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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
1
A veteran Rattler column denounces home brew as dangerous and cheaper than bootleg whiskey. It argues the practice mirrors bootleggin g, entangles courts, and harms families while noting reformers’ grape juice substitutes and the public’s tight money era.
Osceola Nebraska city council met with full attendance. Claims allowed include labor pay for Dee Goodin John DeLand Donald Ray and others plus August salaries and street work costs. Adjourned to September 6 1921 with further adjourned sessions later that year.
Shelby column recaps visits and travel from Madison to Lincoln, Osceola to Hamburg. Residents including Delmer McFadden and Jimmie Fasbender relocate or transact, while others attend family events, jubilees, and weddings. Local gatherings mark hospitalizations, barnyard and farming tasks, and a priestly jubilee in Hebron.
At Chas Dswald's farm last Saturday a tank on the Kropatsch Bros. wagon spilled over the edge of a hillside. The wagon was severely damaged but the team and driver escaped unharmed. Oswald Kropatsch noted the tank did not seem heavy and surprised by its fall.
Mrs Fenton Danisland Stephen Corbett of Osceola Mrs Addie Ferris of Shelby Mr and Mrs P L Knight and little son Mrs Julia Knight Mrs Barr and daughter Cassie Mrs Margaret Lockard Mrs Walter Ballenger Sam and George Ballenger and Mr and Mrs Vernie Kuntzelman
Stromsburg residents report travels to Osceola and Omaha for business and visits. Notables include the death of Chas Carlson a Polk County pioneer with roots in Swede Home and Stromsburg, funeral details, local banking gathering, and school notes including the Burger paper debut and upcoming carnival funds.
Polk community briefs report visits by A H Peterson and wife to York and many local travels. births and illnesses, church activities, revival start at Polk Baptist Church, Polk bankers meeting in Osceola, and planned legal case in Merrick County draw attention.
Local Swede Home community notices report the Swede Home Store shifting its oil house further back on the lot this week. Farmers observe $1.40 per bushel Ohio potatoes at Farmers Union Store. Community members travel to York for a missionary convention and visit relatives. A debate on cooperative marketing is planned at Swede Home hall with speakers from Swede Home and Pleasant Corner.
More than 100 attend Sunday school as orchestra and a Raymond Reed Walter Peterson duet entertain. Rev Hall and Rev Bennet praised while Fifteen Me fine ideas are noted. Ivy Workers plan weekly bazaar prep with Mrs June Burke and Mrs John Graff. Missionary Society, led by Mrs Geo Bond, discusses Kingdom and Nations. Up Streamers meet Friday. attendees include Gertrude Walter Martha Heinen and Miss Fredrickson. Forward Movement Committee to meet Oct 20 at 2p.m. for planning.
In Shelby County court Beebe is acquitted of unlawful liquor possession after a jury, including E R Ware and C H W Anderson, deliberates two hours. Prosecutor M A Mills Jr and defense attorney Wilber M Johnston present the case arising from a pint found in Beebe's auto when he attended a July 18 Shelby dance.
Advertisement lists furnace pipe galvanized pipe elbows stove pipes corrugated elbows wire and asbestos paper with Kamille O Otoupalik contact and a two ring phone number 64.
County Attorney Mills reported the Supreme Court peremptory writ approves the bond history and bonds. The Auditor of Public Accounts is to register the bonds, settling legality and validity and affirming women voters’ right to participate in such decisions.
Abolt serves on Lincoln federal grand jury and family visits. Mrs Walter Kindberg improving in York hospital. Women’s Foreign Missionary Society to meet. Farmers Union to hold open meeting. Heimer child in serious Omaha hospital. threshing reports for Thelander Peterson and Deay Reimer. millinery school trips by McCarty Allison Hennings Anderson. Green’s Chapel parsonage foundation moved to church site with new well. parsonage construction advances.
We thank our friends for kindness shown in the loss of our mother. Gratitude for flowers the song service and use of the building by the first M EB Chu h. Children and Grandchildren of Mrs. John M Hervrmaan.
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