1934: Wausa loses to Bloomfield in baseball game
July 3, 1924
WAUSA — The Wausa Camp Fire Girls filled their baskets with goodies and gathered at the local park for an evening outing.
July 3, 1924
WAUSA — A number of friends of Harold Johnson gathered at the home of his father Swan N. Johnson and surprised him for a party.
July 3, 1924
WAUSA — Grading of the Meridian Highway 5 miles north of Wausa has been done with a rig grading it 30 feet wide with proper drainage. The Young Peoples Society met with a special program being given by the youth of the local Covenant church.
July 3, 1924
WAUSA — The Wausa school board honored two new teachers for the term this fall due to the resignation recently so they held a special meeting this week.
July 5, 1934
WAUSA — Wausa’s Ball club defeated the CCC team Sunday.
The game developed into a regular pitcher’s battle with Volk on the mound for Wausa striking out 10 CCC batters. Wausa met Bloomfield on the Bloomfield diamond, and despite a hotly contested game were unable to break through for the victory, the game ending 14 to 6 for Bloomfield. It had been the hopes of Wausa to avenge the defeat of a few weeks ago when Bloomfield broke the winning streak of Wausa’s eight consecutive wins.
July 6, 1944
WAUSA — Members of the Northeast Nebraska Real Estate Board, will meet for their regular monthly business meeting in Wausa on the evening of Friday, July 7th. A delicious dinner will be had at the Prather’s Cafe at 6:30, and as this is the regular meeting of the Wausa Improvement Club, the members of this organization are invited to be present at the same time. Some after-dinner speeches will probably be had, following the session, after which the members of the Real Estate Board will retreat to the Auditorium for the business session and the Club members proceed to hold their business session as usual.
July 2, 1959
WAUSA — Two Wausa students were among 90 students who made the Wayne State honor roll for the spring semester. To place on the honor roll a student must carry at least 12 credit hours and have an average grade of at least 2.5 with no grade below C. An A counts three points, a B counts two points. Included in the list was Jerome Lindquist, a junior, and Marcia Wiese, a sophomore.
WAUSA — The Wausa Swedes traveled to Bloomfield and came home on the short end of a 6-0 score. Wausa out-hit Bloomfield nine to eight but were unable to bunch their hits to score any runs. Kenny Goeden pitched five innings and allowed only two hits. Boelter finished the game for Wausa and was touched for six hits.
July 3, 1969
WAUSA — June rainfall this year totaled 5.05 inches which was 1.90 inches more than the 3.15 inches last year. In 1967 8.85 inches was recorded. On Saturday, June 28 the rain gauge registered 1.30, June 29, .10 and July 2, .15 inches. The rains have been accompanied by story weather. Tuesday night last week the wind blew a hog house down on the Clinton Landholm farm and toppled trees, necessitating an extensive clean-up. The Saturday rain was accompanied by severe lightening which was reported to have struck in places. The hail was light in town but did considerable damage to crops east of town to Highway 81. Corn is stripped and oats and soy beans damaged. The oats were headed and will sustain a loss. The corn may recover to some extent. Temperatures have continued below normal, verging one to five degrees below the mean for this time of year, with lows in the 50s and highs about 80 degrees. The normal high is 88 and low 64 degrees.
July 5, 1984
WAUSA — Area women and their children may be eligible to participate in the Women, Infants and Children program. The WIC program is a supplemental feeding program for pregnant women, breast- feeding women, infants and children to age of five. Vouchers are distributed to those who meet income guidelines for items such as milk, cheese, eggs, iron-fortified formula, infant cereal and infant juice.
July 7, 1994
WAUSA — Lush green crops this week blend with the dashing red, white and blue of Independence Day. Appraising the fertile fields around Wausa, Jeff Friedrich, Farmers Union Co-op agronomist, remarked: “Corn knee high by the Fourth of July is out the window.
This year it’s shoulder high and tasseling.” He credited the superabundant rain, interspersed with sun and warm weather. “Things look better than they have in the last three or four years,” said Friedrich.
“The soybeans are also looking good. They grew very slowly until four to six inches. Since then they’re really taking off and flowering.”
Continued favorable weather, barring strain winds and hail that have already stuck some Nebraska locations, can bring an early and outstanding harvest, the agronomist said. Nebraska farmers this spring planted 8.4 million acres of corn, the most since 1945, the Nebraska Agricultural Statistical Service reported, and expect to harvest 8 million acres. They’re growing 2.9 million acres of soybeans, 12 percent more than in record 1993, for a 2.85 million-acre harvest, according to the agency.
