1934: Library offers new books for summer reading
June 17, 1919
WAUSA — The Johnson Bros. of Wausa decided to locate here and engage in the farm implement business. This is a business that has long been wanted in our town, we believe these gentlemen, when they get properly located will do the right thing by their patrons. These goods will be here just as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made.
June 17, 1909
WAUSA — H.W. Compton, who has been band leader and instructor here for more than a year, has secured a permanent situation at the Howe military school at Lima, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Compton have both been appointed to take charge of the piano and vocal department and the Professor takes charge of the band and orchestra work. They expect to leave here probably the first week in August.
June 21, 1934
WAUSA — The library has some excellent new books for summer reading, including biography, travel and fiction. Perhaps the most interesting and popular biography is “Crowded Hours” by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a vivid, gossipy account of the author’s eventful life and the many famous people she encountered. A substantial, wholesome and inspiring biography is that of Edwin Markham, by Dr. William L. Stidger. Edwin Markham is called America’s Poet Laureate and his best known poem is “The man with the Hoe.”
June 21, 1934
WAUSA — Acting upon a decision by Wausa Improvement Club, a committee of Wausa citizens, headed by E.L. Swanson, has constructed a float to be part of the parade in Creighton today. Creighton is celebrating the 60th anniversary of her founding, with a float parade in the morning as one of the attractions. In this parade the Wausa float will be placed, with banners on the sides congratulating Creighton on her 60th anniversary. The float itself will depict Swedish culture, with a large American flag raised from the center of the float, and four Swedish flags flying from the corners. Mr. Gust Hallvin and his son will play Swedish folk music on their accordions, and several ladies and girls will also be on the float attired in Swedish holiday costumes.
June 18, 1959
WAUSA — Three local fishermen, Don Pfeil, N.T. Tiemann and Dillon Neu, found fishing last week at Lac La Ronge very productive, with a near limit catch including lake trout, walleyes and northerns being brought home. The men made the trip by car, approximately 1,350 miles one way, of which the last 100 miles was gravel road.
June 18, 1959
WAUSA — Mr. and Mrs. Don Skalberg are the parents of a daughter born Friday, June 5, in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Norfolk. She weighed seven pounds, seven ounces and has been named Mylet Merrill. She has two sisters, Donna Mae, nine years old and Alice, four years. Mrs. Skalberg and daughter returned from the hospital June 11.
June 21, 1984
WAUSA — Everyone around knows where the Wausa post office is, in a modern brick building on Broadway that was dedicated in 1965. But where it began a century ago this week is not as certain. It bore the name Thorson, for the first postmaster and town founder Theodore T. Thorson. Carl A. Anderson, a Gazette publisher and Wausa postmaster, wrote in the Diamond Jubilee history in 1965 that the post office began June 23, 1884, in Thorson’s sod house on what is now the Anderson Sisters’ farm, east of Valley View Home. But another birthplace is also claimed a half mile north of the Thorson soddy in what is now a linen closet in Keene Reed’s farmhouse. He and his wife, Helen, have the papers showing the transfer of their farm from the State of Nebraska on March 24, 1884.
June 21, 1984
WAUSA — Progress is being made on the new bridge a mile south of Wausa in the Nebraska Highway 121 project. Looking south Monday, June 18, you could see the south abutment completed in reinforced concrete by Midwest Bridge and Construction Co. of Norfolk and the center pier forms ready for pouring. The north abutment was expected this week and later, the arrival of 12 double-T girders to span the creek. A bar mesh net will rest on the members, as the base of the poured concrete deck.
June 17, 1999
WAUSA — Hundreds of cyclists pedaling 482-miles across Nebraska arrived in Wausa early Thursday, June 10, under falling rain. The Community Club gave them a warm and dry welcome in the Fire Hall. Many were wet from camping in the Knox County Fairgrounds in Bloomfield and were glad to find shelter. Some also visited shops and eating places along Broadway.
