District Rebekah meeting set for Saturday March 30
The District meeting of Rebekah Lodges Dist 14 will be in the local hall Saturday March 30 with registration at 8 a.m. Olive Ready of Stromsburg is president and state officers will attend. Eleanor Simmons of Beatrice will conduct a school of instruction. All local Rebekahs urged to attend.
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Rebekah Lodges
Dist. 14
Olive Ready
Stromsburg
Rebekah Assembly of
Nebraska
Eileen Simmons
Beatrice
Rebekahs
Family splits and political talk stir local views
The writer notes a boiling political climate and mixed party loyalties in the family. They recall past straight-ticket days and mention Doris Grossnicklaus ready to challenge anyone in the Grandmother Sweepstakes. The Grandmother Hill challenge is rejected as they celebrate six granddaughters and two grandsons while visiting Minnesota for new arrivals.
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Doris Grossnicklaus
Grandmother Hill
Courthouse Court Entries and Public Notices Roundup
County court docket lists numerous speeding and license violations in Nebraska with fines ranging from 10 to 100 dollars and costs. Marriage license issued for Thomas Martens and Jacqueline Kosch, and several deeds and transfers filed including real estate and executor actions in Osceola and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Martens
Rising City
Jacqueline Kosch
Shelby
Sacred Heart Church
Nationality Day at OHS Highlights Ancestry Study
OHS seventh grade observed Nationality Day with costumes from students ancestors and pen pal exchanges. Beverly Trotter earned All-State recognition for cornet. All-State event June 9 27 at University of Nebraska. Polk County TAPS dance crowned Mavis Fjell and Vince Krol. Krol's votes funded by ten cent per vote. Total March of Dimes receipts 291.79. District music contest tryouts set for April 18 20 at Central City. Sophomore Pancake Feed March 29 at OHS. Machinist mate apprentice David E Klein USN returned to San Diego aboard USS Chevalier after 6 month Western Pacific deployment. Osceola locals include visits from Kearney State College students and 60th wedding anniversary trip to Portland Oregon.
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Europe
Beverly Beverly Trotter
Roy Trotter
Roy Trotter, Has Been Notified of Her Acceptance At All-State
Cornet
University of Nebraska
Polk County
Stromsburg
Viking Center
OHS
Candy Studley
Calvin Kropatsch
Mavis Fjell
Vince Krol
Nancy Mills
Central City
David E. Klein
USN
Edgar S. Klein
Rt. 2
San Diego
Calif
Chevalier
7Th Fleet
Western Pacific
Gulf of Tonkin
Salvation Army Appeal Seeks Funds in Polk County
The Salvation Army annual appeal in Polk County seeks donations led by Dr. Eklund as chairman of the local Service Unit with D. R. Byers and Martin E. Roberts on the committee. Contributions go through Byers, with firms and citizens to be contacted. Osceola’s share noted. Cadette Girl Scout Troop 290 earned the My County badge after a year studying heritage, Indian tribes, stamps, citizenship, and symbols, while teaching Brownie Scouts patriotic songs. Residents and visitors from Wolbach and nearby towns visited or hosted events. Wm. Umstead moved from Jeffrey Hospital to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln for observation. The study of local social visits continues with weekend gatherings at the Kenneth Studley home.
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Salvation Army
Polk County
Eklund
D. R. Byers
Martin E. Roberts
Polk Co. Z
Osceola
J. M. Soeth
Byers
My County
Polk county soil and water district plans drive conservation
Planning drives soil and water conservation in Polk county with 978 district co operators 480 conservation plans 69 revised. Emphasis on water conservation grassed waterways terraces diversions and irrigation management. Major gains include converting marginal cropland to productive grassland with over 6000 acres established. 35 400 acres grassland in 1959. 37 000 acres projected by 1975 possibly higher. Board schedules 8 pm March 26 meeting. St Richard Studley returns from Vietnam for 30 day leave. Terry Oman Nee Barbara Buresh new bank assistant. Janet Girard to wed Ricky Ekstrom in mid April.
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Polk County Soil and Water Conservation District
Polk County Conservation Needs Committee
Polk
Soil Conservation Service
Osceola
Board of Supervisors
Polk County
SWCD
Terry Oman
Barbara Buresh
First National Bank
Omans
Staplehurst
Lloyd Boden
Janet Girard
Ricky Ekstrom
Courage and faith mark Dennis Emmons tribute column
Eldena Lindblade honors Dennis Emmons and his family for enduring long illness with cheerful resilience. The piece recalls Rev. Stallions on courage, shares farm life notes from Harriet Johnson and Mary Weyers, and ends with a Bingo jackpot report for Lois Grossnicklaus.
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Eldena Lindblade
Dennis Emmons
Stallions
Dennis
Wm. Larson
Santa Claus
Harriet
Carl H. R
Gertrude
John) Renner
Iowa
Fire and burns harm Osceola resident. hay shed damaged
Flint Crozier, living northeast of Osceola, suffered severe leg burns Monday while trying to extinguish a grass fire started by a trash burner before Osceola firemen arrived. The blaze partially destroyed a shed and 400 bales of hay. Amos Jirsa, 56, died unexpectedly Sunday near Shelby. services were held, with his wife and daughter as immediate survivors.
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Flint Crozier
Osceola
Jeffrey Hospital
Shelby
Amos Jirsa
Friend
Snodgrass Gregg Douglas Birth in Cedar Rapids
A baby boy named Gregg Douglas Snodgrass weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces and was born March 22 to Mr and Mrs Larry Snodgrass of Cedar Rapids Iowa. The mother Jill Grossnicklaus is now Mrs Snodgrass formerly. The Scheer birth reports a girl Lisa Denise born March 26 to Mr and Mrs Dennis Scheer of Omaha. She weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and the mother is Carolyn Swanson daughter of Mauritz Swansons.
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Snodgrass
Gregg Douglas
Larry Snodgrass
Cedar Rapids
Jill Grossnicklaus
Scheer
Dennis Scheer
Omaha
Lisa Denise
Carolyn Swanson
Mauritz Swansons
Farm Placement Service Seeks Columbus Area Workers
Employment service will place farm workers in the Columbus area with openings for single and married labor. Osceola area rep Ron Christensen at National Bank call 747 2451 or contact the Columbus office 2809 13 St Columbus 563 5105 for temporary and summer positions.
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Nebraska Division of Employment
Columbus
Osceola
Ron Christensen
St National Bank
Christensen
St. Columbus
Mr. Christensen
Polk County Men Inducted for Army Draft
Four Polk County registrants from local board No. 75 were sent to Omaha Nebraska on Wednesday morning March 20 for induction into the Armed Forces. They are Timothy Ray Anderson Ellis Gene Waller James Elroy Hoffman and Carol Paul Jones. Each received a small New Testament from the Gideon International as a Polk County Society gift. Seven registrants were forwarded for physicals and the April 22 call lists three men for induction.
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Polk County
Gideon International
Society
Wallace Sandell
Rudolph Nyberg
Polk
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Max Peters
Farmers Union Cooperative Marketing Ass’n
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York
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Lane Birkel
Pius X High School
Lincoln
Thunderbolt
Oxford
Plus
Stanley Larson
Marvin Micks
David City
Mick
Homestead Center
South 42Nd St
Galen A. Wiser
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Tex
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Lillie Johnson
Rolly Johnson
Syracuse
Duele
Courthouse News
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Dubois
Wyo
Nebaska
Rexford Lee Bamber
Burlingame
Delmar Augustine
Ray Noyd
Melvin D. Nickels
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Mountain View
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Donald L. Barnes
Glen Zlomke
Timm O. Waller
Alan Hengelfelt
Joseph I. Rystrom
Lavern A. Gulbrandson
Dean Carter
Mildred F. Ransom
Larry Birkel
Larry H. Keller
Enid
Okla
Ruth J. Keyes
Shenandoah
Victor J. Uphoff
Lloyd E. Lindgren
Spree L. Lindgren
Alice V. Johnson
NEM
Raymond L. Kresha
Weswih
Roy Arthur Herrmann
Hazel Smith
Doyle D. Gustafson
James 0. Pearson
Harold L. Davis
Merrill and
Nance
Herman O. Carlson
John A. Carlson
Lucy C. McCarty
Richard E. McCarty
Jackie Brigham
Deanna Marsh
Kearney State College
Pam
Bonnie Brigham
Jack Johnston
Brigham
Neal Brigams
Portland
Ore
del Brighams
Mervin Hiemer
Connie
John Pokorney
Tony Pokorney
Shelby High School
Pokorney
Farmer’s Co-op Grain Co
Girl Scouts
Sally Mills
Terri Howe
Becky McDonald
Linda Johnson
Ann Armbruster
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Jacquie Smith
Kathy Thayer
Carolyn Wagner
Sally Sterup
Kenneth Studley
Cecil Studley
Wayne
Jacob Hansen
Wolbach
Pat Kellys
Schuyler
Mary Jo Thompson
Mary Smitts
Marilyn Murphy
Floyd Headlee
Jim
Irvin Jones
Wm. Umstead
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Minnear
Moters
John Gillett
Osceola Implement
Minneapolis Moline Company
Soil and Water Conservation District
Richard Studley
Vietnam
Kenneth Studleys
Fort Campbell
Lois Grossnicklaus
Ulysses
Lee Johnson
Army
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