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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
1
County Agent Hattie Newman urges gardeners to can surplus parsnips due to continued rain. Wash, grade, boil, pack hot jars with salt, process 45 minutes at 10 lbs in a Steam Pressure Cooker, then seal. Parsnip servings can be fried in butter with horseradish. Emphasizes sanitation to prevent outbreaks in large flocks and herds.
Mr and Mrs Chas Trogarz and Mae traveled to Lincoln for a day of business. Ralph Hasselbalch joined Louis Benda in Schuyler on business. A kerosene can exploded while lighting a fire injuring Anton Micek whose face hands clothing burned. Odlville Enyeart visited in David City. Birth Day Club met with Mrs Josie Benda. Mrs T A Micek and Maxine Eschler attended as guests. Frances Camp and family stayed with Mike Reisdorf near Shelby.
Mrs Ed Bonne and baby return home to Osceola. A nine pound boy born to Mr and Mrs Albert A Gabrie near Osceola Monday May 1. Mr and Mrs Richard Thelen of Shelby are parents of a 6 lb 9 oz boy born Monday.
Mrs. C A Anderson has recovered from a fractured foot and returns home to east Shelby after six weeks with her daughter Mrs Harold Taddiken. Mrs Viola Curry of Lincoln visited Shelby with her daughter Miss Viola Curry a Shelby teacher who attended the Senior Play. Ensign Robert Bland left Shelby for Chicago after a furlough. He is a Columbia University Midshipman who received his commission April 13. Ray Miller learned a baby was born to their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Clifford Bond in Las Vegas. James Jensen and family from Omaha visited Shelby at the Weiser home. Mr and Mrs Paul Pliefke attended Westminster Presbyterian Church commencement for 16 nursing graduates at Lincoln General Hospital. Their daughter Erma Piliefke was in the class.
Local notices recount visits and greetings among Willits, Bolton, and Johnson families in Grand Island McCool and Osceola. Military families share furloughs and promotions. Ralph Willits and Theo Nelson receive commendations. Rev. Laureson leads High Prairie seniors at Swede Home Lutherans Church with musical contributions from Whitacre and Johnson. six graduates are listed.
Crouse-Tex Drug Co promotes using Sardine Oil and vitamins A and D in baby chick feed to boost health and growth.
Osceola moves toward a proposed Community Hospital as pledges roll in. A May 10 mass meeting at Lesson Hall will outline goals and operations, with a long list of local donors including H. S. Eklund who gave 1000 dollars and many others contributing 100 dollars or less.
The sale of Mrs. Flora Fentress household goods is postponed to next Saturday at 2 PM due to heavy rain. If weather remains bad, the auction will be held in the lumber shed on the north side of the square.
A compilation of visits dinners and doings around Stromsburg Nebraska. Social calls list Adelson Blanchard Carlson and others. cafe change hands. postponed ball game. volunteers send May Baskets. military updates from local families and a New Guinea letter from Cpl Arthur Gabriel detailing weather reunions and Easter greetings.
Mrs. Louis Morris of Clarks learns her husband Louis Morris was wounded in action March 25 and in an army hospital in Italy. John Triand writes from the South Pacific. Keith Youngstrom departs Camp Forrest for glider base after furlough. Thomas Rutter visits his mother in Davis, California. Robert Wieseman of Mojave leaves for marine base and overseas. Carl Gustafson and family visit Lincoln and Osceola. Wendell Appleton and Donald Kennedy depart for camps. Willard McCormick reports ship passage from Gulfport to Australia and a move to a 1500 acre peanut plantation, confident the war will end soon.
An old farm paint ad touts Ward’s Certified Super Red Barn Paint from Montgomery Ward in York Nebraska. It promises durable coats with one gallon covering 400 square feet and offers six gallon quantities at 1.79 dollars per gallon.
James W. Johnston 19, son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Johnston, enlisted in the Navy last August after Osceola high school graduation. He was sent to Mare Island then transferred to the Marine Hospital Corps in February and left the west coast for sea duty.
Local residents attend the Shelby Legion Supper last Thursday. News mentions births, travels, and visitors including James John Messing born April 18 in Omaha to Mr. and Mrs. Messing. Relatives and friends, such as Nadine Lux and Albert Krumbach, are listed with family and duty updates across Iowa and Idaho.
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