March 4, 1897 —
Wm. Kearn advertised: From and after this date I will shoe horses as follows: New shoes, 25 cents; old shoes, 15 cents; plow lays, $1 to $2.50; shovel pointed hardened and polished per set, $1.50.
Will Jacky must have a poor layout at his house as even his dog has forsaken him and returned to the bosom of The Republican kid.
100 Years Ago. . .
Carl Schumacher, who lived south of town, had an adventure which showed that the day in which he lived was not so tame. About midnight, Carl heard a car drive into his yard. It stopped at the cattle yard, corn crib and hen house. By this time Carl had his clothes on and was outside, loaded shotgun in hand and his pocket full of loaded shells, all ready for the chicken thieves, as he supposed them to be. Just as he emerged from the house, the car tore through the grove of trees north of the house and into the fenced stubble field. Knowing that they would have to come back that way to get out to the road again, Carl lay down in the trees waiting for them. He heard them tearing around the field trying to find their way out and then the roar of a car, stuck, trying to pull itself out. Looking out into the field, he saw the car standing still and was soon where it was, coming up from behind, getting the license number and catching the three occupants unawares, they having just succeeded in extricating their Ford from the woven wire fence. With gun leveled on them, Carl enquired their business and ordered them to the house where he called up Sheriff Kinkaid and told the men to wait until the arrival of the officer. The sheriff covered the 11 miles from Pierce in 35 minutes. Searching the car, he found an empty booze bottle and, upon the men paying the damages which they had done to Carl’s fence and the sheriff’s fees, which altogether amounted to around $15, they went on their way soberer and wiser men.
75 Years Ago. . .
Two blocks of four-inch water mains were added to Osmond’s water supply system according to city water commissioner Kenneth Dawson. The addition began at the Leggat Nursing Home corner and extended to the Anton Pochop corner to the west. The mains were laid in a five-foot-deep trench. One new fire hydrant was installed on the Jack Rohrberg corner. Besides the additional customers served, the improvement eliminated a “dead end” which had heretofore existed where the new main met the old.
Work was started on a new frame 38x50 combination hay barn and truck garage at the Osmond Seed, Feed and Grain Co. here owned by Boyd Edwards. The new structure was to be covered by aluminum sheet siding.
The Osmond Farmers Grain & Livestock Association’s 45,000 bushel elevator in the southern part of Osmond along Highway 20 went on auction and was sold to Mr. J. N. Dennis of Randolph for $7,800.00. The entire property, consisting of the elevator, warehouse building 16x20, another warehouse building 16x32, gas pump and 500 gallon underground tank, sold as one unit.
Work started on another project that would be an advantage to Osmond, its citizens and the surrounding community — new street lights. The new system would give Osmond 32 new poles extending from just south of the highway north nearly to the old highway. The white way system would be shortened one block, however, starting at the highway and extending to one-half block north of the city hall. Previously the white way was one block farther north.
65 Years Ago. . .
A party of Osmond hunters drove some 400 miles into the Nebraska sandhills over the weekend and walked many more miles in search of game, including geese. Of geese they saw none. It was only a few minutes after their return home when, gazing out the big front window of Maxey’s Tavern, that they saw a wild goose in quiet repose in the middle of the paved street in front of the building. Unbelieving, they sent one of their number, Art Koehler, to investigate. Mr. Koehler walked to within a few feet of the big bird when it rose gracefully and disappeared overhead. On their trip to the Insworth community, the party did well on mallards and prairie grouse, taking 22 of the former and 13 chickens or grouse. In the party were Messrs Art Koehler, Hugh Maxey, Edward Kudera, Duane Reed, Charles Smith and Dale Powers.
The cub scouts of den one met for their first meeting of the year at the home of their new den mother, Mrs. Clyde Moore. After pledging allegiance to the flag, the boys welcomed a new member, Jerome Hoeppner, by singing a song and showing how to form a living circle. The boys made Halloween masks and started their plans for family night. The meeting was closed after repeating the law of the pack and giving the grand salute.
50 Years Ago. . .
After a couple of winless years, the flag football team of Immanuel Lutheran School had developed into a well-balanced team. In the first game of the season, Immanuel defeated Zion of Pierce in a close game, 7-6. Immanuel’s second opponent was a much smaller and inexperienced team from First Trinity at Bloomfield. Two long touchdown runs by Scott Gutz and two by Craig Lorenz provided a 25-7 victory for Immanuel. Then Zion Plainview came to Osmond to renew an old rivalry. With touchdowns by Doug Koehler, Gutz and Lorenz, Immanuel won the game 19-0.
One Friday morning, Hespe Construction workers discovered their $1,400 power trowel was missing from the construction site of the new Osmond State Bank. A report to the local police revealed that police of- ficer Bob Engler observed two men moving the trowel the day before but did not question their activities since they were dressed like construction workers. The trowel was discovered two days later by Vernon Buol, who found it setting by his garage where it had not been observed on the previous day.
Oct. 1 was the 1974 OHS Homecoming, which started with a snake dance from the school to downtown for the pep rally. The band played the school song, cheerleaders did some of their new cheers and pom pom girls did a routine. The king and queen candidates were Scott Clausen, Mark Engler, Marty Kumm, Blake Moritz, Randy Rasmussen, Norma Jean Blunck, Val Buckendahl, Teri Kratochvil, Keri Schuettler and Jann Stueckrath. Crown bearers and banner bearers were Christie Gardner, Stephany Haag, Darin Gansebom and Jason Bahr. The theme for Homecoming was “It’s a Tiger World.” Chosen as king and queen were Marty Kumm and Keri Schuettler.
25 Years Ago. . .
The Lady Tigers placed second in the Pierce County volleyball tournament in Plainview. They faced Pierce in the first round and won in three sets, 15-11, 8-15, 15-12. In the championship game, the girls faced Randolph and were defeated in three sets, 9-15, 18-16, 7-15.
The Osmond junior high volley- ball team won first place at its own tournament, defeating Wynot in the first round and Ponca in the champi onship game.
10 Years Ago. . .
The Osmond “O” Club held its annual punt, pass and kick competition for local youth, with 34 students competing. First-, second- and thirdplace winners, respectively, in each age group were: Ages 6-7 — Carson Wieneke, Jaxon Vinson, Tate Wales; ages 8-9 — Kayson Maertins, Xander Brown, Corbin Wales; ages 10-11 — Bryan Solorzano, Zach Huwaldt, Keaton Wattier; ages 12-13 — Keaton Timmerman, Nick Reikofski, Alexis Solorzano.
