April 21, 1898 —
Chris Magdefrau, living north of the village, burned off his stubble field last Saturday and let the fire get away from him. It required heroic efforts on the part of the neighbors to save considerable property.
Wm. Schonebaum of Belden has been in the village a few days during the past week, and has succeeded in getting the necessary signers to his petition for opening a saloon. It is therefore quite probably that the second "Spiritual" establishment will be opened in our village on May 1st.
100 Years Ago. . .
While in South Dakota, R. L. Senift and David Buchanan felt right at home as every little ways they ran across some former Osmondites. At Winner, they saw John Johnson and wife, formerly proprietors of the shoe store here. At Platte they saw Harry Fullen and Miss Mary Korth. Harry was running a rooming house there. They visited with the Joe Hall family at Wagner, and also with Roy Canon and mother at Burke.
At Yankton they visited with Miss Frances German, who was employed in a beauty parlor. At Gettes, R. L. ran across Chas. Hyatt, who formerly ran a jewelry store at Charter Oak, IA. It was with him that R. L. learned the jewelry trade.
The South Sioux City Commercial Club was seeking the support and cooperation of all good road boosters in northeast Nebraska in graveling Federal Highway 20 from South Sioux City to O'Neill in 1926 if at
all possible. The highway was hard- surfaced from Boston to South Sioux City and it was the aim of the boosters to push it on to the west coast. It would be a big thing for Osmond, as this hard-surfaced road would go right by the north edge of our town.
The Alumni Association of the Osmond High School held a get- together meeting at the school house. The meeting was called to order to revive the Alumni Association, to initiate the classes from 1918 to 1926, and to elect new officers. After the
representatives of each class from 1898 to 1918 had entertained by song, talk or music, the uninitiated, those were duly initiated. The stunts were real entertaining, especially the mock wedding in which Howard Craven acted as bride and Elizabeth Green as groom.
75 Years Ago. . .
Playing at the Osmond Theater on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, "At War With The Army," starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Playing on Wednesday and Thursday,
"Ambush," starring Robert Taylor and Arlene Dahl.
Wholesale slaughter of song birds in and around Osmond was reported to this paper by several sources with the request that an attempt be made to curb this wrongful habit. Among birds killed by bee-bee guns in Osmond were robins and meadowlarks. Especially deplorable was the fact that it was being done during the nesting season when eggs or fledglings were also destroyed. Destruction of songbirds or nests is illegal and punishable by fine. Parents, teachers and others coming in close contact with youths were urged to give a word of advice on this subject to children.
There seemed to be some question just who got the worst of the deal when the Hill and Valley 4-H Club held their calf tagging tour — the calves that got the tags in their ears or the county agent who was dumped into the stock tank. A quiet- looking Hereford calf, "Dynamite" by name, decided to get even with his tormentor, so he crowded County Agent Karl Loerch into the drink. Bobby Bauermeister said it was the
neatest back dive he had ever seen.
Albert Meierhenry, the club's leader, came to the rescue and pulled the drenched agent ashore. The club members enjoyed the entertainment and were looking forward to the following year's tagging trip.
65 Years Ago. . .
Nine pupils received eighth grade diplomas during church services at Immanuel Lutheran Church. The graduates were Mary Buckendahl, Janet Schneckloth, Susan Steckelberg, Vivian Gutz, LeRoy Koehler, Denis Schneckloth, Kent Gansebom, Kenneth Huntley and Allen Krohn.
Seven young folks, five girls and two boys, were given eighth grade diplomas by the Rev. Father Wm.
Lordemann in the Mass at St. Mary's Church. The seven were: Cheryl Luebbers, Michael Steffen, Donald Gudenkauf, Sarah Kumm, Clarice Hoffman, Elizabeth Liewer and Pamela Theisen.
Playing at the Osmond Theatre: "Magnificent Seven," starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach and Steve McQueen, and "The Law and Jake Wade," starring Robert Taylor.
Francine Marie, younger of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Schmit who lived four miles east and one mile north of Osmond, was drowned in a farm stock watering tank. The tragedy was discovered by the little girl's mother at mid- morning.
A new self-contained fire fighting unit arrived in Osmond. The purchase was made by the Osmond Rural Fire Protection District. The truck and its equipment would be manned by the Osmond Volunteer Fire Department.
More than 100 persons braved the immediate aftermath of the heaviest downpour of rain of the spring season to attend 1961 Memorial Day services at the city auditorium here. The speaker was Pat Patterson, former Nebraska American Legion Adjutant.
Commander Vernon Gansebom read the roll call of deceased members of American Legion Post 326 and its Auxiliary, which took up only one-half column on the front page of the Osmond Republican at that time - 42 Legion members and 18 Auxiliary, compared to 388 and 131,
respectively, in 2026.
50 Years Ago. . .
In his second attempt at league play, Greg Schultze accomplished what most golfers dream about — a holein- one. In league play, Greg teed off with a rented five iron on the fourth hole at Rolling Hills Country Club and made the hole-in-one on the 150-yard par three hole. This was the first year Greg had played in a golf league. The ironic part of the situation was that his opponent for the evening, Leonard Fox, saw the hole-in-one and said he thought he would do that too. Fox teed off and his ball bounded down the fairway onto the green and struck the pin but did not go into the cup.
Greg's hole-in-one was only the 10th recorded at the club since it opened in 1969, and it was the first accomplished by a member of the Osmond League.
Osmond's oldest resident, Vic Chindvall, observed his 101st birthday anniversary on Tuesday, June 1, 1976. Mr. Chindvall still lived by himself in his small home on the north edge of Osmond. He occasionally walked downtown and on nice days could be seen working in his yard. Mr. Chindvall said he did feel pretty good. "Of course," he said, rubbing his hands, “I have a little arthritis ." "Crosses Row on Row" was the topic of the address presented by Dr. Gordon L. Patterson at the Memo -
rial Day program in 1976. Patterson reflected on when he was serving with the Marines in Korea, and his fallen comrades. More than 325 people were on hand for the Memorial Day program. The ceremonies were concluded outside the school where crosses honoring the 77 fallen vet erans, former members of American Legion Post 326, were placed row on row.
25 Years Ago. . .
Nine OHS track members quali - fied for the 2001 state track meet: Franziska Theilig, Michael Ortmeier, Andrew Ortmeier, Ryan Peschel, Maggie Schultze, Bryce Dennis, Dustin Sandoz, Brett Weeder and Heather Krienert.Andrew came home with a silver medal, while Franziska returned with bronze.
10 Years Ago. . .
Ray Collins of McLean, a 26-year veteran of the United States Navy,
was the speaker at the 2016 Memo- rial Day program. Tessa Gardner and Alex Vinson placed the wreath at the Cross of the Unknown, and "Taps" was sounded by Samantha Aschoff.
