Polk Garden Club Plans Flower Gardens and Baskets
The April 20 Polk Garden Club meeting at Mrs Lackey's home included 10 members and 1 guest. Under Mrs Neeman the group discussed future flower garden planting. A workshop formed the afternoon program as baskets for hanging on Main Street were prepared, with refreshments served by Mrs Lackey and Mrs Sundberg. Mrs Saylor joined the club.
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Polk Garden Club
Star Lackey
Neeman
Main Street
Lackey
Oscar Sundberg
Ed Saylor
Polk County Recreation Assn Pushes Hundred Barrier Breakthrough
The Polk County Recreation Association nears full charter signups with 28 memberships left after an initial 130, raising initiation fees once full. Members target golf archery shooting camping and a clubhouse with $10 to reserve and $65 later. notices seek Bill Norton Dean Buffington Paul Walgren Elmer Johnson and others. Also discusses publication of personal and business assessments and its potential effects on fairness in Polk Shelby and nearby towns. Funeral services for Mrs Ida Green are set for Friday at Polk Methodist Church.
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Polk County Recreation Assn
Bill Norton
Dean Buffington
Paul Walgren
Elmer Johnson
Osceola
Shelby
Stromsburg
Polk
Mack Wilhelms
Polk County
Boone County
May Day celebration and bargains planned this weekend
May Day festivities include bargains and music as Polk Progress distributes to several hundred homes not usually reached.
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Polk Progress
Polk
Polk society bowls party and community notices in town
The Polk Methodist Children's Society held a bowling party at York Bowling Alley with forty four attendees. The event was sponsored by Mrs Stevens and Mrs Stromberg plus Mrs Irvin Anderson. Other items include a birth announcement for Dean Fredrick Willadsen born April 18 in Central City, a Home Ec Style Show May 5 with a one act play, a welfare tea in Osceola, May Day activities, and local social notes and visits.
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Polk Methodist Children's Society
York Bowling Alley
Mmes
Rolland Stromberg
Wayland Flodman
Harold W. Anderson
Dean Ostberg
Arlo Stevens
Lirtas
Hans Willadsen
Dean Fredrick
Litzenberg Memorial Hospital
Central City
Mrs Merlin Nyberg Feted at Easter Shower
Mrs Merlin Nyberg, a recent bride, was guest of honor at a shower Saturday evening April 24 at Evangelical church parlors hosted by the Home Builders Sunday school class. Games, a vocal duet by Patty and Dorothy Stranberg, and gifts marked the event. Lunch for 50 guests followed a pastel decorated serving table with a floral centerpiece.
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Merlin Nyberg
Evangelical Church
Home Builders
Patty
Dorothy Stranberg
Students excel in Iowa Tests of Educational Development
The Iowa Tests were given to all 9th and 11th graders on March 30 31 and results released this week. Profiles show individual growth by comparing thousands of students from diverse schools. Top ten percentile includes Daniel Graves Glen Killion Kay Nielsen Kendall Sandell Bev Willits freshmen and Jean Lerkin junior. Special sale Sundberg Son cabinet bargains in Polk Volk.
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Iowa
the Nations
Daniel Graves
Glen Killion
Kay Nielsen
Kendall Sandell
Bev
Willits
Jean Lerkin
Sundberg & Son, Polk
Sundberg & Son, Volk
Country Woman's Club Meets at Mrs Coover's Home
Mrs Coover hosted the Country Woman's Club on Thursday afternoon April 22 with 15 members and 9 visitors. The meeting opened with America the Beautiful and a flag salute. Edna Sundberg was elected treasurer. Myrtle Johnson won the hostess gift. The program committee led several games and lunch was served.
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Country Woman's Club
Paul Coover
Edna Sundberg
Edna Steenbock
Leslie Adelson
Myrtle Johnson
Marjorie Lindholm
Helen Samuels
Elaine Stromberg
Birthday Celebration at Evangelical Free Church
Last Tuesday afternoon the WMS of the Evangelical Free Church gathered at the church parlors to honor Mrs. William Pinkernell on her birthday anniversary. A program led by Mrs. Reuben Hanquist featured the theme This is your life with photos from Betty’s family album. Birthday cards and monetary gifts were given, a butterfly birthday cake baked by Mrs. Roland Bodine centered the serving table.
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WMS
Evangelical Free Church
Wiliam Pinkernell
Reuben Hanquist
Betty
Roland Bodine
DuRells Die in 3 Car Crash Near Crystal River Florida
Fullerton acting postmaster Lloyd W. DuRell and his wife Helen Richmond DuRell, ages 63 and 62, were fatally injured in a three car crash near Crystal River Florida on Thursday afternoon April 22. Lloyd was a 1919 Fullerton High School graduate. Helen, born in Polk, had a long local newspaper career as editor and regional correspondent and later ran Richmond Ready-to-War with her mother’s business. Funeral services were held in Fullerton.
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Fullerton
Lloyd W. DuRell
Helen
Crystal River
Fla
DuRell
Fullerton High School
Helen Richmond
Polk
Polk High
Nance County Journal
Grand Island Idependent
Richaod
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Osceola Record
Larry
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Legion Auxiliary
Junior Auxiliary
The
Trudy Johnson
Mmes, Hannah Hahn
Anna Eisler
Hilda Warnick
Florenc Doremus
Clara Anderson
Velma Stephens
Ralph Klein
Denver
Colo
Judy
Dan L. Wurtz
Leo Wurtzes
Wurtz
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Alcoa Apt. 17
Green
Ida Green
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Sioux City
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Henry Kisler
Arborville Cemetery
David Ekdahl
Dick Harless
Larry Coover
Wilda Holmes
Holmes
John Holmes
Edith Benson
Esther Peterson
O. F. Alfred
Mrs . Nyberg
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