Home Demonstration Week and Farm Safety Notes
Nebraska's extension service highlights National Home Demonstration Week with 32 500 women involved statewide and 275 in Polk County. The feature covers home economics education, army cutworms in central Nebraska, quality ewes distribution, and fallout safety guidance for farmers including shelter, storage, and decontamination measures.
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Agricultural Extension Service
Nebraska
Puerto Rico
Polk County
Nebraska Extension Program
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Land Grant
University of Nebraska
Gary B. Garey
Local Technicians Attend Two Day Training School
Polk County SCS Technicians Leon Draeger and Harold Klingman attended a two day training school in York on April 10 and 11. They received a complete set of instruments to determine radioactivity in food, water, people, and fields. Instruments will be checked regularly to ensure proper adjustment and operability.
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The
Soil Conservation Service
Polk County
SCS
Leon Draeger
Harold Klingman
York
Friends and relatives visit after Emma Hartman’s funeral
Mr and Mrs George Nitzel attended Emma Hartman’s funeral and spent a week at the George Buchta home. Mrs Neela Dunn accompanied the Nitzels home for a week. Mr and Mrs John Anderson and Lillie Johnson visited the Alton Johnson family on Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Nitzel
Emma Hartman
George Buchta
Neela Dunn
Nitzels
John Anderson
Lillie Johnson
Alton Johnson
Wesley Chapel Meeting and Community Notes
The Wesley Chapel Missionary Society will meet Friday with Mrs. Alice Richards and a contributed program. The old District 40 school bell, donated by Harold Jarmin, may soon call natives to a foreign mission field. Various local families and visitors are listed from Lincoln, Denver, Fremont, Columbus, and York, with several social calls and a church social center event noted.
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Wesley Chapel Missionary Society
Alice Richards
Harold Jarmin
Glen Brazees
Lincoln
Harry Brazees
District 54 Social Roundup in Webster City Area
Mrs. Bill Imhoff records visits and small-town events from Webster City and Silver Creek, noting guests from Scottsbluff Omaha and Denver. Birthdays and motor mishaps appear alongside church group gatherings, school concerts, and local club meetings with residents like the Bennsons Frizzells and Wyman family featured.
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District 54
Bill Imhoff
Fred Meredith
Webster City
Iowa
Nellie Benson
Emmett Benson
Scottsbluff
Benson
Nebraska
Beth
John Imhoff
Platte Center
Ed Hurner
Liz Hurner
Denver
Frank Frizzells
Mark Hendrickson
Polly Newcomb
Eastern Star Kensington
Silver Creek
Frank Frizzell
Happy Hour Club
Eva Hennings
Vern McCormick
Bertha Berck
Osceola
Sam Wyman
Sadie Gwartney
Central City
Elmer
Ellen Benson
Local Social Notes Move Through April Weekend Visits
Monday evening Mr and Mrs Darrell Shostrom and sons attended Mike Jones first birthday in Bradshaw. Victoria Staroscik attended Raymond Staroscik and Virginia Hemlid wedding in Columbus and the Zakrzewski reception in Platte Center. Perry Sapp and Edwin Sapp families hosted weekend guests in Esbow Kansas. Elmer Pehrson and Richard visited Rudolph Swanson and Louise Pehrson. D R Byers returned from four week trip south visiting Islamorada Wichita Florida and relatives.
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Darrell Shostrom
Mike Jones
Larry Jones
Bradshaw
Victoria Staroscik
Raymond Staroscik
Virginia Hemld
Columbus
Phil Zakrzewski
Platte Center
Marie Stec
Staroscik
Perry Sapp
Mildred Craven
Esther Tilley
Florida
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Panhandle
Kenneth Pruess
North Platte Experiment Station
Robert Roselle
College of Agriculture
Roselle
Department of Animal Husbandry
Wesley Chapel
Floyd West
Martin Gestrines
Mabel Olson
John Gestrine
Gestrines
Henry iIhelanders
Howard Liedtke
Eugene Sterups
Charles Gabels
Joe Dobeshes
Senara
Robert Hultman
Mauritz Swansons
Marvin Dawes
Genoa
Leo Glatters
Karen Kay Rohen
Marvin Hines
Fremont
James Alts
Mary Prell
Carolee Dawes
Ben Schmokers
Vivian Dunnings
Ted Pieters
Rising City
Schmokers
Morris Richards
Marsha
J. H. Gustafsons
Ross Richards
Joan Marak
Margie Richards
Dick Merricks
Tom Schmokers
Lynda Merrick
MYF
al Kuhnels
Harmon Augustins
Hubert Arts
Armand Schmokers
Rex Overmiers
Schm
Wm. Buhl
Albert Anderson
Martin Jones
Clarence Carlson
Carl Allinder
Otto Olson
Floyd Hartson
Kenneth Mentink
Chester Walgren
Aurora Anderson
Edna Anderson
George Heinemeyer
Irene Meacham
W. G. Stroh
Otto Jauch
David City
Guy Hanshew
Bill Wiesemans
Guildford Bryan
Lester McCormick
Alec Shank
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Lester Mace
Nina Burke
Lena Campbell
Virgil Meacham
Linwood
California
Phil Timm
Jessie Gooden
Violet Luft
Tony Kerkman
Hansen
Shelby
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