Homemakers Day and National 4-H Club Week Highlight County Programs
County agents promote the third annual Homemakers Day at the Agriculture College in Lincoln on Friday March 25 inviting all rural and urban women. National 4-H Club Week March 5-13 stresses youth clubs for ages 8 to 21 with about two million members. The message covers seed oats, weed control, employment, wool incentive payments, and extension office services.
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Agriculture College
Lincoln
Wegmanns Celebrate Mrs Wegmanns Birthday At Home
Mrs Harold W Johnson reports a birthday supper for Mrs Wegmann hosted by Mr and Mrs Tom Gonnerman and son. Guests included Mr and Mrs Martin Gestrine and family who visited Wednesday. Ada and Reuben Lundstrom spent Monday evening with Mr and Mrs Severt Dauist.
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Harold W. Johnson
Otto Wegmann
Tom Gonnerman
Wegmann
Martin Gestrine
Ada
Reuben Lundstrom
Severt Dauist
Pete Simpson
Merlin Simpson
Osceola
Harry Rodene
Bonnie
Adolph Carlson
Stromsburg
Chris Huggler
Axel Anderson
Fred Yungdahl
Ansel Fredrickson
Dora Yungdahl
Axel Anderson and Sons
Hilma Toline
Ellen Anderson
F. H. Fredrickson
Petrus Nelson
Victor Krol
Lillie Chindgren
Frank Oquist
Famly
Delores Lindblade
Lester Gestrine
Martin Jones
Horace Stevens
Polk
Walter Bush
Selma Carlson
Oscar Boden
Harry Bodene
Olin Little
Little's Island
Martin Lundstrom
Chindgren
Donald Anderson
Lincoln
Ada Lundstrom
Rudolph Appleton
Roger Hanquist
Layne
Evelyn Oquist
Willard Berger
Marlowe
Levert Oquist
Harold Nelson
Osceola Area Social Notices Highlight Birthdays Visits
Local social notes record visits and birthday celebrations across Osceola and nearby towns. Families including the Simpsons, Andersons, Nelsons, and Lundstroms hosted gatherings with relatives and friends. several trips to Stromsburg and Julesburg are noted along with Friday and Sunday socials.
Osceola News Highlights Local Births Sales and Obits
Twenty years ago a son named Duane David arrived to Mr. and Mrs. David Jones with Mrs. Florence Timm as former Mrs. Jones. Two one dollar bills sold for 25c at a local sale, won by Oscar Hedberg. Osceola beat Stromsburg 1815 with Milton Burgeson and Rolland Randall starring. A baby girl, Hillis Ann, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester McCormick. The Wieseman family moved into J. W. Fillman’s house after living in the Barr home on the ridge. Twenty-eight Osceola residents signed a telegram to President Roosevelt for his birthday. Weekend specials included pears 39c per gallon, salmon 25c, butter 35c, bananas 25c. Howard Walter Herbes Jr. born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Herbes. Rivoli program features Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle. Films include It Is a Gift with W C Fields and Baby LeRoy, The Gay Bride with Lombard and Pitts. Ten years ago Leonard Lisko was killed in action in Belgium January 3, 1945. Mike Tworek welcomed a seven-pound boy. Braithwait and Shank died in a highway accident on No. 30 near Silver Creek. George Hotchkiss’s son missing in Germany since December 1944. Mrs. T. D. Richards died in Pasadena aged 87, a long Osceola resident. Moisture rises in Polk County corn prompting drying or crib keeping. Mil dred Jean Prell and Pvt Peter Samarziva wed. she nurses at Lincoln General, he is an airplane mechanic in Hayward.
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David Jones
Duane David
Jones
Florence Timm
Oscar Hedberg
Osceola
Stromsburg
Milton Burgeson
Rolland Randall
Lester McCormick
Hillis Ann
Joe Wieseman
J. W. Fillman
Wieseman
J. S. Barr
Ridge
Postal Telegraph Co
Roosevelt
Polk Progress
Howard Herbes
Polk
Howard Walter Herbes, Jr
Bing Crosby
Kitty Carlisle
W. C. Fields
Baby LeRoy
Carole Lombard
Zasu Pitts
Ross E. Braithwait
Columbus
Fred Shank
Madison
Highway No. 30
Silver Creek
Mr. Braithwait
John Braithwait
George Hotchkiss
George Junior
Germany
T. D. Richards
Wisconsin
Pasadena
Calif
Farm Machinery And Tractors 1955 Equipment Lineup
An advertisement lists 1955 farm gear including John Deere diesels row crop tractors with drawbar and belt specs, a 12 ft fertilizer spreader with Propel-R-Feed, a twine tie baler, a New Idea stalk cutter, a 12 ft tandem disk harrow, an anhydrous applicator by Dempster or John Blue, a 24 ft spike tooth harrow, a John Deere drill, and multiple used tractors such as Massey Harris 44, Minneapolis Moline ZTU, Case SC, and John Deere models with power lift and start features.
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John Deere
Dempster
John Blue
John Deere van Brunt
Lister
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Lion
Mark Gondringer
State Employment Service
A.S.C
Doles
Starkist Tuna
Pontiac
Rutabagas
TIDE
Coater
Weiners
Blackbird
Your Blackbird
Swede Home News
York
Farmers Grain Company of
August P. Anderson
Frederick E. Merrick
A. F. Nelson
Secy
Treas
W. E. Pierson
Mgr
Ed Swanson
Wieseman School No. 5
Polk County
E. L
John Lisko
Leonard
Belgium
Army
Mike Tworek
R. R. Prell
Here
Mildred Jean Prell
Pvt
Peter Samarziva
Bessemer
Michigan
Lincoln General Hospital
Hayward
Massey-Harris
Minneapolis-Moline Tractor
BALER
Godig—International
ACCUR
Jim Branting and Son
Nebraska
Seidlitz
Osceola Lumber Co
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