TEN YEARS AGO
August 2, 2012
Yvonne Bennett of Shelby got a hole in one on hole #8 at Ryan Hill Country Club last Saturday.
The Shelby community picnic was held. Mayor Pat Davis manned the grill, while others such as librarian Laura Alt, Rita Houdersheldt, Alice Woodard, Donna Kuhnel and Bill Coffin volunteered.
Kamryn Pokorney of Shelby will compete in the upcoming Hershey’s Track and Field Games North American Finals on August 4th in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Kamryn is ten years old and qualified in the softball throw.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August 22, 2002
The Colorado Institute of Art recently awarded the John Jellico Scholarship of $3600 to Elizabeth Wielechowski, a junior at the School of Interior Design. She is the daughter of Richard and Claudette Wielechowski and was a 2000 graduate of Shelby High School.
Donna Wahunt left for her home in Woodstock, Georgia. She spent two weeks visiting her mother, Virginia Tomasevicz.
David E. Jones, age 94, of Osceola passed away August 19th at Midwest Covenant Home in Stromsburg. Funeral services were held at Calvary Lutheran Church in Swede Home.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
August 27, 1992
Seventy-six donors from Polk County and the surrounding area answered the call for blood at the Shelby Legion Club on August 21 when the Red Cross Bloodmobile made its annual visit to the community. Pledges for a proposed senior
Pledges for a proposed senior community building now total $38,291. Thirty-seven athletes have com
Thirty-seven athletes have completed the first week of two-a-day football practices, according to head coach Joe Dey. Saturday evening in the back of
Saturday evening in the back of the Tom and Dorothy Carter house a giant imitation birthday cake and a group of guests greeted Mary-Ann Carter as she arrived for a belated surprise 40th birthday party.
FORTY YEARS AGO
August 26, 1982
Jolene Heibel of Bellevue was among the 400 graduates of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where she received a masters of education degree in Educational Administration on August 13th. She is the principal at Bertha Barber Elementary School.
Fifty-three Shelby school employees enjoyed dinner together Friday at a local cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bernt of Osceola and Frank Seberger of Bakersfield, California were Wednesday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. John Tomasevicz.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
August 31, 1972 The unofficial total enrollment
The unofficial total enrollment for Shelby Public School for 1972-1973 is 332 students, just three short of last year’s total.
Weddings: Debra L. Roehrs and Ronald Girard, August 24 at Sacred Heart Church; Beverly Ellen Engel and Donald Bill Brigham, August 26 at St. John Lutheran Church in Shell Creek.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
August 30, 1962
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Ingalls moved from the Robert Kuhnel farm home to the Wilhelm Kosch property in Shelby which was vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Mick and family.
Betty Schinzel spent several weeks in Chicago as a guest of her sister, Rose. The ladies attended the International Trade Fair and a musical production by the famous Trapp family.
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
August 28, 1952
Wayne Logan, who is stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado stopped here Friday for a day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Logan, on his way to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin where he will spend three weeks attending a mechanical warfare school. The John L. Ingalls family is
The John L. Ingalls family is having a homecoming the first two weeks of September. Their eleven children plan to attend at the farm home of their parents who are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.
LeRoy Renander, 54, died Monday at the Shelby Hospital following an August 16th heart attack. He had operated a barber shop on east main street for the past nineteen years.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO
September 10, 1942
C. W. Moon, Wallace Kinney and Phil Campbell of Osceola were in Omaha last Thursday where they attended the Republican convention.
Monday afternoon Delmar Alt and Sylvester Glatter caught a rattlesnake near the Alt home in northwest Shelby. The boys have the snake, which is very much alive, on display in a fruit jar. They say it is about two feet long.
Mrs. Harold Taddiken and two children, Mrs. C. A. Anderson and Miss Jean Rasp collided with a California car on their return home from a visit in Fairbury Friday. Both cars were badly damaged but the occupants escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
