Osceola to Get Natural Gas Service Soon
District Manager Graham of the Town Nebraska Light and Power Co. arrived Monday with a plat showing proposed gas mains. The crew will start after finishing David City work, needing about two weeks and 200 men. The main from the oil fields reaches Lexard, progressing three miles daily. Gas service expected before cold weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Town-Nebraska Light & Power Co
Gralath
David City
Osceola
Lexard
Osceola Bulldogs to Field Two Balanced Teams Friday
Osceola High plans two evenly matched squads for Fridays football clash. Coach Jerry Parker has built fresh lines and a larger squad after last year losses Headlee Joy Rogers Irland McBeth. Officials from town will run the game at 3 o'clock with no admission charged.
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Parker
Headlee
Joy
Rogers
Irland
Mc Beth
Floyd Headlec
George Koehler
Eddie Adams
Earl Jones
Carl Burritt
Ralph Herrman
Bill Herrman
Paul Monson
Dale Lewis
Bob Nllquist
Carl Pierson
Ben Hallquist
Chas. McBeth le Gaye Addison
Kenneth Mitchell
Brent McBeth
Gerald Johnson
Chloris Sutko
Cecil Deand
Dick Matheson
Alvin Anderson
Lester Anderson
Dean Doty
Carl Timm
Kenneth Miller
Eldon Addison
Walter Calhoun
Edgar Backlund
Francis DeLand
Gerhart Kresha
Charles+ Jackson
John Irland
Bob Drum
Maurice Scholz
Waldo Rodene
Lester Peters
Husker Grid Star Prepping for Pigskin Campaign
Steve Hokuf a former Crete high school star and versatile Cornhusker athlete trains for the 1930 31 season. He is a first string football end and this summer works on a Lincoln firm construction crew digging post holes and unloading timber at Nebraska City location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Hokuf
Crete
Cornhusker
Hokuf
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
Nebraska City
Steve
Shelby notes a busy period of travel and family events
The Shelby column records numerous visits and movements including John Dunning and Miss Eather Blevins marriage in New York on August 28. It lists relatives visiting Shelby from Iowa Nebraska and Missouri, trips to Lincoln Omaha Hastings and Denver, new positions and moves, school nursing training, and a family reunion at Osceola with many local names present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby
John Dunning
Eather
Henry McGimsey
Vernon Adams
Loup City
August Thelen
Louise Gable
Omaha
John Houdersheldt
Ervin McBeth
Herman Bohm
Missouri
Possum Hollow
Rex Thelen
Fritz Thelen
A. A. Blum
Helen Inness
M. I. Hospital
A. L. Lierman
Walter
Eva
Norfolk
Willma Scott
Hastings
Howard Collins
Lincoln
Louise Scholz
Grand Island Business College
Oliver Long
West
Sandpoint
Idaho
Long
Clyde Yordy
Elston
Iowa
Richard
Perry Waller
Nellie Brazee
Methodist Hospital
Victor Lauchland
Wichita
Kan
D. A
Tona Schaal
Merrick
Carrie Kummer
Edna
Titman
Columbus
Mary Ball
F. M. Leibee
Deborah
Shenandoah
Nebraska
Geneva Fillinger
Phil Ball
Albin
Wyoming
Jim Fasbender
Ira Banta
Helen
Ruth
Riverside Park
Central City
Elmer Walling E
Uatineee
Mendare
Eva Olson
Grand
Peterson
Osceola
Lloyd Hahn
Maurice Lindburg
Evelyn Clark
W.C.T.U
M. E
Lindahl
Marquette
Grace Lindburg
Renquist
Benedict
John Seymour
Steelquist
Riverside
M. E. Church
Lancaster
California
York
Hugo Bodine
Holdrege
Elmer Horst
Kansas
Calmar Dunn
Roy Horst
Herman Sarow
Alfred Grossnicklaus
Anna Mae Meyers
Miss Meyers
Herman
Ronald Sarow
Bloomfield Adopts Cash-Only Plan After Two Years
Bloomfield Nebraska embraces a cash only trading policy since April 1 1928. Merchants report higher business and better community mood with no desire to return to credit. About 30 stores in the Merchants and Professionals News association share the plan with a $100 penalty for breaches.
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Bloomfield
Citizns
P. B. Lonergan
Bloomfield Retail Merchants and Professional Mews Association
Death Claims Nels Nelson
Nels Nelson a pioneer agriculturist of Devel County Nebraska born Leveden November 26 1847 died aged 82 years 9 months 10 days after a long illness. He immigrated to the United States in 1878 settled in Iowa then Polk County Nebraska and finally Devel County engaging in mixed farming and stock raising. He married in 1886 his wife having died February 4 of this year. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Osceola with interment in Stromsburg cemetery.
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Nels Nelson
Dever County
Nebraska
Leveden
Nelson
United States
Western Hemisphere
Sweden
Montgomiery County
Iowa
Polk County
Devel County
Osceola
Handel Collier
Stromsburg
Skelton Family Return Visit Highlights Stromsburg News
Stromsburg residents note the arrival of Mr and Mrs H D Skelton of Miami Oklahoma to visit and oversee land interests. The couple formerly ran Headstrom and Skelton a general store in Stromsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Skelton
Miami
Okla
Skelton
John A. Fredrickson
Local Residents and Visitors Report Weekend Calls
Wesley Chapel Paul and James of Stromsburg spent Sunday with relatives. Chicago visitor Della Hanshew arrived last week to visit kin. Numerous neighbors and relatives from Moscow Kansas Lyons and Shelby called or visited Sunday and Saturday. Church visits, farm work, and family gatherings fill the county scenes with kin and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul. James
Stromsburg
Reece James
Della Hanshew
Chicago
Florence Pearce
Lucille
Doris
Blanche Glaskill
Moscow
Kansas
Fern Scott
Tommie
J. M. Herrmann
Shelby
Charles Greenwood
Floyd West
Ben Schmoker
Henry Schmoker
Albert. Schmoker
Mary Behle
Julia
Irene Timm
Fred Green
William Ball
Medina
Ohio
Carl Jaenicke
Claude Timm
Nels Swanson
Kansas City
Helen
T. D. Richards
Social Center
Clemantina Richards
Richard Merrick
Fred Merrick
Annie Cerny
John Huggler
Edmund Gabel
Louis Schotz
Engelbert Gabel
John Gabel
Louis Scholz
Anna Scholz
San Diego
Calif
Ellen Hodgkinson
Reno
Oklahoma
R. J. Richmonds
John Albers
Hubert Alt
Edmund Bernt
Polk Social News Highlights From August Gatherings
Local residents attend church meetings and visits across York Polk and Stromsburg. Edits note Edith Flick wedding to Granice of York. Families travel to Lincoln Lincolns state fair and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Car accident injures Fred Gilbert. various visits to Grand Island Fullerton Marquette and Holdrege.
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Winnie
Emma
Lloyd Lind
Lincoln
Sylvia Fossburg
Missouri
J. G. Felton
Nina Tenney
York
Vera Hill
Lorna Alfreds
St. Edwards
Victor Anderson
Stromsburg
Gahn
Polk
Arnohd Beckman
Mildred
Omaha
Nebraska Wheat Bin Holds 26000 Bushels
In Cheyenne county Nebraska farmers Stevens and Vacik built a 160 by 40 foot open air wheat bin eight feet high to store 26 000 bushels as wheat prices dip. The season yields 42 bushels per acre on 640 acres with top quality grain. Farmers struggle with storage and often hold stock for higher prices. Cheyenne county led the state with 192 161 acres in wheat producing 3 321 823 bushels valued at 3 277 913 dollars with average 17 05 dollars per acre.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
Stevens & Vacik
Cheyenne County
Cheyenne
Keeping Down Volunteer Wheat to Fight Hessian Fly
Nebraska farmers will focus on disk ing, fall plowing, and pasturing stubble to prevent volunteer wheat which hosts Hessian Fly. The fly lays eggs only on wheat, so eliminating growing wheat during egg-laying windows will reduce infestations. Observations will guide safe sowing dates, with daily reports via newspapers radio and county agents during sowing season.
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Nebraska
Electric Wiring and Fixtures by W A Cummings at Crouse-Tex
W A Cummings offers electric wiring and fixtures of all kinds at Crouse-Tex. Phone 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Cummings
Crouse-Tex
Maple Leaf Club Seeks Lunch Baskets Program
Maple Leaf Club met September 4 with 19 members and 4 visitors. Mrs Pauline Morys and Victoria attended. Mrs Martha Wyman led the program on Lunch Baskets. The next meeting is set for September 25 at Mrs Audrey Wescot's home.
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Maple Leaf Club
Pauline Morys
Victoria
Martha Wyman
Audrey Wesccat
Polk County Votes to Fund County Agent Program
A petition with 731 Polk County farmers asks commissioners to levy one fifth mill for a county agent, within a $3500 yearly cap that reduces the levy to one tenth mill. The large signatory majority blocks a remonstrance, signaling continued county funding under County Agent Kelly despite past steps to end the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk County
Farm Bureau
Kelly
Congressman's Radio Dates for Fourth District
Congressman Sloan announces weekly radio addresses from KGBZ York Neb each Thursday at 8:00 p m until his return to Washington in December. He will discuss economic agricultural and political topics of interest to the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fourth Congressional District
Kgbz Station
York, Nebr
Osceola Families Attend City Park Reunion Scene
District 5 families including Fred Dunn, Mrs Dunn and children, Mrs Lee Mickey and kids gathered at Osceola City Park for a Sunday family reunion. Other locals visited Lincoln Omaha York and Gothenburg for schooling and social stops. Local services list Dr A A Wurtz and Marcels at Vanity Shop with phone contacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Dunn
Lee Mickey
Osceola
Burrell Fox
Maurice Watts
Lillian Wieseman
Gothenburg
A. A. Wurtz
First National Bank
Marcels
Ryan Barber Shop
Bertha Berck
York Voters Seek Reestablished County Assessor Office
Petitions from more than 1200 York County voters ask the county board of supervisors to place the issue on the November 4 general election ballot. The drive seeks separation of assessor duties from the county clerk, recreating a county assessor’s office after abolition years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
York County
County Board of Supervisors
Community Night Planned in Osceola for Sept 25
A joint program by the Osceola Women's Club Pro fessional and Business Women's Club and the Osceola Community Club is set for September 25 at the Legion Hall. Citizens in the rural district are invited. Mr Newton Gaines of Lincoln may give the address. supper served by Legion Auxiliary. reservations welcome. No admission charge. Watch columns for notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola Women’s Club
Professional and Business Women’s Club
Osceola Community Club
Legion Hall
Newton Gaines
Lincoln
Legion Auxiliary
Dolan Jones wedding in Kimball Nebraska
Lillian Mae Dolan and William H. Jones married August 30 at the Brod sister Mrs Ed May home in Kimball Nebraska. The bride wore cream and brown chiffon with a matching hat and carried roses. Best man was Mr May. The couple plan to live at 228 West 11th Street Casper after a short honeymoon. Mrs Dolan is a Osceola native and former Casper Tribune-Herald worker.
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West
Jones
Alma A. Dolan
Osceola
Nebr
Myrtle Gay
Casper
Nebraska
Casper Tribune-Herald
Backlund's Poultry Experts Welcome Your Troubles
Bring your poultry troubles to us. Backlund's. That's our business.
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Backlund’s
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