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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1951
Page
5
Christmas plans of Mr and Mrs Edward Johnson and family were marred by a fire that destroyed their tree decorations and some presents. Mrs Johnson was lightly burned as she hurled the flaming tree from the front door while the blaze began at an electrical socket. Gas fumes from a disintegrated basement pipe were later traced but no major damage occurred.
Clyde D. Larimore of a farm south of North Platte has 25 years in amateur radio. He earned the DX Century Club certificate for contacting 100 foreign countries. He also contacted the Admiral Byrd expedition at the South Pole, reported by Lincoln County Tribune.
Police traced a Friday morning gas leak to a death in a residence. Roy Lash was found in his room. he had died four days earlier from a heart attack on Monday. The Dawson County Herald notes Goodfellows charity sent 35 Christmas dinner baskets 11 beer baskets and toys to at least 135 children in Lexington.
Sunday morning Mr and Mrs Henry Brening of Sutton woke to a noisy furnace and a gas smell. They exited the home safely as investigators checked for leaks and ventilation.
A Superior man was picked up on the road early Sunday and jailed after pleading guilty to driving while drunk. The judge fined him 50 dollars plus costs and the defendant said it had it coming. York County News notes. York County Republican reports a white Christmas and golfers enjoying Carlos California sunshine on York Country Club course.
Smoky Marshall of Ord drove a model two door sedan south of the Chalk Hills observation point, shearing three posts and pulling the cable from its anchor before plunging into trees and a ravine. The driver escaped injury, according to the Scotia Register.
Brainard mournful note that Barbara Plisek reaches 102 on December 28. She is partly bedfast from rheumatism but otherwise healthy. For ten years she has not drunk water, subsisting on black coffee and fried eggs.
During November and December the Polk County Soil Conservation District staff completed work for listed cooperators including Paul Gustafson R M McDonald Herman Richter F C Middlebrook and Harold Wilson.
Terrace lines staked on Nyquist Glen Peterson and Charles Wyatt farms while diversions are set for Carl W. Anderson. Topographical surveys done for Howard Pierce Louis Scow Leo Kresha and two Walter Anderson farms. Training in pasture management aids erosion control as H E Klingman and O L Fischer visit Albion Nebraska. New cooperators include Sundberg Carlson Wilson Ehn Funkhouser Scow Anderson Rich ter Nordland Teegerstrom. Farmers sign cooperative agreements to carry out Soil Conservation Service goals.
Polk County Extension Service and joint sponsors announce Farmer's Day at Osceola High School Auditorium on February 15. The program begins 9 30 a m with discussions for farmers and homemakers. The Osceola Chamber of Commerce will host a noonday lunch inviting all farm families. Dairy Breeders.
Several notices announce meetings in Osceola at the IOOF Hall including the Association annual meeting January 17 at 1 30 p m with educational features on management and breeding and a Landowners Meeting February 6 at 1 30 p m for Noxious Weed District Supervisors and Polk County landowners. Also listing Polk County on the Air January 6 Grand Island KMMJ 11 00 a m and Women Extension events for January led by the Home Agent with a Meat Cookery project. 4-H Leaders and JoAnn Skucius visit Stromsburg January 5.
Grace Michener daughter of Mr and Mrs Wesley A Michener Stromsburg Nebraska and Kenneth W Schutt son of Mr and Mrs Walter E Schutt Herman Nebraska wed at Emanuel Lutheran Church Tekamah Nebraska. The ceremony occurred December 24 at 800 am officiated by Rev Paul Wiegman. They will reside in Herman Nebraska.
Funeral for Mrs. I. J. Merrick draws numerous attendees from across Nebraska Kansas Iowa Colorado Wyoming and Oklahoma with relatives and friends from Sutton Lincoln Shelby Grand Island and Greeley among the listed names including MacDonald Johnson Logan Merrick and Cummings.
We thank friends and neighbors especially Mr and Mrs DeLoss Buchholz for kind deeds after the passing of Aunt Mary Merrick. Gratitude goes to Rev Randall Rev Bol linger the quartette pianist and the WSCS for messages and thoughtfulness from relatives of Mrs I J Merrick.
Three Polk County youths left for San Antonio Texas where they were inducted into the Army Air Corps. They had enlisted and passed examinations in Omaha. The recruits are Jack Wieseman son of Mr and Mrs Carl Wieseman Leo Negley son of Chas Negley and brother of Mrs Elmer Berger and Wayne Spelts from Stramsburg.
Miss June Hartson and Sgt. M Eugene Sage wed in a two o clock ceremony at Cardiff Ave Christian Church with Rev Norman Taylor officiating. The couple, attended by about 100 guests, will join in Indiana after Sage completes Army Air Force medical corps duty.
Rev and Mrs John Herrmann left Osceola November 1 for Spokane to be near daughter and family this winter. On Friday December 29 they gathered about 15 relatives and friends for a birthday party with a delicious dinner prepared by the group.
Mr and Mrs August Jaenicke express appreciation to the carol singers who visited their home and to those who left remembrances for their holiday greetings and gratitude.
Local notices celebrate thanks to hospital staff and Dr Gullberg after illness and death of a husband and father. Visits by relatives and serviceman Richard Swearingen accompany Christmas and weekend travels. Church youth group meets with Dr Gullberg speaking on Christian education. Card party host Dave Rutter entertains Stromsburg guests.
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