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Bring on May! May is much needed this year to bring some needed cheer. It’s a month of colorful flowers blooming, including two of my favorites, lilacs and peonies. It brings warm spring days which draw people outdoors into the sunshine. Bonfires are enjoyed during the cooler evenings and BBQ suppers are on the menu. New baby calves are bouncing around the greening pasturelands and song birds can be heard. The farm and grass lands make their annual colorful patterns, much like a designed quilt. Green fields of wheat wave as the Kansas winds s...
Since we received our diplomas in the Superior Auditorium longer ago than I wish to admit, members of my high school class have held reunions every five years. Until this year, I’d only missed one of the reunions and that was because of a conflict with college final exams. But with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and life becoming more uncertain, it was decided to hold reunions more frequently. I am sorry to report I have missed two of three reunions held this month. Yes, this month is not a typo. Thanks to the internet and a computer p...
At this juncture, it is looking like a hot and dry summer for Superior residents. But like most things associated with the COVID-19 shutdown, nothing is certain. However, members of the Superior Ciity Council agreed Monday night that most likely the swimming pool will not be open this year. Consequently, preparations to open the pool are on hold. It was noted Monday the currently recommended opening date for Nebraska pools is in mid-July and with the pool normally closing in early August, the council agree the short season would not be worth...
Jennifer Bruns is the new Wound Ostomy Continence (WOC) nurse at Brodstone Memorial Hospital. With the retirement of Michell Harris at the end of the month, preparations for the handoff have taken more than a year. Bruns has been in a web-based, year-long WOC program through Emery University, Atlanta, Ga., traveling to Atlanta for a week long skills check off. Bruns also attended 120 hours of clinical rotations at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A series of three board exams, one in each disci...
By Mary Sawyer Carmen's Style Shoppe is known for the latest in women's fashion wear. Since the COVID-19 epidemic, the shoppe provides face masks to those who need them. Carmen Bruning has worked at the Style Shoppe for more than 50 years. Owners of the Style Shoppe, Lloyd and Mildred Maxwell, hired Carmen Bruening as a seamstress and manager of their material and notions department in 1967. Carmen was the store's go-to person for alterations and helping people with their sewing needs. In 1974,...
COVID-19 has changed things up a bit for Nebraskans. In-person voter registration is no exception. Nebraskans who want to register to vote in person still can do so until the May 1 deadline. Election day workers are still needed for the Nuckolls County polls. Those interested need to contact Carrie Miller, Nuckolls county clerk. The election office in the Nuckolls County Courthouse will be open until 6 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, May 1, for final voter registration. Because of the COVID lockdown, anyone wanting to register must call the county...
April can be such an enjoyable month. Mother Nature offers such nice days to enjoy after the hardships of winter. I truly enjoy all of them. However, maybe it’s just because we’re all told to stay inside and be happy that I’ve noticed a lot of things about April. A lot of them, not so good. This is not an exhaustive list, just a few I thought were worth giving a little notice to. For example: The American Revolution started in April with the battles at Concord and Lexington. The long war for independence followed. Secondly, The San Franc...
Jewell County, Kansas, is celebrating it’s 150th Anniversary. Out of the pages of its past comes many interesting and historical stories. The first settlers began to arrive in the early 1860s. They were encouraged to migrate west mostly because of the Homestead Act that was made law in 1862 by President Lincoln. The settlers could acquire 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small fee and they were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. Jewell County had all the qualifications to d...
John's Creek meanders north through Jewell County's Richland Township. It was doing so 150 years ago when the first permanent settlers were establishing homes in Jewell County. At that time, White Rock Creek flowed eastward across the breadth of Jewell County. Near where the two creeks came together, the town of Rubens flourished during the late 1800s. It began on Jan. 31, 1871, when the Rubens Post Office, named after the first Rubens postmaster, William Rubens Scott, was established. The...
The Jewell County Commissioners met at 8:30 a.m. April 13, with commissioners, Mark Fleming, Steve Greene and Keith Roe and Carla J. Waugh, county clerk were present. Shannon Meier, ambulance director, reviewed the billing and activity report for March. He discussed supplies and inventory. After going into executive session with Meier, the commissioners approved to write off $2,825.04 for the first quarter of 2020 for EMS. Darrell Miller, county attorney, telephoned concerning access to the Jewell County register of deeds office. He said he...
On Main Street in Formoso, an old limestone wall is getting a face lift. Old meaning at least 120 years old. Michael Hansen, Concordia, has reset building blocks, filled in mortar, and restored the foundation. The wall is part of the Formoso Thrift Shop which is housed in the former Formoso State Bank Building. The first bank in the location opened on June 1, 1900. Throughout the years the facility has housed different banks, the Formoso State Bank, First National Bank and Formoso Bank....
Alan Lee Wilton, 55, the son of Ralph and Esther (Wortman) Wilton, was born on Jan. 6, 1965, in Superior. He died April 22, 2020, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital, Superior. Alan grew up attending Beaverville District 72 rural school and was a Superior High School graduate. He was a life member of Centennial Lutheran Church in Superior. He married Melanie Larison. A daughter, April, was born to this union. They later divorced. Alan was a Nebraska Husker football fan. He enjoyed his music and g...
LuVerne B. Shaw died April 19, 2020, at Narrows Glen Senior Living Center in Tacoma, Wash. She was born Nov. 13, 1919, in Carrington, N.D. to Lennis (Zinn) Breaw and Owen R. Breaw. She married Charles R. Corriell on Sept. 21, 1937 in Dallas, Ore. On Nov. 11, 1947, she married Eugene W. Shaw in Superior, Neb. Traveling was LuVerne's passion. She and Gene lived in Bellary and Bangalore, India from 1967 to 1972 and Lahore, Pakistan from 1974 to 1980 where Gene was employed by USAID. Their travels...
Gary R. Jordan, 78, of Ravenna, died April 19, at the Ravenna Good Samaritan Society home. Memorial services will be at a later date with inurnment in the Axtell Cemetery. Rasmussen Funeral Home in Ravenna is assisting the family. Gary Ray Jordan was born Dec. 28, 1941, in Missouri to Ira and Clara (Walrath) Jordan. He grew up in Hebron and attended school there. He married Effie Carol Claypool on March 12, 1962 in Hastings. The couple made their home in Gladstone, where he was employed by Bauer...
Dennis Lee Hofts,87, died April 26, in The Woodlands, Texas. He was born to George and Christina (Bunges) Hofts of Ruskin, on May 8, 1932, and was baptized on June 5, 1932, by Pastor G. A. Spring at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Dennis was confirmed in the faith on June 9, 1946, by Pastor Ralph House at St. Paul's Lutheran Church near Deshler. Dennis graduated from the Rural District 29 primary school in Nuckolls County and from Deshler High School in 1949. Dennis was a classroom teacher at the...
Jerry Dean Hasemeyer, 64, the fourth child of Louie Jr. and Ruth (Barry) Hase-meyer, was born on March 4, 1956, in Superior. He died April 20, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital at Superior. He lived most of his life time in the Olive Hill and Webber communities. At a young age he started working on the family farm and spent his life time being a farmer-rancher. In 1988, when his parents retired, Jerry starting farming with his brother, Gary, and sisters, Sherry, Rosemarie and Rosemary, started...
Ray Varel Karnatz, 93, the son of William and Jessie (Cassell) Karnatz, was born on Aug. 10, 1926, near Davenport. He died April 26, at the Thayer County Health Services in Hebron. Ray was baptized at Christ's Lutheran Church in Davenport. He attended Davenport Community School and graduated with the Class of 1944. He served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Austria during the Korean War. He attended agriculture school after he returned home. He married Margaret Gerdes on Feb....
Word was received in Superior Monday that a former Superior resident, and current community friend and benefactor, Harry Huge, had died. We expect to have more details in a later issue....
Word has been received here of the death of Jerry Plett, the father of a Superior resident, Angie Ehlers. Yabel-Megli-Zeiner Funeral Home of Marion, Kan., is in charge of funeral arrangements....
COVID-19 seems to have affected everything. For several weeks now, older citizens have been encouraged to stay home. Perhaps more than ever, having a home delivered meal is important, even if social contact is limited. The Superior Senior Center kitchen housed at the Vestey Center and associated with Midland Area on Aging, continues to cook and deliver hot nutritionally balanced noon meals five day each week. Each day, small aluminum trays are filled with the day's menu, covered and delivered...
