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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1951
Page
1
Walliam A. Andel, a farmer near David City, was gored by a plow after a bee nest attack while plowing a sweet clover field. He sustained facial stings and a deep leg and back cut, later treated at the Veterans Hospital in Lincoln after surgery for a chipped back bone.
Paul L. Germeroth has accepted a permanent call as instructor at the Christian Day School in Kennewick Washington and left on Sunday to begin his duties, per Polk Progress.
DeLoss Palmer had major surgery at the Veterans Hospital in Grand Island on Friday for shrapnel wounds from World War II the Battle of the Bulge.
An experiment to salvage grain soaked in the Kansas flood is underway at Wagner Mills this week. Ten cars were brought from Kansas City for the experimental work. If damaged grain can be freed from water it can feed commercial alcohol plants that use grain. A normal grain car weighs 90 000 pounds but many soaked cars weighed 122 000 pounds showing water absorption.
Wm Latta a Clay Center resident and former service member who runs an appliance store and airplane spraying service has reached a deal with Hastings to take over management of Hastings air field per The Clay County News.
Alma and Alta King identical twins from Newman Grove were en route to Pontiac Michigan to be bridesmaids for another twin they met in Yellowstone Park. The sisters from Chicago heard the King sisters on the Breakfast Club last week during their broadcast.
Farwell residents face a special election next Thursday called by the Village Board to approve spending ten thousand dollars for water works improvements. Funds will extend the current system and fund a new well and pump house plus a new pump and incidental costs.
About 150 dollars were stolen from a large concrete filled safe at the Pepsi Cola bottling company offices in North Platte. The robbers ripped the safe door from its body using crow bars and cut the top hinge with a hacksaw and chisel. Lincoln County Tribune reports the break occurred Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Ed Janousek showcased a two pound potato and described several monsters in his patch north of Schuyler. Each hill yielded two or three large spuds plus smaller ones, with a non irrigated field noted by Colfax County Call.
The Osceola area faces repeated wrecks at a busy town corner near North Hollywood. Four deaths in three weeks prompt calls for action by the Highway Department of Roads and Irrigation and local groups to study and regulate traffic, including ideas for an island similar to David City and Rising City.
NBBC will meet Friday evening September 7 with Mrs. Clair Walker. Entre Nous meets Wednesday afternoon September 12 with Mrs. Phil Campbell as hostess. Gab-O-Lots meets Wednesday September 12 with Mrs. Maude Nunquist. The Birthday Club meets September 20 instead of September 13 with Mrs. Harold Gondringer. Members notice change of date.
Osceola merchant Herman Bohl announces the sale of Bohl Shoe Shop to Walter Boese of Fremont Nebraska. Sale completed last week with possession to be given September 17. Boese brings 18 years in business, most recently two in Fremont. The Boehls have not yet announced future plans.
Miss Jeanice Schott joined John Mills and Jimmy Norton in Lincoln to take part in the University rush activities this week, joining other students in campus events and social gatherings.
Weekend crashes at the 92 81 corner caused two deaths and multiple injuries. Friday a car and a truck collided at the 81 92 Y with no injuries though the car was badly smashed. Sunday the Croley fatality at the east Y involved Mr and Mrs Croley of Denver Colorado. Monday a west Y crash occurred when an unidentified car ran the stop sign. a U S Army dirt dump truck collided after the loaded Peterson transport was struck. Driver of the unknown car fled. no clue yet.
William Kobza becomes manager of the Osceola Feed Mill and Elevator after Thomas Bohaty resigns to move to Denver. Kobza and his wife grew up near Rising City and recently worked in Omaha. Kobza is a nephew of owner Thos Hofebauer. They will reside in the Ryan apartments.
Two people died in a crash at the intersection of routes 92 and 81 west of Osceola on Sunday morning when a westbound truck driven by Ralph Moses of McCracken Kansas turned onto 81 and struck the Croley car traveling east. Mrs Croley, 32, died on impact. Mr Croley, 52, survived initial rescue but died later. Moses faced Motor Vehicle Homicide charges and was released after bond.
Polk County mobilization committee asks individual and group farmers to submit recommendations on how U S Department of Agriculture programs including Cooperative Extension Service Production and Marketing Administration Soil Conservation Service Farmers Home Administration and Rural Electrification Administration can better serve family farms. Reports should be sent to Lee F Campbell Chairman Mobilization Committee Osceola Nebraska by September 10 1951.
Mr and Mrs Harry Sergent of Akens Minnesota paused in California on their return home to visit Ada Howland during their travels The brief item notes the couple’s stop while returning from a visit in the state.
Osceola Methodist Church began a campaign to raise funds with September devoted to preparation and October for solicitation. The goal is eighty thousand dollars in cash and pledges by mid October, with a steering committee led by Homer P. Bollinger and including Elton Berck Walter Berck Phil Campbell and others.
Osceola and Stromsburg completed dial telephone conversions last Wednesday at 10:00 a m making Polk county fully dial operated. Mayor Ed Almstrom placed the first call to Lincoln engineer K L Lawson as 602 telephones switched with minimal service interruption. Ralph Wait notes long project started in 1949 with 122 exchanges now 73 dial and 43 converted since 1945.
Funeral services are planned this Thursday afternoon at Kepner Funeral Home for 72 year old Sybilla Hotchkiss who died Monday morning after hospitalization at St. Francis. She is survived by sister Mrs. L. M. Nickell of Osceola.
Births include a baby boy to Mr and Mrs Wm Umstead in Osceola. Noted residents: Hellstrom in Stromsburg, Myrtle Dunn in Osceola, Edna Anderson in Osceola, Robert Reed in Mason Michigan, Trene Gabriel in Osceola, Mary Ellen Wobig in Osceola.
The Organization of CROP for 1951 52 will be completed at a meeting on Friday September 7 at 8 00 p m at the Court House in Osceola.
A six man Osceola fishing party traveled to Rat and Beaver lakes in Cherry County near Valentine for a weekend trip. They caught their limits including Perch and large Bull Heads and stayed with camping gear visiting the Merle Watts family. The fishermen were Harold Jones Leonard Mrkvicka Vernon Johnson Lawrence Bowe John Craven and Henry Studt, leaving Osceola Saturday morning and returning Monday evening.
Osceola weather observer Harold Klingman reports August as peculiar with five and a half inches of rain and two days at 101 and 100 degrees. The month featured a high of 101 on August 5 and a low of 51 on the 21st and 22nd, while September 13 brought 1.45 inches of moisture.
Arnold Furst, a leading magician and official representative of the International Congress of Magicians, will perform "Mysteries Around The World" in the Osceola High School auditorium. The benefit show is set for Tuesday September 11 at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Mr and Mrs E A Schnasse and Miss Lydia Englehardt visited the Edward D Schnasse family in Wakefield Nebraska last week confirming social ties and hospitality in the community.
Local notices announce hunting seasons from Oct 19 to Dec 7 for ducks and geese with daily limits of five ducks and five geese, plus pheasant limits. The Carlson family notes a deadly corner at Highways 92 and 81, urging safer driving and a name change to Death Corner. Football tickets in Lincoln sellouts ease resale. Polk County corn shows solid growth and fall wheat seed beds ready after rains. Osceola Methodists launch an $80,000 church fund drive for a new building on the current site. The Corn Palace Cafe received a new floor and re-papered walls improving appearance.
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