March 4, 1897 —
It has been repeatedly said in these columns that Theo. Goeres, the Thompson police officer, had begun work on Jos. Smith’s new house, and we want to reiterate the statement, he has — it’s a fact — put in half a day, but the weather has been so blankety blank cold that he has given it up till spring.
Ren Matteson informs us that Mr. Jackson, east of town, had some pigs drifted in during a snow in January, and one of them was never found until the day of Mr. J’s sale, on Friday last. The porker was somewhat emaciated from its long confinement, yet its appetite was not the least impaired.
100 Years Ago. . .
Edward Cizek, J. E. Scott, Carl Boye, Bob Franklin and L. E. Taylor went out to Miles Husak’s farm west of town and with seins seined out the small holes in the slough, getting six 10-gallon cream cans packed full of small blue gills, croppies and bull heads. They took these over to the Theisen pond west of town and dumped them in “and now if fishermen will stay away from these ponds with their nets, in a year or so, this will be an ideal pond for good fishing." These Osmond fishermen did a big thing toward getting a good fishing pond started, and it was sincerely hoped that all would cooperate with them in getting this pond stocked with fish, and that it would be one of the best fishing ponds in the state.
Through their Auto Finance Department, the Toy bank acquired a Ford truck being a 1921 model which had a Fisher truck body upon it. The truck was in A-1 shape with practically new tires. Selling price $300.
The publisher noted “While at the Gust Weinrich home Monday evening we noticed several new ribbons added to the long list of prizes which their hogs have taken.
They were five firsts, two junior champions and one third won by their Spotted Poland China sows and boars at the Wayne County fair this fall, where they were exhibited by Ferdinand Weinrich. Gus Weinrich and sons have a wonderful herd of hogs, and their stock is in big demand by breeders. They will have another sale this spring."
75 Years Ago. . .
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Luebbers were again grandparents. A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bade of Omaha.
This was an occasion for rejoicing on the child’s paternal side of the family as she was the first girl born to the Bades in three generations. Mrs.
Bade was formerly Juliana Luebbers.
Chas. Thomas of Osmond pleaded guilty in county court at Pierce to petty larceny charges and was fined $12.50 and assessed costs of $24.32.
Thomas allegedly had been caught taking money from the Schmitz Hardware cash register at Osmond.
The complaint was filed in behalf of Mrs. Lillian Schmitz. The alleged theft on which the charge was filed involved $2.00.
The Osmond Theatre was in the process of getting a complete rewiring job. The Theatre work, being done by John Kumm and son, presented a particular problem in that on five days out of each seven, a hookup had to be made for lighting and machine operation. Other downtown improvements included the recent laying of a new tile floor in the Thomsen pool hall. The work was done by Jewell Furniture.
65 Years Ago. . .
Laymen Sunday is observed once a year everywhere in the Methodist church, according to the discipline. It was observed at the Osmond Methodist church with lay leader, Irwin Record, assisted by Cliff Dennis, in charge of the program. The pastor, Francis St. Amant, sat in the pews, having no part in the program. The speaker invited for the morning was Mrs. Delius Roach of Magnet, a full-blooded Indian woman. Her maiden name was Alice Big Pond. Mrs. Roach spoke on “The Indian American," his customs and problems, especially pertaining to her fast dwindling tribe, “The Euthee tribe of Oklahoma."
The wind blew. Among things the Nor’wester blew down was an REA highline half a mile east and half a mile north of Osmond. Only one pole was broken off as the 40-milean- hour gusts whipped this section of the Great Plains State. The high voltage line fell on a 750-lb. steer, one of a fine herd of Herefords owned by Dave Johnson, who farmed the Mary Hassler land on the east side of the road where the accident occurred.
The unsuspecting Whiteface died a quick and merciful death. Sparks ignited a dry stubble. The brisk wind whipped flames in an ever-widening patch through the dry area toward the edge of a field of unpicked corn. The Osmond Volunteer Fire Department arrived just as the flames reached the corn. Half an hour’s work extinguished the flames and a threat to great damage.
50 Years Ago. . .
Trophies were presented to seven boys following the football game.
The youngsters received the trophies for placing first, second or third in the punt, pass and kick competition in Plainview. The boys were among some 135 youngsters participating in the event. Gary Frodyma received third place in the 8-year-old division; Jeff Gast, first in the 9-year-old divi - sion; Patrick Maxey, first, and Brian Bruckner, second, in the 10-year-old division; Kenneth Schmit, second in the 12-year-old division; Mark Kumm, second, and Joseph Hoffman, third, in the 13-year-old division.
The Tigerettes, senior high volleyball team, defeated Winside by scores of 15-5 and 15-3 to earn the Clark Division championship and the right to represent the Clark Division in play-off action with the Lewis Division champs, Newcastle.
Gillette Dairy Products presented Chick Reed a trophy designating him first-place winner in a nine-week pro motion project for dairy products. The 11 other stores participating were GW franchises in Wausa, Bassett, Ponca, Plainview, Burwell, Beemer, Pierce, Clearwater and Scribner, NE, and Rosebud and Martin, SD. In honor of the win, Chick ran a dairy promotion winner sale with special prices on Gillette ice cream, cottage cheese, sour cream and whipping cream, and other grocery items.
25 Years Ago. . .
Firemen were called to a field fire in a corn field on the Matt Luebbers property farmed by Hoffman Farms.
It was located a mile west and one north of Osmond Community School.
Assistant Fire Chief Tom Kruse indicated that approximately 50 acres of the harvested corn field were burned. The flames traveled from west to
east across the southwest quarter of the section, but firemen succeeded in stopping it before it crossed the fence. Kruse indicated that no origin had been determined, however, it was theorized that it was caused by a passerby, since there was no activity in the field at the time..
10 Years Ago. . .
Osmond The Osmond Tigers traveled to Atkinson for the D-4 district cross country meet. The race started as had all races that season with Cameron Moes sprinting out to the front. He led the race through the first half before Ainsworth’s Zach Welch closed on him. They ran stride for stride until Welch surged ahead. Just before the final loop, Welch's teammate, Brady Delimont, ran past Cameron to claim second place. Cameron’s third-place finish qualified him for the state meet.
This would be Cameron’s third trip to the state meet. At the 2014 state cross country meet, Cameron got out to his signature start, springing to the front, where he stayed through the first mile before Zach Welch once again took
the lead. Cameron ended up finishing in fifth place in his best state meet
time of 17:10.7.
