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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
4
Osceola Record of Polk County the county’s oldest newspaper lists Walter J Herbes as editor and publisher in a postmark style masthead line from Osceola Nebraska.
In February 1902 Wm. Silverstrand resigns as shoemaker at A. O. Monson's store due to ill health. Bert Hotchkiss rents the Odd Fellows room and moves confectionery stock. Fred Rasmussen resigns from Monson's clerks. Andrew Nelson plans to retake Joe Williams farm. Wm. Frederic Berck born 1873 Illinois dies near Osceola after moving from Beolus. Property transfers occur: Newcomer sells eighty acres for 140 per acre. Mrs. Will Hope buys Hippe estate land at 116 per acre. Farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Pike as they head to Imogene Iowa.
H H Reckmeyer is hospitalized in Omaha after stepping from a street car into a motor truck collision on a Chicago return trip. In Ness of Shelby buys Ernest Nyquist place for 3100. Robert Inness buys Frank Anderson residence for 3700. Ernest Scholz plans to move here renting Alma Dolan property. Mr Leroz to engage in the draw business. Gereon Peterson near town wings wolves. Low Dillon to Council Bluffs to marry Guy E Taylor and relocate to Rushville. Baby Mexine Mickey of Shelby badly burned after falling into hot water.
A 1980 Osceola report itemizes a Polk County Ministers Association meeting led by Rev H Collier and officer slate. The Osceola Country Club elected Dr T F Smith Geo Craven J A Inks and W F Oberg to its board. Nissan Chevrolet Co. leases half a building from Murnecan site with renovations pending. Dun can moves his store to the east side. William Fagg, born 1851 in Tim os, dies February 1 at 76, survived by wife and eight children. Real talking pictures open in Osceola this week starting with Paris starring Irene.
The December Reader’s Digest condensed from Heil Hunger outlines worsening German health under compulsory state medicine. It cites a 50 percent rise in scarlet fever and diphtheria, increasing rickets, widespread sickness among workers, tuberculosis pressures, and rising suicides under Nazi health policy.
Available to a male dealer in an adjoining county selling over 4000 dollars yearly. Full time opportunity for a man with a car. Contact Omer Murray, York Nebraska at 98 Line In Ave or write Rawleigh's apt Freeport Illinois NBRB-253-210A.
West Side notes show Ladies Aid meeting planned in church parlors with local hosts. Numerous Sunday and weekday visits include Nelson, Holm, Fredrickson, Fjell, Beardsley, Shostrom, and Carlson households in Polk Durant Benedict and Durant areas.
Mr and Mrs Chalmar Daniel hosted a supper Tuesday with guests including Mr and Mrs Tom Meacham and Mr and Mrs L R Meacham. Other visitors included Miss Florence Mace of Chambers Nebraska and C O Carlson bedfast with rheumatic fever. Mark Johnson recovers from a bruising accident on the ice. Several families shared time at homes of Heinemeyer Tooker and Dake. John Snyder planned a visit to Lewellen Nebraska with his sister Ethel Carlson.
Mrs. George Zieg and Mrs. Hubert Zieg of York plus Mrs. George Malek of Osceola marked the sixth birthday of twins Helen and Harriet with a gathering at the Art Hultquist home. Constantine Trued of Rock Island Illinois visited relatives, planning to graduate from Rock Island Seminary in June.
A remark notes that under traditional Moslem law a man may see a prospective wife’s face and hands before marriage, since a woman's hands are believed to reflect her personal beauty.
Polk items report a Swede Plain Farmers Union Local meeting at City Hall with W. H. Thompson of Omaha presenting cooperatives topic. Carl Steelquist elected president and Clarence Bryant secretary. Lloyd Kroger chosen delegate to Lincoln Farmers Union Stock Committee with Maurice Lindburg as alternate.
On Monday February 5 the Grand Island market showed a large fat hog run with broad buyer activity. Prices ranged for hogs from 180 to 250 pounds and heavier sows with top ranges between 5.22 and 3.75, while light pigs and vae pigs sold from 1.50 to 5.00 per head. Cattle were quoted about 25 cents lower across most classes with light stock cattle steady and common cattle hardest hit.
John Sargent an American painter was born in Florence Italy and educated across Italy Germany and France his artists training spanned multiple European nations and schools.
Curtis notes Congress focus on key issues as unity from the President wanes amid looming battles. Mentions a Supreme Court shift to five younger justices, the Women’s Patriotic Conference on National Defense, Gene Autry’s visit and a pistol contest with FBI guides, postal holiday revenue gains, and Census 1940 preparations with a district brochure distribution to libraries.
Shelby Hatcheryman TL E H Lockard says February or March hatched chicks yield higher profits as hens begin laying in early fall. Records from 115 Tennessee farms show February pullets produced $5.47 per year in eggs, March $4.91, April $4.19, May $3.60. He urges preseason repairs and relocating brooders to fresh land.
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