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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.

James Lux - December 12, 2012

James Lux 83, of West Point died Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, at West Point Living Center. A funeral Mass was Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church with Rev. Thomas Lux as celebrant.Burial will be at St. Michael’s Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Church or to Guardian Angels or Central Catholic Endowments.
Stokely Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
James H. Lux was born April 22, 1929, at Shelby, to Herman and Cla Jim is survived by his wife of 60 years, Marie of West Point; daughters, Kathy (Levi) Moore of Hooper, Shari Ruskamp of West Point; sons, Fr. Tom Lux of Holdrege and Bill Lux of Beatrice; grandchildren, Chris (Mandy) Moore, Tracy Moore, Eric (Nicole) Ruskamp, Aaron (Erin) Ruskamp, Andy Ruskamp; and great-grandchildren, Blake Uhing, Bailey Harpham, Zane and Ace Moore, Kyson and Gavin Ruskamp and Paxton James Ruskamp; brother, Tom (Ad) Lux of North Carolina; sisters, Dorothy Alvine of Colorado, Mary Kopocis of Omaha, Sr. Terese of Omaha; sisters-in-law, Katy Lux of West Point and Lavern Schulzkump of Beemer.

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