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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
3
Osceola items cover local deaths and marriages. Claude Hubard dies of pneumonia aged fourteen. Albert Anderson and Olga Olson wed at Andrew Anderson’s home near Osceola. school and town trustee elections proceed. bridge damage and repairs noted. notable visitors and new businesses debut. national issues and the Florida Ship Canal debate noted with officials’ testimony. reminders about farm safety literature and requests for patent office data.
The list recalls Mrs. H P Shore death after a life begun in Scotland in 1874 and survived by three children. It notes the death of Mary A Douglas mother of The Record editor in Crookston Minnesota. The Finecy Bros livery is sold to Arthur P Johnson and Ed A Johnson. Vic Peterson injures his hand in a wagon mishap. Mrs W L Deay of Briggs California arrives with father J M Renner to settle in the city. Osceola and Stromsburg plan a March 19 high school debate with Agnes Newcomer Gordon Danielson Lawrence Shaw and Beulah Michener as alternates. Mayor H C Beebe to preside.
Mrs John Staroscik attended a 4 H Club Leaders Meeting in Osceola on Tuesday. Frederick Eller arrived home from Fort Crook for a month furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Nick Eller. Gerry Altmanshofer had an appendectomy at St Marys hospital in Columbus last Tuesday. Relatives learned Gabe Dworek was seriously injured last week after falling from a building roof where he worked. Elizabeth Snider returned to the Oswald Bernt home after vacationing in Lincoln and Shelby. Terence Messing will travel to Genoa with Shelby students for a one act play and he will deliver The Cry Of Youth at the District Dramatic Contest.
The article notes that bovine TB affects cattle hogs and chickens with the germs similar to human TB and can transfer to humans, especially through infected milk. Nebraska has funded cattle TB eradication and now surveys in multiple counties to map human TB, aiming to keep the disease under control and protect children.
Social reports list numerous guests visiting the Martin Scholz and Will Burritt families including Reuben and Lucille Timm Louis and Evelyn Scholz Lynn and Meretta Brigham Walter Pierson Elmer Kindberg and Lawrence Luft. Mrs Grossnicklaus travels with the Peterson family to Hinckley Minnesota. Irma Stewart attends a birthday dinner for Mary Mae at the Albert Timm home.
Classified notices offer opportunity for steady work through S. F. Baker & Co. in Keokuk Iowa. Also listed are sale items including winter oats barley and artichokes with contact via Stromsburg Nebraska. Property listing describes 40 acre tract in Polk county near Shelby Nebraska for sale by Dr. H G Eichhorn Peoria Illinois with address RFD 6
The Board of County Commissioners will hold a regular session next Tuesday March 21. The meeting will discuss county affairs and public business.
Mrs. C L Dake visited her parents in Fullerton. Roy Cowgill of Council Bluffs died. funeral in Central City. P T A at District 57 held a play Fri. Mr. and Mrs. Frizzell visited Genoa. Mrs. Fineey and son Cedric and Miss Zola Frizzell at Ray Graham home in Nance county. Clark family from Fremont attended Silver Creek operetta. Cemetery Society met at Hall. Mesdames Roy and Frank Frizzell hosted. Heinemeyers of York spent weekend with relatives. Olof Youngdahl honored at family birthday dinner near Polk. attendees listed. Leo Larson and family with aunt from Stromsburg attended Lutheran conference in Wahoo.
Sunday dinners in Stromsburg host homes with Gustafson Nelson families. Baptist youths meet at Imogene Hanquist. Polk W C T U meets at E E Pengelly residence with J W Helms assisting. Gust Zoch family from Wisner visits Kuptke home. Walther League gathers at Fred Rinode home with games. Various visits include Curren, Harlow, Anderson, King families. Golden Rod Conference attendees discuss spring sports. Stromsburg wins basketball title, Osceola and Stromsburg share gyro title.
Sealed bids for concrete tubes materials installation and galvanised iron culverts will be received at the Polk County Clerk Osceola Nebraska until 2 00 PM on April 4 1939. Bids must state per cubic foot prices for concrete work and per linear foot for galvanised iron culverts F O B Osceola. A $250 bid bond is required with submission. The county reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Final account filed by administratrix in the matter of the estate of Orval T. VanHoosen deceased. The hearing for final settlement and distribution is set for April 1, 1939 at 10 oclock a m before the Polk County Court. Potential heirs may appear to contest and a decree of heirship and distribution will be entered. Dated March 7, 1939 by W. W. Norton substitute county judge.
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha files a foreclosure petition in Polk County Nebraska against unknown heirs and other parties in interest in the Northeast Quarter and North Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 6 Township 14 North Range 3 West. The suit seeks $19,770.08 plus 8 percent interest from January 24, 1939, with costs, and asserts a first lien on the described 240 acres to satisfy the decree. The answer is due by April 24, 1939.
Miss Lula Burns hosted the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at her home on Thursday afternoon. Miss Mildred Richmond returned to Fremont to resume school duties after attending her aunt Mrs Henry Nantkes funeral. Mr and Mrs Albert Zang and daughter were Sunday visitors at the Fred Huggler home. Mrs Chester Shockey gathered a six ounce egg while gathering hens fruit last week. Mrs Charles Huggler came home from Nicholas Senn hospital Omaha with Mr and Mrs Jacobs of Lincoln. Wesley Chapel plans a food sale and lunch in Osceola on Saturday April 8.
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