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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1953
Page
2
Salesmen needed for Rawleigh's Polk County route serving about 1500 families. Longstanding product line and real opportunity for permanent, profitable work. Start promptly. Write Rawleigh's Dept NES-540-232 Freeport Illinois.
Will Zimmerman leaves the hospital after injuring an ankle in a moving car incident yesterday. He faces crutches as doctors assess possible fracture. Nearby, Charlie Lovell wed Hazel Beebe in York last Monday and Mrs Lovell arrived tonight for a visit.
Thirty years ago Ku Klux Klan representatives held a meeting in the city drawing a large street crowd for the address. A birth was reported Sunday, a daughter to Mr and Mrs Enoch Boden. The State Fire Inspector visited Osceola to assess safety amid aging buildings and high insurance rates. In golf action H J Tex defeated R J Inness to win the final round Tuesday afternoon.
Born Friday to Mr and Mrs Elmer Nelson a daughter. The new country home built by Mr and Mrs Elmer Johnson on their farm near Swede Home is about complete.
Ten years ago in Seattle Miss Frances Iwan married Cpl. Emery Kropatsch at Fort Lawton August 9 and will live in Seattle where he is stationed. Mrs. Edwin Jones dies at 61 near Swede Home. Jeanne Hofacre of Richmond marries Pvt. Robert Butz in Lincoln at First Plymouth Church. Maurice Van Houten and Elsie Gissler announce the birth of Jerry Lee August 25 last week.
Local notes report birthday anniversaries for M. A. Mills Sr. and son Richard with a family dinner September 20. Out-of-town guests include Richard Mills and son from Albion and John Mills of Omaha. wedding of Donna Faye Wyman and Andy Engel at Silver Creek Methodist Church.
Listing of farm equipment including New Idea and John Deere picks. Items cover pull type and mounted harvesters, elevators, hoists, stalk lifters, tractors from 1930s–1950s with model details such as 70, 1940 A, and 1936 B series plus gear, powerlift, live hydraulic systems and options.
Mrs John Jarmin left Saturday for Oakland California to visit sister Elizabeth Reid. Dr C L LeMar travels to Rochester Minnesota to visit hospital patient brother Glen LeMar. Holland tulip bulbs offered at Crouse Tex Drug. John Mickey birthday guests include Dennison Iowa couple and families from Omaha and David City. Walter Watts hosts six at dinner with Bals Perry Watts Sargent Eyler and Johnson families. Harriet Fischer leaves for Bone Gap Illinois after two months in Michigan Ohio Indiana and other states. Leach returns to Osceola for a week then Bone Gap reunion.
Sunday gatherings centered on the Hastings home with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sullivan and Gloria of Grand Island visiting. Ralph Swenson celebrated Confirmation with a shared dinner at the Gilbert Johnson home attended by Pastor Swenson and family. Further visits included Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Campain dining with his brother Fred Campain in Central City and stopping by the Raymond Pierce home in the afternoon.
Statement of Ownership for the Osceola Record shows publisher and owner Perry N. Sapp of Osceola Nebraska with no bondholders. It lists 1275 average weekly copies sold in the previous year and is sworn by Notary Robt L Mills on September 29 1953.
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