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grade and high school training at Ashland, Nebraska, and was graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. At the University, he was affiliated with the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

On September 20, 1933, he was maried (sic) at Omaha to Miss Miriam Wiley, the daughter of Walter S. and Miriam Ayer Wiley. Walter S. Wiley was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, May 26, 1870, and died in May, 1949. Miriam Ayer Wiley was born in Tonawanda, New York, December 8, 1877, and died October 17, 1939. Mrs. Mead has one brother, Robert Wiley, who is in the insurance business in Omaha. He is married to Helen Wilson, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. W. W. Wilson of Nebraska City.

Lyman Brome and Miriam Wiley Mead have one son, Robert Wiley Mead, born January 12, 1936.

Lyman Mead has been in the lumber business for several years. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, he became associated with the Yates Lumber Company for a period of three years. From 1922 to 1934, he managed the Mead Lumber and Coal Company at Ashland. In December, 1934, he came to Columbus and assumed management of the Mead Lumber and Coal Company. He is president of the other four Mead Lumber Yards in addition to the administration of the local company.

During World War I, he served three months in the United States Army at Camp Taylor, Kentucky.

Lyman Mead holds membership in the American Legion, the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the A.F. & A.M., the Rotary International, the Izaak Walton League, and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce of which he was president during 1938-39. He is a past president of the Chamber of Commerce of Ashland, Nebraska.

Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Mead are Presbyterians and members of the Federated Church of Columbus.

ERNEST JOHN MEAYS

Ernest John Meays was born in Lincolnshire, England. His father was William Meays. Ernest was married to Nellie Young.

Nellie Lucinda Young Meays was born in Columbus, February 7, 1874. Her father, Rufus Wells Young, a farmer, was born in Watertown, New York, September 9, 1842, and died May 16, 1924, at Sawtelle, California. Her mother, Elvira Jane Jones Young, was born May 1, 1843, in Belleville, Canada, and died in Columbus in the 1940's.

Nellie Young Meays had one brother and two sisters: Raymond R., of Omaha, Nebraska; Winnifred, Mrs. Lawrence of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who died June 10, 1945; and Ruby, Mrs. Yost of Santa Ana, California. The Youngs came to Columbus in 1874, from Belleville, Ontario, Canada.

Ernest John Meays and Nellie Young Meays had four sons and five daughters: Emily Marion, Mrs. Christie Gass; Zella Margaret, Mrs. Mark L. Shorts; Ernest Ralph, married to Dorothy Boettcher; Elmer John, of Norfolk, married to Florence Olson who is deceased; Ethel Augusta, Mrs. Harry Kellogg of Columbus; Nellie Vera, Mrs. Kenneth Copley, of Omaha; Marjory Davida, Mrs. Kyle Siewert, of Kimball, Nebraska; Harold Earl, married to Helen Knopick, of Columbus; Carroll Gifford, married to LaVonne Cortz. He is in the United States Army.

WILLIAM J. MENKE

William J. Menke, former Shell Creek Township farmer, was born July 1, 1876, in Oldenburg, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1885 with his parents, John and Marie G. Ahlers Menke, who settled in Platte County. Their first home was in Bismark Township. Later they lived several years on a farm in Colfax County. On their return to Platte County, they located in Shell Creek Township.

William's father, John Menke, was born in Oldenburg, October 20, 1837, and died July 16, 1911, in Columbus. His mother, Marie Ahlers Menke, was born March 16, 1838, in Oldenburg, and died February 12, 1915, in Columbus.

William Menke had seven brothers. John, Gerhard, Fred, Henry, Dick and August are deceased George, a farmer, was married to Anne Blessen and lives in Amarillo, Texas.

Shortly after the Menke family settled in Platte County, William, age nine, hired out during the summer to herd cattle on the prairie. There were no fences at that time. For wages for his work the first summer he received a straw hat and a vest. From that time on he hired out each summer. In 1904, at the age of twenty-eight, he engaged in farming for himself.

On June 9, 1904, he was married to Miss Hulda Albers, the daughter of William and Sophie Sander Albers, at the Shell Creek Baptist Church in Platte County. William Albers, a farmer, was born in Hanover, Germany, February 8, 1855, and died January 27, 1940, in Columbus. Sophie Albers was born in Hanover, December 15, 1853, and died in Columbus, July 26, 1936.

Mrs. William Menke had two brothers and a sister who died in infancy. A sister, Lena, is deceased, and two other sisters, Mrs. Gus Behlen and Mrs. Bernard Buss, live on farms north of Columbus.

William and Hulda Albers Menke had seven children: William, Elsie, Alvina, John, Ida, Marie and Milton. All were born in Platte County and attended School District 35. William John Jr., born July 1-2, 1905, married Ida Schwank, February 20, 1931, and farms nine miles north of Columbus. Elsie, born December 5, 1906, was graduated from Kramer High School in 1925, and is the wife of Herman Schulte; they were married December 5, 1929, and moved from Columbus to Frederickburg, Iowa, in December, 1938. Alvina Hulda, born January 7, 1908, is a dressmaker. John, born June 4, 1911, married Alma Kohrs at Stafford, Kansas, April 6, 1938, and in March, 1941, moved

to a farm in Sumner, Iowa. Ida May, born September 10, 1912, was graduated from Kramer High in 1930, and attended Luther College in Wahoo, Nebraska; she has been employed at St. Mary's Hospital in Columbus since 1940. Marie Magdelena, born July 27, 1915, was graduated from Kramer High in 1933, then took nurse's training at Methodist Hospital in Omaha and attended a Baptist Bible School in Minneapolis; she was married to Reverend Helmut Waltereit, August 14, 1940, and lives at Lehr, North Dakota. Milton Albers, born August 19, 1920, was married to Burnita Patratz in Sumner, Iowa, December 8, 1945. They live on a farm eleven miles north of Columbus.

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Menke Sr. retired from active farm work and moved to Columbus. They are members of the Shell Creek Baptist Church. William J. Menke is a Republican.

OTTO MERZ

Otto Merz Sr. was born in Grossingersheim, Wurtenburg, Germany, July 28, 1858. He received his early schooling and learned the butcher's trade in Germany. In 1880, he immigrated to the United States and went to Buffalo, New York, where he operated a butcher shop until 1882. He then went to Chicago, and operated a butcher shop there from 1882 to 1886. In 1886, he came to Fremont, Nebraska.

On April 12, 1887, in Fremont, he was married to Miss Frances Walla of Prague, Nebraska. They had four sons and nine daughters. One son died in infancy. Ernest; Elise, Mrs. Julius Gaver; and Katherine, Mrs. S. S. Hubbell, are deceased. The others were: Otto Jr., of Columbus; Gus and Phillip, of South Dakota; Carrie, Mrs. Fred Cady, of Rising City; Frances, Mrs. Pat Brown, of Fremont; Amelia, Mrs. Robert Miller, of Bremerton, Washington; Anna, Mrs. A. E. Gutzmer, of Columbus; Rose, Mrs. Al Schilling, of Iowa; Pauline, Mrs. Albert Melliger, of Columbus; and Lucille, Mrs. McCarthy, of Washington.

In 1888, Otto Merz sold his meat market at Fremont, and they moved to St. Paul, Nebraska, where they lived for two years. They came to Columbus in 1892, where Mr. Merz owned and operated a meat market until 1927. For over twenty years his son, Otto Merz Jr., and his daughter, Katherine, were associated with him in his business. In 1927, Otto Merz Jr. purchased the shop from his father.

Otto Merz Sr. was a member of the Sons of Herman, the Highlanders, and the Eagles. Politically, he was a Democrat. He died in Columbus.

OTTO MERZ, JR.

Otto Merz Jr., son of Otto and Frances Walla Merz, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, in the early 1890's. He attended the Columbus schools and St. Francis Academy. He learned the butcher's trade from his father, Otto Merz, and was associated with him in the Merz Meat Market on Eleventh Street for more than twenty years. In 1927, he purchased the business from his father, and later sold it.

He has been with the Columbus Safeway Store in the meat department for several years.

He was married to Miss Katharine Costello, the daughter of Martin and Alice Caffrey Costello. Otto and Katharine Costello Merz had two daughters, Mary and Katharine.

A son, Otto Merz III, died in infancy.

Mary Merz was graduated from St. Bonaventure High School, and the Creighton University School of Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska. She took her training at Joseph's Hospital in Omaha, and worked at St. Mary's Hospital in Columbus.

Katharine Merz was graduated from St. Bonaventure High School, and a business college. Following this she was employed as bookkeeper at the Nielsen Chevrolet Company in Columbus.

Otto Merz Jr. served in the United States Army in World War I, and was with the A.E.F. and among the Columbus group who fought at the front in France.

He holds membership in the American Legion.

The Otto Merz family are members of St. Bonaventure Church in Columbus.

REVEREND BERNHARDT F. MESCHKE

Reverend Bernhardt F. Meschke, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Monroe Township, was born August 7, 1918, in Morristown, Minnesota. He is the son of William H. and Emilia Neubauer Meschke, natives of Germany. His father was born July 13, 1874, and died at Morristown, Minnesota, on January 12, 1943. His mother was born December 31, 1879. Reverend B. Meschke had two brothers and two sisters: William and Herbert; Erna, Mrs. Herman Vollbrecht; and Dora, Mrs. Herbert Schroeder.

Reverend Meschke attended grade and high school in Morristown, Minnesota, and Concordia College at St. Paul. He then entered the Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, to study for the ministry. He was ordained there as a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod of Missouri.

On November 4, 1945, Reverend Meschke was married to Miss Juanita Phipps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paris Phipps, in St. Louis, Missouri. They had one daughter, Lillian Marie, born September 28, 1946, at Fullerton, Nebraska.

Juanita Phipps Meschke's father, Paris Phipps, was born in White County, Illinois, March 7, 1883. Mrs. Phipps was born at East St. Louis, Illinois, August 28, 1888. Mrs. Meschke had three brothers and two sisters. One of her brothers, Ralph Phipps, studied for the Lutheran ministry at St. John's College, Winfield, Kansas.

Reverend and Mrs. B. Meschke came to Platte County July 20, 1944, when Reverend Meschke assumed the pastorate of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Their residence is at Fullerton, Nebraska.

MICHAEL F. MEYER

Michael F. Meyer, the member of a prominent Platte County family and a farmer in Granville Township, was born October 1, 1892, near Humphrey, Nebraska. He is the son of Theodore and Wilhelmina Rielag Meyer, early day settlers in the Humphrey community.

Theodore Meyer, a native of Germany, was born at Osnabruck, April 4, 1843. He and his wife immigrated to America in 1875, settling first at Meadville, Pennsylvania, with Reverend George Meyer, Theodore's brother. Four months later, they went to Carroll County, Iowa, where Mr. Meyer purchased land and they established their home. Theodore engaged in farming there for nine years. In 1885, the Meyer family came to Platte County, where Mr. Meyer invested in two hundred acres of land in Granville Township. In 1910, they retired and moved to Columbus. Three years later they returned to the farm, where Theodore lived until his death December 1, 1918. Mrs. Meyer died in Columbus November 5, 1914.

Michael F. Meyer was one of nine children. Henry G., an attorney, was graduated from the University of Nebraska. He married Letta Moore, a cousin of Dewey Hilles, who was private secretary to President Taft. During the Taft administration, the Henry Meyers visited the White House on their honeymoon. Henry died in Omaha, January 4, 1942; his wife died in New York City, August 11, 1926. George A., an attorney, was graduated from Columbia University in New York City. He was employed in the law office of the late former Supreme Court Justice, Charles Evans Hughes, when justice Hughes was governor of New York. George A. died in California August 5, 1914. Joseph, a graduate of the Fremont Normal School, died August 17, 1911. Anna, who was married to Doctor August Kuhlmann of Melrose, Minnesota, died April 16, 1936; Doctor Kuhlmann died April 4, 1943. August and John live in Omaha. Elizabeth died at the age of nine, and Mary in infancy.

Michael F. Meyer, who farms the old Meyer home place, was educated at School District 52 and the St. Francis High School at Humphrey, Nebraska. He then attended St. John's University at Collegeville, Minnesota. From 1910 to 1912, he worked at the Pollock Drug Company in Columbus, and then returned to the farm.

On February 16, 1915, he was married to Miss Anna Heine, daughter of John and Margaret Trouth Heine, at St. Andrew's Catholic Church at Afton, Iowa. John Heine was born in Luxemburg, Germany, and died in May, 1905, at Afton. Margaret Trouth Heine was born in New York in 1850, and died November 10, 1913. Anna Heine Meyer had six brothers and two sisters: John; Ottie, Edward, Emil, Theodore, Henry, Dora and Martha. Henry, Ottie, Theodore and Dora are deceased. Emil is a carpenter in Spokane, Washington. Martha is a nurse and lives in San Diego, California, and John farms in Canada.

Michael F. and Anna Heine Meyer had six daughters and one son. Wilhelmina, born February 28, 1916, attended the District 52 School, St. Francis High School, and the Wayne State Teachers College at Wayne, Nebraska, where she received her first grade teacher's certificate. She taught at District 52 for seven years, at District 78 for three years, and at District 23 for one year. She is married to Norman Muhle, an overseas air corps veteran of World War II. The Norman Muhles live at Rifle, Colorado.

Eileen Meyer, born July 21, 1918, is a graduate of St. Francis High School, and attended the Van Sant School of Business in Omaha. She was employed in the Welfare Department of Father Flanagan's Boys' Town.

Joan Meyer, born January 10, 1920, attended District 52 and was graduated from St. Francis High School. He (sic) is employed in Spokane, Washington.

Dorothea Meyer, born March 1, 1922, was graduated from St. Francis School and attended the Wayne State Teachers College. She taught at Districts 52, 53 and 8, and was employed for a year in secretarial work in Salina, Kansas.

Holycon Meyer, born March 28, 1924, attended District 52 and graduated from St. Francis School in 1942.  He (sic) was employed as a receptionist in the Mutual Broadcasting Station KSPZ at Salina, Kansas.

Anna Mae, born February 4, 1929, was a student at District 52, and was graduated from St. Francis School, in the Class of 1946.

Michael F. Meyer, Jr., born August 9, 1933, attended St. Francis High School after completing his work at District 52.

All of the Meyer children's birthplace was on the same farm where their father, Michael Meyer, was born.

Michael F. Meyer has been a director of School District 52 since 1930. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Farmer's Union, Granville Local No. 1483. The Meyers are members of St. Francis Catholic Church in Humphrey. Politically, Michael Meyer is a Republican.

JULIAN ENDRIECH MEYER, M.D.

Doctor Julian Endreich Meyer, son of Joseph and Mathilda Endreich Meyer, was born in Selma, Alabama, July 7, 1894. His father, a merchant, was born in Hessen, Germany, in 1855 and died in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 22, 1909. His mother was born in Bohemia on August 29, 1868. Doctor Julian Meyer has one sister, Bernice Meyer, of Birmingham, Alabama.

Besides Selma, he lived in Cerrville and Birmingham, Alabama. He was graduated from Central High School in Birmingham in 1910. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama in 1913, before he had reached his nineteenth birthday, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in 1917.

During World War I, from September, 1917, to May, 1919, Doctor Meyer was on active duty in the United States Army. He was commissioned a first lieutenant and served with the Base Hospital Unit Number Thirty-eight, at Nantes, France, from May, 1918-May, 1919.

After his discharge from the army, he was resident physician at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia from 1919-1920.

On December 6, 1920, he came to Columbus where he was associated with the Evans Clinic. Around 1922 he formed a partnership with Doctor M. C. James which has continued through the years.

On November 1, 1921, Doctor Julian Meyer was married to Tarris Threefoot, the daughter of Kurcher and Julia Rothenberg Threefoot. Mr. Threefoot, a cotton merchant, was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on March 10, 1861, and died there in 1924. Mrs. Threefoot was born in Syracuse, New York, on November 22, 1865. Mrs. Meyer had four brothers and two sisters: Marshall and Samuel are deceased; Louis, of Memphis, Tennessee, and Kurcher are in the cotton business; her sisters were Sara, Mrs. Frolich of Meridian; and Yetta, Mrs. S. J. Kayser of Mobile, Alabama.

Tarris Meyer was graduated from high school in Meridian, and attended the Sophia Newcomb College in New Orleans.

Doctor Julian and Tarris Threefoot Meyer had one son, Julian Endreich, Jr., born November 11, 1922, in Columbus.

Doctor Meyer has membership in the College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, The Nebraska State Medical Association, The Platte County Medical Society of which he has been president and secretary, the Alpha Omega Alpha and the Omega Upsilon Phi fraternities. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been president. He has served on the City Council, the board of directors of the Loup River Public Power District, and has membership in the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the Wayside County Club and the American Legion.

His hobbies are stamp collecting, hunting, and fishing.

Doctor Meyer is a member of the Jewish faith, and politically is affiliated with the Democratic Party.

JULIAN ENDREICH MEYER, JR.

Julian Endreich Meyer, Jr., son of Doctor Julian E. and Tarris Threefoot Meyer, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, November 1, 1922. His father was born in Selma, Alabama, July 7, 1894. His mother was born in Meridian, Mississippi, November 25, 1892, and died in Columbus, September 18, 1944.

Julian attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1940. He then enrolled at Harvard University in September, 1940, and in 1943, after the completion of his junior year, he enlisted in the United States Army.

He was in service over two and a half years, from July, 1943, to February, 1946. From July, 1943, to August, 1944, he was stationed in the United States. During that time he spent several months at Camp Roberts, in California. From August, 1944, until his discharge in February, 1946, he served in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, seeing active service on Luzon and in New Guinea.

In June, 1946, he returned to Harvard University for his senior year, and was graduated there with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1947. He then spent one semester in study at the University of Missouri.

During 1947 and 1948, Mr. Meyer was employed at the Nebraska Continental Telephone Company. In July, 1948, he became associated with the Central National Bank.

Julian E. Meyer, Jr., is a member of the Wayside Country Club and the Columbus Junior Chamber of Commerce.

BERNARD L. MICEK

Bernard L. Micek was born July 25, 1903, at Columbus, Nebraska. He is the son of Bartholomew and Agnes Matya Micek. Bartholomew was born in 1869, in Poland, and immigrated to the United States when a boy. He came to Platte County in 1882 and died on May 10, 1925. Agnes Matya Micek was born in Poland in 1879.

Bernard Micek, known as "Barney," had four brothers and two sisters: Charles, Edward, Thomas, John, Mary, and Ann. In World War II, Bernard served three years in the Armed Forces, at Camp Lewis, Washington.

Interested in mechanics, Mr. Micek visited the General Motors and Ford plants in Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as an inspector at the gear and axle plant. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada.

On March 3, 1924, at St. Francis Xavier Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was married to Miss Dora Staroscik, daughter of Christopher and Mary Pawlowicz Staroscik of Duncan, Nebraska. Mrs. Micek's father was born in Poland and died in Duncan, February 18, 1936. Her mother was born November 5, 1869, in Poland. Mrs. Micek had six brothers and four sisters: Albert, Ignatius, John, Edward, Stanley, Louis, Anna, Stella, Victoria, and Clara.

Bernard and Dora Staroscik Micek had a family of seven children. Bernard Jr., born January 25, 1925, attended the Seminary at St. Joseph's College at Westmont, Illinois, the Teutopolis Seminary and the Franciscan Friary at Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied for the priesthood. Francis J., born in Detroit, Michigan, September 14, 1926, attended St. Bonaventure's School and served in the United States Navy during World War II. James E., born October 21, 1928, attended St. Joseph's College at Westmont, Illinois, and was graduated from Kramer High School; he served with the United States Army in Korea. Chester J., born September 16, 1930, died March 30, 1943. Mary Ann, born January 25, 1935; Gerald, born June 8, 1938, and Alice, born August 17, 1942, attended St. Anthony's Parochial School. All were born in Columbus, except Francis who was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Bernard L. Micek has long been interested in the prevention of pollution of streams by proper sewage disposal and the elimination of deep ditches at the sides of highways, and all civic improvement. He served on the City Council in Columbus several years as a representative of the Second Ward.

He holds membership in the Knights of Columbus, the F.O.E. (Eagles), the Isaak (sic) Walton League, and is a Democrat.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Micek are members of St. Anthony's Catholic Church.

ISABELLE HELEN MICEK

Miss Isabelle Helen Micek, born in Columbus, Nebraska, in the early 1920's, is the daughter of Thomas Adolph and Julia Triba Micek of Columbus, former Polk County residents, and a granddaughter of Andrew Triba of Columbus.

She has one brother, Adrian, who married Miss June Blaser, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blaser of Columbus. Adrian and June Blaser Micek live in Fremont, Nebraska. They have four children: Sidney, Pamela, Linda and Timothy.

Miss Isabelle Micek lived on her parents' farm in Polk County, where she first atteneded (sic) the district school. She studied music with Miss Elsie Griffiths from 1935-1939 and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1939

Following this Miss Micek was enrolled at the St. Louis Institute of Music, and was graduated from Washington University in 1943, with the degree of Bachelor of Music. She taught public high school music in Illinois from 1943 to 1944, and in Iowa from 1944 to 1946. She came to Columbus in 1946, taking over the piano and voice studio of Miss Elsie Griffiths.

Miss Isabelle Micek served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Music, and is a member of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church.

GEORGE A. MICHAELSEN

George Arnold Michaelsen, retired Sherman Township farmer, was born in Shell Creek Township, Colfax County, Nebraska, July 28, 1878. His parents were Ludwig and Katherine Marie Hollman Michaelsen, pioneers in Nebraska. Ludwig Michaelsen, a farmer, was born in Oldenburg, October 17, 1848, and died at Spokane, Washington, August 10, 1922. Katherine Michaelsen was born in Oldenburg November 10, 1846, and died October 22, 1911, at Odessa, Washington.

George Michaelsen had six brothers: William L., a garage owner, was married to Josie Bently, deceased; Louis, owner of a cafe and bakery in Schuyler, was married to Anna Salak; Edward H., a farmer near Leigh, was married to Lucy Backenhus; Julius C. and Henry E., own a dry goods store and grocery business in Odessa, Washington; and Alfred M., a bank president at Colfax, Washington.

George A. Michaelsen was educated in the schools near his home, and assisted his father in farming on the Michaelsen homestead. He moved to Platte County from Colfax County in March, 1898.

On February 19, 1901, he was married to Miss Anna Hembd, daughter of Julius and Gesena Ahrens Hembd, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sherman Township. They had six children: Julius L., Emma Louise, Elsie A., Walter G., Melvin M., and Darleen Ann.

Julius L., born at Columbus, former Platte County farmer, married Louise Neemeyer, and is employed by the Union Pacific Railroad at Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Emma Louise, a graduate of the Creston High School and the University of Nebraska, was home economist for the Northwestern Public Service Company in western Nebraska. During World War II, she was a hostess in the Service Clubs at Camp Crowder, Missouri, and later at Camp Beale, California. She was a home economist at Scottsbluff, Nebraska, in 1948.

Elsie A. married Louis Henggeler, a son of Anton and Rosa Berney Henggeler, and was graduated from Columbus High School and later attended Kearney State Normal Training College. Prior to her marriage, she taught in Platte County School Districts 77, 48, and 2.

Walter G. was born at Columbus and attended Kramer High School where he was active in sports, particularly football. He married Gertrude Luchsinger and farmed north of Columbus. Later, in Columbus, he was employed by the Columbus Daily Telegram and in a grocery store. He remained a sports enthusiast, playing with baseball and kittenball teams, and for a number of years played baseball with the St. John's community baseball club, and was then a member of the Mid-State League. During World War II, he was employed in the Ordnance Department at the Hastings, Nebraska, Naval Depot. He was killed June 10, 1944, in a bomb explosion. His wife and two children, Dwight Walter and Elaine Ruth, live in Columbus.

Melvin M., who has a farm thirteen miles north of Columbus in Sherman Township, married Agnes German, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. German of Humphrey. Melvin was born in Sherman Township and attended school District 46, in Sherman Township. His interests are 4H Club work and farming. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Michaelsen have four children: Patrick David, Jacqueline Jean, Jerome James, and Jane Ann.

Darleen Ann, the wife of James W. Douglass, was graduated from Creston High School and attended the University of Nebraska. She worked as a stenographer and bookkeeper in Columbus. During World War II, she was a civil service stenographer at Camp Crowder, Missouri. She is a past-president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary in Columbus.

James W. Douglass, a native of Cumberland, Maryland, was employed as a draftsman in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Loup River Public District office in Columbus. He was graduated from high school and college in Baltimore, Maryland. During World War II, he served in the United States Army for nearly five years, two of which were spent in the European Theatre of Operations with the 93rd Signal

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