Temperance Column Notice for Perseverance Lodge No 206
Regular meetings every other Wednesday at 7:30 PM in Osceola Nebraska announced by I C T Perseverance Lodge 206. F Beau W C T and SHIPMAN Sec provide contact and leadership details.
15 Jan 1880
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1880
Page
1
Regular meetings every other Wednesday at 7:30 PM in Osceola Nebraska announced by I C T Perseverance Lodge 206. F Beau W C T and SHIPMAN Sec provide contact and leadership details.
A stark temperance sermon attacks Wahoo saloons for unlawful hours and violent incidents. It links drunkenness to murder by whisky, urges strict enforcement, and calls on city leaders and police to act, warning residents to shun the “gates of hell” and end the “death mills” downtown.
The article lists the next Teachers Association meeting at the Congregational Church with speakers on primary reading spelling geography and more. It also reports on attendance, travel homecomings, license issuances, social gatherings, literary societies and local visits with several names and places referenced.
A sweep of notes from Nebraska covering Omaha population, Fullerton as county seat, state finances with 50000 in four percents, a Lincoln stamp collection, New Year customs, wine availability, Omaha White Lead Factory output, land roll figures for December 1879, Prof Johnson’s new work, livestock fattening in Washington county, corn and wheat yields, Kansas and Nebraska rail progress, Grand Island water works capacity and bond vote for hydrants.
An advertisement notes The Young Folks Monthly is a 32 page magazine for youth with dialogues drawing lessons and entertainment. It costs one dollar per year in advance and two dollars and twenty five cents for a year of both The Chicago Record and the Young Folks Monthly.
Do not miss the card of Messrs Max Meyer and Bro Omaha Nebraska offering bargains on pianos and organs. They run the largest music house in the West and are the right men to deal with for quality instruments and service.
The state bar association met last Thursday in the United States court room at Lincoln with President Wakely presiding. Charles F. Manderson was elected president for the ensuing year, D. G. Hull secretary and W. Abbott treasurer. One thousand copies of A. J. Poppleton's able address were ordered printed.
The ITNG Wahoo Independent nominates H. D. Perky for president of the agricultural board praising his energy and executive ability and requesting a cooperative, active board. The Record supports the nomination saying no other man in the state is more capable for the role.
The February 7 opening of the M E Conference Seminary drew large local crowds despite a gloomy morning. Rev C B Harrison led Proverbs 4 with prayers and singing, followed by Prof Tweed’s inaugural address stressing thoroughness from high academic to small details. The new seminary rooms were praised as neat as a parlor, signaling a bright future for religious and moral education in the state.
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