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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
6
Local note highlights good pasture for horses and cattle near the Hoover property with contact via Pork Realty Co. It mentions a divorced Salt Lake woman terming her husband a crazy nut and humor about barber shop workouts. Also a sales pitch for Mitchell’s Magic Marvel cleaner.
A Georgia man hid a jug of moonshine under a meeting house hoping it would be safe. A vigilant neighbor found the bottle and bore it to his own home, ending in a happy outcome per the local paper.
The board selected sixty names from assessor lists to draw a jury for the April term. Names span Hackberry Canada Clear Creek Island Stromsburg Osceola Valley Pleasant Home Platte and include H D VanHoosen M Sack S N Stalnaker D E Walter Daniel Thanel J C Hotchkiss J Kosch H A Phelps E B Abbott John T Brandt Frank Hillegas and many others.
Mrs J W Primmer was a motor passenger to Lincoln Tuesday. Prof Tedford and Edd Schumann were county seat visitors Saturday.
Parties seeking eggs for setting should order immediately amid an unexpected surge in demand noted by C. N. Peterson.
Proceedings record village actions including sidewalk petition for lot 7 block 14 and assignment of Hugh Murphy Construction to Omaha National Bank. Election results name Oscar Strand Albert Peterson and R J Allison for two years on village board and Strand Stouffer Jack for school boards. Motion to buy a pumping station motor and to hire band stand removal. List of bills approved and warrants to be drawn. Meeting adjourned.
Eighty acre farm offered with 40 acres farm land 32 acres pasture and modest improvements. Bargain price if sold quickly. For details call 7812. Albin Larson recovering from illness. Mrs Lillain Brown spent Sunday in York with her sister. Mr and Mrs Fred Anderson welcome a 10 pound boy born Tuesday. Apex vacuum cleaners available for rent or sale from E F Graff Light Plant.
Nominations for delegates to the Democratic county convention have been filed with county clerk Sjoblom. Names include George Mitchell Lester Stark D H Westfall H G Dahlgren Edd H Schuman Oscar Strand G M Hill H M McGuffin Alex Lind John Lind F O Johnson A E Sundberg and C H Lindburg Eight nominees will be chosen by voters on primary day to represent the party at the county convention. East Pleasant Home delegates are W E Johnson H R Lind and H O Elfors. Women candidates for county central committee are Miss Max McGaffin and Mrs C E Cohagan.
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