
Lester Seger
Ralph Walker
Mary Holcomb
Wm. Merrick
John G. Swanson
Mead
Freda
Edward Schnasse
Walter Schwartz
Lydia Engelhardt
Copenhagen
Omaha
D. B. Hulquest
Wm. Rasch
Bud
Peru
Anna Fischer
A. O. Monson Co
Platte Center
Esther Campbell
George Kidder
Hazelle Kidder
Joseph G. Tully
Sterling Colorado
Sterling
Colorado
Tully
Logan County Creamery
W. C. Pike Sr
Pike
Osceola
Washington Notes on Debt Review and Policy Shifts
President Hoover proposes a machinery to review the war debt problem, with Roosevelt declining joint participation. Senate House talks on Philippine independence advance with a ten year transition and tariff and migration terms. Beer legislation passes in the House as farmers face fiscal pressure. domestic allotment plans spark debate on farm prices and constitutional limits. Banking and currency hearings mull a broad refinancing bill to aid farm mortgages and credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Congress
House of Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Philippines
House Committee On Agriculture
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Frazier
North Dakota
Committee On Agriculture
Banking Committee
Osceola School Disters Hold Christmas Parties and Play
Osceola grade school rooms held Christmas parties with lighted trees and carol singing. Kindergarten party Friday morning featured gifts after programs. High School beat alumni 22 to 15, prep for Aurora game January 6 at 7:30. Thursday’s Christmas program included a manger scene with Dean DeLani and Mary Louise Senn, plus chimes tale and pantomime led by Miss Miller and Bryant, with Girls Glee Club and stage manage by Fred Calkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Dean DeLani
Joseph
Mary Louise Senn
Mary
Miss Miller
Holger
Sam Carson
Steen
Burdette Backlund
Bertel
Forrest Wilcox
Matilda Amach
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W. H. Wright
Syracuse
Elvera Roslund
C. J. Roslund
W. C. Deland
O. F. Stickell
Vance
Danese
Ong
Nebr
George Wiese
Walter Wieseman
George Berek
Fred Hardie
Alta Grossnick- Jans
Helen Glaubitz
Ray Cook
Sam Crouse
Murray
George Craven
John
S.Y.A
Craven
Osceola Record
Walter J. Herbes
Geo. Engelhardt
George Engelhardt
Mr. Engelhardt
Scholz Pond
Gust A. Peterson
C. A. Olson
Olson
J. F. Jackson
Sheriff Potter
M. C. Anderson
Methodist
Dave
Hon
J. N. Norton
M. C
House Committee of Appropriations
Thomas D. Thacher
Department of Justice
House Judiciary Committees
Osceola Schoo
Keneath Miller
Katharyn
Kieia
Bob
Timm
Fred Green
Eugené
Buchholz
John Ireland
Alberta Anderson
Bryant
Fred Calkins
I Miller
Ers
Harry McBeth
Rivoli Theatre
Osceola, Neb
Harry Mc
Beth
The
Osceola Realty Auction Co
Jay Hastings
Col
Dan Fuller
P. A. Nelson Fieldman
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