Christmas Feast and Birthday Reflections in Winter Notes
The writer recalls Christmas meals in Lincoln, Hastings, and Stromsburg with varied foods from herring to ostkaka, shares a 94th birthday celebration in Osceola, and notes reading gifts and Burma Shave poetry. Football nerves fade after the Orange Bowl as love of reading and a New Year’s wish for peace and friendship emerge.
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Lincoln
Kansas
Stromsburg
Hastings
Bryant
Connie Wagner
P.S
School Lunch Menu And Dance Party At Schott Home
The week lists daily lunch items for grades seven and eight including pizza corn and milk on Monday and Huskerburgers on Friday. A December 29 dance party at the A C Schott home hosted by students Cindy Schott and others was held with refreshments served afterward.
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A. C
Broadwater Picnic Note From Polk County Pioneer
Alpha Haggerty writes from Broadwater Nebraska recalling early Polk County life. She recounts moving with parents in 1875, encounters with Indians, family losses, and subsequent relocations to Cambridge and Broadwater. She sends greetings to old settlers and wishes joy at the picnic.
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Polk County
Clear Creek
Broadwater
Nebraska
Elbert P. Swearingen
Father
Lincoln
Ross W. Haggerty
Cambridge
Morrill County
Alpha Haggerty
Local Wrestling Team Faces Tight Day At Holiday Meet
In a long holiday day Estrada coach Stroup noted 132 Daro pinned Treffer for 4th at 132 while 138 Miller pinned Ogquist for 4th. Sabata tied Girard late then won on penalty/points. Wieser and Sabata claimed 2nd with Berggren 4th. Weight classes shift up 2 pounds in January and February. several boys may move down a class to strengthen the squad. Stroup said the team did well and will attend Clarks Invitational on January 8 and Stromsburg Invitational on January 15.
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Daro
Treffer
Miller
Ogquist
OHS
John Girard
Sabata
Girard
Mike Treffer
Wieser
Chuck Lemp
Berggren
Stroup
Stromsburg
Sick baby and hospital transfers in Omaha
News notes the Gustafson couple seeking medical care for five month old Mark in Omaha on Friday as doctors assess his asthma. Mrs. Fred Dunn moved Sunday from Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital to Clarkson Hospital in Omaha for care.
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Kenneth Wombacher
Shelby
Kenneth James
Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital
Gary Gustafson
Mark
Omaha
Fred Dunn
Clarkson Hospital
Church Activities and Social Notes Roundup
Local church schedules Christie Lutheran and Calvary Lutheran services and meetings. Also reports holiday travel to the Nebraska Alabama game in Miami and a Osceola Stromsburg school kitchen staff holiday party with hostesses and guests listed.
Osceola Locals Share Christmas Visits Across Families
The Don Hayes family spent Christmas with Mrs Hayes family at the Reichmuth home in Leigh. They joined the Vincent Bittinger family at Clarks on Christmas Eve. Tuesday afternoon coffee guests were Rolland Ekstrom and his wife. The Emanuel Klein family visited Dale Frizzell and later Enoch and Aurora Anderson. Laura Delfs stayed with Mrs Lloyd Timm in Callaway.
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Don Hayes
Funeral Notices for Blanche Rickly and Clarence Phelps
Word arrived of Blanche Rickly’s death in Memphis Tennessee a nursing home. The Mills family notes she was the last remaining Mills sibling and her ashes will be brought to Osceola for interment later. Clarence Phelps aged 60 of Cambridge died unexpectedly. he is the father of Mrs Jerry Schmoker of Holdrege.
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Rickly
Mills
Blanche Rickly
Memphis
Tenn
M. A. Mills
Osceola
Phelps
Tom Schmoker
Clarence Phelps
Cambridge
Jerry Schmoker
Holdrege
Local Holiday Guests Dine and Stay Across Several Homes
Locals report holiday hospitality as January 1 visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Galusha of Central City at Don Hayes home and Julie Meister overnight with Sara Jean Bender. Others from Ralston and Beatrice visited Tillman Joy and Hazel Johnston households with related family guests.
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Don Hayes
Lowell Galusha
Central City
Julie Meister
Sara Jean Bender
Milo Cochrane
Lou
Ralston
Tillman Joy
Jimmy Cochrane
Si Cook
Leroy Brown
Residents Change Homes In Osceola Moves
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Flink and family moved from Stromsburg to the Ridge house vacated by the Howard Daily family. The Larry Larson family plans to move Wednesday from the Bartek house on Polk Street to their new home on Main Street in southeast Osceola, weather permitting.
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Robert Flink
Stromsburg
Howard Daily
Larry Larson
Bartek
Polk Street
Osceola
Main Street
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