Rural Route Consolidation at Osceola Effective November 11
Postmaster Snider reports a Washington notice announcing a consolidation of Osceola rural routes two and three effective November 11, 1933. Route changes shift carriers and distances, with Route 2 renamed as New Route 2 serving Nelson O. Brown, and Route 3 absorbing parts of Route 2. Some patrons may experience mail delivery adjustments while others benefit from the new lines.
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Osceola
Snider
Washington
Roabcock
Shelby
D. W. McFadden
A. Inness Corner
John Lisco
A. J. Inness
Local social notes and sales highlight Osceola items
Local items note bridge clubs guests and gatherings in Osceola including Miss Edith Gray hosting T J C Bridge Club. Families visit relatives in Lincoln Gresham and Omaha. Community sales include Jonathans and Grimes Golden apples and Aladdin lamps. A Lutheran quilt display and Mother and Daughter party round out a busy week.
Wesley Chapel Church Aids Friday Meeting and Social
The Wesley Chapel Church Aid plans a regular meeting Friday night October 13 at the church, to be followed by a pound social for the minister and family. Attendees are asked to bring sandwiches and a pie.
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Wesley Chapel
Wesley Chapel Church Aid
Luther League of the Osceola Lutheran Church
Clarence Anderson
Maxine Wieseman
Elms Treadway
Natalie Richards
William Bassett
Arnold
Nebraska
Ambrose Gabriel
Daniel Tharel
Shelby
Albert Gabriel
Louis Hastert
Edmund Gabel
Nels Johnson
Omaha
Clarence Johnson
Chicago
Arvid Peterson
David Johnson
Laurel
J. N. Nelson
Clarence__Anderson
Mark Gustafson
Darlene Phyllis
Dale Richards
Stromsburg
Herman Carlson
Carl Lundgren
West of Osceola
Carence Anderson
Chester Bierle
Columbus
Esther Huggler
Shunaman
Osceola News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Sales
Readable items note Dr. Harvey Eklund performing tonsil surgery at Osceola Hospital for Frank Bard west of Osceola. Local guests include Mrs. K. A. Holmes of Council Bluffs and visits by Rexall One-Cent Sale promises. Delegations travel to Seward district convention. families visit Osceola and Lincoln. Chicago and Omaha visitors stay with local families.
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G. Frank Bard
West of Osceola
Harvey Eklund
Osceola Hospital
K. A. Holmes
Council Bluffs
Iowa
C. G. Greenwood
Farm Bureau
W. O. Hansen
Robert
Margaret
Charles Olson
Chicago
Mr. Shrader
Legion
Rexall
Crouse-Tex Drug Co
Polk County Fair Association annual meeting set for October 11
The Polk County Fair Association announces its annual meeting on October 11 at 2 30 P M in Judge Norton s office. Officers will report on the past year and elections and committee appointments will occur. All season ticket and lifetime members are urged to attend.
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Polk County Fair Association
Local Social Notes and Farm Life Update
Village residents attend family gatherings and funerals while farmers continue fall threshing. Notables include VIctor Misses and Beverly Hennings visiting relatives, David Myers burial in Omaha, Albrecht and Lillian traveling to Kearney for their mother’s funeral, and Grandma Lemmerman moving to Columbus with daughter Hannah. Community events foretell fall farming tasks and a Farmers Union meeting on October 13.
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Victor
Virginia Torell
Beverly Hennings
York College
Orville Hennings
Roy Thomas
Rising City
David Myers
Omaha
Myers
Charles Newcomer
Russell Kreis
Ada
Oklahoma
Prof
Albrecht
Lillian
Kearney
Cambridge
Frank Scholtz
Farmers Union
O. R. Hennings
Victor Club
Dwight Newcomer
Osceola
Nina Burke
Polk
Grandma Lemmerman
John Paulson
Hannah
Columbus
Rally Day At Two Churches With Fried Chicken Supper
Fairview and Valley churches announce Rally Day for Sunday Schools with large attendance hoped next Sunday. Ladies Aid hosts a fried chicken supper at Fairview Hall Friday October 6 with a square meal for a quarter. Evangelist Hamilton and family visited the parsonage. services: Fairview 10 and Valley 11:20, Valley Sunday School 10:15, preaching at 11:30.
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Fairview-Valley
Ladies Aid Society
Fairview Hall
Evangelist Hamilton
Bryant
Willa Jean
Fairview
Valley
E. B. Maxcy
Local notices from Fairfield area events and visits
Fairview G P Mace and family and others attended the funeral of Mrs. Alex Mustard in York. Miss Ferne Dake of Omaha visited two weeks with her parents W B Dake. Mrs Olive Bartlett of Idaho and Mr and Mrs C E Jones dined with Mrs M E Daniel. Rex Heinemeyer and family and Kingsley of Clarks attended Mr and Mrs Meade Westman. W B Dake and family and Mrs Clair McCormick visited Mrs Emily Horst. Chalmar Daniel spent a day in Fairfield. Lester McCormick leaves for Chicago for Century of Progress. C O Carlson owns a new Dodge truck. Fredrick Yungdahl damaged teeth in an accident. The Happy Hour Society meets this afternoon with Mrs Elmer Tooker and assistant hostess Mrs W B Oake. Marriage of Howard Clark to Miss Josephine Aden reported. Mrs Chauncey Cremeen and children visited Big Springs relatives.
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Fairview
G. P. Mace
Heitzman Brothers
Hugo DeBere
Alex Mustard
York
Ferne Dake
Omaha
W. B. Dake
Olive Bartlett
Idaho
C. E. Jones
Near Osceola
M. E. Daniel
Rex Heinemeyer
Taby
Kingsley
Clarks
Swere
Meade Westman
Clair McCormick
Stromsburg
Emily Horst
Chalmar Daniel
Fairfield
Nebr
Lester McCormick
Chicago
Century of Progress
Cc. O. Carlson
Chauncey Cremeen
Big Springs
Nebraska
Axel Altberg
M. A. Makeever
Boulder
Colorado
Clarence.McClough
Loveland
Blaine Putman
Alice May Burke
Eden Baptist Church
Miss Burke
Alice Wilson
Arcadia
Grace Burke
Walter A. Burke
Platte
Raymond Ruppel
J. O. Paine
Earl Lindberg
New York City
C. F. Moore
Polk
W. M. Scott
A. C. Morrill
H. M. Dillon
Dillons
Wheatland
Wyoming
Russell Carlson
Mr.Carlson
Byron Johnson
Robert Malmen
Signe
Bernice
Doris
Harriet
Glenn Felix
Geneva
Corrine Johnson
Amna
Anderson
Anderson Chapel
First Baptist Church
Polk County
George F. Anderson
Garfield Anderson
Oregon
Fred Peterson
California
Osceola
Shelby
Chas, Kuntzelman
Steve Corbett
J. R. Rosenberry
Albion
P. R. Smith
Lincoln
Lloyd Myers
San Diego
Calif
Myers
Smith
Louis Daum
J. S. Hill
Ernest Bahr
West Shelby
Jas. Fasbender
Hill
John Rasp
May
Russell Sawyer
Western
Evan Gilchrist
Malcomb
Marjorie Ann
Wilson
Earl Burritt
Guy Hanshew
Val Hanshew
Ray Hall
Raleigh Michener
L. Timmons
W. B. Michener
Archie Kumpf
Arthur Buchholz
Columbus
E. E. Pengelly
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Mera Cunningham
Lou Cunningham
Illness and operations a Stromsburg report
Axel Altberg was seriously ill with appendicitis on Sunday and underwent surgery at a York hospital. He had a severe cold complicating the case and is recovering as expected.
Surprise hunts cabin dedication near Bellwood a family celebration
Seventy four relatives and friends join George Koenig and seven young men to name and dedicate Hunter's Inn a cabin built over the summer in a tree grove near Bellwood. Albert Koenig's birthday is observed as a noon feast and social activities follow including a kittenball game.
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Hunter’s Inn
Bellwood
Shelby
Osceola
David City
Omaha
Surprise
Columbus
Joseph Walneczek
Helen
Big Springs
Bertha Bernt
Lois Burgess
Jack Burgess
Central City
Pawnee Park
Sophia Kresha
Prsak
Lincoln
Adolph Kresha
Marie Prososki
John Augustyn
Loup City
Eller
Nick Eller
Anna Seberger
Louis
Raymond Jones
Fredrick Eller
Kenneth Jones
Wayne
Lindsay
Emil Zimmerman
Edward Messing
Frank Messing
Emma Messing
William Markhofer
Omaha, i
St. Bonaventure’s Church
Osceola School News Highlights Activities and Football Loss
Osceola schools report classroom visits, new pupils Leonard Ross and Westley Kennedy, perfect spelling by several students, and a range of events from the Smiling Through Club picnic planning to a Lincoln tour. The Osceola football team lost 32 to 0 to Polk, with Polk scoring early and adding four more in the second half as Osceola struggled to move the ball.
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Osceola School News
Thompson
Ray Timm
Wm. Thompson
Clas
Leonard Ross
Westley Kennedy
Elson
W. W. Norton
W. N. Norton
Lloyd Cole
Melvin Pearson
Olga
City Park
Osceola
POLK
Newton
Ekdahl
Hansen
Hernbloom
Jackson
Tlt Polk
Bees for Winter Prep Demonstration in Osceola
O. B. Bare of Lincoln will hold a bee demonstration at the premises of Geo. J. Berck in Osceola on Tuesday October 10 at 2 P M. The event covers preparing bees for winter and fall management. Free and open to all. Located north of the county fair grounds. Mr Berck’s place is about a half mile away. 100 pound drums cost 10 cents per pound.
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O. B. Bare
Lincoln
Stary of Geo. J. Berck
Osceola
Mr. Berck
Wolfe Richards wed in Hartington Nebraska
Miss Netfie Wolfe and Earl Richards were married last Thursday September 28 in Hartington Nebraska. They were joined by Mr and Mrs Ross Richards and Mrs Fred Calkins. The bride is granddaughter of Fred Calkins and a 1833 Ericson high school graduate. The groom is the second son of Ross Richards who recently moved toward Wheatland Wyoming for work.
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Wolfe—Richards
Netfie Wolfe
Earl Richards
Hartington
Nebraska
Ross Richards
Fred Calkins
Ericson, Nebraska
Osceola
Stromsburg Man Attempts Death by Own Action
Jack Simmons a transient who has used Stromsburg as his home for a year was arrested on vagrancy charges. He obtained carbolic acid and Tuesday night attempted death by own action but was found in time for medical care and is expected to recover. Simmons has multiple prior vagrancy arrests.
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Stromsburg
Jack Simmons
Simmons
Garden Club Meeting Features Plant Music and Q A
The Garden Club gathered at Rev. Paul Melin's Tuesday evening for a short musical program. Alber ta Anderson played a piano solo and Irene Herrmann performed Flower Song and Water Lily pieces. Miss Ruth Miller spoke on the influence of flowers in music and the group then discussed two garden subject questionnaires.
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Garden Club
Paul Melin
Alberta Anderson
Irene Herrmann
Ruth Miller
NRA Compliance Board Appointed In Osceola Community
A local NRA compliance board is formed in Osceola to enforce the President's agreement with 100 percent compliance. Chairman W S Heitzman leads the panel with members M S Pearson, John Rogers, Edith Gray, Jay Hastings, and H H Campbell. The board handles complaints of non compliance and all who display the Eagle are presumed compliant until federal authorities remove the flag.
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Osceola
Community
W. S. Heitzman
M. S. Pearson
John Rogers
Edith Gray
Jay Hastings
H. H. Campbell
Hii
N.R.A. Compliance Board
Osceola Woman's Club Holds First Meeting of Year
The Osceola Woman's Club met at the school house with about forty members present. Sue Robertson was elected reporter to the county convention in Stromsburg. Delegates to the state convention were W F B Thompson and Fred Gilbert for October at Hastings. Departments will arrange programs and set dates. meetings for departments will be in two weeks.
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Osceola Woman’s Club
Sue Robertson
Stromsburg
W. FB. Thompson
Fred Gilbert
Hastings
Lutheran Church Weekly Activities and Quilt Exhibit
The Lutheran church lists a full week of events led by Pastor Paul Melin. Thursday afternoon Ladies Aid meets at 2:30, Confirmation Class Saturday at 9:30, Sunday 10 AM Sunday School and 11 AM English worship with Holy Communion, 7:20 PM Vespers by Luther League. Tuesday quilt exhibit 2 PM to 9 PM with organ concert and lunch. admission includes a 15 cent lunch. Date changed from Thursday 12 to Tuesday 10.
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Ladies Aid
Gilbert Johnson
Luther League
York
Paul Melin
Rebekah Kensington celebrate 82nd anniversary in Nebraska
A pleasant Wednesday afternoon saw 24 Rebekah Kensington members and guests visit Mrs. Elmer Horst in the Valley. After the business meeting a short program marked the 82nd Odd Fellowship anniversary in Nebraska. Mrs. Cora Gushee and Mrs. Mary McCoy received bouquets as charter Osceola Rebekah lodge members from 1893. Mrs. Horst and Mrs. W. E. Snider hosted lunch.
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Rebekah Kensington
Elmer Horst
Odd Fellowship
Nebraska
Cora Gushee
Mary McCoy
Osceola Rebekah Lodge
Horst
Toilet Articles At Crouse-Tex Drug Co
An advertisement notes Crouse-Tex Drug Co stocks a selection of toilet articles for customers seeking restroom and personal care items.
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Crouse-Tex Dos Co
Crouse-Tex Drug Co
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