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News Articles
District Relief Corps Elects New Officers
Mrs. Ruth Clifford, Republican City, Made President at Convention Held at Alma
(Special to The Star.) Alma, Nebraska, October 25 —The eighteenth annual convention of District No. 5 of the Woman's Relief corps was held in Alma Thursday at the W. R. C. Hall. Mrs. Laura Scbrack. president, presided.
Van Meter corps No. 44, of Alma, entertained the visitors to a 12 o'clock dinner with thirty-one present.
Mrs. Mary Weakley of Lincoln, inspector and past department president, was guest of honor. Mrs. Weakley gave some interesting and instructive information as to the work.
Election of officers for the 1931 convention resulted as follows:
President - Mrs. Ruth Gifford. Republican City Senior Vice - Mrs. Nelson, Orleans Junior Vice - Mrs. Ida Hardin, Alma Chaplain - Mrs. Shultz, Orleans Treasurer - Mrs. Elizabeth Lutjeharms, Alma Secretary - Mrs. Lola Wintersteen, Republican City Conductor - Miss Ethel Gould, Republican City Guard - Mrs. Kevlighn, Orleans
The other offices are appointive. The nineteenth annual convention will be held in Orleans sometime during the fall of 1931.
The Lincoln Sunday Star – Sunday, October 26, 1930
Christmas Postcard Arrived 93 Years Later
A homemade Santa Claus postcard was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas.
It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.
“It’s a mystery where it has spent most of the last century”, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said.
“It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,” he said. How someone found it, I don’t know”.
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative. That’s how the 93 year old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel’s sister-in-law.
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin – the one cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn’t have covered it, Martin Said.
“We didn’t know much about it,” she said. “But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape”.
Source: Local Throw Away Paper, Yorba Linda, California, 2008
Wants A Brigadier General
Harlan County, Nebraska, has organized a military copmpany and wants a Brigadier General.
If this want becomes generally known, Harlan County will have a rapid increase in its population.
Perhaps that is "the cat in the meal."
Boston Journal - March 12, 1874
Treasurer of Gosper, Harlan and Platte Counties
The treasurers of Gosper, Harlan and Platte Counties are short in their accounts with the state, besides being in trouble at home.
These counties went pop two yers and four years ago, but the "change" was not exactly a "reform".
Lincoln Journal
The above comes with poor grace from a republican newspaper.
Three populist treasurers were "short". But many republican county and city treasurers have been short in Nebraska:
Will the Lincoln Journal undertake to run over the list and compare the shortages?
We think not.
Omaha World Herald - February 8, 1896
Alma
High School
(Special To The Star) Alma, Nebraska, October 25 – The Alma High School with the seniors will issue a school paper of eight issues called the Bug, with Dorothy Peters as editor in chief, and Lorraine Hardin business manager.
The will take place of the annual which has been issued heretofore.
The Lincoln Sunday Star – Sunday, October 26, 1930
Teachers Reception
Special to the Star
Alma, Nebraska, October 25 – Chapter B. J. P. E. O., held its annual reception for the Alma High School, Tuesday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. R. L. Keester.
The program consisted of a welcome by the president, Mrs. E. E. McKee.
Vocal solos by:
Mrs. George Joyce Miss Erickson Mrs. E. E. McKee
And piano selections by:
Mrs. C. B .Johnson,
Five o’clock tea was served.
The Lincoln Sunday Star – Sunday, October 26, 1930
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