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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1972
Page
7
Leona Imhoff records a series of weekend and weekday visits among Pleasanton and Columbus families. The log lists numerous choirs of relatives and friends from Omaha Watertown South Dakota Minnesota and Norfolk visiting households in Columbus Elmwood and Genoa during Christmas and New Year celebrations with meals dinners and hosted guests.
The article traces Nebraska apple growing from early settlement through 1940 Armistice Day Freeze, highlighting Jonathan as a premier all purpose variety. It notes the Nebraskan Select List of 1877, top and second tier varieties, and profiles committee members led by ex-Governor Robert W. Furnas who helped establish the industry.
The piece lauds the winter Jonathan apple as vigorous productive and marketable with bright red stripes. It notes its favorable reception in Nebraska and high price potential, calling it a coming apple. Also mentions a family wedding at Maywood and several local events in New York and Osceola areas with club and lodge activities listed.
Osceola society notes list guests at the Oscar Jones home for New Year’s Eve including Mr and Mrs Martin Jones Joe Tomaszicz and Mr and Mrs Ronald Sarow. Wesley Peterson family stayed with the Dean Wheeler family in Lawton Iowa with Mr and Mrs Harry Hankel Benedict and Mrs Hubert Hotchkiss Stromsburg visited Tuesday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Oscar Jones. Mr and Mrs Rolland Ekstrom and Karleen were Saturday evening guests in the Clarence Johnson home.
Thursday dinner guests in the Edna and Irene Anderson home were Devere Larson of Longmont Colorado and Wesley Peterson, Keith and Cari ta. Kathy Hayes of St. Joseph School of Nursing Omaha spent holidays with her parents, returning Sunday. New Year's diners included Chas Massie, Harold Aden and family from St. Edward. Leroy Brown visited the Norbert Petersons in Seward Christmas Day. George Bender and family dined with Mary McCarthy in Geneva and visited Sara O'Brien in the Geneva hospital. Ben Schmaker and family returned from Ankeny Iowa to Omaha. The Marvin Iers of Omaha brought the Schmokers home Wednesday.
Public offices announce hours for the week with Monday and Tuesday morning to early afternoon and Wednesday through Friday mid-morning to late afternoon.
An auction listing details a large assortment of farm equipment including a 1964 International combine 303 with cab and 14 ft header, 1968 International 2-row cornhead 228 and 4-row 465 with buffalo bottoms, herbicide and insecticide attachments, automatic marker, 1968 Ford godig, 4-row Massey Harris grain drill, various John Deere mowers and elevators, International 2MH corn picker, MM tandem disc, duckfoot and 12 ft implements, New Idea 40 ft elevator, several narrow and 24 ft cases, Blair manure spreader, Deere spreaders, hoists, 90-bushel trailer, 7-row weed sprayer, Knoedler burr mills, Ottawa posthole digger, 3-bottom plows, augers, Massey Harris plows, Dempster anhydrous applicator, rubber tired wagon gear, wooden bin and steel grain bin, Jayhawk hydraulic stacker, saddle tanks, tractor cab for propane 706, and International 706 parts.
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