Jan. 14, 1897 —
Charley Billerbeck, who is attending German school at Humphrey, is making quite rapid progress in his studies. We were shown a letter written by him in the German language, and while not conversant with that dialect, it is pronounced good work by those qualified to judge.
Kissinger & Co. are at work harvesting their ice crop.
The band social was a success from a financial point of view. About $15 was realized from the sale of baskets.
100 Years Ago. . .
How much does it weigh? The big lump of coal at the Farmers lumber yard was the center of curiosity. How much does it weigh is what everyone was asking. The big guessing contest was to close on Oct. 1, so people had a chance until then to see how close they could come to its weight and win one of the valuable prizes. First place winner received 1,000 lbs. of Wadge lump coal; second, 750 lbs. Wadge lump; third, 500 lbs. Wadge lump.
The whole community was shocked and grieved when it was learned that Mrs. Julius Mohr had passed away.
The cause of her sickness and death was as follows: While attending to her duties in the home, the right hand was quite badly burned with hot grease. This wound was healing nicely, in fact was about healed, and then one day, she was out repairing fence on the farm. Completing her work, she went to a pool of stagnant water in the creek and washed her hands. This pool was alive with deadly germs, and in a few moments, in fact before she could reach the house, the right hand and the arm nearly to the shoulder were badly swollen and paining terribly. Four physicians treated and attended her, all pronouncing it blood poison, and finally she was taken to the Norfolk hospital, where she passed away at the age of 37 years, 9 months and 7 days.
Col. Welch showed the newspaper a stalk of Sudan grass which was raised on the E. L. Briggs place in Osmond. It measured 9 feet and 10 inches in length. Mr. Welch said it was the tallest he had ever seen.
“Cast your cares aside for four days and take in the big Knox County fair. The fastest horses, the biggest pumpkin, the sleekest cattle, the largest hogs, the lightest bread, the heaviest oats, the ugliest men and the prettiest girls will all be there.
The only way you can lose is by not attending.”
A. W. Marek met with quite a serious accident while doing some soldering on the new Rodgers building, getting a large quantity of hot metal in his shoes when the pipe holder slipped, badly burning both feet. He was able to be around the store, but was going to be quite lame for some time.
75 Years Ago. . .
A third foreign family, entering this country under the Displaced Persons Act, was now employed on one of the Casper Theisen farms, the
80 acre place just south of the school house in District 57. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kurek and 10 weeks old boy who came here some 10 days earlier from El Paso, IL. Other European native families were employed on the farms of John Schnoor and Hans J. Petersen.
The latest “Osmond” to make a special trip to our town was Mrs.
Orin Baker, nee Osmond, who with her husband, an artist, visited here.
The couple came here to find out if possibly our town was named for members of Mrs. Baker’s family.
The visit shed no new light on the matter of the town’s name. Mrs.
Baker’s father, now deceased, was a railroad attorney, apparently had no connection with naming of the town.
The Moore Transfer operated by Clyde Moore of Osmond, long- established livestock hauling firm, launched into a new field, the hauling
of freight. Under the new ICC permit, interstate pickup and delivery service on freight and commodities would be permitted out of Sioux City and within a 30-mile radius of Royal. Rex Marsh, war veteran and son of Mrs.
Sarah Marsh of Norfolk, would live at Plainview and be employed on the new route. Mr. Marsh was a brotherin-law of the operator.
The movie playing at the Osmond Theatre on Saturday, Sunday and Monday was “Key Largo,” starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G.
Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.
J. C. Resigue of Long Beach, CA, who was born in the Osmond depot living quarters in 1893, paid a visit to the town. Mr. Resigue’s father was an early or possibly the first station
agent here. J. C. too was later an
Osmond agent. he was now following the sign painting trade. He visited briefly at the home of the then-present Burlington agent, A. G. Swanda.
65 Years Ago. . .
Golter’s Store had an Extra Special on boys’ short-sleeve sport shirts: Sizes 2 to 8, 98¢; sizes 10 to 16, $1.19.
Food specials included Shurfine salad dressing, 1 pint, 23¢; 50 lbs Robin Hood flour, $3.49; Shurfine grape jam, 20 oz. jar, 29¢; Sunshine krispy crackers, 1 lb. box, 10¢ when purchased with a 1-lb. package of Hydrox cookies at 49¢; Butternut coffee, instant, 6 oz. jar, 89¢.
Members of Osmond American
Legion Post 326 were busy putting
finishing touches to painting, cleaning and repair jobs at the Osmond Theatre, which was to open under their direction and sponsorship on Saturday, Sept. 19. Showing Saturday and Sunday was “The Geisha Boy,” starring Jerry Lewis. Legionnaires and their wives were invited to attend a preview of the same picture Thursday, Sept. 17. The following Wednesday and Thursday, the movie would be "Buchanan Rides Alone," starring Randolph Scott.
Mary Adkins' Black Angus heifer, “Fudge,” set the quality standard at the Norfolk Beef Show. Mary’s superbly finished heifer was chosen Grand Champion over the entire field of heifers. Mary was a 13-year- old eighth grader at Osmond Public School, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Adkins and a member of the “Go-Getters” 4-H Club.
50 Years Ago. . .
The Osmond Jaycees collected 1,661 all-aluminum cans. The col- lection was held in conjunction with the muscular dystrophy fund drive.
Prizes for most cans collected went to: Darrell Kahler, AM-FM radio; Maria Frodyma, tennis racket; Shauna Morfeld, Brian Lorenz and Marty Kruse, gift certificates.
New teachers at Osmond Commu-
nity School for the 1974-75 term were: Ron Brandl, Wilfred Hoestje, Randall Jochum, Shirley Garner, Vickie Connealy, Dave Lurz and Ilene Foote.
The Osmond Tigerettes began the 1974 volleyball season with a winning note by defeating Norfolk Catholic in two sets by scores of 15-4 and 15-5.
The leading scorer for the Tigerettes was Norma blunck with 9.
The annual Osmond Community Barbecue, sponsored by the Osmond Community Club and Osmond Jaycees, was held Sept. 15, 1974. Prices were $1.50 for adults and $1 for children school age to 12 years.
The barbecue was well attended by a crowd estimated at more than 1,200.
A new feature was the carnival area, and of particular interest and a good crowd pleaser was the dunking tank sponsored by the OHS band. More interest was developed later in the evening as high school principal Del Fuelberth and band instructor Dick Luhr took their places on the perch.
Entertainment was provided with organ music played by 12-year-old Becky Kneifl and the OHS march ing band.
Thirty-seven students were enrolled in the McLean Public School for the 1974-75 school year. Teachers were Lorene Patent, primary grades; Joan Gansebom, intermediate grades, and Donna Bell Galvin, upper grades.
25 Years Ago. . .
The new kindergarten class of Osmond Community School had 13 students enrolled in the Class of 2012. They were Ben Gubbels, Mallory Pryor, Kaysee Scott, .Samantha Oestreich, Maelynn Johnson, Evan Schultz, James Stueckrath, Tyler Moes, Kortnie Eckstrom, Brandi Koehler, Brooke Lewon, Brandon Bartusch and Brooke Hilpipre.
Candidates for the 1999 homecom- ing queen were Megan Adamson, Mary Aschoff, Anna Gubbels, Tracy Manzer and Jade Schmit. King candidates were Brandon Brunckhorst, Gabe Gansebom, Matt Jochum, Josh Krienert and Rich Kumm. Crownbearers were Maelynn Johnson and James Stueckrath. The theme for hoomecoming was “Come On Feel The Noise.” Chosen as the 1999 king and queen were Matt Jochum and Megan Adamson.
10 Years Ago. . .
Homecoming queen candidates for 2014 were Briah Gillespie, Sam Johnson, Maggie Kruse and Victoria Winninger. The king candidates were Seth Gutz, Noah Koehler, Cole Kralicek, Cameron Moes and Michael Simmons. Chosen as king and queen were Cameron Moes and Sam Johnson.
New teachers at Osmond Community School were Jessica Bayer, Clint Dennis, Scott Morrison, Christy Koehler, Linda Gutz, Jessica Johnson and Jamie Schi.
