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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
3
Osceola and surrounding towns report on weather, sales, rail plans, school sounds, and church notes. Events include Thanksgiving observances, a new meat shop, furniture and boot shop updates, and a growing local press scene with multiple editors and paper promotions.
Long vintage classified page listing multiple farms for sale near Osceola and Shelby with prices and features. Also offers for livestock, oats, wagons, stalls, and household goods plus shops and services by Wheeler, Hunter & Cobb, Matthews, and G W West. Includes fresh oysters, loans, and miscellaneous goods.
County Treasurer L. J. Browrig warns payors to collect all delinquent taxes including 1881 and 1882 taxes before January 1, 1884 to settle with county commissioners. Taxes placed in collectors’ hands December 1 if paid, or earlier. The treasurer cites 1883 laws page 280 section 156 and states legal compulsion.
Weather is fine though scarlet fever worries the community as J Bowser and E Douglas plan moves and improvements. Farmers begin corn picking while signs of a spring panic loom, with talk of a school closing and several local improvements noted.
Louis Tims introduces a new wagon and E Mustard offers a fine carriage. District No 31 prepares to start school while Pinkerton displays a premier mare. Farmers begin hauling new corn to market as Wina stores advertise canap horses. J A Powers boasts excellent hogs and a wind pump incident at Alc Tokout ends with a delusion blamed on benzine.
Stromsburg notes report Republican party tidbits and a judge’s return from the east. A pew signwalk will be placed around the square and W J Bartholwew’s father from Illinois visits. Thanksgiving services at Swedish Mission Church with sermons in Swedish and English. J A Mower Post G A Re will hold a campfire on December 6. Skelton named to a top deck on the Owaba and Republic Valley Ry.
The county clerk announces the vacation of a road starting at the southeast corner of Section 24 and northeast corner of Section 32 in township 14 north range 1 west Fest. Objections or claims for damages must be filed in the County Clerk's office by noon January 30, 1884, or the road will be vacated.
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