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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.

Merlin Kottman - February 27, 2013

Merlin G. Kottman, 62, of rural Scribner, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, surrounded by his family, at his home north of Scribner after fighting a tough battle of bile duct cancer.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, March 1, 2013, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Cuming County Line, north of Scribner. The family will receive friends at Ludvigsen’s Funeral Chapel on Thursday, Feb. 28 from 5 - 7 p.m. The family requests memorials to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
Ludvigsen’s Scribner Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Merlin is survived by his wife, Arleen; their five children and families, Jennifer and husband David Wesely of North Bend, Karen and husband Brian Brhel of Denton, Paul and wife Jaci Kottman of Waverly, Amy and husband Joel Booe of Waverly, Ashley and husband Lance Bachman of Lincoln; and six beautiful grandchildren, Colton, Tyler, Maverick, Haley, Kaydence and Kenna.

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