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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
4
Walter J. Herbes serves as editor and publisher of The Osceola Record, guiding local news coverage and editorial direction. He oversees newsroom operations, print production, and community reporting efforts in Osceola.
In Osceola on Sunday, Miss Eleanor Mills wed C W Samuelson and plan to live here as he works for Nielsen Chevrolet. Collisions near Columbus left Lillian Zipper with a broken nose and Frances Triba with a foot cut. C M Dillsaver, 51, died after an operation in York hospital. A B Hedblom of Stromsburg died of a heart attack after injuries from a December auto crash. Sam Crouse survived a furnace room entrapment in a rescue by Richard Brooks. Mr and Mrs D Ferebee and family moved to Archer for work. Webster Mills from Polk County was elected director of the Omaha Livestock Exchange.
Thirty eight years ago on January 8 1903 Columbus residents engaged Clarence Kidder in barber work while the town board awarded Clarence Miller a street light contract through May. A northwest gale toppled windmills and chimneys in a storm. Polk County Agricultural Society elected L K McCaw H C Beebe G T Ray and Peter Nelson as officers. A baby boy blessed Henry McGimpsie and wife. Earl Holcomb and Lillian Sawyer wed near Herman and plan to reside there. John Miller sold his blacksmith shop to A Gierhart but stays on till month’s end. Epworth League chose Glen Coon Maggie Jackson Charlotta Saunders Ora Peterson and Zona Pyle for officers. Polk County Farmers Mutual Insurance elected F W Brigham M G Byestine D Stoner and Chas Krumbach.
Obituary notices record Frank Zipper of seven miles southeast of Silver Creek dying in a car accident on a bridge. Alexander McCormick dies at 81 in Silver Creek. Local marriages include Hannah Toline and Carl Johnson at Swede Home and Ray E Green and Esther Beck of Forest Park wed. James Farris named Senate chamber custodian in Lincoln. Uncle Joe Williams resigns as courthouse janitor. Albert Blevins appointed.
Osceola Nebraska council approves numerous claims from suppliers and labor. Treasurer reports fund balances and a temporary transfer of 350 from Water Income to Gas Tax to bridge revenue shortfall. meeting adjourned with official approval.
Report of condition shows assets totaling 413 958 02 with loans and discounts none and government obligations and bank premises. Liabilities list deposits 349 664 21 and total liabilities 349 564 21 with capital accounts totalling 64 393 81 including common stock 25 000 and surplus 25 000 and undivided profits 1 893 81. This document sworn by cashier D R Byers with notary M A Mills on January 4 1941.
The article notes doctors engage in musical activities beyond medicine. It highlights the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York led by Ignatz Waghalter at Town Hall on May 10, 1940, plus Brooklyn’s Doctors’ Musical Society concert. It mentions diverse specialties in the orchestra and regular Thursday practice sessions for all medical branches.
The column notes that physicians, while inviting exhibitors to the third annual exhibition, list a wide range of arts and crafts among physician friends. It highlights physicians diversifying beyond medicine into music painting wood carving metalwork photography horticulture cattle breeding. The piece suggests such hobbies relieve the daily medical strain.
Notice to creditors of the estate of Edd Burgess deceased a hearing is set in the Polk County Court May 4 1941 to hear adjust and allow all claims filed against the estate all claimants must file by May 3 1941 to avoid bar dated January 8 1941 County Judge L M Merrick (Seal)
An Osceola Nebraska advertisement notes services at First National Bank with contact for Dr H S Eklund, listing a local phone line and office reference.
By order of sale of Polk County Nebraska district court a foreclosure the Home Owners Loan Corp is plaintiff and Ethel M Ball Philip J Ball et al defendants selling Lot sixteen seventeen eightteen nineteen and twenty in block three Maters Addition Shelby at public auction for cash at courthouse south front Osceola on January 14 1941 at 10 a m Sheriff Gunnard Peterson announces this notice dated December 11 1940 with publication December 12 19 26 January 2 9.
Home Owners Loan Corpora Alice M Lanham and others defendants. Public auction to highest bidder for cash at the south front door of the courthouse Osceola said county and state on January 14 1941 at eleven oclock A M. West half of Block No two Berkey s Addition to Stromsburg Polk County Nebraska to satisfy judgment and costs.
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