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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1949
Page
5
The QOCEQLA RECORD lists subscription rates with Osceola Nebraska as the base. Per year charges are $2.50 within Nebraska and $3.08 outside Nebraska.
Mrs. Harry Obrist and Mrs. Henry Olson will entertain as WSCS plans its January 13 gathering. Vance Teegerstrom left Thursday for training camp in Virginia after the holidays with his parents. Elmer Kindberg and relatives visited Fullerton on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Powell and family with Olson family group spent New Year’s Day with the Powells in Benedict.
Local residents and friends cluster for New Year celebrations and weekend visits across multiple Nebraska towns. Couples and families from Beatty, Petterson, Baer, Dixon, Rystrom, Steever, Zollars, Kindberg, Hurd, Loveman, Lindstrom, Carlson, and others spend holidays with relatives in Gresham, Benedict, Osceola, Stromsburg and nearby areas.
Sunday guests included the Hultquist and Malek families from York and Osceola. Retired Sterling Anderson left for Camp Stoneman after a 15 day furlough with his mother Ettie Anderson. Many neighbors gathered for visits, a belated Christmas dinner at the Ernest Nyquist home in Osceola, and teachers and relatives traveling to California and Nebraska for duties or visits.
Mr and Mrs Maurice Watts spent Saturday in Omaha enjoying Ice Cycles and visiting friends in Council Bluffs. Keith Youngstrom returned to Lincoln after a vacation here. Several households hosted oyster suppers and dinners including Mentink, Cederberg, Brown, Swenson, Styscal, Lux, Meister, Campani, Inness, Underhill, Randell and others with relatives and children.
James C. Olson reflects on Nebraska's 61st legislative session in Lincoln and recalls the 1869 meeting, Nebraska’s first regular session though the fifth held in Omaha. Governor Butler reviews statehood progress and top issues such as schools government support and care of dependents, plus then un faced Indian protection.
Local families share New Year gatherings and Sunday visits. Residents noted spending time with relatives in Stromsburg and nearby towns including Lincoln and Shelby, with multiple waffle suppers and dinners.
The 1869 session debated frontier militia needs and state protection, tackled Lancaster County salt deposits delaying supply, and saw the re election of Senator Tipton. Notably, Nebraska established its state university, with Charter Day on February 14 marking the act.
Mrs. Ella Anderson suffered a broken leg Tuesday after a fall at the Social Center Rest Home where she resides. She was transported by ambulance to St. Francis hospital for treatment.
Infra-Red Lamps, Heating Pads and Water Bottles will help relieve those aches and pains. See them at Crouse-Tex Drug Co. Mrs. Irvin Noble was hostess to the Presbyterian Kensington on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Joy were New Years Day guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Zollars at Polk.
Lloyd McBeth, a Lincoln university student, spent holiday vacation with his aunt and uncle Olive and Ray McBeth. Joe Nuquist of Madison and Nancy Laase of Lincoln visited Mrs. A. F. Nuquist. Mrs. Nuquist plans to fly to spend winter with her sister Mrs. J. A. Edgerton in Alexandria, Virginia.
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