Polk Infant Killed in Auto Crash Near Crete
Four month old Kerwin Brazda son of Mr and Mrs James Brazda of Polk died Sunday night in a two car collision about a mile south and east of Crete. Six others were hospitalized including Kerwin's parents and the Hammon family of Omaha.
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Kerwin
James Brazda
Polk
Crete
Brazda
Millie
Arlene Flodman
Robert Hammon
Omaha
Genevieve
Jerry Lee
Lincoln Star
4-H Homemaking Club Holds Year End Picnic at Osceola Park
The Osceola 4-H Homemaking Club ended the year with a picnic for 34 family members. Members baked pies and cookies as their achievement project. Barbara Wieseman received a junior leader gift. About 80 exhibits were shown at the fair with purple awards to Dianne Lux, Shirley Buresh, Joy Nelson, and Mary Ellen Buresh. The float Marys 4-H Garden won a purple, booth theme was 4-H All Over The World. The club did not attend the State Fair due to age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola Park
Barbara Wieseman
Dianne Lux
Shirley Buresh
Joy Nelson
Mary Ellen Buresh
Mary’s
Keep Your Date At The Blood Mobile
Blood drive set for September 8 at the Parish Hall in Shelby urges residents to donate blood and save a life. Organizers emphasize keeping the date and time to support the community blood supply.
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the Blood Mobile
The
Blood Mobile
Shelby
Camp Cedars hosts Luther League Camp attendees
Miriam Carlson and Carolyn Swanson attended Luther League Camp at Camp Cedars for a week. The ten confirmands spent Wednesday at Camp as part of the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Carlson
Carolyn Swanson
Camp Cedars
Off The Cuff On the first day of school nostalgia advice
The columnist reflects on the first day of school and mothers facing renewed household labor. He jokes about learning rhythms, diploma days, and the enduring challenge of balancing chores with children at home. The piece ends with a light admonition to relax and wait for leisure time that never fully arrives.
Tax Issue To Be Hottest Barb In Demos Attack
Lincoln Nebraska voters face a heated campaign as Democrats push tax enforcement as a key issue in the governor and U S Senate races. Gov Victor Anderson and tax chief Fred Herrington threaten penalties on omitted intangibles while proposing new state power to step in on local tax failures.
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Lincoln
Congress
Ralph Brooks
McCook
Victor Anderson
Anderson
Fred Herrington
Herrington
Brooks
Frank Morrison
U. S. Senate
Morrison
Romar Hruska
Washington
Hruska
Eisenhower
GOP
Donald Ross
Omaha
Nebraska
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
Estes Kefauver
Hubert Humphrey
Midwest
Alliance
Richard Nixon
Agriculture
Ezra Benson
Interior
Fred Seaton
Carroll Lemon
Nebraska Council of Churches
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Order of Eagles
Nebraska Rural Electric Assny
Capitol Building
Capitol Building Commission
Social Security hike to aid Polk County residents
The 1958 Social Security Amendments boost monthly payments by about 7 percent for about 700 Polk County residents starting with February 1959 checks. Beneficiaries already on benefits need not apply. increases are automatic for January payments. The law also expands eligibility to dependents of disabled people, certain spouses and parents, adopted children, and individuals who marry another beneficiary, with conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk County
George E. Tomlinson
Social Security
Willis Warner Family Leaves Lincoln Area for California
Mr and Mrs Willis Warner and family traveled from Nebraska to their home in Livermore California after a two week visit with relatives in Lincoln Seward Utica and Osceola A picnic for 30 relatives was held Sunday at Seward city park as part of their gathering before departure
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Willis Warner
Livermore
Calif
Lincoln
Seward
Utica
Osceola
City Park
Visit to Vinton and St Charles Families
Mr and Mrs Howard McKeag and Cheryl visited Mrs McKeag s brother Don Anderson and family in Vinton Iowa from Monday through Thursday of last week. Mr and Mrs Joe Leisen of St Charles Minn spent Friday and part of Saturday at the Art Gabriel home. Mr Leisen and Mr Gabriel were army buddies during World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard McKeag
Cheryl
Ralph Watts
G. Dahlstedt
Merle Watts
Valentine
Black Hills
Phil Campbell
Crawford
Laurie
Crawford Campbell
Bozeman
Montana
Bud Deeds
Seward
Flossie Deeds
Roc Miller
Brownies Eat Instead Of Sleep At Slumber Party
Fifteen Brownies from Troops 283 and 232 enjoyed an overnight camp and cook-out at the Osceola park cabin on Friday night August 29. Leaders Miss Alice Lorraine Johnson and Mrs. Bernie Gissler attended with Mrs. Charles Fischer, Mrs. Ray Wagner, and Mrs. Wesley Nelson assisting. The event featured a campfire, cook-out stew, a moonlit swim, and an all-night snack followed by breakfast helpers Mrs. Virgil Bugbee and Mrs. Marlin Johnson Saturday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola Park
Charles Fischer
Ray Wagner
Wesley Nelson
Alice Lorraine Johnson
Bernie Gissler
Gary Rodene
Arlen Kiel
Larry Bowker
Robert V. Johnson
Virgil Bugbee
Marlin Johnson
First Baby of September Born at Annie Jeffrey Hospital
Mr and Mrs Sheldon Bond welcome a baby boy weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces born Wednesday September 3 at Annie Jeffrey Hospital. He is the first baby born in September and eligible for Osceola Merchants First Baby of the Month prize, an Orson Shawl from the Osceola Store.
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Sheldon Bond
Annie Jeffrey Hospital
Osceola Merchants
Orson Shawl
Osceolale
Three Generations Lived On The Last Mystery Farm
The 278 acre mystery farm near Osceola belongs to Mr and Mrs Howard McKeag. Thomas McKeag bought in 1890 James Sr in 1908 and Howard has lived there all his life. Howard presides over Farmers Co op Elevator and Grain and is active with the Building Committee for a new elevator. The McKeags raise Whiteface cattle and hogs. They have daughter Cheryl 10 who attends school in Osceola. Winners in guessing the Mystery Farm are Mrs Wilbur Prell first, Mary Prell second, and Charles Youngstrom third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard McKeag
Osceola
McKeag
Thomas McKeag
James, Sr
Howard
Farmers Co-op
Elevator and Grain
Neal Prell
Charles Youngstrom
Births in Columbus: Don Ray Byers III born Sept 1
Mr and Mrs Don Ray Byers of Columbus welcomed a son born Monday September 1. The couple already has three daughters and have named the first son Don Ray Byers III.
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Don Ray Byers
Columbus
Real Estate Transfers From Nebraska Notices
Warranty deeds record transfers from Frances Anderson Sepulveda and Thelma O Anderson to Morris O Dunn and Don ald W Fellows detailing lots and portions in Nordbergs Addition Stromsburg West Osceola parcels. Included are social notes of travel by Watts and Campbell families and visits by Deeds family to Seward and Bozeman reflecting community notices.
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Frances Anderson Sepulveda
Morris O. Dunn
Thelma O. Anderson
Donald W. Fellows
Nordberg
Stromsburg
Harold M. Walstead
Ee Raymond G. Walgreen
August Weather Driest of the Summer With 90s
August brought hotter and drier conditions than July with .88 inches of rain recorded by U S government observer Harold E Klingman. Seventeen August days reached 90 degrees or higher and rainfall totals included .54 on the 23rd .31 on the 25th and .03 on the 29th.
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U. S
Harold E. Klingman
Tong
Local Women Sponsor Orphanage Benefit in Lincoln
The Catholic women of the area join 143 parishes and 40 Catholic groups to support the St. Thomas Orphanage benefit carnival bazaar in Pershing Auditorium Lincoln October 8 and 9. Volunteers craft clothing toys and household goods while men make knick knacks and novelties. A TV station will air 15 minute demos to promote the project. St. Thomas Orphanage serves homeless and neglected children from birth onward and has welcomed over 10000 since 1904.
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St. Thomas Orphange
Lincoln
Nebraska
Pershing Auditorium
St. Thomas Orphanage
McKeag Family Returns From Denver Visit
Mr and Mrs Wally McKeag and their Shelby children returned Wednesday morning after visiting Hollis McKeag and family in Denver.
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Wally McKeag
Shelby
Hollis McKeag
Denver
Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital News Week of Aug 26
Patient list from Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital for Aug 26 to Sep 2 includes discharges and current patients. Names cover Stromsburg Osceola Polk Silver Creek Rising City Shelby Shelby Lake Bluff Illinois and Atlantic Iowa areas with numerous residents and staff noted.
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Ece
Alma Fiell
Stromsburg
Thomas Meacham
Osceola
Robert Stohl
Polk
George Geier
Silver Creek
Joe Sloup
Rising City
Vernon Boden
Hannah Johnson
Stanley Braithwait
Duane Hilderbrand
Martin Kresha
Cheryl Sue Nordmeyer
Kenneth Kuhnel
Miss JoAnn Schumacher Weds Tony Iwan in Platte Center
Miss JoAnn Schumacher daughter of Mr and Mrs William Schumacher of Columbus married Tony Iwan son of Mrs Rose Iwan of Osceola at St Joseph Church Platte Center. The ceremony was at 9 am officiated by Rev John P Downey with matron of honor Mrs Edmund Zelasney Medway Ohio and bridesmaids Nancy Alexander Eunice Alt. Best man Leonard Swan Detroit ushers Ray Swan and Schumacher brothers. The couple will reside at 3263 Arbor St Omaha after a southern state honeymoon.
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Joan Schumacher
William Schumacher
Columbus
Anthony Iwan
Rose Iwan
Osceola
St. Joseph’s Church
Platte Center
John P. Downey
Edmund Zelasney
Medway
Ohio
Nancy Alexander
Cornlea
Eunice Alt
Leonard Swan
Detroit
Ray Swan
Laurence
Herman Schumacher
Joan Cerny
Bobbie Fischer
Mrs. Swan
Arbor St
Omaha
Reluctant Osceola Students Adjust to School This Week
Superintendent Virgil Bugbee reports enrollment at Osceola schools rising to 306 in the grade school and 113 in high school. First week counts show 33 freshmen 21 sophomores 34 juniors 25 seniors with elementary grades listing several classes and new staff including Rosalie Nelson Ruth Morse Delores Johnson Patricia Miller James Tangeman George and Genive King Annette Magorian and assignments across grade 1 to 6 and high school English and commercial departments.
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Virgil Bugbee
Rosalie Nelson
Axtell
Nebraska
Osceola
Martin Scholz
Ruth Morse
Peru
Lincoln
Arthur McVeigh
Delores Johnson
Tangeman
W. H. Fulwider
George King
Genive
Nebraska Wesleyan
Wren and Wallace Sherwood celebrate 25th anniversary
Mr and Mrs Wren Sherwood hosted Mr and Mrs Wallace Sherwood of Stromsburg for a 25th wedding anniversary on Sunday August 24 A white cake with silver decorations graced the table center indicating a small family gathering and festive mood.
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Wren Sherwood
Wallace Sherwood
Stromsburg
Osceola Record Announces Ford Scholarship Story Contest
The Osceola Record teams with Ford Motor Company and Nebraska Press Association to sponsor a Teen Age Press conference scholarship for high school students in the Record area. Entries due September 16. state winner announced September 22 and receives an all expense trip to Dearborn October 14 to preview the 1959 Ford line and attend the press conference.
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Osceola Record
Ford Motor Company
Nebraska Press Association
Waterman
Vern Scofield
Jack Lough
Albion
State Press Association
William E. Hall
University of Nebraska School of Journalism
Nebraska
Dearborn
Michigan
Ford
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
N. 9Th St
Lincoln
Henry Ford
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Bond
Lot 8
Lot
Block
Smith
Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital Hospital News
JoAnn Schumacher
Bride of
Tony Iwan
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