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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1876
Page
3
Osceola hosts varied items from a corn sheller accident and hotel sale to grocers stocking sugar and tea. Reports on cattle buying trips praise Nebraska farming, while local real estate activity shows rising lot prices and strong competition for village land.
Messrs Waters and drawing return from a Texas cattle expedition last Saturday. They traveled via Ellsworth Kansas Fort Stays and Ellis on the Kansas Pacific, staying four weeks to purchase three hundred two year old long horn heifers. They bring ponies for herding and plan a future move to a permanent South Loup ranch with N G Bonesteel left in command at North Platte.
A meeting with Blue Ridge Christian Church led to the Nebraska Christian Conference with charter members Elders James Quillen Wayland Elliot Jones Lincoln Dr Wm Kirk Estina Saunders county and H L Kennard Seward Delegates attended from Blue Ridge and Greenleaf Butler county G B Dawson and J T Blackman named Licentiates Next Conference at Greenleaf Butler county Nebraska starting Thursday before the 3d Sunday in September Elder H P Kennard opening address with Elder Jones as alternate Visitors from other churches attended Wheat and oats improved after rains Wm G Michener returns from town visit pleased with Nebraska crops look better than elsewhere EK M Pugh sold his claim to J L Blackman of Saunders county Welcome Mr Blackman but hope he will stay and persist with farming.
Classified notices urge readers to buy drugs paints oils glass and paper from E C Pinkney while Bonesteel Bros Columbus Neb close out stock at low prices. J B Dellman advertises a full line of new goods. An organ case from Daniel F Bealty Washington NJ proclaims a rich tone as Golden Tongue phraseology.
A gala Osceola Fourth with foggy dawn clearing to splendid weather. Delegations from Stromsburg arrive as flags adorn streets. a procession leads to the Arbor where C. H. Morill presides. Frank Campbell’s wagon with 1776 era gowns, Miss M. J. Jarmin as Liberty, and a full program of speeches, a Declaration read by Calmar McCune, and an impressive historical oration by Hon. Albinus Nance mark the day. About 2,500 attendees enjoy music, toasts, a basket dinner, baseball, and fireworks under a dramatic sky.
Prescott and Hill advertise low prices on instruments and supplies including machine needles and oil. The item also notes arrivals from Buffalo Prairie Illinois visitors and a community meeting at Osceola Court House on Saturday July 15 at 3 PM to form a Cornet Band with experienced musicians urged to attend.
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