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Where there’s smoke...
First truck was good investment
Cemetery directories completed for Memorial Day
Fantastic finish
Where there’s smoke... Beemer’s Volunteer Fire Department made use of a perfect day Sunday for a practice burn. Firemen set an hold house on fire at the farm place of the late Marcella Belling, located on County Road 15, about 3.5 miles from Beemer. Basic fire practice, including entering a burning house, was conducted during the controlled burn.
First truck was good investment By Bev Wieler West Point News Reporter / Seventy-seven years ago Eddie Doescher took a chance and sold the only vehicle he owned and bought a truck. It marked the beginning of Doescher Transfer Company, located in Beemer.
Doescher’s family acknowledges  that his initial investment proved to be a good one.
Cemetery directories completed for Memorial Day By Bev Wieler West Point News Reporter / Lance Parsons searched for several years to find where his father was buried. He had lost contact with him through the years and knew he had died.
At about the same time as he was searching, Lance was also doing work on a directory for Mount Hope Cemetery in West Point.
Fantastic finish It wasn’t by chance, but rather hard work and dedication that Bluejay senior Emily Petz evolved into a star sprinter.
It was also her love for the sport that allowed Petz to place a giant exclamation mark on her Central Catholic track career with four medals in four events at the 2013 state track and field meet held this past weekend at Omaha Burke.

Frieda Herbolsheimer - November 09, 2011

Frieda C. H. Herbolsheimer, age 101, of Scribner, died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at the Scribner Good Samaritan Home in Scribner.
The funeral was Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Scribner. The Rev. Bruce Schut and Rev. Terry Daberkow officiated. Burial was at Trinity Cemetery west of Scribner.
Ludvigsen’s Scribner Funeral Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Memorials are suggested to the Trinity Cemetery, Scribner Rescue Squad and the Scribner Good Samaritan Center.
Survivors include two step-sons, Glenn and wife Marleen Herbolsheimer of Scribner and Gerald and wife Bonnie Herbolsheimer of Plymouth Minn.; step grandchildren, step great-grandchildren and many more relatives and friends.
Online guestbook at www.hooper-scribner.com

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