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Just when I got used to writing 2022, it is about to change and I’ll have to start remembering it is 2023. It seems the years keep coming and going faster and faster. I’ve been through the growing and prosperous years of the 1950s as America grew in population and manufacturing as the WWII soldiers came marching homeward. Things were so different back then. Yes, I’ll admit I was one of those Baby Boomers. It’s hard to believe but a brand new 1955 Bel Air Chevy cost about $2,000. In 1950, a nine-room modern house in Massachusetts would cost ab...
On a recent Wednesday morning, I parked across the street from the Superior City Park Bandshell, and carried bundles of that week's issue of The Superior Express into the CPI convenience store. I filled the store's newspaper rack, counted the prior week's unsold copies and returned to my vehicle. I recorded the sales in a notebook I keep in my vehicle for that purpose and looked across the street at what had been for nearly 40 years my grandparents home. Before I headed to my delivery point, I...
By Teraesa Bruce Our washing machine broke down. I swear if it’s not one thing, it’s another! I had started a load of laundry and came upstairs for something and noticed the smell of burnt rubber. The smell was coming from the basement, and at first, I was worried the dryer was trying to catch fire. Nope, it was the washer. Currently, it is in several pieces on the basement floor. Upon inspection, George found the pump was leaking and we could no longer get parts for the thing. Robert made it home last Tuesday evening, swishy breaks and all...
No. 52 . . . look forward to that number every year. For people in the weekly newspaper field, it usually means we’ve lived another year. Some years there are 53 Thursdays, but we just don’t worry about those years. Happy New Year to everyone, May God bless each of you and answer everyone’s prayer for peace in the world. A O Boredom . . . In spite of ‘millions’ of things to do, there are times we all “get bored.” Even in the middle of the professional football season on a Sunday afternoon. Several weeks back, Russ Menke stopped to visit a li...
December brought announcement of plans for two additional shuttle loading elevators to be built in this area. Cooperative Producers, the operator of the Ruskin elevator and other businesses in this area including convenience stores in Superior and Nelson said it will build at 5-million-bushel grain facility along Highway 14 east of Harvard. The site of the new grain handling facility is served by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad mainline. The location is one mile north of the Highways 6 and 14 north junction in Clay County. The Clay...
As has long been the tradition, area churches held special services to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago in the small village of Bethlehem. This year an Express staff member attended the Christmas Eve service at the Union Church of Hardy. The church bell rang out at 5 p.m. to announce the start of the service. Lanterns with candles burning lined the steps to the church as the faithful gathered for the service. Kevin Miller opened the service with a welcome. The...
Superior may be a small town but its hometown supermarket is home to the latest innovations in technology. Shannon and Jenny McCord, operators of Superior's Ideal Market, recently installed two self-checkout stations. The stations allow customers to quickly check out their purchases while avoiding waiting in line. Shannon stressed he was not cutting back on cashiers but the stations are for customer convenience. Someone with a two or three item order can check themselves out without having to...
This is the time of year we often think of past memories. Some as good and some not so good. Avis Shaw recalls her brother-in-law, Cecil, and his wife, June, came to visit the farm quite often. They stopped by one summer day; it must have been a weekday because her late husband, Butch, wasn’t home. “We were sitting around the dining room table and a bee flew through. Pretty soon there went another one and another. “I opened the stair door and there were more. I decided I’d better look outside. The bees were swarming on the north side of the...
According to sources this reporter has seen, the Roman Catholic Church has approximately 430 Bishops, Arch-Bishops and retired Bishops in the United States. One hundred, seventy-six of them are Diocesan Bishops (meaning they are the leaders of a particular diocese). Of those 176, two can trace their roots to south central Nebraska. Both from the Lawrence area. Bishop Golka is now Bishop of the Colorado Springs, Colorado diocese, being ordained in 2021. His roots are traced through the Ostdiek...
The Courtland Journal The first time I went with Mom and Dad to the Formoso Community Christmas Dinner it felt weird to think we were just showing up even though we knew several people who expected would be there. It was only the three of us so it didn’t make sense to prepare a big holiday meal at the house. A few years later, we added Ray and I helped LaVernia Peters do dishes while Ray and Dorothy Sjolander had a few laughs. Fast forward to this year and the Formoso Community Dinner was on the official agenda of our trip south fro M...
The Courtland Journal Ada Lutheran Church was blessed with a wonderful addition to this year’s Christmas eve service. Cayden Gonzales from Lincoln, Nebraska, was a guest pianist, organist and violinist. He has been learning to play the organ for about a year and a half. While going to school, he works for Bedient Pipe Organ in Lincoln, which tunes, builds and restores organs. He has played at Ada a couple of other times and back in September, along with the owner, Mark Miller, Cayden graciously offered to tune Ada’s organ for allowing him to...
Angie Brown, the new face you will see if you go into the Mankato City Office, is from Arvada, Colorado. She has lived in Jewell County since 2008. Brown and her husband of 13 years chose Jewell County as their home. Their rental in Lebanon was for sale. The first house Brown and her husband liked when looking for a different home was located in Mankato. Brown met her husband when they worked at Petersons Industries in Smith Center. Brown is a writer. She also enjoys baking, reading and time in...
This Christmas season the Jewell County Record office staff experienced their own version of the Chevy Chase National Lampon’s Christmas. Because of the wind chills and icy walks and streets, the business was like many others in this area. The office was closed on both Thursday and Friday and telephone calls transferred to the staff members’ home which made for four days with no one in the office. When staff members opened the front door Monday, they were surprised with a flash of movement but they weren’t immediately certain of the sourc...
A 60 year old Scandia man died last Wednesday night as a result of a two-vehicle collision on US36 just west of Belleville’s K Street. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Buick LeSabre driven by Fred Mikesell of Scandia and a 2016 International semi-trailer truck driven by Richard Paul, 50, of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, collided when the eastbound semi jacknifed on an ice covered road and collided with the west bound Mikesell vehicle. The Mikesell vehicle was pushed off the north side of Highway 36 and struck a tree. Mikesell was r...
The Kansas State Research and Extension Calving School will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 19, at Mankato. To help prepare for the upcoming calving season, the program will outline overall calving management that includes stages of the normal calving process as well as tips to handle difficult calving situations. A.J. Tarpoff, K-State extension beef veterinarian, who will be the featured speaker. The goals of the program are to increase knowledge, practical skills, and to increase the number of live calves born. The calving school will also...
There is still time to register for an upcoming four-part extension workshop for women in agriculture that will focus on the basics of land management, leasing and conservation for landlords and tenants. “The Power of Negotiation and Communication: Land Leasing Strategies for Midwestern Ag Women” program will be a 4-part series, held at two locations in the Post Rock Extension District. These locations will include Mankato at the Community Center and in Osborne at the United Christian Church. The series will focus on writing agricultural lea...
The effects of the current widespread and extreme cold have led to new records and the declaration of several advisories and alerts in Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) service territory. SPP set a new record for electricity use during the winter season on Thursday, Dec. 22, with load exceeding 47,000 MW. The previous record was 43,661 MW, set Feb. 15, 2021. Higher-than-forecast electricity use and persistent cold led the regional transmission organization to declare an Energy Emergency Alert 1 (EEA1) at 8:27 a.m., on Friday, until conditions i...
The University of Nebraska at Kearney announced students who earned a place on the dean’s list for the fall 2022 semester. Area students on the dean’s list are Brooklyn Nicole Kohmetscher, Lawrence; Megan Wheeland, Nelson; and Trenten James Theis, Superior. Students who are on the dean’s list must have completed 12 credit hours or more of classes with a 3.5 grade-point average or better on a 4.0 scale....
Deloris Evelyn Rodenburg VanSkiver, the daughter of Martin and Caroline (Nehrig) Rodenburg, was born March 10, 1930, on the family farm east of Davenport and died on Dec. 16, 2022, at the age of 92 years 9 months and 6 days at Blue Valley Nursing Home in Hebron, Nebraska. Deloris was baptized at St. Peters Lutheran Church on March 23, 1930, by Pastor L. E. Ernst. She attended St. Peters Parochial School through the 8th grade and was confirmed on July 9, 1944, by Pastor L. E. Vogel, her...
Donavon J. Pohlmeier, 87, Hastings, Nebraska formerly of Lawrence, died on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022 at his home in Hastings. Rosary was at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 28. Mass was at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, both at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Lawrence, with Father Jamie Hottovy officiating. Burial with military rites by Kent Kailey Post 45 and the Army National Guard Honor's Team was in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Lawrence. Visitation was from 3 to 7 p.m.,Tuesday, Dec. 27, at the Lawrence...
Audrey Marie Sunday, the daughter of John and Marie (Fier) Lutzwick, was born on April 20, 1931, in Ivanhoe, Minnesota. She died Dec. 22, 2022, in the Good Samaritan Society home at Superior, Nebraska, at the age of 91 years, 8 months, 2 days. Audrey attend- ed Ivanhoe Public school and graduated from St. Cecilia's High School. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Nelson. She married Glen Sunday on May 6, 1950, at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Hastings. Six children were born...
Ray Biltoft, the son of Homer and Helen (Bise) Biltoft, was born on May 30, 1945, in Deshler, Nebraska. He died Dec. 22, 2022, at Brod- stone Healthcare in Superior, at the age of 77 years, 6 months, 22 days. Ray attended school at Star Country School, Deshler High School, Byron High School and graduated from Ruskin High School in 1963. He was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hardy since 1982. He was baptized in July of 1945 at Bethany Lutheran Church in Ruskin and confirmed in 1959 at...
Edna Marie Moore, 91, recently of Lenexa, Kansas, died on Dec. 17, 2022. Edna was born in Rulo, Nebraska, on April 19, 1931, to Charley and Kate Wissman. She was raised on the farm in Rulo until moving to Falls City, Nebraska, in high school. She worked hard, making sure the job was done right. Edna enjoyed being with her friends and going out to dance. She met Wesley Moore in the early 1950s and would later tell him he'd better like to dance, or she wasn't keeping him around! He must have...
Jim Kier, 73, of Gatesville, Texas, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at his home. His funeral will be held at 2 p.m. today (Thursday), Dec. 29, at Scott's Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor John L. Dublin officiating. The family will receive visitors following the service. For those unable to attend, Mr. Kier's funeral services will be livestreamed in the service details link. James Perry Kier was born on December 1, 1949, in Mankato, Kansas, to the late Charles Edward and Marie Theresa Benjamin Kier....
The Superior High School boys and girls basketball teams take to the court today (Thursday) at the Runza Holiday Tournament hosted by Milford High School....
