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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1948
Page
5
Local social page lists birthdays visits and gatherings. Mrs Reuben Hanquist thanks well wishers for hospital stay gifts and cards. Names include Albert Nelson Dr Calmar John son Stramburg and Lincoln Leonard Stromberg.
Local residents and relatives gather for dinners and Sunday visits in York and surrounding towns. Names include Widga, Miller, Tindburg, Knorr, Ste v ena, Osberg, Rahrs, Lahrs, Tranquist, Hanquist, Hanquist family, Otto, Lang, Travless, Tlavless, Denker, and Windburger among others. A hospital outing in Omaha is noted.
Rev Edick A. Anderson leads 1000 Bible School and 1100 Morning Worship at the Polk Churches. The Free Methodist Church holds a quarterly meeting on April 14 15 with Rev D V Smith as Conference Superintendent.
Nels Pearson serves as pastor with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and morning worship to follow. Welcome to worship.
The Swede Plain Church under reconstruction will join Polk Methodist for the Church School and Worship Service. Polk Senior Youth Fellowship meets Monday May 3 with Walden McNaught hosting at 8 p.m. in Polk. The First Baptist Church notes services with Pastor Paul Lemke and various events including a Gospel Meeting led by Rey Bodine at the Evangelical Free Church and other midweek activities.
Rev FE Earle Eaton of Arborville Congregational Church is named Nebraska State Director of the National Christian Endeavor Membership Mobilization. He will promote growth of societies statewide and integrate independent groups into the Christian Endeavor program, as part of the Forward movement.
Miss Lavina Bodine will depart Sunday for Omaha to attend the Gossard school for a week and visit friends. Simon Larson and family of Hardville spent Sunday in the Ed Larson home. Kroger and Detloff attended a cattle sale in Grand Island last Friday. Kroger purchased a carload of young stock. Mills visited York for a new Chevrolet coupe. Pleasant Time Mission Circle met at Mrs Horita Bush’s April 21. Tinarold Slusser home from College View visiting parents. Chas R Hirsch purchases Standard Oil truck and will operate it. Oscar Strand won the Hokenson Hotel fixtures auction for 490 dollars. Mrs Rudolph Gustafson hosted Pleasant Hill Mission Circle April 21 with assistance from Mrs Fred Johnson. Vergil Blase injured by barb wire. Victor Friesen breaks two bones in foot. George Cohagan 83 dies in Hastings. funeral at Methodists Church. burial Arborville. Mrs B F Wrythers dies near Bradshaw after long illness. Dean Neilson and Miss Iva Cramer guests of Fremont relatives. Edwin Denker and Miss Ruby Dehler Omaha visitors. Cliff Branting undergoes ruptured appendix operation in York.
Miss family Mueller wed Victor Blase at the Lutheran Church near Plymouth on April 15. They plan a Polk farm home. Mrs. Gilbert Benson rushed to Broken Row by her mother’s illness. Tenry mken Jr placed second in a declamatory contest at Benedict High. A First Baptist quartet will perform at Polk Baptist Church. Delegates to the Republican County Convention in Osceola named. Calmar Jones of Polk serves on the university parade committee. Substantial items include a 1950s Chevrolet road home sale and university age program notes. Fifteen years ago, April 27, 1938, Leonard Renquist and wife welcomed a baby girl weighing about nine and a half pounds.
Osceola Methodist church hosted about 150 teachers and guests for Polk County’s annual banquet on Friday evening April 22 1938. The report lists attendees and notes local civic and school events across Polk County.
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