Nebraska Community Notes From The Week
Obituary notes report Mrs. Charles Heinemeyer born 1843 died March 43 1915 living in Nebraska since 1880 survived by nine children. Local events include a ceiling collapse at C E Hansen’s hardware store, snowed in mail carriers, blocked rural roads, and store leadership changes at Polk Osceola and Monson Company.
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Charles Heinemeyer
Nebraska
C. E. Hansen
Monson Company
John I. Anderson
Polk
Mr. Cornish
Osceola
H. C. Beebe
Union Pacific
Burlington
John G. Swanson
Polk County
Vernon
John Meacham
Casco
Wis
Local notes from Osceola and surrounding areas
Lloyd Callendar will return to Osceola next week to work for Crouse Trex Drug Co. John Malek Jr and Hazel Johnson wed in Central City. Elmer Duncan injured in a Friday auto accident near David City. W I Smith leaves Farmers Union Store for Fuller Brush Co. Tue school board reelects teachers and buys tubular fire escape. Adam Herrmanns return from Los Angeles. Joe Stanton wins state checker championship. Marriage applications list Jacoby Herrmann and Lind Anderson Wieseman farewelled before Lexington move. New birth and 10 years ago notices complete the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Callendar
Hassler Drug Co
Osceola
Crouse-Tex Drug Co
John Malek, Jr
Hazel Johnson
Hordville
Central City
George Malek
Elmer Duncan
David City
W. I. Smith
Farmers Union
Fuller Brush Co
Lonnie Buchholz
Adam Herrmann
Los Angeles
Joe Stanton
University Place
State Checker Association
Phil W. Jacoby
Alton Ill
Ruth Mae Herrmann
Harvey Lind
Polk
Alvena Anderson
Stromsboro
Eva Wieseman
Wieseman
Lutheran Ladies Aid Meeting and Sunday Service Plans
The Lutheran Church Ladies Aid meets Thursday at 2 30 in the church parlors with Mrs Martha Walgren as entertainer and Mrs James McKeag Jr as program leader. Services next Sunday will be as usual with Dr Fahrer of Wahoo preaching.
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THE
Lutheran Church Ladies Aid
Martha Walgren
James McKeag Jr
Fahrer
Wahoo
Methodist Church announces multiple church activities
Rev. G A Randall presides Sunday School at 10:00 and worship at 11:05. Prayer meetings Wednesdays at 8:00. Women's Society meets Friday afternoon March 9. Senior Youth Fellowship Sunday 4:30 March 4. Reports from the Fellowship. Junior Youth Fellowship meets Monday evening.
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THE
Methodist Church
G. A. Randall
Woman’s Society
Fellowship
The Swede Home Church Services and Activities
Rev. Alfield E. Franzen presides on the third Sunday in Lent with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and Morning Worship at 11 a.m. Dorcas Society gathers this week. Friday at 8 p.m. hostesses Carola Johnson and Ramona Swanson. Confirmation Class Saturday 9:30 a.m. Next week mid week Lenten services Wednesday 7 p.m. Choir practice an hour after service. Thursday Ladies Aid 2:30 p.m. Lutheran Brotherhood 5 p.m. Men urged to attend and support.
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Alfield E. Franzen
Dorcas Society
Carola Johnson
Ramona Swanson
Ladies Aid
Lutheran Brotherhood
Along the Blue Home Study Club Meeting Notes
The Home Study Club will meet at Mrs Harold Fyfe house in March. Mr and Mrs Victor Krumbach and families visited the John Hiemer home Thursday evening. Miss Ethel Thelen from Lincoln visits her parents Herman and family for the weekend. Wallace Glatter broke his wrist last week. Bob Armagast of Surprise guest at Herman Thelen home. Raymond L Vrbka awarded the Purple Heart and on 36 day leave with parents. he was wounded serving on his PT boat in the South Pacific.
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the Home Study Club
Harold Fyfe March Ltd
Victor Krumbach
Leonard Hiemer
John Hiemer
Ethel Thelen
Lincoln
Herman Thelen
Wallace
Matt Glatter
Bob Armagast
Raymond L. Vrbka
Joe Vrbka
South Pacific
Mobile X ray Unit Reports 9000 + Scans In Four Months
The Polk County Medical Society notes the mobile X ray unit has taken more than 9000 X rays in Nebraska over four months. Surveys cover government sites and extend to schools as more equipment becomes available. Abnormal chest findings lead individuals to private doctors for diagnosis and treatment.
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Polk County Medical Society
Nebraska
State Department of Health
Scotts Bluff County Fair
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Sidney
Lincoln Air Base
Nebraska Ordnance Plant
Wahoo High School
Ashland High School
Kearney Air Base
State Teachers College
Kearney
Kearney High School
Ravenna High School
Total
County Medical Society
Pork Fiasco Shows Limits of Price Fixing and Rationing
A May trip to Indianapolis frames a critique of government pork price guarantees and rationing. The piece argues the pig program bred wasted hogs, market jams, and delays, concluding supply and demand, not policy, governs pork prices. It warns against postwar tinkering and calls pork’s market ease a natural law.
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Washington
Letter from soldier writes of Charles Henley death
Mrs. W C Henley of Charlotte receives a letter from Pfc Buddy Henley describing Charles Henleys death in France on October 21, 1944. He died instantly from a sniper shot to the heart while serving in the division cemetery. He notes Buddy was wounded by shrapnel and hospitalized, and hopes the family continues correspondence. He emphasizes Charles lived a good overseas life and asks them to find comfort in the belief that they die for a cause.
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Buddy
W. C. Heney
Charlotte
St .H Carolina
Nooeddy
Pfc
Charles Henly
France
Pfc. Henley
Shelby
Chas. Henley
Bess Taddiken
Chase
Division
Charles
Bobbie
Greens Chapel Social Calendar and Local Visits
The WSCS plans a March 8 gathering hosted by Mrs. D E Powell Mrs Henry Olson Jr and Mrs J L Hurd. The Brotherhood meets March 5 with Lloyd Hollister and Chas Steever to entertain. Residents and visitors from Omaha Cincinnati Des Moines Wayne Nebr and Verndale Minn appear in a series of social movements and farm relocations across the area.
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Kenneth Mentink
Omaha
Myron Hanson
Osceola
Earl Richards
Dorothy Teegerstrom
Chris Fleck
Des Moines
Alfred Teegerstrom
Harlan C. Carlson
Emil Blome
Cincinnatti
W. N. Blome
Lester Michener
Centerville
Iowa
Joel Hanson
Harlan McKeag
Sam Johnson
Dale Thompson
Eric Thompson
Wayne
Nebr
Rosdahl
Axel Anderson
Here
Nels Wittgren
Olson
Leonard Wieseman
John G. Carlson
Ewald Pliefke
Henry Olson Jr
Deay
Blake
Notice of Probate In Bertha Nitsch Estate Polk County
The County Court of Polk Nebraska announces a petition to appoint Rudolph Nitsch administrator of the Bertha Nitsch estate hearing set for March 24 1945 at 10 00 A M Dated February 24 1945 with seal County Judge L M Merrick notes the notice is directed to interested parties and invites objections or participation in the probate process.
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Polk County
Nebraska
Bertha Nitsch
Rudolph Nitsch
L. M. Merrick
DE Bonis Non
Henry Rathje
State of
Julius Rathje
L. M. Merrick Mar
Sheriff’s sale notices in Osceola Nebraska foreclosure list
By order of the Polk County District Court sheriff Gunnard Peterson will auction at 2 p.m. March 27 1945 at Osceola courthouse South door the described Osceola lands including Lots 5 11 1 2 and various blocks and additions and other parcels tied to delinquent taxes to the County of Polk plaintiff John Q Rathbun et al defendants. The sale includes blocks and lots in original town Osceola and Smith additions with metes bounds and coal house access rights noted.
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District Court
Polk County
Nebraska
Ray J. Hampton
Edith
Burritt Johnson
L. S. Hastings
Osceola
Smith
Ed Brown
District Court of
Fifth Judicial District of
Polk
John Q. Rathbun
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Walter J. Herbes
Lananas
Iettuc
T Swede
Tom Brown
Anita Loise
Chester Morris
Virginia Brue
Robert Taylor
Billi Burke
Gret Garbo
Legion Hall
Robert Nuquist
Hastings College
St. Paul
Minnesota
Iowa City
IOOF
Osceola Woman's Club
KGBZ
York
Cecil Means
Albion
Helen Cowan
F. E. Klein
E. L. King
Albert Ryan
Tony McCormick
Backlund
W. S. Desch Sons
York and
George S. Benson
Harding College
Searcy, Arkansas
Indianapolis
United States
America
CPA
OPA
C. C. Jenkins
Edith Burritt Johnson
Phil B. Campbell
Hesler
Gamble
Wetlilee, E
OR. A. R. Peterson
First National Bank
OR. H. S. Eklund
F.D.I.C. W. H. Pierce
D. R. Byers
San Pedro Aquarium
Boud
Hollywood
Virginia Vale
Miss Vale
Bath
Populi
Cafe Regis
Addition
City
Gunnard Peterson
W. W. Norton
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