Social notes from District 54 residents and visitors
Andrew Nelson and Frank Nelson visited relatives in the area and Fremont last week. Clarks and Silver Creek locals attended gatherings at multiple homes, including the Wamsley, Pickett, Frizzell, Imm, and Carman households, with birthdays and family meals noted. several trips to Genoa, Osceola, and Ful lerton are listed among visits and dinner guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Nelson
North Platte
Silver Creek
Frank
Fremont
Kirk Burger
Clarks
Sam Wyman
Jack Burger
North Bend
Setty Lou Willits
Vern McCormick
Anna Strohbehn
E. M. Jacobsen
Don
Lloyd Wamsley
Joann Jacobson
Annette Wamsley
Carolee
Petty Colby
Joe Imm
Gene Land
Louis Tschantre
Bruce Kershaw
Sulver Creek
Anna Engel
Chester
Geraldine
Edith Kershaw
Allen Irish
Genoa
Virgil Zegar
Bennie King
Art Engel
Highway 30
Floyd Frizzell
Jane Pickett
Jank Pickett
Seattle
Wash
Washington, D. C
Bruce Pickett
Osceola
T. R. Pickett
Ft. Riley
Kansas
Larry Pickett
Mollie Carman
Frank Carman
Roy Wyman
Columbus
Paul Imm
Larry
Bruce Frizzell
Marcia Tschantre
Oscar Imm
Roy Frizzell
Dollie Finecy
Cedric Finecy
Stella Swertzic
Lawrence Gdowski
Fullerton
Frank Stanczyk
Arnold Church
Dora Lockard
Edmond Vetich
Ralph
Carol Jilg
Herman Aye
Harold Keith
Betty Jean
Jim Stanczyk
Joan
Rose Mary Vetich
Dan Hinkle
Frank Frizzell
Wayne Willits
Bill Wyman
Mary Lou Stanczyk
Omaha
Frank Pickett
Polk Farmers Produce annual meeting and community events
The Polk Farmers Produce saw over 90 at their annual oyster supper at Community Hall. They voted 5 percent on capital stock and a 1 percent 1954 dividend. Donald Ostberg became a new director. Vern Jones remains manager with a board including Carl Mundt Wallace Sandell Roger Gustafson and Ben Peterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk Farmers Produce
Donald Ostberg
Vern Jones
Carl Mundt
Wallace Sandell
Roger Gustafson
Ben Peterson
Holstein Herd Additions and Calves Listed for Sale
A catalog of dairy cattle includes 1 Holstein cow aged 6 fresh, 2 Holstein cows aged 4 freshened in November bred to a Holstein bull, 2 Holstein second calffier heifers fresh, 1 Holstein first calf heifer fresh, 2 Holstein cows aged 4 freshening in April and May, 1 Holstein cow aged 3 freshening in May, 1 Holstein heifer pasture bred to freshen in March, 1 Guernsey heifer second calf in March, 1 Holstein steer 7 months, 1 Holstein heifer open, 1 Holstein Angu s heifer 6 months, 1 Holstein Angu s steer 6 months, 1 Holstein bull calf in November, 1 Holstein heifer calf in November, 3 Holstein baby heifer calves and 1 Holstein baby bull calf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guernsey
Machinery list for sale from 1944 farm inventory
A detailed list of items includes an IHC H tractor with lights lift and starter, an IHC F-30 on rubber with lights and overdrive, a David Bradley 2-way lift, an IHC 238 H M Cultivator, several John Deere implements including disc harrows mowers plows and a grain drill, a 12-hole grain drill, a John Deere corn sheller, a steel gear hay rack, a gear flare box trailer, and related farm equipment such as a stalk cutter, lister, go dig, and manure spreader with rubber tires and other tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiesler
David Bradley
John Deere
John Deere Lister
Anthony
Household Goods Auction Listing 1947
A 1947 Coronado Electric Range with Duo-Therm oil burner, 70,000 BTU blower, several stoves and cook stoves, 1 oak dining room table, kitchen cabinet, reed Davenport and chair, 4 dressers, 2 iron beds, 1 gate-leg table, 1 enc, 1 combination bookcase desk, cot, and numerous other small items are offered in a household sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coronado Electric
Miscellaneous farm equipment list with feeders and tanks
A brief notice lists items including several fuel barrels six feed pans one hog tank poultry feeders and waterers some good one inch pipe a brooder house measuring sixteen by nine feet with a small feed room attached
District 18 News Highlights Local Visits and Moves
Members of the Birthday Club met in Columbus at Mrs. Ralph Hasselbalch’s home and played canasta. Local couples and families visited one another, with dinners and calls at several homes. A farm sale at Tom Sterup’s attracted a large crowd before the Sterups planned a move to California. Harold Gonka enlisted in the Navy in Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birthday Club
Columbus
Ralph Hasselbalch
Canasta
Edward Lisko
C. Fletcher
David
Karen Jo Schmidt
Albert Inselman
Louis A. Schmidt
Carl Benda
Josephine Benda
Albert
Phil Micek
Geo. Spitz
Wolbach
Chet Wells
Adolph Bernt
Bernt
Tom Sterup
Sterup
Debbie
California
Sam Gondringer
South of
Shelby
Sternp
Richard W. Eller
Leon
Sharon
John Micek
P. W. Elliott
Harold Gonka
Omaha
Navy
Swede Home News Social Roundup
Local families share Sunday visits and birthday celebrations at multiple homes including Forss Hanquist Johnson and Gestrine clans. A TCW Club tea, a Friday slumber party for Karin Johnson, and Lincoln trips for Ralph Anderson mark the social calendar.
Local Agent Bert Gissler Leads December Personal Production
National Fidelity Life announces that local representative Bert Gissler again headed the field force in personal production for December and extends public congratulations to him and his clients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Fidelity Life
Bert Gissler
Bernt Dismissed From St Marys Hospital
Adolph Bernt was discharged from St Marys Hospital in Columbus and returned home Wednesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Leo Bernt and sons visited with Mr and Mrs Frank Ziemba and sons Sunday afternoon. John Gonka called on John Micek and Phil Sunday evening. Sunday evening, Mr and Mrs Edward Lisko visited with Mr and Mrs Frank Ziemba and sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Bernt
St. Mary’s Hospital
Columbus
Leo Bernt and Sons
Frank Ziemba and
John Gonka
John Micek
Phil
Edward Lisko
Frank Ziemba
Local Social Note: Miss Dorothy Dahlin Visits Polk
Miss Dorothy Dahlin of Polk spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Otto Wegmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Dahlin
Polk
Otto Wegmann
Baptismal Services Held for Two Local Daughters
Baptismal services were conducted Sunday at the Methodist church for Cindy Sue, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dale Nahrstedt, and Linda Kay, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Grossnicklaus. Ernest Ahrens of Ulysses visited their son Gerhardt Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Cindy Sue
Dale Nahrstedt
Linda Kay
Robert Grossnicklaus
Ernest Ahrens
Ulysses
Gerhardt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ted Wyman
Don Schippereit
Albert Morris
Henry Schipperell
Polk News
By Grayce Hahn
Charles Dahlgren
Oklahoma City
Okla
Polk Baptist Church
Overton
Conrad of
Stromsburg
Methodist Wscs
Rolland Stromberg
Lloyd Hahn
Fred Bedient
Lewis Stark
Aurora
Bill
Wichita
Harold
Herbert
Bradshaw
Robert Merchant
The
Baptist Church
Oakland
Platte Valley Conference
Gvras
78 Club of the Baptist Church
Henderson Menonite Church
Rev
Isaac
Joe Ehn
Josephine Samuelson
Hilma Pierson
Grand Island
Morris Fischer
Ft. Leonard Wood
Missouri
Hilmer Jones
Ladies Aid
Evangelical Free Church
Mesdames Wilmer
Rolland Bodine
Pleasant Home Farmers
Leland Harless
Kenneth Schmaidt
Darrel Nyberg
Mickey Fjell
Gary Harless
David Fjell
Louise Doremus
Friendly Families Club
Glenn Peterson
Stomsburg
IHC
Lutheran Brotherhood
Larry Johnston
Merrick & Noble
First National Bank
District 18 News
Mrs
Alta Lisko
Swede Home News
Harold W. Johnson
Lillie Chindgren
Alice Oberg
Starvey Sundberg
Adolph Forss
John Gestrine
Keith
J. E. Gestrine
Roger Hanquist
Harlan Johnson
TCW Club
Clair Willits
Reynold Peterson
Sandra Adelson
Elaine Lundstrom
Ruth Cahill
Marlyce ‘Noyd
Mary Beth Powell
Bernt Johnson
Karin Johnson
Earl Thelander
Henry Thelander
Clarence Nielsen
Ada Lundstrom
Petrus Nelson
Tom Gonnerman
Joe
Ralph Anderson
Juincoln
Glenn Anderson
Lincoln
Levert Oquist
Carl G. Johnson
Roy Cummings
Bert G. Gissler
Anderson
Kenneth C. Fouts
Extension Animal Husbanman
University of Nebraska
Cornhusker
Fouts
Cuming County
York County
Seward County
Nebraska
U of N
Emerson
America
Best Buy
National Fidelity
RALP
Jones Avescata
Kansas City
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