March 4, 1897 —
J. C. Saunders has a bad eye, caused by coming in contact with a horse’s head.
Chas. Jackson and his female companion, both colored, left for Norfolk one day last week.
Omer Hamer received the toilet case given away by Long & Hoes, his guess being 463. The exact number of lozenges being 464..
100 Years Ago. . .
In the High School Notes: The new chairs which were purchased for the English room are a great help in keeping the members of the 11th English class awake. Monday, Lloyd to see if this was true, suffered the consequence of falling over backwards.
Will Minert was another champion potato raiser. On a plot of ground 2 rods long by 8 ft. wide, he raised 5 bushels of potatoes. The ground was just spaded up and not plowed. At this rate, the yield would be 800 bushels to the acre.
At the last regular meeting of the Osmond firemen, it was decided to enforce Section 1, Article 8, which read as follows: “ Any member absent from a regular meeting shall be fined 25 cents." Also all firemen who missed three regular meetings could be reinstated at the next regular meeting by paying the fines as stated in the article above, otherwise his name would be taken from the roll.
By order of the majority of the members present at the last regular meeting.
On Oct. 2, 1924, another mock wedding was held at the John Peitzmeier boarding house in honor of the approaching wedding of one of their fellow boarders, Mr. Carl Boye.
The wedding knot was tied by Supt.
R. O. Severin. The bride was our Ford dealer, E. J. Huey, who wore a gown of cheese cloth, a flowing veil of window curtain, and a necklace of potatoes around his neck. The groom was Mr. Howard Craven, who was dressed in the conventional swallow tail, with hard boiled shirt and collar.
Flower girls were Ed Wilson and Clarence Kissinger, who carried beautiful bouquets of cabbages. The wedding march was played by John Peitzmeier on a mouth harp.
On Sunday, Oct. 5, 1924, the pulpits of both the Methodist and the Presbyterian churches were occupied by their new pastors, Rev. Kerber of Inman being the new Methodist pastor and Rev. Guest of Norfolk the Presbyterian.
Eirinberg’s store was giving away a bag full of groceries free with a $3 order. They had 200 bags of sample groceries to give away, one to a family as long as they lasted.
Some of the free goods included pancake flour, P-K chewing gum, Lava hand soap, Post Toasties, Ivory soap flakes, Calumet Bank, Hershey's cookbook, Calumet adding machines and fresh-from-the-oven cookies.
Any lady bringing 12 dozen or more eggs during the sale and who traded them out would get a fine parlor broom free.
75 Years Ago. . .
Approximately one out of every 100 Wyoming 1949 moose hunters would hail from Osmond. That fact was quite easily gleaned from the July issue of "Wyoming Wild Life."
The state allowed 417 moose permits that year. For them, there were 1,523 applicants. The drawing was held on July 6. Of Osmond applicants, all got licenses. They were L. S.
Van Ackeren, P. J. Stanosheck, Joe Theisen and Alva Theisen.
Public school pupils from the kindergarten on up gathered in the high school assembly one day to witness a musical program put on by a traveling Negro troupe.
A kindergarten tot was describing the innovation to his mother: “The Black people sang," he said, "and when they were all done, everybody paddy-caked!"
65 Years Ago. . .
The first killing frost of the 1959 growing season came on Oct. 9, almost on the average date for this area which is Oct. 7.
The Board of Directors of St.
Joseph Hospital met in special session to receive bids on a new permanent-type wing, and bids on the plumbing and heating, and electrical installations. Apparent low bidder on the general contract was Pruss Construction Co. of Creighton with a figure of $23,885. Kruger-Ihle, Norfolk, was apparent low bidder of two on electrical work with $1,888.
Peters Hardware of Wausa was apparent low bidder on plumbing and heading at $5,135. Total bids of $30,908 on the three contracts included lavatories in patients rooms, an alternate in bidding requests.
Local residents were notified that, over the next few days, they might
see Strategic Air Command eight- jet B-24 heavy bombers flying low level practice bombing missions over routes within visual range of the local populace. Flying at altitudes of 1,000 feet above the highest point on their low-level routes, the B-52 bombers would pass near Osmond at the same altitudes as B-47s. Neither bomber is supersonic, consequently, there would be no resulting sonic booms. It was emphasized that no bomb of any kind would be carried on these missions.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Albers, who lived a few miles north of Osmond, returned from Lincoln with a newlyadopted daughter who would be seven months old on Oct. 18, 1959. They were accompanied home by Mrs.
Orval Wiese and the couple’s two adopted daughters who would remain here about a week. The Osmond parents named their daughter Debra Ann.
50 Years Ago. . .
Bob Uhri, Osmond High School science teacher, had shot a few carp with bow and arrow in his life. And so now he thought it was time to toy with the idea of shooting a deer. He applied to the Game Commission and, to his surprise, received the coveted permit three days later. He admitted to practice shooting at a target on a huge cottonwood tree in his back yard and neighbors bringing his arrows back as he missed the tree and was afraid to retrieve them. But the luck of the hunter changed. With brother Bill, Plainview music director, and father, Dr. Robert Uhri, he struck out with only one arrow at light of day. At mid-morning a few miles from Brunswick, his beaters sprang a button buck into the open and the arrow was true at 45 yards, hitting just behind the rib cage. The young buck went down and the Plainview musician pounced on top. Then after a few minutes of something that resembled a bull-dogging exhibition, the victory was complete.
Ten girls from the Consumer and Homemaking classes at OHS accompanied Betti Moritz to Plainview for a meeting with the Plainview Future Homemakers of America Chapter. As part of its FHAprogram, the Plainview group was "spreading the word" to Osmond in an attempt to assist the OHS girls to organize a chapter. The Plainview girls told of the creed, purposes and officer structure of the chapter and explained many of the activities which they had carried out. The Osmond group responded enthusiastically and another meeting between the two groups was planned for after Osmond had an organizational meeting.
25 Years Ago. . .
The second biennial George and Mary Koehler reunion was held at Immanuel Lutheran School at Hadar. There were 45 in; attendance. Milton and Edna Kumm were the oldest members present, and the youngest member was Tyler Reikofski, son of Jay and Michelle Reikofski.
Winners in the annual punt, pass and kick contest were: Ages 6-7, Lane Stange; ages 8-9, Brian Krienert; ages 10-11, Tyler Gansebom; ages 12-13, Monty Miller.
10 Years Ago. . .
Cameron Moes broke another course record at the Neligh-Oakdale cross country invitational. This time he covered the course in 16:08 on his way to the gold medal.
Osmond native Amy Wattier was selected to receive the Governor’s Employee of the Year Award representing the Nebraska Department of Roads. She was employed as an Engineering Tech III, working out of District 3 in Norfolk.
