Jan. 20, 1898 —
On last Friday night, the K. P. boys held a social at their hall. All kinds of amusements and games were indulged in and a jolly good time had. Coffee sandwiches and fruit was served at a reasonable hour, after which all returned home, feeling that the evening had been well spent.
Several of our delinquent subscribers have called in and made settlements, yet there are more and more who should call and give us a lift. We have earned all that is due us and would be pleased to have it now.
100 Years Ago. . .
In the Osmond city hall, our fast basketball team of the OHS defeated the first Plainview team by the score of 21 to 10. A most interesting feature of the evening was the game between the bald heads and the long hairs, resulting in a victory for the long hairs by the score of 11 to 2. The line-up for the long hairs was C. F. Boye, L.
E. Taylor, Casper Theisen, E. J. Huey, Will Woolley and Wm. Eirinberg. For the bald heads: Wm. Koppelman, M.
J. Kuhl, Chas. Thomas, Mat Hoffman and Will Adams.
The OHS freshmen and their sponsor, Miss Myrtle LeMonnier gave a theatre party and the entire class attended the “Pony Express” at the Osmond auditorium, having had a section reserved for their class.
The death of J. E. Weyhrich at his home 11 miles northeast of Pierce came as a great surprise to Pierce people many of them did not know that he was ill. Lockjaw was the cause of his death. It seemed that some three weeks earlier, he injured one of the fingers of his right hand in a feed grinder. It was found necessary to amputate the finger and shortly after the hand became infected, which finally resulted in lockjaw.
75 Years Ago. . .
Add to the inconvenience and expense of having a new home gutted by fire with loss of all household goods: two young children sick with scarlet fever and the family quarantined. It all happened to the L. F. Petersen family here. The fire occurred on Jan. 5. Since then the parents and five children had been living in the basement of the John P. Theisen home. Then came the sickness. The family went to the basement of their own home where the red sign “Scarlet Fever” was tacked to the side of the house. The children ill were Linda and Dianne.
Their physician said it was a light form of the disease, also that the new wonder drugs did much to lighten attacks and hasten recovery.
It had to come sooner or later — a fish to join the collection of moose, elk, antelope, and goat heads on display at the Thomsen Pool Hall.
The new back bar addition was unique in that it had the proprietor’s, Louis Thomsen’s, name on it. All of the other mounted specimens were on loan by local sportsmen.
Naturally, in a business spot where the “ breeze” flowed and blew freely, the new addition elicited comment and questions, some of it not altogether complimentary. For instance, “How can a taxidermist sew two fish together and do that good a job?” The proud owner had a bit of trouble explaining it wasn’t the biggest fish caught on a trip to Lac La Ronge, Sask. “Why wasn’t the biggest fish mounted?" Louie said he merely thought it was the prettiest.
Ten Osmond Walther Leaguers, upon invitation, were present at a Valentine Party at Bloomfield, as guests of the First Trinity Junior Walther League. At the party, Gerald Kumm and Vernice Wiese were crowned king and queen of hearts.
Attending from here were Ronald Koehler, Marvin Koehler, John Kumm, Gerald Kumm, Leonald Warneke, Elaine Kumm, Vernice Wiese, Donna Overhue, Nylotis Overhue and Lois Schumacher.
65 Years Ago. . .
A Boy Scout meeting was held at the public school. Roll call was answered by members of the Silver Fox Patrol — Paul Kahler, Mike Stanosheck, Pat Stanosheck, Mike Steffen and David Liewer, and the Bob White Patrol — LeRoy Koehler, Jack Adkins, Steve Liewer and Greg Clayton. An O’Grady Drill Spell Down was held. Mike Steffen took first and there was a tie between LeRoy Koehler and Paul Kahler for second and third. For First Aid, they practiced application of splints on a broken arm or leg and studied the artery and vein pressure points.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rhode, who operated a farm southeast of Randolph, were parents of the one thousandth baby born at St. Joseph Community Hospital here since the time the hospital had been staffed by Sisters of the Dominican Order.
Roger Dale, fifth child of the Rhodes, arrived Feb. 8, 1961, and weighed a hefty nine pounds, 2 ounces. The hospital had recently announced the birth of the 2,500th baby since its founding in September 1945.
People of Osmond and its outlying territory gave more money to the March of Dimes campaign in 1961 than any other Pierce County town.
The figures: Osmond, $667.17; Pierce, $522.43; Plainview, $533.68.
50 Years Ago. . .
An organizational meeting of a CD (citizen’s band) radio club in the Osmond area was held at the fire hall meeting room in Osmond. The group decided to meet on the first Thurs - day of each month. Officers elected were: President, Keith Harmon; vice president, Gary Wecker; secretary and news reporter, Jackie Clemans; treasurer, Rod Erwin. An invitational for other CD operators or persons interested in the club to attend was extended by the officers.
The Osmond High School stage band gave a concert, open to the public, immediately following the wrestling match here. The stage band, under the direction of Richard Luhr, played some jazz rock, a couple of ballads and a few rock tunes. Selections performed at the concert were “Scarborough Fair,” “Traces,” “Norwegian Wood,” “Black Magic Woman” and “Proud Mary.” Also featured on the program was “Disaster,” Osmond’s own rock group.
Osmond’s talented junior forward, Doug Stratton, scored 42 points in the Osmond-Crofton game, enabling him to break the envious 1,000-point barrier. Doug had now scored 1,022 points to date with two regular season games remaining.
Marty Kumm was selected from the “Tom” Tigers to represent Osmond on a team made up of all stars of the Northeast Nebraska Basketball League. The “All Stars would meet the “University of Nebraska’s Best,” a team made up of members of the 1975 “Big Red” football team. [Results of that game could not be found in future issues of the paper.]
25 Years Ago. . .
In the midst of a blizzard, firemen were summoned to duty. The call took firemen to the Phil Shoop home on East Fourth Street. According to Fire Chief Burton Bargmann, Shoop had returned home from Norfolk and parked his car along the street so that he could clear his driveway of snow.
Upon turning around a short time later, he saw the auto on fire. The fire was contained mostly to the engine compartment, however there was also damage under the dash and the left front tire blew out. The vehicle was considered a total loss.
10 Years Ago. . .
Erica Slagle, a senior at OHS and the daughter of Mike and Julie Slagle, signed a letter of intent to run track at Midland University in Fremont.
Max Frank, a senior at Osmond High School and the son of Troy and Kim Frank, signed a commitment letter to play football at the University of Wyoming.
Paul Gubbels, a junior at OHS, placed third in the 126-lb. category in the district wrestling meet, earning him a trip to the state wrestling meet. A new parcel box section was installed at the Osmond Post Office.
