Bystander Notes Lighting at Union Pacific Station and Local Characters
A bystander describes the station lighting aiding visibility for trains and pedestrians, noting a brighter south end light for engine headlight alignment and crossing checks. Os Horst is praised as a bus watcher with uncanny guidance, while Giles Cole is hailed as an early printer and community figure whose skills surpassed modern equipment. The text blends anecdote with local history and hints at estate notices in the surrounding notice.
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Union Pacific
Os Horst
Final accounting in Martha Brigham estate set for hearing
In Polk County Nebraska the executor has filed a final account and petition for final settlement and distribution in the estate of Martha Brigham deceased. The hearing is set before the county court on December 10 1915 at 10 o as m. Interested parties may appear and contest. Dated November 12 1915. Seal F H Ball county judge.
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Polk County
Nebraska
Martha Brigham
F. H. Ball
Sheriff's Sale Notice in Polk County Nebraska
Sheriff David B Potter advertises a sheriff sale by order of the Polk County District Court. The property, described as the SE quarter of Section 9 and the SE of the SW quarter in Township 14 North Range 4 West, excluding a parcel deeded to Charles A. Parkin, will be sold for cash December 7 1915 at Osceola Court House at 1 PM to satisfy a 1915 decree for 7768.00 plus costs.
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District Court
Polk County
Nebraska
Richard Dahle
Burton E. Wilcox
H. Peter Dittmer
Joseph H. Tschauner
Charles A. Parkin
Osceola
David 8. Potter
Said County
Bring cing home the E Bacon
The note appears garbled with partial phrases. It references bringing home a person or item named E Bacon but lacks clear context or details to confirm event, date, or location.
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