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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1971
Page
8
The reminiscence recalls Rev. Skinner in New York state near Lake Erie. He is described as an enthusiastic preacher and hunter who even helps end the suffering of a crushed turtle after a highway accident. The narrator reflects on pleasant memories and calls him a successful human being as an epitaph.
The Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Hospital records list patients for the week of April 12 to 19 including Mrs Davis Shelby Mrs Nora Farley York Mrs Hilda Younglund Stromsburg Mr Ewart Klingsporn Polk Mr George McMeekin Shelby Mrs Nora Willits Osceola Mr Harry Wallberg Stromsburg Mr Harry Wilson Shelby Mr Floyd Emmons Osceola Mr Donald Kreis Osceola Mrs Doris Blackburn Shelby Mrs Bertha Schmid Osceola Mrs Alma Junge Benedict Mr Walford Nelson Osceola Mr Daniel Sheets Osceola Mrs Ernest Svoboda Osceola Mr Maurice Watts Sr Osceola Mrs Irene Kops Osceola Mrs Sophia Walford Osceola Miss Terri Howe Osceola with several dismissals and transfers including Mrs Bertha Berck Osceola W Lynn Brigham Stromsburg Mr Kenneth Mentink Osceola Mrs Clarence Davis Jr Osceola Mr Teddie Dittmer Stromsburg Mrs Delmer Johnson Osceola Mr Adolph Schultz Gresham Mr Harold H Johnson Stromsburg Mr William E Ferris Osceola Mrs Leo Kresha Osceola Mr Wallace Sandell Polk Mr James Marsden Gresham and Miss Andrea Anderson Osceola transferred. Deceased: Mr Dwight Bush Osceola. Becky Carlstrom entered University Hospital Omaha Sunday. Ewart Klingsporn underwent surgery in Osceola last Monday Tuesday morning.
Dwight Burney appears from his Hartington home on Educational Television in an hour long program airing Wednesday night April 21 at 9 PM. Val Peterson and four other former Nebraska governors join in Finland to discuss moments of triumph and despair.
David Stromberg has enrolled as a student in the Grand Island School of Business for the fall term. He will graduate from Polk High this spring and is the son of Mr and Mrs Rolland Stromberg.
A special thanks to relatives and friends for cards letters visits and acts of kindness while in the hospital and after returning home Connie Holsteen expresses gratitude and thinking of you all.
Case No B 354 Book 14 Page 27 Pole County Court Nebraska Estate of Lee Bayer deceased. Claims must be filed by August 1971 or forever barred. Hearing on claims set for August 6 1971 at 10 A M. Dated April 5 1971. (Seal) Eldon R. Johnson County Judge.
Polk County 4 H members judged livestock in Geneva on Saturday April 3. Judges included Murray Schmoker Bryan Schmoker Gaylen Schmoker Mark Schott Mike Treffer Tony Hullinger Randy Hullinger and Lester Hullinger. Louis Monson and Lynn Jones accompanied the youths.
Third grade students built an electromagnet and wired a light bulb to batteries with a switch. They studied Indians of America including Woodland Plains Southwest and Northwest tribes, learned homes dress foods travel and group project topics, and will watch films and filmstrips about Indigenous life.
During Easter vacation, 18 girls from the Junior Auxiliary division of the American Legion toured the Grand Island Veterans Home and Hospital. They visited physical therapy, x ray, ceramics and the kitchen, met patient Mr Leonard Warnick, and noted volunteers with over 1000 and 7800 hours. Ladies of the Auxiliary led the tour and lunch followed.
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