Source: 1880-1990 Amherst Centennial Book article "The Rudolf Carmann Family" submitted by Dorothy Juhl Carmann
Rudolph Carmann was born January 28, 1912 at Polk, Nebraska to William and Grace (THADEN) Carmann, the fifth child in a family of seven children.
Pleasanton was founded in 1890 even though floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.
The family regularly attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church seven miles north of Riverdale where William served many years on the council. Rudolph learned about taking care of farmland, hauling out manure, rotating crops, cutting out sunflowers and cockleburrs, grinding feed, cleaning sheds, fixing fences and machinery and tending to hogs and cattle. All of this continued on his farm when he married at age of 24. (He rented the Homestead farm from his future father-in-law who lived a mile west on the Homeplace farm at the time so Rudy lived on the Juhl Homestead from 1934 to 1977.)
Dorothy Juhl Carmann was born June 12, 1916 to Alexander and Evalena (Henderson) Juhl at a Kearney hospital.
Rudolph met Dorothy at a barn dance hosted by a neighbor who had built a new barn. She became mixed up on all his names, so she called him Rudy. At the time, she was attending college in Kearney on a "shoestring" preparing to be a rural teacher. Mamie Lund of Pleasanton helped Dorothy get a school in the Sandhills at $34 a month in 1934 so she got her year's experience and got to teach District 90 for $90 a month the next year.
The school was eight miles north of Amherst and she boarded with Bessie Berkheimer (Nov. 6, 1890-June 11, 1981 Memorial #57641955 and spouse George R. Berkheimer (1889 - 1954)).
Pleasanton was Rudy's hometown for many years. Every Saturday night he played pool with friends. He learned to play guitar, baseball--he had a uniform with a team--also sang for weddings, choirs and funerals. He served on church councils and school boards for many years.
Dorothy was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in April of 1936. Rudolph and Dorothy were married May 24, 1936 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Rudy rented Dorothy's father's farm seven miles north of Riverdale. He bought four horses, a wagon, a disc, a car, a kitchen stove and other supplies with the thousand dollar wedding gift from his dad. Dorothy had bought a piano for $75 that spring. Her father, Alex, rejoiced that Rudy was good with tools and efficient with farming practices and machinery.
Their first baby was born, Harvey Rudolph, was born July 11, 1937 and lived only three months.
There were many visits down to Rudy's dad's farm west of Pleasanton through the years and Rudolph purchased it when the estate was settled. (His father had paid $100 an acre in 1916 and stipulated that Rudy could purchased the farm acres for the same price.)
After being married for eight years, Rudy had a heart attack and had to take it easy for a year. Harold Juhl was home from the Army and helped them farm.
In 1954 the Carmanns moved a lovely big house purchased for forty-five hundred dollars from Godfrey and Emma Hemmann onto the three hundred twenty acres bought when Alex's estate was settled in 1952.
Dorothy taught school in District 80 in 1959 on a special permit.
Dorothy's grandfather, Ferdinand Juhl, homesteaded the land in 1879. In 1979 the Carmanns received the AK-SAR-BEN Award for land being in the same family one hundred years.
A neighbor nicknamed him Mike which was to last until his death on May 24, 1977, on their 41st wedding anniversary.
When sister Lena was eighteen and Rudy was six, they drove a team of horses moving a wagon load of things, March 1, 1918, to a farm six miles west of Pleasanton. William had bought a farm of at least 240 acres per the 1919 Buffalo County platt map for one hundred dollars an acre from Mr. Bell, a long time resident of the area. The farm shared a boundary with the farm of 320 acres owned by Joseph Hadwiger Sr.
(Note: Pleasanton is a small town in the northern part of Buffalo County, situated on the South Loup River, with a population of fewer than 350. It was the last town on the end of a spur line of the Union Pacific and lies in the center of a rich farming community. A factor contributing to the success of this community is the fact that some of its people lived in the locality continuously for one hundred years or more. Founded in 1890, floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.)
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SISTER-IN-LAW
Wilma R. Carmann, 96, of Kearney died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. Rev. Duane Duley and Rev. Dustin Lappe will officiate. Burial will be at the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation is planned Monday from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney or prior to services Tuesday at the church. Memorials are suggested to Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com . Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home of Kearney is in charge of arrangements.
She was born March 5, 1917 to William and Anna (Rasmussen) Zimmer. She was born and raised on her parent's farm, a mile north and 4 miles west of Pleasanton. She was baptized April 4, 1926 at Pleasant Valley United Brethren Church. Wilma was confirmed June 16, 1940 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Peake. Her grade school years were a Prairie Bell School and she graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1934.
November 18, 1939 Wilma married Raymond C. Carmann at St. Paul's Lutheran Church north of Riverdale. They made their home with Raymond's parents on their farm in Pleasant Valley for about 7 years. Raymond and Wilma moved to a farm they purchased north of his parents on March 5, 1946. After Raymond's death in 1967 Wilma attended Kearney State College for 2 years and received a secretarial degree. She worked for Edward Jones after graduation and retired in 1982. She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church for over 40 years where she taught Sunday School, was active in Lutheran Women's Missionary League, Ladies Aid and choir. Her family was very precious to her and she traveled to Germany and all over the United States visiting them.
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Ken's Memory of his dad:
May 12, 2015
I recall back in the early 60s------ extreme cold spell----- outlet pipe had frozen back into the eroded wall of the ''''''END OF THE LINE QUAGMIRE '''''''......... I drew the short straw that COLD AM (must have been a Saturday)........ Dad Rudolf said, "Get your 5 buckle boots on!!!!"
I got to chip back into the dirt to expose more of the 5 inch pipe (it is ~120 yards from house to bank outlet) ...... then hold wirewrapped BURNING bundles of corncobs soaked in tractor fuel UNDER THE FROZEN PIPE....... but just long enough to thaw the ice NOT BURN the creosote fabric pipe........ "Keep it moving--- not too long in one place!!! " Dad kept saying. "What happens when the ice PLUG melts??" I asked ......... and I REMEMBER THIS AS VIVIDLY AS THE COFFEE I AM DRINKING RIGHT NOW............ Dad Rudolf laughed as he replied, "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!!!"
I'll leave 'THE REST OF THE STORY' to your imagination.......... I know that Bro Larry and I helped get that big old rusty galvinized cattle tank in place on top of the pit ---covered it with straw...... SO:
'YOU WON'T HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!!!!'
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THE BLIZZARD of 2016 - RUDY's OLDEST SON WRITES STORY
Forecast kept us warm, safe at home
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2/9/16
Hello all:
I have water flowing in the house again after five days of carrying water in from the hydrants. The Cudaback crew yesterday morning was able to dislodge the “stuff” that was blocking the water line. We have no idea as to how it came about, it may have been accumulating for years. I’ll keep checking to see if there is any sign of a leak in the line somewhere. I had visions of them saying “we’ll go back and get the backhoe and start digging”, was sure glad it didn’t come to that.
Mid afternoon I went into Kny, was going to look for a new jacket, but the store was out of the tall sizes. I went on to the the FKC BB tournament at the Viaro Center, the Amherst girls won their consolation game, the Amherst boys won the championship game against Axtell 73-60. The final game was scheduled for 7:30, as usual the games didn’t go according to the clock, the Amherst-Axtell game didn’t get started until 8:45, was over just after 10:00.
This morning I’m taking the pickup to Ptown to get some work done on it, a new windshield washer pump and a new fuel pump if needed.
Glen
PS: No doubt there was great joy in Denverville yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
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Updated: February 05, 2016 - 11:09 am. Hub News
Forecasters called it Winter Storm Kayla and Nebraskans were warned days in advance to watch out. The storm lived up to its billing, pounding our state with 8-15 inches of snow blown into deep drifts by winds as strong as 50 mph. It was a terrible storm, but will Kayla be one for the history books?
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2/5/16 Friday
There was a dusting of snow last night, just enough to make everything white. The temp yesterday afternoon got to the low 30s, the forecast is calling for those temps the next few days. I spent most of yesterday morning going over the yard again, raised the skid shoes on the blade to take a deeper cut. I’m pushing the snow to the west side of the yard, then pushing it to the north/south to make room for any future snow.
The mystery of the furnace was solved yesterday---I got Matt Hadwiger on the phone, he said he had gone to the gas meters Monday afternoon (2/1/16) and shut all the meters off!!!!!! He said on one of the irrigation well engines the cows had rubbed against the gas hose on the engine, the hose came loose from the engine resulting in the gas flowing freely. So he drove over here to the meters, didn’t know which of the four meters was for that well, thought all the meters were for irr wells (therefore they don’t need to be on anyway), so he turned the valve off on each meter. There is a shutoff valve by the regulator right at the engine, he didn’t think of that---panicked at the thought of not knowing how long the hose had been off and how much it had already cost him, so get to the meter and shut it off!!! He didn’t realize I ran the furnace off my line.
I went into Kny yesterday at 3:30 for my appt. at the FSA office,that didn’t take long, then stayed in for the UNK BB games later. The main streets in Kny had all been plowed but there were a lot of spots that were ice packed. Anyplace where there had been traffic before the plows got around resulted in the snow getting packed hard, it’s still there, so there are a lot of bumpy streets.
Glen Carman
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2/4/16
Bright sunshine at daybreak, currently at 9:00 a temp of 14 with a slight breeze. Even at cold temps, if the sun is shining it makes it seem more tolerable than when there are no shadows on the ground. I had a couple of revolting developments yesterday, real BUMMERS!!!!! But I guess it could have been worse.
Billy & Karen fed me breakfast yesterday morning before I headed back home in the tractor. I spent the morning clearing snow from in front of the house and garage, deep as the snow was it took a long time to see any progress. At noon I called the Fiddelke Heating to see when someone might be able to come and check the furnace—I had gone with the tractor to make sure someone could get here from the R’dle Road. There was a big drift on 190th by Harold Daake’s grain bins but 175th was clear, the maintainer had already been on the R’dle Road. I also called Neal Chandler to have him come and check the water works, he said he’d hopefully get here around 2:00. I went out and took the lid off the pit, had straw bales on the lid. The furnace man got here at 1:30, checked everything, couldn’t find anything wrong, it ran a minute and quit. He finally determined that there was no gas coming to the furnace. I told him I had thought about checking the gas meter down south but thought “surely nobody would have shut the meter off”---WRONG!!!! We drove to the meter (I had a pipe wrench along just in case) and sure enough—the shut off valve was turned off!!! There are four meters there, all were shut off. One meter is for Billy’s irr. well, one is for Terry Hadwiger’s well (he changed that well to electricity five years ago), one is for Ron’s two wells, and the fourth is for my well. So I turned the valve back to the open position, when we got back the house the furnace was running. I told the guy I thought maybe the furnace had been put in around 15 years ago, he found a tag that said it had been installed in 1992, so it’s going on 24 years—he said the average life of those furnaces is around 18 years, so hard telling how much longer it may last.
Neal Chandler had come while I was in the basement with the furnace guy, he was walking to the house when I saw him, he said there was water coming from the hydrant southeast of the house, asked if I had water in the house, I figured if there was water at the hydrant there would be water in the house. He said the water line coming from the pressure tank was froze, he had thawed them with a small torch. I was totally surprised it had gotten that cold in the pit, I had it covered with straw bales, figured that was good insulation. Never before have any pipes in the pit froze up!!!! Neal thought the way the wind had blown, there might have been a small crack somewhere that let the cold air in. So Neal took off, I went in the house and---NO WATER in the house!!! I called Neal again, he was just a mile away, came back. He looked at the pipes in the basement, none frozen there. I could get water from all the hydrants but not in the house. I called Bob Cudaback and told him about it, Bob didn’t have clue as what would be the cause. A water gremlin at work!!!!
I called the gas co. to ask if the gas meters are read electronically or if they are read manually (thinking maybe the meter reader had shut the valve), the gal said they get electronic readings from the meters. I called Matt H. last night but he didn’t answer his phone, also called Ron, he said he didn’t know if anyone had been to the meters. I had experienced this twice years ago, Uncle Butch would go to shut off the meters to his wells, not knowing which meter was his, he would shut all the meters off.
This morning I’ll push more snow off the yard west of the house, this afternoon I have an appt. at the FSA office, tonight is a BB game at UNK.
Glen Carmen
PS: The furnace man said it’s been twelve years since Wes Fiddelke sold the business.
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2/2/16
Hello all:
The blizzard is in progress big time, the strong north wind is making for a nasty wind chill index. It’s hard to tell how much snow has fallen so far but it’s a wet snow, hard to move. I went out earlier to plug in the block heater on the tractor, scooping the snow off the steps was a chore. This snow is wet enough that wherever you step, the snow stays firmly packed.
The snow didn’t start until close to midnight but the wind had been blowing earlier. Around 8:00 last night I realized the furnace hadn’t run for awhile, the fan doesn’t come on, so no heat—really bad timing. The temp isn’t to get too bitterly cold but it will cool down in here, it’s about fifty degrees in the house this morning. I was concerned about the electricity going off, no problem there so far. Then earlier I thought I’d better have some extra water on hand, was filling a bucket when the water stopped running—DOUBLE BUMMER!!!!! I had filled some containers so I’d have some drinking water but can’t rinse the breakfast dishes. I won’t be able to get anyone out to check the furnace until the snow lets up, it’ll get chilly in here but I should be able to endure. As to the water, I’ll have to have Neal Chandler come and check whenever he can get here—he had put a new control switch on the pressure tank on Dec. 11.
Yesterday morning I went to the open house the Source Gas Co. had in R’dle, got signed up for the irrigation natural gas for the year. At 1:00 I went to the Taubenheim bull sale, the top selling bull brought $16,000. They had so many desserts on the dessert table it was difficult to make a choice!!
With the forecast of the blizzard, all area schools and most businesses had put out the word yesterday afternoon that they would be closed today. I won’t be going into Kny for the appt. I had there at 4:00. On the radio earlier was the report that I-80 is closed from Elm Creek to Utica. When I got back from the bull sale yesterday I noticed that Billy’s cattle were gone, he must have had some help to get them out, apparently moved them back to his place.
From snowy NE,
Glen Carman
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Hello all:
The month of Jan. is in the history books, if the weather forecast proves out, Feb. will start with a blizzard—the latest forecast on the radio this morning is calling for a blizzard warning starting tonight and lasting through tomorrow night, 10-13 inches of snow. That amount of snow wouldn’t be so bad but the predicted wind gusting to 45 MPH—that will cause some real problems!!!!! I sure hope the guess on the wind is totally wrong but we won’t know until tomorrow what develops. I put the rear blade on the tractor Sat. afternoon so I’m ready to go with it. It’s been many years since this area has had a real blizzard that resulted in major drifting, we just haven’t had much snow the last few years.
This morning the natural gas co. is having an open house in R’dle, I’ll go for a cup of coffee and get signed up for my irrigation gas for the summer. Today Dale & Mike Taubenheim are having their annual bull sale; I’ll go there for lunch at noon—I never buy a bull but eat lunch on them as payment for damage their cows did on my soybeans a few years ago when a bunch of their cows got out of the pasture and went exploring the countryside and wound up in my bean field. I’m sure they’re glad the sale is today rather than tomorrow!!!!
Yesterday afternoon I strolled out west to take a walk, found a day old calf. Originally Billy had thought there was only one cow in the bunch that was due to calf, there were two calves a couple weeks ago. I called him to inform him of this new calf—he was surprised at my news.
Glen Carman
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January 30, 2016
Hello all:
Cloudy here this morning, the forecast is now calling for temp in the 50s today, then for a slight chance of rain tonight. The snow is to hit here Monday night and Tuesday, the prediction last night is for the Kny area to get twelve inches—that wouldn’t be so bad but the wind is to be strong, so we may have blizzard conditions—we’ll see how that all plays out. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a blizzard in this area.
Yesterday morning I motored to GI to get the “free” oil change on the car, even considering the gas it took, it was probably worthwhile. I came back on Highway 2, stopped at the Subway shop on the south edge of Ravenna for a sandwich. Ravenna is getting to be a bustling area—a new Dollar General store is going up just east of the Subway shop. I stopped at the fertilizer plant in Ptown, was going to prepay some fertilizer—the mgr. said to hold off a couple weeks, he said the fertilizer will probably go down a little more.
I put the finishing touches on the brackets on the Quick-Hitch, took it off twice to make some adjustments to get the proper balance when hanging on the cherry-picker boom. I took a bucket of brome seed and scattered it on the south end of the gravity field, if it snows the seed will get worked into the ground.
My pancake inventory was exhausted this morning so had to make a new batch of pancakes, now have enough to last into April .
Glen
PS Larry: I drove down Stolley Park to Adams St. yesterday, it looks like there’s an addition being added to the Barr Middle School. A new elementary school is being built between Adams St. and the Ruzicka Carburetor Shop.
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1/28/16
Hello all:
We’re having April weather here, temp to be in the low 50s today. There is some possibility of snow early next week, time will tell!!! Yesterday morning I got on the Honda, made a tour of the fence around the corn stalks—all was intact. I’m sure surprised that since I put the fence up, there has not been a single incident of deer running through the fence and breaking the wire—apparently my reputation as a builder of sturdy fences has become known throughout the deer population!!!!
Late morning I got back on the computer, called the server, got a gal who was able to understand the problem I was having (not receiving emails), and within ten minutes she had solved my problem and I was back in business. She said their office is in Loveland, CO., I thought they were based in Kny. Later in the afternoon I made a bracket for a thermometer I had gotten and mounted it on the edge of the kitchen window.
Today I’m going to make some brackets to put on the 3 pt. Quick-Coupler so I can use the cherry-picker hoist to put the hitch on & off the tractor. I had thought I could just put a chain on the coupler frame but that didn’t work so will go to Plan B.
On the news last night—there was a bomb scare at Walnut Middle School in GI yesterday, somebody saw a box in a hallway, they evacuated the building, found the box contained an accordion!!
Glen
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1/27/16
Hello all:
I’m back since being absent as of last Friday, got back here mid-afternoon yesterday. Ken & Kathy are gracious hosts—thanks K&K!! Friday we went via the RTD train to the Denver Broncos PEP Rally at Larimor Square in downtown Denver—what a mass of people!!! We stayed on the edge of the mass, the Bronco fever was something to see. That night we went to see Troy’s son Grant play a BB game in Salida, his team won in an exciting finish.
Sat. afternoon we went to the draft horse show at the NWSS, I was disappointed the six team hitches were on the Sat. night show. The big game Sunday was sure a good game, especially since Denver won!!! Monday Ken and I (Kathy was babysitting at Kami’s) went to the US Air Force Academy—we watched the cadets line up in formation as they marched into the mess hall for their noon meal. The Academy covers a large area, I had no idea of the size. We drove through the Garden of the Gods, sure some interesting rock formations there.
Yesterday morning as I headed back I was in the rush hour traffic on I-25—quite a difference compared to the traffic on Second Avenue in Kny!!!! There is an inch of snow in the yard but the roads were clear. The temp today is to be in the high 30’s, in the 40’s the next two days.
Glen
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1/20/16
Hello all:
Overcast here this morning, will probably not see any sun today, chance for some snow tonight. Grand Island and areas on east had more snow yesterday than what we had here.
Yesterday morning I took the Quick-Hitch off the tractor and hooked to the single bale fork; I took six bales over to the scale at Victor’s to see what they weighed—two bales per trip. I had bales from three different areas, wanted to see if there was much variation from the different grasses. The bales were heavier than I thought they might be—Ron makes heavy bales!!!!
I went to the BB game against Shelton last night, both girls & boys won, the boys won 83-31—it wasn’t much of a game after the first quarter. Matt Hadwiger’s boy didn’t start but played a lot of the game. Matt’s daughter is a starter for the girls, she’s pretty good for a freshman.
I’m going to go to Ptown this morning and prepay some fertilizer before the price increases next spring.
Glen
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1/18/16
Hello all:
Back home for a few days until I head back to Denver for the Sat. afternoon Draft Horse Show at the NWSS. Travel conditions last week were good both ways, there was a strip of maybe fifteen miles east of Denver Sat. morning where there had been a skiff of snow. Thanks Ken & Kathy for your hospitality, also to Kami & Curt and Troy & MInda for the meals at their homes. I got to watch budding NBA star Grant Carmann play in his BB game Friday night, his team won handily, didn’t need any extra help from scorebook keeper dad Troy.
I got here Sat. around 4:30, went through my mail and did various things to get settled back. I went late to the dance in Miller, learned the couple who come from Central City, only when this band is playing, had hit a deer just east of Amherst while enroute to Miller, damaged the left front fender and drivers door of their car, so they were not happy dancers!!!!
No mail today so will motor to Glenwood Corners to get a World Herald.
Glen
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1/8/16
Hi all:
Maybe an inch of snow through last night, chance for more later today. Sat. night the temp is to get to near zero, that’ll be the coldest of the winter so far. We haven’t had any really bitter cold yet!!!
Yesterday morning I went to the dentist to get an X-ray of the tooth that was bothering me, it showed there was infection at the bottom of the root. The dentist had time at 1:00 so I said I’d be back then. I went on to the dermatologist for my appt. for the surgery to remove the skin around the area where she had removed some skin cancer back in Dec. She cut out an area about the size of a nickel (three layers of skin) on my left arm, put in stitches (she didn’t believe me when I told her she was doing the very first stitches on my body). I can feel a little sensation on the arm when I move it, I hope that eases up in the next day or so.
I grabbed a chicken sandwich for lunch and then back to the dentist for the work on the tooth, it wasn’t an urgent situation but I figured since he had the time then, I might as well get it done then rather than wait—I had the fear of getting a terrible tooth ache at a bad time!!!!!
This afternoon I’m going into Kny to go to the Home & Builders Show at the fairgrounds, tonight to the Overton-Amherst BB game in Amherst.
Glen
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1/6/16
Hi all:
Foggy again this morning, the forecast is calling for a chance of freezing rain later, maybe freezing rain & some snow tomorrow, so we’ll see what all develops. The weekend is to be colder.
Yesterday morning I brought my farm record book up to date as of Dec. 31 and started a new record book for this year. I went into Kny, stopped at the Farm Bureau Ins. office to go over my farm insurance, then on to check on some cherry pickers. I got one at the Orscheln store, the TSC store didn’t have one on hand. The one I got had been put together by a rookie who obviously didn’t follow the directions—had some bolts in the wrong places. It was short one bolt and two bolts were too short to fit where they needed to go. I’ll go back later today when I go in for my grocery trip and get the proper bolts.
After lunch I unloaded the cherry picker and made the changes I could (the long time clerk who helped me with it just shook his head at how the rookie idiot had put it together, obviously not mechanically inclined). This is designed so the legs fold up for storage so it doesn’t take up much room. This will eliminate the worry of hurting my back when getting the Quik-Coupler on & off the tractor.
When I headed into Kny in the morning I had noticed two horse trailers over east by the pasture tank and drove there to see what was happening. One of the trailers was the Dibberns, they were helping move the cattle out of the stalk field to another field—there were four horses and two ATVs chasing the cows, a lot of the cows were not cooperating—didn’t want to leave that field—Victor later told me they had to rope six cows.
After I got done with the cherry picker I decided to go drain the tank in the pasture since the cows were now gone. I removed the drain plug, there was already a mess around the tank since it had overflowed a couple times. I went to the mailbox to get the Hub paper, saw a pickup over by the pasture tank, so drove there to see if it was Victor—it was. I told him if he ever again used the well to water cattle on his stalks to set a tank across the fence rather than using the tank by the well—that system just doesn’t work in cold temps.
Yesterday morning the monogram money on KRVN radio was up to $228.80, a guy from KS finally had the right initials, it had been thirteen days since the last winner.
Glen
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1/2/16
Hello all:
Another morning when I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep----BUMMER!! I never have any luck trying to get a nap in during the day either, another BUMMER!!
Well, the New Year hoopla is over so it’s back to the grind. Yesterday morning I met Ken & Kate for breakfast at Perkins in Kny; that place was doing a land office business, hungry people were waiting for tables to empty. K & K went to see Ada before heading back west, I did some shopping and filled my car gas tank before heading home. Later in the afternoon Kathy called to say they had left their credit card at Old Chicago when they dined there Th. night, asked if I would go get it, so I went back late evening to get the card and did made a stop at Wal-Mart.
Th. morning I took the loader and picked up the tree branches I had cut up on Wed., made four trips and dumped them on the pile. I filled the fuel tank on the tractor, noticed the hose on the fuel barrel was leaking due to deterioration caused by old age and exposure to the elements, so I’ll head to Ptown this morning to get a new hose. It’s supposed to be a decent day—high of 42, so will crank up the chain saw and cut up two tree branches in the windbreak that have toppled onto some machines.
Glen
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12/29/15
Hello all:
It looks like there are scattered clouds overhead but the sun is breaking through. It’s a cold morning but if the sun is shining, it doesn’t seem to be as cold as it is when it is dreary overcast. I started my morning by winning the trivia question on the KGFW Breakfast Flakes program—the question was “what do 10% of families do before opening presents on Christmas morning”? My lucky guess was “get into a heated argument”, so I have a prize package to pick up at the station sometime.
Yesterday morning I played chef—I put a beef roast in the crock-pot and baked a bunch of chicken thighs. I like to have a chicken thigh for my Sunday noon meal, now I have enough in the freezer to last me through the end of April. I sliced the roast and will use it for sandwiches.
After lunch I cut some tree branches along the fenceline on the west side of the south pasture, used the eight foot hand saw to cut the branches I couldn’t reach with the chain saw. I need to go back with the loader and chain saw, cut the branches into smaller pieces, and haul them to the pile.
This afternoon the Amherst BB teams are playing in a Holiday Tournament at Kearney Catholic, the boys play North Platte St. Patrick, a team that may well be of equal talent—it should be a good game. I’m planning to go to the game since I have to go into Kny anyway to the radio station to pick up my prize.
Glen
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12/24/15
Hello all,
Overcast and a dusting of snow here this morning, more snow possible the next couple days. The forecast earlier in the week had indicated a slight chance for snow, now it sounds more definite but no big snowfall amounts are expected. It’s a bummer to see on GMA the reports of the tornados in Mississippi, not a good Christmas for that area—weird to have tornados in Dec.
Yesterday morning I went to the fertilizer plant in Ptown, no tax advantage for me to prepay any fertilizer for this year but I may lock some in after Jan. first, there’s a good chance it’ll go up by spring. I had a delay on the way home, had to wait on a trail drive of some cows being moved to a new cornfield. When I got home I started the fan on the bin, need to get the corn cooled down. After lunch I finished the wire spool I had started on Tues. and put the tools away. I cranked up the Honda, made a tour of the electric fence—still all intact.
I headed into Kny early evening to make my annual tour of the mall, it was crowded. The Radio Shack store is gone, that was a good source of hard to find batteries. I also went to Target and Kmart, was looking for something to hold the “stuff” that there’s no room for in the SUV—didn’t find anything.
Glen
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May 28, 2016
The purpose of the Carmann Will written prior to 1977:
160 acres (80 acres in pasture) jointly owned by two sisters after death of mother.
Issues expressed in emails and telephone conversations:
Birth order -- does it matter?
Impact on siblings.
Financial pressures and depression issues.
Issues of family consideration. Sell at 75% of assessed value proposal.
Potential sale of homestead land.
Attorney engaged to negotiate a sale. Rate about $175/hour.
What costs and fees?
Bidding war between neighbors a possibility.
Public auction.
What is market rate.
Cousin involvement viewed as a negative.
October 4, 2016
Land sale of 160 acres at $2,100 completed with check in hand
by eldest daughter, age 77. Attorney fees of less than $5,000
To be paid by eldest daughter.
Process of selling the land initiated in April of 2016.
(This was former Florang land -- not Juhl homestead
Land.)
Section 6, Township 10, Range 16
Lots 17,18, 23, 24.
Posted in Kearney Hub Trends on November 6, 2016.
Assessed Valuation was $335,000 plus.
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MAUL, Martin G. "Mike", 84, of Kearney, formerly of Riverdale, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, at Good Samaritan Hospital
Services: Thursday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Amherst
Burial: Riverdale Cemetery with military honors
Mortuary: Horner-Lieske-Horner
Memorials: to the church
Born Nov. 7, 1917, in Amherst
Parents: George and Louise (Rusch) Maul
Graduated from Amherst High School in 1936
Worked at Gambles in Broken Bow and Kearney
Military: U.S. Marines in 1941-1945, served in the Pacific
Married: Jan. 8, 1946, to Ada Symmonds in Amherst
Was a lifetime resident of the Amherst/Riverdale area
Was employed at First National Bank in Amherst, 1946-1950, then at the State Bank of Riverdale and was also an independent insurance agent; retired in 1983.
Activities: member of the church, the Lutheran Layman's League, VFW Post 759 and the American Legion Post 52; was a volunteer for the Good Samaritan Hospital Service League in Kearney for many years
Survivors include his wife;
sons, Thomas of Columbus
and Jerry of Eugene, Ore.;
daughters, Kathleen Carmann of Littleton, Colo.,
and Georgia Rime of Oceanside, Calif.;
brother, Emmett Maul of Gibbon; sister, Rumilda Lantis of Kearney; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Was preceded in death by three brothers and three infant grandchildren
Kearney Hub, February, 2002
Rudolph Carmann was born January 28, 1912 at Polk, Nebraska to William and Grace (THADEN) Carmann, the fifth child in a family of seven children.
Pleasanton was founded in 1890 even though floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.
The family regularly attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church seven miles north of Riverdale where William served many years on the council. Rudolph learned about taking care of farmland, hauling out manure, rotating crops, cutting out sunflowers and cockleburrs, grinding feed, cleaning sheds, fixing fences and machinery and tending to hogs and cattle. All of this continued on his farm when he married at age of 24. (He rented the Homestead farm from his future father-in-law who lived a mile west on the Homeplace farm at the time so Rudy lived on the Juhl Homestead from 1934 to 1977.)
Dorothy Juhl Carmann was born June 12, 1916 to Alexander and Evalena (Henderson) Juhl at a Kearney hospital.
Rudolph met Dorothy at a barn dance hosted by a neighbor who had built a new barn. She became mixed up on all his names, so she called him Rudy. At the time, she was attending college in Kearney on a "shoestring" preparing to be a rural teacher. Mamie Lund of Pleasanton helped Dorothy get a school in the Sandhills at $34 a month in 1934 so she got her year's experience and got to teach District 90 for $90 a month the next year.
The school was eight miles north of Amherst and she boarded with Bessie Berkheimer (Nov. 6, 1890-June 11, 1981 Memorial #57641955 and spouse George R. Berkheimer (1889 - 1954)).
Pleasanton was Rudy's hometown for many years. Every Saturday night he played pool with friends. He learned to play guitar, baseball--he had a uniform with a team--also sang for weddings, choirs and funerals. He served on church councils and school boards for many years.
Dorothy was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in April of 1936. Rudolph and Dorothy were married May 24, 1936 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Rudy rented Dorothy's father's farm seven miles north of Riverdale. He bought four horses, a wagon, a disc, a car, a kitchen stove and other supplies with the thousand dollar wedding gift from his dad. Dorothy had bought a piano for $75 that spring. Her father, Alex, rejoiced that Rudy was good with tools and efficient with farming practices and machinery.
Their first baby was born, Harvey Rudolph, was born July 11, 1937 and lived only three months.
There were many visits down to Rudy's dad's farm west of Pleasanton through the years and Rudolph purchased it when the estate was settled. (His father had paid $100 an acre in 1916 and stipulated that Rudy could purchased the farm acres for the same price.)
After being married for eight years, Rudy had a heart attack and had to take it easy for a year. Harold Juhl was home from the Army and helped them farm.
In 1954 the Carmanns moved a lovely big house purchased for forty-five hundred dollars from Godfrey and Emma Hemmann onto the three hundred twenty acres bought when Alex's estate was settled in 1952.
Dorothy taught school in District 80 in 1959 on a special permit.
Dorothy's grandfather, Ferdinand Juhl, homesteaded the land in 1879. In 1979 the Carmanns received the AK-SAR-BEN Award for land being in the same family one hundred years.
A neighbor nicknamed him Mike which was to last until his death on May 24, 1977, on their 41st wedding anniversary.
When sister Lena was eighteen and Rudy was six, they drove a team of horses moving a wagon load of things, March 1, 1918, to a farm six miles west of Pleasanton. William had bought a farm of at least 240 acres per the 1919 Buffalo County platt map for one hundred dollars an acre from Mr. Bell, a long time resident of the area. The farm shared a boundary with the farm of 320 acres owned by Joseph Hadwiger Sr.
(Note: Pleasanton is a small town in the northern part of Buffalo County, situated on the South Loup River, with a population of fewer than 350. It was the last town on the end of a spur line of the Union Pacific and lies in the center of a rich farming community. A factor contributing to the success of this community is the fact that some of its people lived in the locality continuously for one hundred years or more. Founded in 1890, floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.)
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SISTER-IN-LAW
Wilma R. Carmann, 96, of Kearney died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. Rev. Duane Duley and Rev. Dustin Lappe will officiate. Burial will be at the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation is planned Monday from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney or prior to services Tuesday at the church. Memorials are suggested to Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com . Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home of Kearney is in charge of arrangements.
She was born March 5, 1917 to William and Anna (Rasmussen) Zimmer. She was born and raised on her parent's farm, a mile north and 4 miles west of Pleasanton. She was baptized April 4, 1926 at Pleasant Valley United Brethren Church. Wilma was confirmed June 16, 1940 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Peake. Her grade school years were a Prairie Bell School and she graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1934.
November 18, 1939 Wilma married Raymond C. Carmann at St. Paul's Lutheran Church north of Riverdale. They made their home with Raymond's parents on their farm in Pleasant Valley for about 7 years. Raymond and Wilma moved to a farm they purchased north of his parents on March 5, 1946. After Raymond's death in 1967 Wilma attended Kearney State College for 2 years and received a secretarial degree. She worked for Edward Jones after graduation and retired in 1982. She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church for over 40 years where she taught Sunday School, was active in Lutheran Women's Missionary League, Ladies Aid and choir. Her family was very precious to her and she traveled to Germany and all over the United States visiting them.
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Ken's Memory of his dad:
May 12, 2015
I recall back in the early 60s------ extreme cold spell----- outlet pipe had frozen back into the eroded wall of the ''''''END OF THE LINE QUAGMIRE '''''''......... I drew the short straw that COLD AM (must have been a Saturday)........ Dad Rudolf said, "Get your 5 buckle boots on!!!!"
I got to chip back into the dirt to expose more of the 5 inch pipe (it is ~120 yards from house to bank outlet) ...... then hold wirewrapped BURNING bundles of corncobs soaked in tractor fuel UNDER THE FROZEN PIPE....... but just long enough to thaw the ice NOT BURN the creosote fabric pipe........ "Keep it moving--- not too long in one place!!! " Dad kept saying. "What happens when the ice PLUG melts??" I asked ......... and I REMEMBER THIS AS VIVIDLY AS THE COFFEE I AM DRINKING RIGHT NOW............ Dad Rudolf laughed as he replied, "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!!!"
I'll leave 'THE REST OF THE STORY' to your imagination.......... I know that Bro Larry and I helped get that big old rusty galvinized cattle tank in place on top of the pit ---covered it with straw...... SO:
'YOU WON'T HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!!!!'
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THE BLIZZARD of 2016 - RUDY's OLDEST SON WRITES STORY
Forecast kept us warm, safe at home
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2/9/16
Hello all:
I have water flowing in the house again after five days of carrying water in from the hydrants. The Cudaback crew yesterday morning was able to dislodge the “stuff” that was blocking the water line. We have no idea as to how it came about, it may have been accumulating for years. I’ll keep checking to see if there is any sign of a leak in the line somewhere. I had visions of them saying “we’ll go back and get the backhoe and start digging”, was sure glad it didn’t come to that.
Mid afternoon I went into Kny, was going to look for a new jacket, but the store was out of the tall sizes. I went on to the the FKC BB tournament at the Viaro Center, the Amherst girls won their consolation game, the Amherst boys won the championship game against Axtell 73-60. The final game was scheduled for 7:30, as usual the games didn’t go according to the clock, the Amherst-Axtell game didn’t get started until 8:45, was over just after 10:00.
This morning I’m taking the pickup to Ptown to get some work done on it, a new windshield washer pump and a new fuel pump if needed.
Glen
PS: No doubt there was great joy in Denverville yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
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Updated: February 05, 2016 - 11:09 am. Hub News
Forecasters called it Winter Storm Kayla and Nebraskans were warned days in advance to watch out. The storm lived up to its billing, pounding our state with 8-15 inches of snow blown into deep drifts by winds as strong as 50 mph. It was a terrible storm, but will Kayla be one for the history books?
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2/5/16 Friday
There was a dusting of snow last night, just enough to make everything white. The temp yesterday afternoon got to the low 30s, the forecast is calling for those temps the next few days. I spent most of yesterday morning going over the yard again, raised the skid shoes on the blade to take a deeper cut. I’m pushing the snow to the west side of the yard, then pushing it to the north/south to make room for any future snow.
The mystery of the furnace was solved yesterday---I got Matt Hadwiger on the phone, he said he had gone to the gas meters Monday afternoon (2/1/16) and shut all the meters off!!!!!! He said on one of the irrigation well engines the cows had rubbed against the gas hose on the engine, the hose came loose from the engine resulting in the gas flowing freely. So he drove over here to the meters, didn’t know which of the four meters was for that well, thought all the meters were for irr wells (therefore they don’t need to be on anyway), so he turned the valve off on each meter. There is a shutoff valve by the regulator right at the engine, he didn’t think of that---panicked at the thought of not knowing how long the hose had been off and how much it had already cost him, so get to the meter and shut it off!!! He didn’t realize I ran the furnace off my line.
I went into Kny yesterday at 3:30 for my appt. at the FSA office,that didn’t take long, then stayed in for the UNK BB games later. The main streets in Kny had all been plowed but there were a lot of spots that were ice packed. Anyplace where there had been traffic before the plows got around resulted in the snow getting packed hard, it’s still there, so there are a lot of bumpy streets.
Glen Carman
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2/4/16
Bright sunshine at daybreak, currently at 9:00 a temp of 14 with a slight breeze. Even at cold temps, if the sun is shining it makes it seem more tolerable than when there are no shadows on the ground. I had a couple of revolting developments yesterday, real BUMMERS!!!!! But I guess it could have been worse.
Billy & Karen fed me breakfast yesterday morning before I headed back home in the tractor. I spent the morning clearing snow from in front of the house and garage, deep as the snow was it took a long time to see any progress. At noon I called the Fiddelke Heating to see when someone might be able to come and check the furnace—I had gone with the tractor to make sure someone could get here from the R’dle Road. There was a big drift on 190th by Harold Daake’s grain bins but 175th was clear, the maintainer had already been on the R’dle Road. I also called Neal Chandler to have him come and check the water works, he said he’d hopefully get here around 2:00. I went out and took the lid off the pit, had straw bales on the lid. The furnace man got here at 1:30, checked everything, couldn’t find anything wrong, it ran a minute and quit. He finally determined that there was no gas coming to the furnace. I told him I had thought about checking the gas meter down south but thought “surely nobody would have shut the meter off”---WRONG!!!! We drove to the meter (I had a pipe wrench along just in case) and sure enough—the shut off valve was turned off!!! There are four meters there, all were shut off. One meter is for Billy’s irr. well, one is for Terry Hadwiger’s well (he changed that well to electricity five years ago), one is for Ron’s two wells, and the fourth is for my well. So I turned the valve back to the open position, when we got back the house the furnace was running. I told the guy I thought maybe the furnace had been put in around 15 years ago, he found a tag that said it had been installed in 1992, so it’s going on 24 years—he said the average life of those furnaces is around 18 years, so hard telling how much longer it may last.
Neal Chandler had come while I was in the basement with the furnace guy, he was walking to the house when I saw him, he said there was water coming from the hydrant southeast of the house, asked if I had water in the house, I figured if there was water at the hydrant there would be water in the house. He said the water line coming from the pressure tank was froze, he had thawed them with a small torch. I was totally surprised it had gotten that cold in the pit, I had it covered with straw bales, figured that was good insulation. Never before have any pipes in the pit froze up!!!! Neal thought the way the wind had blown, there might have been a small crack somewhere that let the cold air in. So Neal took off, I went in the house and---NO WATER in the house!!! I called Neal again, he was just a mile away, came back. He looked at the pipes in the basement, none frozen there. I could get water from all the hydrants but not in the house. I called Bob Cudaback and told him about it, Bob didn’t have clue as what would be the cause. A water gremlin at work!!!!
I called the gas co. to ask if the gas meters are read electronically or if they are read manually (thinking maybe the meter reader had shut the valve), the gal said they get electronic readings from the meters. I called Matt H. last night but he didn’t answer his phone, also called Ron, he said he didn’t know if anyone had been to the meters. I had experienced this twice years ago, Uncle Butch would go to shut off the meters to his wells, not knowing which meter was his, he would shut all the meters off.
This morning I’ll push more snow off the yard west of the house, this afternoon I have an appt. at the FSA office, tonight is a BB game at UNK.
Glen Carmen
PS: The furnace man said it’s been twelve years since Wes Fiddelke sold the business.
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2/2/16
Hello all:
The blizzard is in progress big time, the strong north wind is making for a nasty wind chill index. It’s hard to tell how much snow has fallen so far but it’s a wet snow, hard to move. I went out earlier to plug in the block heater on the tractor, scooping the snow off the steps was a chore. This snow is wet enough that wherever you step, the snow stays firmly packed.
The snow didn’t start until close to midnight but the wind had been blowing earlier. Around 8:00 last night I realized the furnace hadn’t run for awhile, the fan doesn’t come on, so no heat—really bad timing. The temp isn’t to get too bitterly cold but it will cool down in here, it’s about fifty degrees in the house this morning. I was concerned about the electricity going off, no problem there so far. Then earlier I thought I’d better have some extra water on hand, was filling a bucket when the water stopped running—DOUBLE BUMMER!!!!! I had filled some containers so I’d have some drinking water but can’t rinse the breakfast dishes. I won’t be able to get anyone out to check the furnace until the snow lets up, it’ll get chilly in here but I should be able to endure. As to the water, I’ll have to have Neal Chandler come and check whenever he can get here—he had put a new control switch on the pressure tank on Dec. 11.
Yesterday morning I went to the open house the Source Gas Co. had in R’dle, got signed up for the irrigation natural gas for the year. At 1:00 I went to the Taubenheim bull sale, the top selling bull brought $16,000. They had so many desserts on the dessert table it was difficult to make a choice!!
With the forecast of the blizzard, all area schools and most businesses had put out the word yesterday afternoon that they would be closed today. I won’t be going into Kny for the appt. I had there at 4:00. On the radio earlier was the report that I-80 is closed from Elm Creek to Utica. When I got back from the bull sale yesterday I noticed that Billy’s cattle were gone, he must have had some help to get them out, apparently moved them back to his place.
From snowy NE,
Glen Carman
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Hello all:
The month of Jan. is in the history books, if the weather forecast proves out, Feb. will start with a blizzard—the latest forecast on the radio this morning is calling for a blizzard warning starting tonight and lasting through tomorrow night, 10-13 inches of snow. That amount of snow wouldn’t be so bad but the predicted wind gusting to 45 MPH—that will cause some real problems!!!!! I sure hope the guess on the wind is totally wrong but we won’t know until tomorrow what develops. I put the rear blade on the tractor Sat. afternoon so I’m ready to go with it. It’s been many years since this area has had a real blizzard that resulted in major drifting, we just haven’t had much snow the last few years.
This morning the natural gas co. is having an open house in R’dle, I’ll go for a cup of coffee and get signed up for my irrigation gas for the summer. Today Dale & Mike Taubenheim are having their annual bull sale; I’ll go there for lunch at noon—I never buy a bull but eat lunch on them as payment for damage their cows did on my soybeans a few years ago when a bunch of their cows got out of the pasture and went exploring the countryside and wound up in my bean field. I’m sure they’re glad the sale is today rather than tomorrow!!!!
Yesterday afternoon I strolled out west to take a walk, found a day old calf. Originally Billy had thought there was only one cow in the bunch that was due to calf, there were two calves a couple weeks ago. I called him to inform him of this new calf—he was surprised at my news.
Glen Carman
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January 30, 2016
Hello all:
Cloudy here this morning, the forecast is now calling for temp in the 50s today, then for a slight chance of rain tonight. The snow is to hit here Monday night and Tuesday, the prediction last night is for the Kny area to get twelve inches—that wouldn’t be so bad but the wind is to be strong, so we may have blizzard conditions—we’ll see how that all plays out. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a blizzard in this area.
Yesterday morning I motored to GI to get the “free” oil change on the car, even considering the gas it took, it was probably worthwhile. I came back on Highway 2, stopped at the Subway shop on the south edge of Ravenna for a sandwich. Ravenna is getting to be a bustling area—a new Dollar General store is going up just east of the Subway shop. I stopped at the fertilizer plant in Ptown, was going to prepay some fertilizer—the mgr. said to hold off a couple weeks, he said the fertilizer will probably go down a little more.
I put the finishing touches on the brackets on the Quick-Hitch, took it off twice to make some adjustments to get the proper balance when hanging on the cherry-picker boom. I took a bucket of brome seed and scattered it on the south end of the gravity field, if it snows the seed will get worked into the ground.
My pancake inventory was exhausted this morning so had to make a new batch of pancakes, now have enough to last into April .
Glen
PS Larry: I drove down Stolley Park to Adams St. yesterday, it looks like there’s an addition being added to the Barr Middle School. A new elementary school is being built between Adams St. and the Ruzicka Carburetor Shop.
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1/28/16
Hello all:
We’re having April weather here, temp to be in the low 50s today. There is some possibility of snow early next week, time will tell!!! Yesterday morning I got on the Honda, made a tour of the fence around the corn stalks—all was intact. I’m sure surprised that since I put the fence up, there has not been a single incident of deer running through the fence and breaking the wire—apparently my reputation as a builder of sturdy fences has become known throughout the deer population!!!!
Late morning I got back on the computer, called the server, got a gal who was able to understand the problem I was having (not receiving emails), and within ten minutes she had solved my problem and I was back in business. She said their office is in Loveland, CO., I thought they were based in Kny. Later in the afternoon I made a bracket for a thermometer I had gotten and mounted it on the edge of the kitchen window.
Today I’m going to make some brackets to put on the 3 pt. Quick-Coupler so I can use the cherry-picker hoist to put the hitch on & off the tractor. I had thought I could just put a chain on the coupler frame but that didn’t work so will go to Plan B.
On the news last night—there was a bomb scare at Walnut Middle School in GI yesterday, somebody saw a box in a hallway, they evacuated the building, found the box contained an accordion!!
Glen
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1/27/16
Hello all:
I’m back since being absent as of last Friday, got back here mid-afternoon yesterday. Ken & Kathy are gracious hosts—thanks K&K!! Friday we went via the RTD train to the Denver Broncos PEP Rally at Larimor Square in downtown Denver—what a mass of people!!! We stayed on the edge of the mass, the Bronco fever was something to see. That night we went to see Troy’s son Grant play a BB game in Salida, his team won in an exciting finish.
Sat. afternoon we went to the draft horse show at the NWSS, I was disappointed the six team hitches were on the Sat. night show. The big game Sunday was sure a good game, especially since Denver won!!! Monday Ken and I (Kathy was babysitting at Kami’s) went to the US Air Force Academy—we watched the cadets line up in formation as they marched into the mess hall for their noon meal. The Academy covers a large area, I had no idea of the size. We drove through the Garden of the Gods, sure some interesting rock formations there.
Yesterday morning as I headed back I was in the rush hour traffic on I-25—quite a difference compared to the traffic on Second Avenue in Kny!!!! There is an inch of snow in the yard but the roads were clear. The temp today is to be in the high 30’s, in the 40’s the next two days.
Glen
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1/20/16
Hello all:
Overcast here this morning, will probably not see any sun today, chance for some snow tonight. Grand Island and areas on east had more snow yesterday than what we had here.
Yesterday morning I took the Quick-Hitch off the tractor and hooked to the single bale fork; I took six bales over to the scale at Victor’s to see what they weighed—two bales per trip. I had bales from three different areas, wanted to see if there was much variation from the different grasses. The bales were heavier than I thought they might be—Ron makes heavy bales!!!!
I went to the BB game against Shelton last night, both girls & boys won, the boys won 83-31—it wasn’t much of a game after the first quarter. Matt Hadwiger’s boy didn’t start but played a lot of the game. Matt’s daughter is a starter for the girls, she’s pretty good for a freshman.
I’m going to go to Ptown this morning and prepay some fertilizer before the price increases next spring.
Glen
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1/18/16
Hello all:
Back home for a few days until I head back to Denver for the Sat. afternoon Draft Horse Show at the NWSS. Travel conditions last week were good both ways, there was a strip of maybe fifteen miles east of Denver Sat. morning where there had been a skiff of snow. Thanks Ken & Kathy for your hospitality, also to Kami & Curt and Troy & MInda for the meals at their homes. I got to watch budding NBA star Grant Carmann play in his BB game Friday night, his team won handily, didn’t need any extra help from scorebook keeper dad Troy.
I got here Sat. around 4:30, went through my mail and did various things to get settled back. I went late to the dance in Miller, learned the couple who come from Central City, only when this band is playing, had hit a deer just east of Amherst while enroute to Miller, damaged the left front fender and drivers door of their car, so they were not happy dancers!!!!
No mail today so will motor to Glenwood Corners to get a World Herald.
Glen
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1/8/16
Hi all:
Maybe an inch of snow through last night, chance for more later today. Sat. night the temp is to get to near zero, that’ll be the coldest of the winter so far. We haven’t had any really bitter cold yet!!!
Yesterday morning I went to the dentist to get an X-ray of the tooth that was bothering me, it showed there was infection at the bottom of the root. The dentist had time at 1:00 so I said I’d be back then. I went on to the dermatologist for my appt. for the surgery to remove the skin around the area where she had removed some skin cancer back in Dec. She cut out an area about the size of a nickel (three layers of skin) on my left arm, put in stitches (she didn’t believe me when I told her she was doing the very first stitches on my body). I can feel a little sensation on the arm when I move it, I hope that eases up in the next day or so.
I grabbed a chicken sandwich for lunch and then back to the dentist for the work on the tooth, it wasn’t an urgent situation but I figured since he had the time then, I might as well get it done then rather than wait—I had the fear of getting a terrible tooth ache at a bad time!!!!!
This afternoon I’m going into Kny to go to the Home & Builders Show at the fairgrounds, tonight to the Overton-Amherst BB game in Amherst.
Glen
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1/6/16
Hi all:
Foggy again this morning, the forecast is calling for a chance of freezing rain later, maybe freezing rain & some snow tomorrow, so we’ll see what all develops. The weekend is to be colder.
Yesterday morning I brought my farm record book up to date as of Dec. 31 and started a new record book for this year. I went into Kny, stopped at the Farm Bureau Ins. office to go over my farm insurance, then on to check on some cherry pickers. I got one at the Orscheln store, the TSC store didn’t have one on hand. The one I got had been put together by a rookie who obviously didn’t follow the directions—had some bolts in the wrong places. It was short one bolt and two bolts were too short to fit where they needed to go. I’ll go back later today when I go in for my grocery trip and get the proper bolts.
After lunch I unloaded the cherry picker and made the changes I could (the long time clerk who helped me with it just shook his head at how the rookie idiot had put it together, obviously not mechanically inclined). This is designed so the legs fold up for storage so it doesn’t take up much room. This will eliminate the worry of hurting my back when getting the Quik-Coupler on & off the tractor.
When I headed into Kny in the morning I had noticed two horse trailers over east by the pasture tank and drove there to see what was happening. One of the trailers was the Dibberns, they were helping move the cattle out of the stalk field to another field—there were four horses and two ATVs chasing the cows, a lot of the cows were not cooperating—didn’t want to leave that field—Victor later told me they had to rope six cows.
After I got done with the cherry picker I decided to go drain the tank in the pasture since the cows were now gone. I removed the drain plug, there was already a mess around the tank since it had overflowed a couple times. I went to the mailbox to get the Hub paper, saw a pickup over by the pasture tank, so drove there to see if it was Victor—it was. I told him if he ever again used the well to water cattle on his stalks to set a tank across the fence rather than using the tank by the well—that system just doesn’t work in cold temps.
Yesterday morning the monogram money on KRVN radio was up to $228.80, a guy from KS finally had the right initials, it had been thirteen days since the last winner.
Glen
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1/2/16
Hello all:
Another morning when I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep----BUMMER!! I never have any luck trying to get a nap in during the day either, another BUMMER!!
Well, the New Year hoopla is over so it’s back to the grind. Yesterday morning I met Ken & Kate for breakfast at Perkins in Kny; that place was doing a land office business, hungry people were waiting for tables to empty. K & K went to see Ada before heading back west, I did some shopping and filled my car gas tank before heading home. Later in the afternoon Kathy called to say they had left their credit card at Old Chicago when they dined there Th. night, asked if I would go get it, so I went back late evening to get the card and did made a stop at Wal-Mart.
Th. morning I took the loader and picked up the tree branches I had cut up on Wed., made four trips and dumped them on the pile. I filled the fuel tank on the tractor, noticed the hose on the fuel barrel was leaking due to deterioration caused by old age and exposure to the elements, so I’ll head to Ptown this morning to get a new hose. It’s supposed to be a decent day—high of 42, so will crank up the chain saw and cut up two tree branches in the windbreak that have toppled onto some machines.
Glen
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12/29/15
Hello all:
It looks like there are scattered clouds overhead but the sun is breaking through. It’s a cold morning but if the sun is shining, it doesn’t seem to be as cold as it is when it is dreary overcast. I started my morning by winning the trivia question on the KGFW Breakfast Flakes program—the question was “what do 10% of families do before opening presents on Christmas morning”? My lucky guess was “get into a heated argument”, so I have a prize package to pick up at the station sometime.
Yesterday morning I played chef—I put a beef roast in the crock-pot and baked a bunch of chicken thighs. I like to have a chicken thigh for my Sunday noon meal, now I have enough in the freezer to last me through the end of April. I sliced the roast and will use it for sandwiches.
After lunch I cut some tree branches along the fenceline on the west side of the south pasture, used the eight foot hand saw to cut the branches I couldn’t reach with the chain saw. I need to go back with the loader and chain saw, cut the branches into smaller pieces, and haul them to the pile.
This afternoon the Amherst BB teams are playing in a Holiday Tournament at Kearney Catholic, the boys play North Platte St. Patrick, a team that may well be of equal talent—it should be a good game. I’m planning to go to the game since I have to go into Kny anyway to the radio station to pick up my prize.
Glen
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12/24/15
Hello all,
Overcast and a dusting of snow here this morning, more snow possible the next couple days. The forecast earlier in the week had indicated a slight chance for snow, now it sounds more definite but no big snowfall amounts are expected. It’s a bummer to see on GMA the reports of the tornados in Mississippi, not a good Christmas for that area—weird to have tornados in Dec.
Yesterday morning I went to the fertilizer plant in Ptown, no tax advantage for me to prepay any fertilizer for this year but I may lock some in after Jan. first, there’s a good chance it’ll go up by spring. I had a delay on the way home, had to wait on a trail drive of some cows being moved to a new cornfield. When I got home I started the fan on the bin, need to get the corn cooled down. After lunch I finished the wire spool I had started on Tues. and put the tools away. I cranked up the Honda, made a tour of the electric fence—still all intact.
I headed into Kny early evening to make my annual tour of the mall, it was crowded. The Radio Shack store is gone, that was a good source of hard to find batteries. I also went to Target and Kmart, was looking for something to hold the “stuff” that there’s no room for in the SUV—didn’t find anything.
Glen
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May 28, 2016
The purpose of the Carmann Will written prior to 1977:
160 acres (80 acres in pasture) jointly owned by two sisters after death of mother.
Issues expressed in emails and telephone conversations:
Birth order -- does it matter?
Impact on siblings.
Financial pressures and depression issues.
Issues of family consideration. Sell at 75% of assessed value proposal.
Potential sale of homestead land.
Attorney engaged to negotiate a sale. Rate about $175/hour.
What costs and fees?
Bidding war between neighbors a possibility.
Public auction.
What is market rate.
Cousin involvement viewed as a negative.
October 4, 2016
Land sale of 160 acres at $2,100 completed with check in hand
by eldest daughter, age 77. Attorney fees of less than $5,000
To be paid by eldest daughter.
Process of selling the land initiated in April of 2016.
(This was former Florang land -- not Juhl homestead
Land.)
Section 6, Township 10, Range 16
Lots 17,18, 23, 24.
Posted in Kearney Hub Trends on November 6, 2016.
Assessed Valuation was $335,000 plus.
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MAUL, Martin G. "Mike", 84, of Kearney, formerly of Riverdale, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, at Good Samaritan Hospital
Services: Thursday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Amherst
Burial: Riverdale Cemetery with military honors
Mortuary: Horner-Lieske-Horner
Memorials: to the church
Born Nov. 7, 1917, in Amherst
Parents: George and Louise (Rusch) Maul
Graduated from Amherst High School in 1936
Worked at Gambles in Broken Bow and Kearney
Military: U.S. Marines in 1941-1945, served in the Pacific
Married: Jan. 8, 1946, to Ada Symmonds in Amherst
Was a lifetime resident of the Amherst/Riverdale area
Was employed at First National Bank in Amherst, 1946-1950, then at the State Bank of Riverdale and was also an independent insurance agent; retired in 1983.
Activities: member of the church, the Lutheran Layman's League, VFW Post 759 and the American Legion Post 52; was a volunteer for the Good Samaritan Hospital Service League in Kearney for many years
Survivors include his wife;
sons, Thomas of Columbus
and Jerry of Eugene, Ore.;
daughters, Kathleen Carmann of Littleton, Colo.,
and Georgia Rime of Oceanside, Calif.;
brother, Emmett Maul of Gibbon; sister, Rumilda Lantis of Kearney; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Was preceded in death by three brothers and three infant grandchildren
Kearney Hub, February, 2002
Source: 1880-1990 Amherst Centennial Book article "The Rudolf Carmann Family" submitted by Dorothy Juhl Carmann
Rudolph Carmann was born January 28, 1912 at Polk, Nebraska to William and Grace (THADEN) Carmann, the fifth child in a family of seven children.
Pleasanton was founded in 1890 even though floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.
The family regularly attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church seven miles north of Riverdale where William served many years on the council. Rudolph learned about taking care of farmland, hauling out manure, rotating crops, cutting out sunflowers and cockleburrs, grinding feed, cleaning sheds, fixing fences and machinery and tending to hogs and cattle. All of this continued on his farm when he married at age of 24. (He rented the Homestead farm from his future father-in-law who lived a mile west on the Homeplace farm at the time so Rudy lived on the Juhl Homestead from 1934 to 1977.)
Dorothy Juhl Carmann was born June 12, 1916 to Alexander and Evalena (Henderson) Juhl at a Kearney hospital.
Rudolph met Dorothy at a barn dance hosted by a neighbor who had built a new barn. She became mixed up on all his names, so she called him Rudy. At the time, she was attending college in Kearney on a "shoestring" preparing to be a rural teacher. Mamie Lund of Pleasanton helped Dorothy get a school in the Sandhills at $34 a month in 1934 so she got her year's experience and got to teach District 90 for $90 a month the next year.
The school was eight miles north of Amherst and she boarded with Bessie Berkheimer (Nov. 6, 1890-June 11, 1981 Memorial #57641955 and spouse George R. Berkheimer (1889 - 1954)).
Pleasanton was Rudy's hometown for many years. Every Saturday night he played pool with friends. He learned to play guitar, baseball--he had a uniform with a team--also sang for weddings, choirs and funerals. He served on church councils and school boards for many years.
Dorothy was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in April of 1936. Rudolph and Dorothy were married May 24, 1936 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Rudy rented Dorothy's father's farm seven miles north of Riverdale. He bought four horses, a wagon, a disc, a car, a kitchen stove and other supplies with the thousand dollar wedding gift from his dad. Dorothy had bought a piano for $75 that spring. Her father, Alex, rejoiced that Rudy was good with tools and efficient with farming practices and machinery.
Their first baby was born, Harvey Rudolph, was born July 11, 1937 and lived only three months.
There were many visits down to Rudy's dad's farm west of Pleasanton through the years and Rudolph purchased it when the estate was settled. (His father had paid $100 an acre in 1916 and stipulated that Rudy could purchased the farm acres for the same price.)
After being married for eight years, Rudy had a heart attack and had to take it easy for a year. Harold Juhl was home from the Army and helped them farm.
In 1954 the Carmanns moved a lovely big house purchased for forty-five hundred dollars from Godfrey and Emma Hemmann onto the three hundred twenty acres bought when Alex's estate was settled in 1952.
Dorothy taught school in District 80 in 1959 on a special permit.
Dorothy's grandfather, Ferdinand Juhl, homesteaded the land in 1879. In 1979 the Carmanns received the AK-SAR-BEN Award for land being in the same family one hundred years.
A neighbor nicknamed him Mike which was to last until his death on May 24, 1977, on their 41st wedding anniversary.
When sister Lena was eighteen and Rudy was six, they drove a team of horses moving a wagon load of things, March 1, 1918, to a farm six miles west of Pleasanton. William had bought a farm of at least 240 acres per the 1919 Buffalo County platt map for one hundred dollars an acre from Mr. Bell, a long time resident of the area. The farm shared a boundary with the farm of 320 acres owned by Joseph Hadwiger Sr.
(Note: Pleasanton is a small town in the northern part of Buffalo County, situated on the South Loup River, with a population of fewer than 350. It was the last town on the end of a spur line of the Union Pacific and lies in the center of a rich farming community. A factor contributing to the success of this community is the fact that some of its people lived in the locality continuously for one hundred years or more. Founded in 1890, floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.)
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SISTER-IN-LAW
Wilma R. Carmann, 96, of Kearney died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. Rev. Duane Duley and Rev. Dustin Lappe will officiate. Burial will be at the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation is planned Monday from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney or prior to services Tuesday at the church. Memorials are suggested to Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com . Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home of Kearney is in charge of arrangements.
She was born March 5, 1917 to William and Anna (Rasmussen) Zimmer. She was born and raised on her parent's farm, a mile north and 4 miles west of Pleasanton. She was baptized April 4, 1926 at Pleasant Valley United Brethren Church. Wilma was confirmed June 16, 1940 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Peake. Her grade school years were a Prairie Bell School and she graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1934.
November 18, 1939 Wilma married Raymond C. Carmann at St. Paul's Lutheran Church north of Riverdale. They made their home with Raymond's parents on their farm in Pleasant Valley for about 7 years. Raymond and Wilma moved to a farm they purchased north of his parents on March 5, 1946. After Raymond's death in 1967 Wilma attended Kearney State College for 2 years and received a secretarial degree. She worked for Edward Jones after graduation and retired in 1982. She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church for over 40 years where she taught Sunday School, was active in Lutheran Women's Missionary League, Ladies Aid and choir. Her family was very precious to her and she traveled to Germany and all over the United States visiting them.
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Ken's Memory of his dad:
May 12, 2015
I recall back in the early 60s------ extreme cold spell----- outlet pipe had frozen back into the eroded wall of the ''''''END OF THE LINE QUAGMIRE '''''''......... I drew the short straw that COLD AM (must have been a Saturday)........ Dad Rudolf said, "Get your 5 buckle boots on!!!!"
I got to chip back into the dirt to expose more of the 5 inch pipe (it is ~120 yards from house to bank outlet) ...... then hold wirewrapped BURNING bundles of corncobs soaked in tractor fuel UNDER THE FROZEN PIPE....... but just long enough to thaw the ice NOT BURN the creosote fabric pipe........ "Keep it moving--- not too long in one place!!! " Dad kept saying. "What happens when the ice PLUG melts??" I asked ......... and I REMEMBER THIS AS VIVIDLY AS THE COFFEE I AM DRINKING RIGHT NOW............ Dad Rudolf laughed as he replied, "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!!!"
I'll leave 'THE REST OF THE STORY' to your imagination.......... I know that Bro Larry and I helped get that big old rusty galvinized cattle tank in place on top of the pit ---covered it with straw...... SO:
'YOU WON'T HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!!!!'
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THE BLIZZARD of 2016 - RUDY's OLDEST SON WRITES STORY
Forecast kept us warm, safe at home
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2/9/16
Hello all:
I have water flowing in the house again after five days of carrying water in from the hydrants. The Cudaback crew yesterday morning was able to dislodge the “stuff” that was blocking the water line. We have no idea as to how it came about, it may have been accumulating for years. I’ll keep checking to see if there is any sign of a leak in the line somewhere. I had visions of them saying “we’ll go back and get the backhoe and start digging”, was sure glad it didn’t come to that.
Mid afternoon I went into Kny, was going to look for a new jacket, but the store was out of the tall sizes. I went on to the the FKC BB tournament at the Viaro Center, the Amherst girls won their consolation game, the Amherst boys won the championship game against Axtell 73-60. The final game was scheduled for 7:30, as usual the games didn’t go according to the clock, the Amherst-Axtell game didn’t get started until 8:45, was over just after 10:00.
This morning I’m taking the pickup to Ptown to get some work done on it, a new windshield washer pump and a new fuel pump if needed.
Glen
PS: No doubt there was great joy in Denverville yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
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Updated: February 05, 2016 - 11:09 am. Hub News
Forecasters called it Winter Storm Kayla and Nebraskans were warned days in advance to watch out. The storm lived up to its billing, pounding our state with 8-15 inches of snow blown into deep drifts by winds as strong as 50 mph. It was a terrible storm, but will Kayla be one for the history books?
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2/5/16 Friday
There was a dusting of snow last night, just enough to make everything white. The temp yesterday afternoon got to the low 30s, the forecast is calling for those temps the next few days. I spent most of yesterday morning going over the yard again, raised the skid shoes on the blade to take a deeper cut. I’m pushing the snow to the west side of the yard, then pushing it to the north/south to make room for any future snow.
The mystery of the furnace was solved yesterday---I got Matt Hadwiger on the phone, he said he had gone to the gas meters Monday afternoon (2/1/16) and shut all the meters off!!!!!! He said on one of the irrigation well engines the cows had rubbed against the gas hose on the engine, the hose came loose from the engine resulting in the gas flowing freely. So he drove over here to the meters, didn’t know which of the four meters was for that well, thought all the meters were for irr wells (therefore they don’t need to be on anyway), so he turned the valve off on each meter. There is a shutoff valve by the regulator right at the engine, he didn’t think of that---panicked at the thought of not knowing how long the hose had been off and how much it had already cost him, so get to the meter and shut it off!!! He didn’t realize I ran the furnace off my line.
I went into Kny yesterday at 3:30 for my appt. at the FSA office,that didn’t take long, then stayed in for the UNK BB games later. The main streets in Kny had all been plowed but there were a lot of spots that were ice packed. Anyplace where there had been traffic before the plows got around resulted in the snow getting packed hard, it’s still there, so there are a lot of bumpy streets.
Glen Carman
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2/4/16
Bright sunshine at daybreak, currently at 9:00 a temp of 14 with a slight breeze. Even at cold temps, if the sun is shining it makes it seem more tolerable than when there are no shadows on the ground. I had a couple of revolting developments yesterday, real BUMMERS!!!!! But I guess it could have been worse.
Billy & Karen fed me breakfast yesterday morning before I headed back home in the tractor. I spent the morning clearing snow from in front of the house and garage, deep as the snow was it took a long time to see any progress. At noon I called the Fiddelke Heating to see when someone might be able to come and check the furnace—I had gone with the tractor to make sure someone could get here from the R’dle Road. There was a big drift on 190th by Harold Daake’s grain bins but 175th was clear, the maintainer had already been on the R’dle Road. I also called Neal Chandler to have him come and check the water works, he said he’d hopefully get here around 2:00. I went out and took the lid off the pit, had straw bales on the lid. The furnace man got here at 1:30, checked everything, couldn’t find anything wrong, it ran a minute and quit. He finally determined that there was no gas coming to the furnace. I told him I had thought about checking the gas meter down south but thought “surely nobody would have shut the meter off”---WRONG!!!! We drove to the meter (I had a pipe wrench along just in case) and sure enough—the shut off valve was turned off!!! There are four meters there, all were shut off. One meter is for Billy’s irr. well, one is for Terry Hadwiger’s well (he changed that well to electricity five years ago), one is for Ron’s two wells, and the fourth is for my well. So I turned the valve back to the open position, when we got back the house the furnace was running. I told the guy I thought maybe the furnace had been put in around 15 years ago, he found a tag that said it had been installed in 1992, so it’s going on 24 years—he said the average life of those furnaces is around 18 years, so hard telling how much longer it may last.
Neal Chandler had come while I was in the basement with the furnace guy, he was walking to the house when I saw him, he said there was water coming from the hydrant southeast of the house, asked if I had water in the house, I figured if there was water at the hydrant there would be water in the house. He said the water line coming from the pressure tank was froze, he had thawed them with a small torch. I was totally surprised it had gotten that cold in the pit, I had it covered with straw bales, figured that was good insulation. Never before have any pipes in the pit froze up!!!! Neal thought the way the wind had blown, there might have been a small crack somewhere that let the cold air in. So Neal took off, I went in the house and---NO WATER in the house!!! I called Neal again, he was just a mile away, came back. He looked at the pipes in the basement, none frozen there. I could get water from all the hydrants but not in the house. I called Bob Cudaback and told him about it, Bob didn’t have clue as what would be the cause. A water gremlin at work!!!!
I called the gas co. to ask if the gas meters are read electronically or if they are read manually (thinking maybe the meter reader had shut the valve), the gal said they get electronic readings from the meters. I called Matt H. last night but he didn’t answer his phone, also called Ron, he said he didn’t know if anyone had been to the meters. I had experienced this twice years ago, Uncle Butch would go to shut off the meters to his wells, not knowing which meter was his, he would shut all the meters off.
This morning I’ll push more snow off the yard west of the house, this afternoon I have an appt. at the FSA office, tonight is a BB game at UNK.
Glen Carmen
PS: The furnace man said it’s been twelve years since Wes Fiddelke sold the business.
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2/2/16
Hello all:
The blizzard is in progress big time, the strong north wind is making for a nasty wind chill index. It’s hard to tell how much snow has fallen so far but it’s a wet snow, hard to move. I went out earlier to plug in the block heater on the tractor, scooping the snow off the steps was a chore. This snow is wet enough that wherever you step, the snow stays firmly packed.
The snow didn’t start until close to midnight but the wind had been blowing earlier. Around 8:00 last night I realized the furnace hadn’t run for awhile, the fan doesn’t come on, so no heat—really bad timing. The temp isn’t to get too bitterly cold but it will cool down in here, it’s about fifty degrees in the house this morning. I was concerned about the electricity going off, no problem there so far. Then earlier I thought I’d better have some extra water on hand, was filling a bucket when the water stopped running—DOUBLE BUMMER!!!!! I had filled some containers so I’d have some drinking water but can’t rinse the breakfast dishes. I won’t be able to get anyone out to check the furnace until the snow lets up, it’ll get chilly in here but I should be able to endure. As to the water, I’ll have to have Neal Chandler come and check whenever he can get here—he had put a new control switch on the pressure tank on Dec. 11.
Yesterday morning I went to the open house the Source Gas Co. had in R’dle, got signed up for the irrigation natural gas for the year. At 1:00 I went to the Taubenheim bull sale, the top selling bull brought $16,000. They had so many desserts on the dessert table it was difficult to make a choice!!
With the forecast of the blizzard, all area schools and most businesses had put out the word yesterday afternoon that they would be closed today. I won’t be going into Kny for the appt. I had there at 4:00. On the radio earlier was the report that I-80 is closed from Elm Creek to Utica. When I got back from the bull sale yesterday I noticed that Billy’s cattle were gone, he must have had some help to get them out, apparently moved them back to his place.
From snowy NE,
Glen Carman
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Hello all:
The month of Jan. is in the history books, if the weather forecast proves out, Feb. will start with a blizzard—the latest forecast on the radio this morning is calling for a blizzard warning starting tonight and lasting through tomorrow night, 10-13 inches of snow. That amount of snow wouldn’t be so bad but the predicted wind gusting to 45 MPH—that will cause some real problems!!!!! I sure hope the guess on the wind is totally wrong but we won’t know until tomorrow what develops. I put the rear blade on the tractor Sat. afternoon so I’m ready to go with it. It’s been many years since this area has had a real blizzard that resulted in major drifting, we just haven’t had much snow the last few years.
This morning the natural gas co. is having an open house in R’dle, I’ll go for a cup of coffee and get signed up for my irrigation gas for the summer. Today Dale & Mike Taubenheim are having their annual bull sale; I’ll go there for lunch at noon—I never buy a bull but eat lunch on them as payment for damage their cows did on my soybeans a few years ago when a bunch of their cows got out of the pasture and went exploring the countryside and wound up in my bean field. I’m sure they’re glad the sale is today rather than tomorrow!!!!
Yesterday afternoon I strolled out west to take a walk, found a day old calf. Originally Billy had thought there was only one cow in the bunch that was due to calf, there were two calves a couple weeks ago. I called him to inform him of this new calf—he was surprised at my news.
Glen Carman
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January 30, 2016
Hello all:
Cloudy here this morning, the forecast is now calling for temp in the 50s today, then for a slight chance of rain tonight. The snow is to hit here Monday night and Tuesday, the prediction last night is for the Kny area to get twelve inches—that wouldn’t be so bad but the wind is to be strong, so we may have blizzard conditions—we’ll see how that all plays out. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a blizzard in this area.
Yesterday morning I motored to GI to get the “free” oil change on the car, even considering the gas it took, it was probably worthwhile. I came back on Highway 2, stopped at the Subway shop on the south edge of Ravenna for a sandwich. Ravenna is getting to be a bustling area—a new Dollar General store is going up just east of the Subway shop. I stopped at the fertilizer plant in Ptown, was going to prepay some fertilizer—the mgr. said to hold off a couple weeks, he said the fertilizer will probably go down a little more.
I put the finishing touches on the brackets on the Quick-Hitch, took it off twice to make some adjustments to get the proper balance when hanging on the cherry-picker boom. I took a bucket of brome seed and scattered it on the south end of the gravity field, if it snows the seed will get worked into the ground.
My pancake inventory was exhausted this morning so had to make a new batch of pancakes, now have enough to last into April .
Glen
PS Larry: I drove down Stolley Park to Adams St. yesterday, it looks like there’s an addition being added to the Barr Middle School. A new elementary school is being built between Adams St. and the Ruzicka Carburetor Shop.
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1/28/16
Hello all:
We’re having April weather here, temp to be in the low 50s today. There is some possibility of snow early next week, time will tell!!! Yesterday morning I got on the Honda, made a tour of the fence around the corn stalks—all was intact. I’m sure surprised that since I put the fence up, there has not been a single incident of deer running through the fence and breaking the wire—apparently my reputation as a builder of sturdy fences has become known throughout the deer population!!!!
Late morning I got back on the computer, called the server, got a gal who was able to understand the problem I was having (not receiving emails), and within ten minutes she had solved my problem and I was back in business. She said their office is in Loveland, CO., I thought they were based in Kny. Later in the afternoon I made a bracket for a thermometer I had gotten and mounted it on the edge of the kitchen window.
Today I’m going to make some brackets to put on the 3 pt. Quick-Coupler so I can use the cherry-picker hoist to put the hitch on & off the tractor. I had thought I could just put a chain on the coupler frame but that didn’t work so will go to Plan B.
On the news last night—there was a bomb scare at Walnut Middle School in GI yesterday, somebody saw a box in a hallway, they evacuated the building, found the box contained an accordion!!
Glen
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1/27/16
Hello all:
I’m back since being absent as of last Friday, got back here mid-afternoon yesterday. Ken & Kathy are gracious hosts—thanks K&K!! Friday we went via the RTD train to the Denver Broncos PEP Rally at Larimor Square in downtown Denver—what a mass of people!!! We stayed on the edge of the mass, the Bronco fever was something to see. That night we went to see Troy’s son Grant play a BB game in Salida, his team won in an exciting finish.
Sat. afternoon we went to the draft horse show at the NWSS, I was disappointed the six team hitches were on the Sat. night show. The big game Sunday was sure a good game, especially since Denver won!!! Monday Ken and I (Kathy was babysitting at Kami’s) went to the US Air Force Academy—we watched the cadets line up in formation as they marched into the mess hall for their noon meal. The Academy covers a large area, I had no idea of the size. We drove through the Garden of the Gods, sure some interesting rock formations there.
Yesterday morning as I headed back I was in the rush hour traffic on I-25—quite a difference compared to the traffic on Second Avenue in Kny!!!! There is an inch of snow in the yard but the roads were clear. The temp today is to be in the high 30’s, in the 40’s the next two days.
Glen
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1/20/16
Hello all:
Overcast here this morning, will probably not see any sun today, chance for some snow tonight. Grand Island and areas on east had more snow yesterday than what we had here.
Yesterday morning I took the Quick-Hitch off the tractor and hooked to the single bale fork; I took six bales over to the scale at Victor’s to see what they weighed—two bales per trip. I had bales from three different areas, wanted to see if there was much variation from the different grasses. The bales were heavier than I thought they might be—Ron makes heavy bales!!!!
I went to the BB game against Shelton last night, both girls & boys won, the boys won 83-31—it wasn’t much of a game after the first quarter. Matt Hadwiger’s boy didn’t start but played a lot of the game. Matt’s daughter is a starter for the girls, she’s pretty good for a freshman.
I’m going to go to Ptown this morning and prepay some fertilizer before the price increases next spring.
Glen
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1/18/16
Hello all:
Back home for a few days until I head back to Denver for the Sat. afternoon Draft Horse Show at the NWSS. Travel conditions last week were good both ways, there was a strip of maybe fifteen miles east of Denver Sat. morning where there had been a skiff of snow. Thanks Ken & Kathy for your hospitality, also to Kami & Curt and Troy & MInda for the meals at their homes. I got to watch budding NBA star Grant Carmann play in his BB game Friday night, his team won handily, didn’t need any extra help from scorebook keeper dad Troy.
I got here Sat. around 4:30, went through my mail and did various things to get settled back. I went late to the dance in Miller, learned the couple who come from Central City, only when this band is playing, had hit a deer just east of Amherst while enroute to Miller, damaged the left front fender and drivers door of their car, so they were not happy dancers!!!!
No mail today so will motor to Glenwood Corners to get a World Herald.
Glen
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1/8/16
Hi all:
Maybe an inch of snow through last night, chance for more later today. Sat. night the temp is to get to near zero, that’ll be the coldest of the winter so far. We haven’t had any really bitter cold yet!!!
Yesterday morning I went to the dentist to get an X-ray of the tooth that was bothering me, it showed there was infection at the bottom of the root. The dentist had time at 1:00 so I said I’d be back then. I went on to the dermatologist for my appt. for the surgery to remove the skin around the area where she had removed some skin cancer back in Dec. She cut out an area about the size of a nickel (three layers of skin) on my left arm, put in stitches (she didn’t believe me when I told her she was doing the very first stitches on my body). I can feel a little sensation on the arm when I move it, I hope that eases up in the next day or so.
I grabbed a chicken sandwich for lunch and then back to the dentist for the work on the tooth, it wasn’t an urgent situation but I figured since he had the time then, I might as well get it done then rather than wait—I had the fear of getting a terrible tooth ache at a bad time!!!!!
This afternoon I’m going into Kny to go to the Home & Builders Show at the fairgrounds, tonight to the Overton-Amherst BB game in Amherst.
Glen
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1/6/16
Hi all:
Foggy again this morning, the forecast is calling for a chance of freezing rain later, maybe freezing rain & some snow tomorrow, so we’ll see what all develops. The weekend is to be colder.
Yesterday morning I brought my farm record book up to date as of Dec. 31 and started a new record book for this year. I went into Kny, stopped at the Farm Bureau Ins. office to go over my farm insurance, then on to check on some cherry pickers. I got one at the Orscheln store, the TSC store didn’t have one on hand. The one I got had been put together by a rookie who obviously didn’t follow the directions—had some bolts in the wrong places. It was short one bolt and two bolts were too short to fit where they needed to go. I’ll go back later today when I go in for my grocery trip and get the proper bolts.
After lunch I unloaded the cherry picker and made the changes I could (the long time clerk who helped me with it just shook his head at how the rookie idiot had put it together, obviously not mechanically inclined). This is designed so the legs fold up for storage so it doesn’t take up much room. This will eliminate the worry of hurting my back when getting the Quik-Coupler on & off the tractor.
When I headed into Kny in the morning I had noticed two horse trailers over east by the pasture tank and drove there to see what was happening. One of the trailers was the Dibberns, they were helping move the cattle out of the stalk field to another field—there were four horses and two ATVs chasing the cows, a lot of the cows were not cooperating—didn’t want to leave that field—Victor later told me they had to rope six cows.
After I got done with the cherry picker I decided to go drain the tank in the pasture since the cows were now gone. I removed the drain plug, there was already a mess around the tank since it had overflowed a couple times. I went to the mailbox to get the Hub paper, saw a pickup over by the pasture tank, so drove there to see if it was Victor—it was. I told him if he ever again used the well to water cattle on his stalks to set a tank across the fence rather than using the tank by the well—that system just doesn’t work in cold temps.
Yesterday morning the monogram money on KRVN radio was up to $228.80, a guy from KS finally had the right initials, it had been thirteen days since the last winner.
Glen
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1/2/16
Hello all:
Another morning when I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep----BUMMER!! I never have any luck trying to get a nap in during the day either, another BUMMER!!
Well, the New Year hoopla is over so it’s back to the grind. Yesterday morning I met Ken & Kate for breakfast at Perkins in Kny; that place was doing a land office business, hungry people were waiting for tables to empty. K & K went to see Ada before heading back west, I did some shopping and filled my car gas tank before heading home. Later in the afternoon Kathy called to say they had left their credit card at Old Chicago when they dined there Th. night, asked if I would go get it, so I went back late evening to get the card and did made a stop at Wal-Mart.
Th. morning I took the loader and picked up the tree branches I had cut up on Wed., made four trips and dumped them on the pile. I filled the fuel tank on the tractor, noticed the hose on the fuel barrel was leaking due to deterioration caused by old age and exposure to the elements, so I’ll head to Ptown this morning to get a new hose. It’s supposed to be a decent day—high of 42, so will crank up the chain saw and cut up two tree branches in the windbreak that have toppled onto some machines.
Glen
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12/29/15
Hello all:
It looks like there are scattered clouds overhead but the sun is breaking through. It’s a cold morning but if the sun is shining, it doesn’t seem to be as cold as it is when it is dreary overcast. I started my morning by winning the trivia question on the KGFW Breakfast Flakes program—the question was “what do 10% of families do before opening presents on Christmas morning”? My lucky guess was “get into a heated argument”, so I have a prize package to pick up at the station sometime.
Yesterday morning I played chef—I put a beef roast in the crock-pot and baked a bunch of chicken thighs. I like to have a chicken thigh for my Sunday noon meal, now I have enough in the freezer to last me through the end of April. I sliced the roast and will use it for sandwiches.
After lunch I cut some tree branches along the fenceline on the west side of the south pasture, used the eight foot hand saw to cut the branches I couldn’t reach with the chain saw. I need to go back with the loader and chain saw, cut the branches into smaller pieces, and haul them to the pile.
This afternoon the Amherst BB teams are playing in a Holiday Tournament at Kearney Catholic, the boys play North Platte St. Patrick, a team that may well be of equal talent—it should be a good game. I’m planning to go to the game since I have to go into Kny anyway to the radio station to pick up my prize.
Glen
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12/24/15
Hello all,
Overcast and a dusting of snow here this morning, more snow possible the next couple days. The forecast earlier in the week had indicated a slight chance for snow, now it sounds more definite but no big snowfall amounts are expected. It’s a bummer to see on GMA the reports of the tornados in Mississippi, not a good Christmas for that area—weird to have tornados in Dec.
Yesterday morning I went to the fertilizer plant in Ptown, no tax advantage for me to prepay any fertilizer for this year but I may lock some in after Jan. first, there’s a good chance it’ll go up by spring. I had a delay on the way home, had to wait on a trail drive of some cows being moved to a new cornfield. When I got home I started the fan on the bin, need to get the corn cooled down. After lunch I finished the wire spool I had started on Tues. and put the tools away. I cranked up the Honda, made a tour of the electric fence—still all intact.
I headed into Kny early evening to make my annual tour of the mall, it was crowded. The Radio Shack store is gone, that was a good source of hard to find batteries. I also went to Target and Kmart, was looking for something to hold the “stuff” that there’s no room for in the SUV—didn’t find anything.
Glen
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May 28, 2016
The purpose of the Carmann Will written prior to 1977:
160 acres (80 acres in pasture) jointly owned by two sisters after death of mother.
Issues expressed in emails and telephone conversations:
Birth order -- does it matter?
Impact on siblings.
Financial pressures and depression issues.
Issues of family consideration. Sell at 75% of assessed value proposal.
Potential sale of homestead land.
Attorney engaged to negotiate a sale. Rate about $175/hour.
What costs and fees?
Bidding war between neighbors a possibility.
Public auction.
What is market rate.
Cousin involvement viewed as a negative.
October 4, 2016
Land sale of 160 acres at $2,100 completed with check in hand
by eldest daughter, age 77. Attorney fees of less than $5,000
To be paid by eldest daughter.
Process of selling the land initiated in April of 2016.
(This was former Florang land -- not Juhl homestead
Land.)
Section 6, Township 10, Range 16
Lots 17,18, 23, 24.
Posted in Kearney Hub Trends on November 6, 2016.
Assessed Valuation was $335,000 plus.
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MAUL, Martin G. "Mike", 84, of Kearney, formerly of Riverdale, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, at Good Samaritan Hospital
Services: Thursday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Amherst
Burial: Riverdale Cemetery with military honors
Mortuary: Horner-Lieske-Horner
Memorials: to the church
Born Nov. 7, 1917, in Amherst
Parents: George and Louise (Rusch) Maul
Graduated from Amherst High School in 1936
Worked at Gambles in Broken Bow and Kearney
Military: U.S. Marines in 1941-1945, served in the Pacific
Married: Jan. 8, 1946, to Ada Symmonds in Amherst
Was a lifetime resident of the Amherst/Riverdale area
Was employed at First National Bank in Amherst, 1946-1950, then at the State Bank of Riverdale and was also an independent insurance agent; retired in 1983.
Activities: member of the church, the Lutheran Layman's League, VFW Post 759 and the American Legion Post 52; was a volunteer for the Good Samaritan Hospital Service League in Kearney for many years
Survivors include his wife;
sons, Thomas of Columbus
and Jerry of Eugene, Ore.;
daughters, Kathleen Carmann of Littleton, Colo.,
and Georgia Rime of Oceanside, Calif.;
brother, Emmett Maul of Gibbon; sister, Rumilda Lantis of Kearney; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Was preceded in death by three brothers and three infant grandchildren
Kearney Hub, February, 2002
Rudolph Carmann was born January 28, 1912 at Polk, Nebraska to William and Grace (THADEN) Carmann, the fifth child in a family of seven children.
Pleasanton was founded in 1890 even though floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.
The family regularly attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church seven miles north of Riverdale where William served many years on the council. Rudolph learned about taking care of farmland, hauling out manure, rotating crops, cutting out sunflowers and cockleburrs, grinding feed, cleaning sheds, fixing fences and machinery and tending to hogs and cattle. All of this continued on his farm when he married at age of 24. (He rented the Homestead farm from his future father-in-law who lived a mile west on the Homeplace farm at the time so Rudy lived on the Juhl Homestead from 1934 to 1977.)
Dorothy Juhl Carmann was born June 12, 1916 to Alexander and Evalena (Henderson) Juhl at a Kearney hospital.
Rudolph met Dorothy at a barn dance hosted by a neighbor who had built a new barn. She became mixed up on all his names, so she called him Rudy. At the time, she was attending college in Kearney on a "shoestring" preparing to be a rural teacher. Mamie Lund of Pleasanton helped Dorothy get a school in the Sandhills at $34 a month in 1934 so she got her year's experience and got to teach District 90 for $90 a month the next year.
The school was eight miles north of Amherst and she boarded with Bessie Berkheimer (Nov. 6, 1890-June 11, 1981 Memorial #57641955 and spouse George R. Berkheimer (1889 - 1954)).
Pleasanton was Rudy's hometown for many years. Every Saturday night he played pool with friends. He learned to play guitar, baseball--he had a uniform with a team--also sang for weddings, choirs and funerals. He served on church councils and school boards for many years.
Dorothy was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in April of 1936. Rudolph and Dorothy were married May 24, 1936 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Rudy rented Dorothy's father's farm seven miles north of Riverdale. He bought four horses, a wagon, a disc, a car, a kitchen stove and other supplies with the thousand dollar wedding gift from his dad. Dorothy had bought a piano for $75 that spring. Her father, Alex, rejoiced that Rudy was good with tools and efficient with farming practices and machinery.
Their first baby was born, Harvey Rudolph, was born July 11, 1937 and lived only three months.
There were many visits down to Rudy's dad's farm west of Pleasanton through the years and Rudolph purchased it when the estate was settled. (His father had paid $100 an acre in 1916 and stipulated that Rudy could purchased the farm acres for the same price.)
After being married for eight years, Rudy had a heart attack and had to take it easy for a year. Harold Juhl was home from the Army and helped them farm.
In 1954 the Carmanns moved a lovely big house purchased for forty-five hundred dollars from Godfrey and Emma Hemmann onto the three hundred twenty acres bought when Alex's estate was settled in 1952.
Dorothy taught school in District 80 in 1959 on a special permit.
Dorothy's grandfather, Ferdinand Juhl, homesteaded the land in 1879. In 1979 the Carmanns received the AK-SAR-BEN Award for land being in the same family one hundred years.
A neighbor nicknamed him Mike which was to last until his death on May 24, 1977, on their 41st wedding anniversary.
When sister Lena was eighteen and Rudy was six, they drove a team of horses moving a wagon load of things, March 1, 1918, to a farm six miles west of Pleasanton. William had bought a farm of at least 240 acres per the 1919 Buffalo County platt map for one hundred dollars an acre from Mr. Bell, a long time resident of the area. The farm shared a boundary with the farm of 320 acres owned by Joseph Hadwiger Sr.
(Note: Pleasanton is a small town in the northern part of Buffalo County, situated on the South Loup River, with a population of fewer than 350. It was the last town on the end of a spur line of the Union Pacific and lies in the center of a rich farming community. A factor contributing to the success of this community is the fact that some of its people lived in the locality continuously for one hundred years or more. Founded in 1890, floods rampaged through the town almost every spring. In 1924 a major flood, over two feet in depth, hit the downtown businesses and many homes. Pleasanton was besieged by another major flood in 1947. That was the time the railroad track washed out and was never rebuilt. Since rail traffic was already declining, this end-of-the-line station was expendable. Pleasanton is located 16 miles north of Kearney.)
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Wilma R. Carmann, 96, of Kearney died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. Rev. Duane Duley and Rev. Dustin Lappe will officiate. Burial will be at the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation is planned Monday from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney or prior to services Tuesday at the church. Memorials are suggested to Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com . Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home of Kearney is in charge of arrangements.
She was born March 5, 1917 to William and Anna (Rasmussen) Zimmer. She was born and raised on her parent's farm, a mile north and 4 miles west of Pleasanton. She was baptized April 4, 1926 at Pleasant Valley United Brethren Church. Wilma was confirmed June 16, 1940 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Peake. Her grade school years were a Prairie Bell School and she graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1934.
November 18, 1939 Wilma married Raymond C. Carmann at St. Paul's Lutheran Church north of Riverdale. They made their home with Raymond's parents on their farm in Pleasant Valley for about 7 years. Raymond and Wilma moved to a farm they purchased north of his parents on March 5, 1946. After Raymond's death in 1967 Wilma attended Kearney State College for 2 years and received a secretarial degree. She worked for Edward Jones after graduation and retired in 1982. She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church for over 40 years where she taught Sunday School, was active in Lutheran Women's Missionary League, Ladies Aid and choir. Her family was very precious to her and she traveled to Germany and all over the United States visiting them.
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Ken's Memory of his dad:
May 12, 2015
I recall back in the early 60s------ extreme cold spell----- outlet pipe had frozen back into the eroded wall of the ''''''END OF THE LINE QUAGMIRE '''''''......... I drew the short straw that COLD AM (must have been a Saturday)........ Dad Rudolf said, "Get your 5 buckle boots on!!!!"
I got to chip back into the dirt to expose more of the 5 inch pipe (it is ~120 yards from house to bank outlet) ...... then hold wirewrapped BURNING bundles of corncobs soaked in tractor fuel UNDER THE FROZEN PIPE....... but just long enough to thaw the ice NOT BURN the creosote fabric pipe........ "Keep it moving--- not too long in one place!!! " Dad kept saying. "What happens when the ice PLUG melts??" I asked ......... and I REMEMBER THIS AS VIVIDLY AS THE COFFEE I AM DRINKING RIGHT NOW............ Dad Rudolf laughed as he replied, "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!!!"
I'll leave 'THE REST OF THE STORY' to your imagination.......... I know that Bro Larry and I helped get that big old rusty galvinized cattle tank in place on top of the pit ---covered it with straw...... SO:
'YOU WON'T HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!!!!'
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THE BLIZZARD of 2016 - RUDY's OLDEST SON WRITES STORY
Forecast kept us warm, safe at home
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2/9/16
Hello all:
I have water flowing in the house again after five days of carrying water in from the hydrants. The Cudaback crew yesterday morning was able to dislodge the “stuff” that was blocking the water line. We have no idea as to how it came about, it may have been accumulating for years. I’ll keep checking to see if there is any sign of a leak in the line somewhere. I had visions of them saying “we’ll go back and get the backhoe and start digging”, was sure glad it didn’t come to that.
Mid afternoon I went into Kny, was going to look for a new jacket, but the store was out of the tall sizes. I went on to the the FKC BB tournament at the Viaro Center, the Amherst girls won their consolation game, the Amherst boys won the championship game against Axtell 73-60. The final game was scheduled for 7:30, as usual the games didn’t go according to the clock, the Amherst-Axtell game didn’t get started until 8:45, was over just after 10:00.
This morning I’m taking the pickup to Ptown to get some work done on it, a new windshield washer pump and a new fuel pump if needed.
Glen
PS: No doubt there was great joy in Denverville yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
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Updated: February 05, 2016 - 11:09 am. Hub News
Forecasters called it Winter Storm Kayla and Nebraskans were warned days in advance to watch out. The storm lived up to its billing, pounding our state with 8-15 inches of snow blown into deep drifts by winds as strong as 50 mph. It was a terrible storm, but will Kayla be one for the history books?
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2/5/16 Friday
There was a dusting of snow last night, just enough to make everything white. The temp yesterday afternoon got to the low 30s, the forecast is calling for those temps the next few days. I spent most of yesterday morning going over the yard again, raised the skid shoes on the blade to take a deeper cut. I’m pushing the snow to the west side of the yard, then pushing it to the north/south to make room for any future snow.
The mystery of the furnace was solved yesterday---I got Matt Hadwiger on the phone, he said he had gone to the gas meters Monday afternoon (2/1/16) and shut all the meters off!!!!!! He said on one of the irrigation well engines the cows had rubbed against the gas hose on the engine, the hose came loose from the engine resulting in the gas flowing freely. So he drove over here to the meters, didn’t know which of the four meters was for that well, thought all the meters were for irr wells (therefore they don’t need to be on anyway), so he turned the valve off on each meter. There is a shutoff valve by the regulator right at the engine, he didn’t think of that---panicked at the thought of not knowing how long the hose had been off and how much it had already cost him, so get to the meter and shut it off!!! He didn’t realize I ran the furnace off my line.
I went into Kny yesterday at 3:30 for my appt. at the FSA office,that didn’t take long, then stayed in for the UNK BB games later. The main streets in Kny had all been plowed but there were a lot of spots that were ice packed. Anyplace where there had been traffic before the plows got around resulted in the snow getting packed hard, it’s still there, so there are a lot of bumpy streets.
Glen Carman
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2/4/16
Bright sunshine at daybreak, currently at 9:00 a temp of 14 with a slight breeze. Even at cold temps, if the sun is shining it makes it seem more tolerable than when there are no shadows on the ground. I had a couple of revolting developments yesterday, real BUMMERS!!!!! But I guess it could have been worse.
Billy & Karen fed me breakfast yesterday morning before I headed back home in the tractor. I spent the morning clearing snow from in front of the house and garage, deep as the snow was it took a long time to see any progress. At noon I called the Fiddelke Heating to see when someone might be able to come and check the furnace—I had gone with the tractor to make sure someone could get here from the R’dle Road. There was a big drift on 190th by Harold Daake’s grain bins but 175th was clear, the maintainer had already been on the R’dle Road. I also called Neal Chandler to have him come and check the water works, he said he’d hopefully get here around 2:00. I went out and took the lid off the pit, had straw bales on the lid. The furnace man got here at 1:30, checked everything, couldn’t find anything wrong, it ran a minute and quit. He finally determined that there was no gas coming to the furnace. I told him I had thought about checking the gas meter down south but thought “surely nobody would have shut the meter off”---WRONG!!!! We drove to the meter (I had a pipe wrench along just in case) and sure enough—the shut off valve was turned off!!! There are four meters there, all were shut off. One meter is for Billy’s irr. well, one is for Terry Hadwiger’s well (he changed that well to electricity five years ago), one is for Ron’s two wells, and the fourth is for my well. So I turned the valve back to the open position, when we got back the house the furnace was running. I told the guy I thought maybe the furnace had been put in around 15 years ago, he found a tag that said it had been installed in 1992, so it’s going on 24 years—he said the average life of those furnaces is around 18 years, so hard telling how much longer it may last.
Neal Chandler had come while I was in the basement with the furnace guy, he was walking to the house when I saw him, he said there was water coming from the hydrant southeast of the house, asked if I had water in the house, I figured if there was water at the hydrant there would be water in the house. He said the water line coming from the pressure tank was froze, he had thawed them with a small torch. I was totally surprised it had gotten that cold in the pit, I had it covered with straw bales, figured that was good insulation. Never before have any pipes in the pit froze up!!!! Neal thought the way the wind had blown, there might have been a small crack somewhere that let the cold air in. So Neal took off, I went in the house and---NO WATER in the house!!! I called Neal again, he was just a mile away, came back. He looked at the pipes in the basement, none frozen there. I could get water from all the hydrants but not in the house. I called Bob Cudaback and told him about it, Bob didn’t have clue as what would be the cause. A water gremlin at work!!!!
I called the gas co. to ask if the gas meters are read electronically or if they are read manually (thinking maybe the meter reader had shut the valve), the gal said they get electronic readings from the meters. I called Matt H. last night but he didn’t answer his phone, also called Ron, he said he didn’t know if anyone had been to the meters. I had experienced this twice years ago, Uncle Butch would go to shut off the meters to his wells, not knowing which meter was his, he would shut all the meters off.
This morning I’ll push more snow off the yard west of the house, this afternoon I have an appt. at the FSA office, tonight is a BB game at UNK.
Glen Carmen
PS: The furnace man said it’s been twelve years since Wes Fiddelke sold the business.
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2/2/16
Hello all:
The blizzard is in progress big time, the strong north wind is making for a nasty wind chill index. It’s hard to tell how much snow has fallen so far but it’s a wet snow, hard to move. I went out earlier to plug in the block heater on the tractor, scooping the snow off the steps was a chore. This snow is wet enough that wherever you step, the snow stays firmly packed.
The snow didn’t start until close to midnight but the wind had been blowing earlier. Around 8:00 last night I realized the furnace hadn’t run for awhile, the fan doesn’t come on, so no heat—really bad timing. The temp isn’t to get too bitterly cold but it will cool down in here, it’s about fifty degrees in the house this morning. I was concerned about the electricity going off, no problem there so far. Then earlier I thought I’d better have some extra water on hand, was filling a bucket when the water stopped running—DOUBLE BUMMER!!!!! I had filled some containers so I’d have some drinking water but can’t rinse the breakfast dishes. I won’t be able to get anyone out to check the furnace until the snow lets up, it’ll get chilly in here but I should be able to endure. As to the water, I’ll have to have Neal Chandler come and check whenever he can get here—he had put a new control switch on the pressure tank on Dec. 11.
Yesterday morning I went to the open house the Source Gas Co. had in R’dle, got signed up for the irrigation natural gas for the year. At 1:00 I went to the Taubenheim bull sale, the top selling bull brought $16,000. They had so many desserts on the dessert table it was difficult to make a choice!!
With the forecast of the blizzard, all area schools and most businesses had put out the word yesterday afternoon that they would be closed today. I won’t be going into Kny for the appt. I had there at 4:00. On the radio earlier was the report that I-80 is closed from Elm Creek to Utica. When I got back from the bull sale yesterday I noticed that Billy’s cattle were gone, he must have had some help to get them out, apparently moved them back to his place.
From snowy NE,
Glen Carman
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Hello all:
The month of Jan. is in the history books, if the weather forecast proves out, Feb. will start with a blizzard—the latest forecast on the radio this morning is calling for a blizzard warning starting tonight and lasting through tomorrow night, 10-13 inches of snow. That amount of snow wouldn’t be so bad but the predicted wind gusting to 45 MPH—that will cause some real problems!!!!! I sure hope the guess on the wind is totally wrong but we won’t know until tomorrow what develops. I put the rear blade on the tractor Sat. afternoon so I’m ready to go with it. It’s been many years since this area has had a real blizzard that resulted in major drifting, we just haven’t had much snow the last few years.
This morning the natural gas co. is having an open house in R’dle, I’ll go for a cup of coffee and get signed up for my irrigation gas for the summer. Today Dale & Mike Taubenheim are having their annual bull sale; I’ll go there for lunch at noon—I never buy a bull but eat lunch on them as payment for damage their cows did on my soybeans a few years ago when a bunch of their cows got out of the pasture and went exploring the countryside and wound up in my bean field. I’m sure they’re glad the sale is today rather than tomorrow!!!!
Yesterday afternoon I strolled out west to take a walk, found a day old calf. Originally Billy had thought there was only one cow in the bunch that was due to calf, there were two calves a couple weeks ago. I called him to inform him of this new calf—he was surprised at my news.
Glen Carman
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January 30, 2016
Hello all:
Cloudy here this morning, the forecast is now calling for temp in the 50s today, then for a slight chance of rain tonight. The snow is to hit here Monday night and Tuesday, the prediction last night is for the Kny area to get twelve inches—that wouldn’t be so bad but the wind is to be strong, so we may have blizzard conditions—we’ll see how that all plays out. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a blizzard in this area.
Yesterday morning I motored to GI to get the “free” oil change on the car, even considering the gas it took, it was probably worthwhile. I came back on Highway 2, stopped at the Subway shop on the south edge of Ravenna for a sandwich. Ravenna is getting to be a bustling area—a new Dollar General store is going up just east of the Subway shop. I stopped at the fertilizer plant in Ptown, was going to prepay some fertilizer—the mgr. said to hold off a couple weeks, he said the fertilizer will probably go down a little more.
I put the finishing touches on the brackets on the Quick-Hitch, took it off twice to make some adjustments to get the proper balance when hanging on the cherry-picker boom. I took a bucket of brome seed and scattered it on the south end of the gravity field, if it snows the seed will get worked into the ground.
My pancake inventory was exhausted this morning so had to make a new batch of pancakes, now have enough to last into April .
Glen
PS Larry: I drove down Stolley Park to Adams St. yesterday, it looks like there’s an addition being added to the Barr Middle School. A new elementary school is being built between Adams St. and the Ruzicka Carburetor Shop.
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1/28/16
Hello all:
We’re having April weather here, temp to be in the low 50s today. There is some possibility of snow early next week, time will tell!!! Yesterday morning I got on the Honda, made a tour of the fence around the corn stalks—all was intact. I’m sure surprised that since I put the fence up, there has not been a single incident of deer running through the fence and breaking the wire—apparently my reputation as a builder of sturdy fences has become known throughout the deer population!!!!
Late morning I got back on the computer, called the server, got a gal who was able to understand the problem I was having (not receiving emails), and within ten minutes she had solved my problem and I was back in business. She said their office is in Loveland, CO., I thought they were based in Kny. Later in the afternoon I made a bracket for a thermometer I had gotten and mounted it on the edge of the kitchen window.
Today I’m going to make some brackets to put on the 3 pt. Quick-Coupler so I can use the cherry-picker hoist to put the hitch on & off the tractor. I had thought I could just put a chain on the coupler frame but that didn’t work so will go to Plan B.
On the news last night—there was a bomb scare at Walnut Middle School in GI yesterday, somebody saw a box in a hallway, they evacuated the building, found the box contained an accordion!!
Glen
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1/27/16
Hello all:
I’m back since being absent as of last Friday, got back here mid-afternoon yesterday. Ken & Kathy are gracious hosts—thanks K&K!! Friday we went via the RTD train to the Denver Broncos PEP Rally at Larimor Square in downtown Denver—what a mass of people!!! We stayed on the edge of the mass, the Bronco fever was something to see. That night we went to see Troy’s son Grant play a BB game in Salida, his team won in an exciting finish.
Sat. afternoon we went to the draft horse show at the NWSS, I was disappointed the six team hitches were on the Sat. night show. The big game Sunday was sure a good game, especially since Denver won!!! Monday Ken and I (Kathy was babysitting at Kami’s) went to the US Air Force Academy—we watched the cadets line up in formation as they marched into the mess hall for their noon meal. The Academy covers a large area, I had no idea of the size. We drove through the Garden of the Gods, sure some interesting rock formations there.
Yesterday morning as I headed back I was in the rush hour traffic on I-25—quite a difference compared to the traffic on Second Avenue in Kny!!!! There is an inch of snow in the yard but the roads were clear. The temp today is to be in the high 30’s, in the 40’s the next two days.
Glen
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1/20/16
Hello all:
Overcast here this morning, will probably not see any sun today, chance for some snow tonight. Grand Island and areas on east had more snow yesterday than what we had here.
Yesterday morning I took the Quick-Hitch off the tractor and hooked to the single bale fork; I took six bales over to the scale at Victor’s to see what they weighed—two bales per trip. I had bales from three different areas, wanted to see if there was much variation from the different grasses. The bales were heavier than I thought they might be—Ron makes heavy bales!!!!
I went to the BB game against Shelton last night, both girls & boys won, the boys won 83-31—it wasn’t much of a game after the first quarter. Matt Hadwiger’s boy didn’t start but played a lot of the game. Matt’s daughter is a starter for the girls, she’s pretty good for a freshman.
I’m going to go to Ptown this morning and prepay some fertilizer before the price increases next spring.
Glen
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1/18/16
Hello all:
Back home for a few days until I head back to Denver for the Sat. afternoon Draft Horse Show at the NWSS. Travel conditions last week were good both ways, there was a strip of maybe fifteen miles east of Denver Sat. morning where there had been a skiff of snow. Thanks Ken & Kathy for your hospitality, also to Kami & Curt and Troy & MInda for the meals at their homes. I got to watch budding NBA star Grant Carmann play in his BB game Friday night, his team won handily, didn’t need any extra help from scorebook keeper dad Troy.
I got here Sat. around 4:30, went through my mail and did various things to get settled back. I went late to the dance in Miller, learned the couple who come from Central City, only when this band is playing, had hit a deer just east of Amherst while enroute to Miller, damaged the left front fender and drivers door of their car, so they were not happy dancers!!!!
No mail today so will motor to Glenwood Corners to get a World Herald.
Glen
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1/8/16
Hi all:
Maybe an inch of snow through last night, chance for more later today. Sat. night the temp is to get to near zero, that’ll be the coldest of the winter so far. We haven’t had any really bitter cold yet!!!
Yesterday morning I went to the dentist to get an X-ray of the tooth that was bothering me, it showed there was infection at the bottom of the root. The dentist had time at 1:00 so I said I’d be back then. I went on to the dermatologist for my appt. for the surgery to remove the skin around the area where she had removed some skin cancer back in Dec. She cut out an area about the size of a nickel (three layers of skin) on my left arm, put in stitches (she didn’t believe me when I told her she was doing the very first stitches on my body). I can feel a little sensation on the arm when I move it, I hope that eases up in the next day or so.
I grabbed a chicken sandwich for lunch and then back to the dentist for the work on the tooth, it wasn’t an urgent situation but I figured since he had the time then, I might as well get it done then rather than wait—I had the fear of getting a terrible tooth ache at a bad time!!!!!
This afternoon I’m going into Kny to go to the Home & Builders Show at the fairgrounds, tonight to the Overton-Amherst BB game in Amherst.
Glen
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1/6/16
Hi all:
Foggy again this morning, the forecast is calling for a chance of freezing rain later, maybe freezing rain & some snow tomorrow, so we’ll see what all develops. The weekend is to be colder.
Yesterday morning I brought my farm record book up to date as of Dec. 31 and started a new record book for this year. I went into Kny, stopped at the Farm Bureau Ins. office to go over my farm insurance, then on to check on some cherry pickers. I got one at the Orscheln store, the TSC store didn’t have one on hand. The one I got had been put together by a rookie who obviously didn’t follow the directions—had some bolts in the wrong places. It was short one bolt and two bolts were too short to fit where they needed to go. I’ll go back later today when I go in for my grocery trip and get the proper bolts.
After lunch I unloaded the cherry picker and made the changes I could (the long time clerk who helped me with it just shook his head at how the rookie idiot had put it together, obviously not mechanically inclined). This is designed so the legs fold up for storage so it doesn’t take up much room. This will eliminate the worry of hurting my back when getting the Quik-Coupler on & off the tractor.
When I headed into Kny in the morning I had noticed two horse trailers over east by the pasture tank and drove there to see what was happening. One of the trailers was the Dibberns, they were helping move the cattle out of the stalk field to another field—there were four horses and two ATVs chasing the cows, a lot of the cows were not cooperating—didn’t want to leave that field—Victor later told me they had to rope six cows.
After I got done with the cherry picker I decided to go drain the tank in the pasture since the cows were now gone. I removed the drain plug, there was already a mess around the tank since it had overflowed a couple times. I went to the mailbox to get the Hub paper, saw a pickup over by the pasture tank, so drove there to see if it was Victor—it was. I told him if he ever again used the well to water cattle on his stalks to set a tank across the fence rather than using the tank by the well—that system just doesn’t work in cold temps.
Yesterday morning the monogram money on KRVN radio was up to $228.80, a guy from KS finally had the right initials, it had been thirteen days since the last winner.
Glen
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1/2/16
Hello all:
Another morning when I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep----BUMMER!! I never have any luck trying to get a nap in during the day either, another BUMMER!!
Well, the New Year hoopla is over so it’s back to the grind. Yesterday morning I met Ken & Kate for breakfast at Perkins in Kny; that place was doing a land office business, hungry people were waiting for tables to empty. K & K went to see Ada before heading back west, I did some shopping and filled my car gas tank before heading home. Later in the afternoon Kathy called to say they had left their credit card at Old Chicago when they dined there Th. night, asked if I would go get it, so I went back late evening to get the card and did made a stop at Wal-Mart.
Th. morning I took the loader and picked up the tree branches I had cut up on Wed., made four trips and dumped them on the pile. I filled the fuel tank on the tractor, noticed the hose on the fuel barrel was leaking due to deterioration caused by old age and exposure to the elements, so I’ll head to Ptown this morning to get a new hose. It’s supposed to be a decent day—high of 42, so will crank up the chain saw and cut up two tree branches in the windbreak that have toppled onto some machines.
Glen
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12/29/15
Hello all:
It looks like there are scattered clouds overhead but the sun is breaking through. It’s a cold morning but if the sun is shining, it doesn’t seem to be as cold as it is when it is dreary overcast. I started my morning by winning the trivia question on the KGFW Breakfast Flakes program—the question was “what do 10% of families do before opening presents on Christmas morning”? My lucky guess was “get into a heated argument”, so I have a prize package to pick up at the station sometime.
Yesterday morning I played chef—I put a beef roast in the crock-pot and baked a bunch of chicken thighs. I like to have a chicken thigh for my Sunday noon meal, now I have enough in the freezer to last me through the end of April. I sliced the roast and will use it for sandwiches.
After lunch I cut some tree branches along the fenceline on the west side of the south pasture, used the eight foot hand saw to cut the branches I couldn’t reach with the chain saw. I need to go back with the loader and chain saw, cut the branches into smaller pieces, and haul them to the pile.
This afternoon the Amherst BB teams are playing in a Holiday Tournament at Kearney Catholic, the boys play North Platte St. Patrick, a team that may well be of equal talent—it should be a good game. I’m planning to go to the game since I have to go into Kny anyway to the radio station to pick up my prize.
Glen
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12/24/15
Hello all,
Overcast and a dusting of snow here this morning, more snow possible the next couple days. The forecast earlier in the week had indicated a slight chance for snow, now it sounds more definite but no big snowfall amounts are expected. It’s a bummer to see on GMA the reports of the tornados in Mississippi, not a good Christmas for that area—weird to have tornados in Dec.
Yesterday morning I went to the fertilizer plant in Ptown, no tax advantage for me to prepay any fertilizer for this year but I may lock some in after Jan. first, there’s a good chance it’ll go up by spring. I had a delay on the way home, had to wait on a trail drive of some cows being moved to a new cornfield. When I got home I started the fan on the bin, need to get the corn cooled down. After lunch I finished the wire spool I had started on Tues. and put the tools away. I cranked up the Honda, made a tour of the electric fence—still all intact.
I headed into Kny early evening to make my annual tour of the mall, it was crowded. The Radio Shack store is gone, that was a good source of hard to find batteries. I also went to Target and Kmart, was looking for something to hold the “stuff” that there’s no room for in the SUV—didn’t find anything.
Glen
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May 28, 2016
The purpose of the Carmann Will written prior to 1977:
160 acres (80 acres in pasture) jointly owned by two sisters after death of mother.
Issues expressed in emails and telephone conversations:
Birth order -- does it matter?
Impact on siblings.
Financial pressures and depression issues.
Issues of family consideration. Sell at 75% of assessed value proposal.
Potential sale of homestead land.
Attorney engaged to negotiate a sale. Rate about $175/hour.
What costs and fees?
Bidding war between neighbors a possibility.
Public auction.
What is market rate.
Cousin involvement viewed as a negative.
October 4, 2016
Land sale of 160 acres at $2,100 completed with check in hand
by eldest daughter, age 77. Attorney fees of less than $5,000
To be paid by eldest daughter.
Process of selling the land initiated in April of 2016.
(This was former Florang land -- not Juhl homestead
Land.)
Section 6, Township 10, Range 16
Lots 17,18, 23, 24.
Posted in Kearney Hub Trends on November 6, 2016.
Assessed Valuation was $335,000 plus.
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MAUL, Martin G. "Mike", 84, of Kearney, formerly of Riverdale, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, at Good Samaritan Hospital
Services: Thursday, Trinity Lutheran Church in Amherst
Burial: Riverdale Cemetery with military honors
Mortuary: Horner-Lieske-Horner
Memorials: to the church
Born Nov. 7, 1917, in Amherst
Parents: George and Louise (Rusch) Maul
Graduated from Amherst High School in 1936
Worked at Gambles in Broken Bow and Kearney
Military: U.S. Marines in 1941-1945, served in the Pacific
Married: Jan. 8, 1946, to Ada Symmonds in Amherst
Was a lifetime resident of the Amherst/Riverdale area
Was employed at First National Bank in Amherst, 1946-1950, then at the State Bank of Riverdale and was also an independent insurance agent; retired in 1983.
Activities: member of the church, the Lutheran Layman's League, VFW Post 759 and the American Legion Post 52; was a volunteer for the Good Samaritan Hospital Service League in Kearney for many years
Survivors include his wife;
sons, Thomas of Columbus
and Jerry of Eugene, Ore.;
daughters, Kathleen Carmann of Littleton, Colo.,
and Georgia Rime of Oceanside, Calif.;
brother, Emmett Maul of Gibbon; sister, Rumilda Lantis of Kearney; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Was preceded in death by three brothers and three infant grandchildren
Kearney Hub, February, 2002
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