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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
4
The Osceola Record, Polk County's oldest newspaper, announces its publication in Osceola Nebraska. The notice notes post office entry by act of March 2 1879 and heralds ongoing local news coverage.
Henry Burns born 1827 in Pennsylvania died at his home after twenty years in the community leaving a wife and seven children. Court reporter O P Heald guard of Catholic church documents signs incorporation for J F Reynolds Post G A R and others. A fair storm spurred crowds as storm winds and hail tested roofs with improvised coverings. Rue Beltzer leaves for a job at the Stromsburg News.
The new Farmers' Elevator was completed last week and Friday was accepted and paid for. The first load of grain unloaded that afternoon was oats shipment by W. F. Sarow of Polk County at 63c. Polk County's quota for the first selective draft army to report for exam at Osceola court house this week. Notices to the first 208 mailed from county clerk. Death of S. B. Richmond reported from Cheyenne after moving from Polk County. J. O. Rathbun sold Shelby residence and plans to move to Omaha. Polk County Ladies county convention elected officers: Lillian Stoner chair, A. N. Ryan vice chair, H. M. McGaffin secretary, Robert Larson treasurer. Markets: oats 67, corn 2.22, butter 30, eggs 20, butter fat 38, hens 10, springs 18.
Ten years ago George H Bond was elected manager of Farmers Union Gas Co new Osceola station to open Saturday. Little Douglas Sigler died at York after a stay at a baby clinic. Arthur Hazlewood and family visited from Denver with roots in Osceola. Osceola youths enjoy a mid summer holiday with races free ice cream swimming and a money hunt. Mrs Amon Kreiger of Stromsburg died in York hospital. Oscar Samuelson moves to Stromsburg. Wm VanDoren to Oakland Iowa. W D Kirtley to succeed in bank vacancy. Ruth Goodrich and John Pomek Jr married July 22 in Warsaw. she formerly taught in Osceola.
Mr and Mrs Wm Campain and Hollie thank the Osceola Fire Department neighbors and friends for kind assistance following their fire last week.
Social notes report a Beulah Cemetery Society meeting planned for August 8 at the home of Mrs Ethel Frizzel. The column also details visits and travels of local residents including Bonecutters, Youngdahls, Buchtas, Dukes, and others with a note on an ice cream social well attended.
Rev and Mrs Curtis Norlin returned home last week from a vacation. Rev Norlin attended the Life School of Theology in Denver and Mrs Norlin visited her parents at Whitney Neb. Alma Peters visited with her brother Clarence Anderson and his wife. Harry Shields of Kearney and Mr and Mrs Floyd Frizzell of Silver Creek were visitors Sunday. A scareing fire erupted at the Clarence Anderson home when a jar of potash exploded lighting oil soaked rags in the tractor shed. The fire was put out before reaching three barrels of oil and gas and the tractor. Shirley and Jacqueline Richmond visit grandmother Mrs R J Richmond in Osceola.
Rev Albert W Lapthorne presides with 10 a m church school and 11 a m morning worship and sermon titled Lessons From the High ways. A cordial invitation is extended to all to worship with us.
Real estate listing notes a property for sale in south Osceola offered by E R Ware. The brief item identifies the seller and location without further details.
Kodak finishing offered at Daniels Studio in Columbus with mail service option. Equipment and processing details not specified in the fragment.
A chameleon bears sun imprint shadows on its back for several seconds after exposure.
Cattle receipts at Omaha Monday 6 200 head with steers yearlings and heifers steady to 15 cents higher. Cornfed steers priced from 10 75 to 12 50 with top 12 50. Fat lambs down 25 to 50 cents at 10 25 to 10 75. feeder lambs 10 to 11. aged sheep steady. Hogs steady to 10 cents higher with light weights at 11 25 and most heavy hogs 10 90 to 11 15. Receipts hogs 5 800 head. West ern feeder lambs 9 25 to 11 00.
A historical outline details the boundary from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It traces the St Croix and St John rivers, St Lawrence headwaters, Lakes Ontario Erie and Superior, Pigeon River, Isle Royale, then along the forty ninth parallel to Puget Sound and the Pacific. It notes 1783 treaty, 1803 Louisiana Purchase, and 1818 agreement settling the forty ninth parallel.
Frank Critzer built a three room home under a massive boulder in the Mojave Desert. His bomb proof shelter and 5500 ton roof illustrate a self built airfield fortress he envisions drawing visitors to a desert utopia.
A concise portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who led campaigns to free Italy from foreign rule and unite the states. He fought in South America, helped Uruguay win independence, faced France Austria Spain and Naples, lived in exile in New York, and became a dictator who did not seek power after Sicily and Naples fell, helping set Italy on its modern path.
Dr. Paul B. Popenoe describes a simple test to identify whether the dominant eye is left or right. With both eyes open, raise a fist like a pistol, aim at a target, then close each eye to see which eye aligns with the finger and target.
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