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TEN YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 15, 2007

Dillon Daigger was thechampion speller at theMcPherson CountySpelling Bee and MaraSeifer was the runner-up.

Kasey Dailey, son of Kyleand Karen Dailey, is thefeatured senior spotlight.

Whitney Michelle Trum-bull, daughter of Rick andRosanne Trumbull, wasalso featured in the seniorspotlight.

TWENTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 13, 1997

Tyler and Kim Herrickare the parents of a newbaby son. Beau Angus wasborn January 24.

William Clinton Waits,92, of North Platte diedFebruary 8 at LindenManor.

THIRTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 12, 1987

Shaylee Nicole Powerswas born February 7,1987.

Graveside services wereheld February 6 at MillerCemetery for Alice M.Jones, of North Platte.

Glenn and Karen Kochof North Platte caught aride to Tryon with LelaPyzer after they over-turned their car on High-way 97 south of Tryon.

Cindy Johnson was a sec-ond place winner of theNebraska CattlemanPhoto Contest and herphoto was featured on thecover of the Nebraska Cat-tleman magazine.

FIFTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 16, 1967

The engagement ofLinda Kaye Daly to RonPaxton was being an-nounced in this issue. AMay wedding is planned.

David Bierma pur-chased Larry Neal’s 1960Oldsmobile last week.

SIXTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 14, 1957

Mr. and Mrs. DonaldMusser are the parents ofa son born Monday inNorth Platte.

Henry Elmore Waits, 90,died Friday morning fol-lowing an illness of sixmonths.

Pupils of the gradeschool “doing it up red”this week by comingdown with the measles.Ronnie Daly was the firstvictim, then TommyKemp broke out while inschool Tuesday.

Five members of theMcPherson Co. HighSchool band and Rev. andMrs. Milton O’Connortraveled to Kearney Mon-day night where they en-joyed a concert given by alocal college there. Themembers are; PeggyStreiff, Shirley Haney,Darlene Cook, MaudeneHaskell and Katie O’Con-nor.

SEVENTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 13, 1947

Mrs. Chas. Seeley ofNorth Platte received 60cards and handkerchiefsat the shower given on

her birthday.Carl Rundback is having

a siege with the mumps.Jay Leadabrand is driv-

ing a new 1947 Chevroletand Lewis Moriarty isdriving a new 1947 Dodgepickup.

EIGHTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 18, 1937

William Goss, UncleBilly, as he was known tomany people, passedaway in North Platte Mon-day, February 15.

A fire which startedfrom the Koehler lightplant in the basement ofthe David Store last Fri-day evening was extin-guished before it hadgained sufficient head-way to do any extensivedamage.

Funeral services wereconducted from theTryon M.E. Church onFriday of last week forMrs. Margaret Kelley(Waits), 81.

NINETY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 17, 1927The work on the North

Platte-Tryon road will berenewed, the contractorhaving quit on account ofcold weather. The contrac-tors will take over thework of completion andsurfacing in a few weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. DonaldStack are the parents of ababy boy born Febr. 13.

Mr. and Mrs. MarionHuffman are the parentsof a baby girl born Febru-ary 14.

A public sale will be heldFebruary 24th 14 milesnortheast of Tryon and 14miles northwest of Ring-gold on the old PickettPlace by Bob Wade,owner. He has decided toquit farming for a while.

From The

Tryon Graphic Files

Monday, February 20 -Ham steak, baked sweetpotato and hominy

Tuesday, February 21 -Smothered steak, mashedpotato and corn.

Wednesday, February 22- Veal parmesan withspaghetti and green

Aunt Bea’s Senior Meals Lunch Menu

Every name is called a noun,As field and fountain, street and town.In place of noun the pronoun stands,As he and she can clap their hands.

The adjective describes a thing,As magic want or bridal ring.

The verb means action, something done,As read and write and jump and run.

How things are the adverbs tell,As quickly, slowly, badly, well.

The preposition shows relation,As in the street or at the station.Conjunctions join, in many ways,

Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase.The interjection cries out, “Hark!

I need an exclamation mark”.Dare I question what this says?A query mark for that there is.

~UNKNOWN~

Quote: "It is amazingwhat you can accomplishif you do not care whogets the credit." ~ Un-known

Deciding on what towrite about can be a chal-

THE PARTS OF SPEECH

lenge sometimes. Lifeand the people in it havemany things in commonwith the parts of speech.It’s probably no wondersince our vocabulary ismade up of words and

the way they intercon-nect. Each part has afunction as do differentpeople play certain partsin our lives. Places andevents play a role in howthe path of life travels on.We need to know who orwhat each one is and it isa good idea to figure outwhat their action is in thescheme of things. A gooddescription helps us to re-alize how people, places,and/or things work to-gether. Do they movequickly or do they stay inone spot and anchor lifeevents? Are they joinedwith other parts of life or

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Liver and onions, mashedpotatoes and peas.

Friday, February 24 -Grilled ham and cheesesandwich with tomatomacaroni soup.

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MNAC Band Clinic Held In Tryon

KENDRA CUTLER PHOTOS

The 2017 Mid-NebraskaActivities Conferenceband clinic was held Mon-day, February 6 atMcPherson County HighSchool in Tryon. JerroldHeide, Alliance HighSchool Band Director wasthis year’s Clinician.

He was very impressedwith the quality andquantity of students whoparticipated in this year’sclinic.

Students from eightMNAC schools attendedthe day long clinic, thatculminated in a publicperformance that eveningin the McPherson CountyHigh School Auditorium.The mass band per-formed five pieces includ-ing, “Valley of Fire” byMichael Sweeney; “ACountry Lullaby” by Je-remy Bell; “King’s Moun-tain Adventure” by EdHuckeby; “Music fromChicago” arranged by EricOsterling and includingthe hits, “And All ThatJazz”, “Cell Block Tango”and “Roxie”. The eveningended with the MilitaryEscort March by H. Ben-

The mass MNAC band prior to their public performance in the McPherson County High School Auditoriumon Monday, February 6. Eight area schools participated in the day-long activities led by Clinician, JerroldHeide, Alliance High School.

Band directors who took part in the performance prior to the mass band per-formance were: Jerrold Heide, Jolene Rose, Kris Ganoung, Jodi Arnold, HeatherWalls, Ross Thoendel, Ann Cramer and Daniel Gibbs. The directors performed,“Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown” and “Happy Days”, for the audience in attendance.

nett and arranged byJames Swearingen.

The Band directors fromthe schools participatingperformed prior to the

students.Schools attended and

their directors were:Arthur County, JoleneRose; Stapleton, DanielGibbs; Hyannis, Bryan

Regier; Mullen, HeatherWalls; Cody-Kilgore, JodiArnold; Thedford, RossThoendel; Sandhills, KrisGanoung; McPhersonCounty, Ann Cramer

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