Open House Marks Ruth Aker Birthday Party
Local residents attended Ruth Aker's birthday open house on Tuesday April 2. Many families from Harvard Trumbull Central City Osceola Stromsburg and Cleghorn shared in visits and greetings during the weekend and noted military service duties and career plans for several individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Aker
Elsie Koenig
Ella Fishback
Harvard
Emma Paulus
Trumbull
Ruth Aker
Richard Johnson
Dale Nyberg
Kevin and
Craig
Central City
Ronald Bragg
M. W. Bragg
Philadelphia
Penn
Donald Hanquist
Laura Bolton
Kearney
Ellen Spires
Reuben Swanson
Mauritz Swanson
Osceola
Emory Cramer
Larry Cramer
Stromsburg
Carroll Flodman
Deland
Formosa
Pioneer Farm Award Seeks Local Nebraska Families
Polk County Fair Board seeks pioneer families for the 1974 Nebraska Pioneer Farm Award. The 19th annual award honors landowners for 100 years of ownership, in a joint Ak-Sar-Ben and Nebraska Association of Fair Managers program. Nomination deadline is June 1, 1974. contact Ray Conrad, secretary, for submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Conrad
Mer
Polk County Fair Board
Nebraska
Ak-Sar-Ben
Omaha
Nebraska Association of Fair Managers
Ray Conrad
Nebraska spring weather rolls through a volatile week
A Progress weather sketch shows a wild sequence from 72 degrees to sleet and snow, with days of cold mornings and warming afternoons. Then calm winds returned by April 8 as residents, including Mr and Mrs Roy Glasser Jr and Mr and Mrs Don Baker, enjoyed after a Great Plains Conference Banquet in Stromsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progress
Old Ma
Nebraska
Roy Glasser Jr
Don Baker
Stromsburg
Progress Files Chronicle Local Remarks and Elections
Community notes record lunch hosts and visitors as Rev and Mrs Edick Anderson deal with the death of Mrs Anderson's mother Mrs Belle Summers of Eagle Grove Iowa. The school board election saw 223 ballots with Dale Lindburg and Dean Ostberg chosen for three year terms. Village trustees elected Norris Alfred Marvin Fredrickson and Dick Hairless for two years. Polk High School won its first track meet of the season scoring 74 to Silver Creek 30 and Clark 21 on April 3. Local social updates mention birthdays and visits, including a 82nd birthday celebration for Minnie Campbell and a layman banquet at First Methodist Church in Columbus with attendees from Swede Plain and Polk Churches. M G Lindburg travels to Washington DC to address grain storage ASC committee. Bradley Grymel Johnson's family hosted a birthday gathering for Bradley with guests from several households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Lindburg
Dean Ostberg
Norris Alfred
Marvin Fredrickson
Dick Hairless
Polk High School
Polk
Silver Creek
Clarks
Floyd Lyle
Utica
Orlie Miller
Lyle
Evans, Colo
Swede Plain
First Methodist
Columbus
M. G. Lindburg
Washington,d.c
ASC
Gryymel Johnson
Bradley
Louis Bamesberger
Milfred Johnson
Gordon Johnson
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Navy
Lauren Glasser
Cleghorn
Roy Glasser, Jr
Ira Glasser
Roy Glasser
Walter Neleson
Arlette Johnson
Ted Johnson
Debra Gustafson
Mary Lanning Hospital
Hastings
Roger Gustafson
Robin Flodman
Sweet Electric
Clarks, Nebraska
Polk, Nebraska
Polk County Fair News
Leland Harless
Robert Young
Roy Wray
Tekamah
Ernie Lott
Mmes
Minnie
Alice Campbell
Minnie Campbell
Minner
Josephine Samuelson
Susan
Debbie Pinkerner
Stanford Ang
Rudolph Gustafson
Dekalb
Mary Ellen Jensen
The
Union Pacific Railroad
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