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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
4
Local items list residents visiting Stromsburg and surrounding towns. Hogs and cattle shipped to Omaha by Plessinger and others. several residents travel, visit, or recover from illness. A new pipe organ is planned for the church, and a farmers elevator project gains subscriptions as community activity expands.
Five year old Gerrald, son of the proprietor, was allowed to go with his nurse to a large country farm. After returning home, his father asked him to recount what he asked and whom he spoke to during the farm visit. The account reflects a child's perspective in a rural setting.
Mrs Lizzie Hayter and nephew Emmett Beebe returned from Hamburg Iowa Friday evening. Mr and Mrs Roy Richards visited Anton Heimer home Sunday. Chas O Dickinson advertises a sale for Thursday Feb 18 and plans to move to Minnesota March first. Frank Schlesinger and Elmer Carter returned from Omaha after handling cattle and hogs. A basket supper and program at Liberty schoolhouse next Friday evening with Miss Loretta Conway as teacher invites all. Matt Fasbender is butchering as we go to press and warns the Record staff to keep away. Mrs Birdie Clark continues to improve rapidly. Johnston and Dickinson were on the Shelby market with hogs earlier this week. Mrs C Cullum moved to York Wednesday.
Joe Gubser plans a February buying trip across several towns seeking marketable horses 14 to 16 hands high. The schedule lists Rising City Shelby Polk Stromsburg Benedict York with specific dates and morning or afternoon sessions.
The readable amounts show Total Cash 2264.64 and Surprising Cash 1174.62 with paid up participation policy 2090.00.
In memory of Abraham Lincoln's birth 106th anniversary, the article urges memorials to Congress on ship purchase and warns against faltering leadership. It notes Nebraska influence, Nebraska senator filibuster, and calls for timely action. Local society items list residents visiting, illness updates, and social notes from Shelby and surrounding areas.
Col John A Kunkel of Pennington New Jersey bequeaths more than seven acres of wooded land along Stony Brook to the Borough of Pennington. The park will be named for him and maintained by the borough, preserving a Revolutionary War landmark and Washington Spring. The gift follows his move from New York City to Pennington seventeen years ago.
The J. L. Makeover Hook and Ladder Co of Osceola Nebr records the death of Brother Pearl Lewis and offers heartfelt sympathy. A copy of these resolutions will be spread in minutes sent to the bereaved family and published in two Osceola newspapers.
A special teacher examination will be held at the county courthouse on Friday February 19 and Saturday February 20 1915. All subjects for county certification may be taken. Teachers with certificates expiring this summer should not wait until late February or March to take the exam.
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