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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
4
A newspaper drives a weekly contest inviting women to gather ballots for votes. Prizes include a $400 Don Pierre Gabi grand piano, sewing machines, watches, and piano purchase checks. Each 50 vote ballot starts a candidate, with 10 votes per collected ballot.
Town retailers announce coupons equal to 100 votes per dollar in cash purchases and on subscriptions. Customers are urged to ask for coupons with every cash sale to boost their own or a friend's total votes.
Mrs. Rev Gibson visits Polk on Monday while Ruth Gibson returns from Polk Friday. Coupons and prizes drive at local merchants with Miss Julia Abrahamson and Miss Tilly Nelson among shoppers. Omaha guest David Olson stays with John Jones family. Aug Johnson hosts party for about 50 youths. band social nets funds. Mark Millsap buys a Brush Runabout. a Ford auto incident at Benson Implement Co ends with help from Pete and Gilbert Benson. Open-air band concert planned. Oats 31, Corn 53, Wheat 92, Hogs 7.65. Household guests include Mrs Kingston and Clark Tolle's Norton County trip. piano and other prizes promised for coupons. Numerous visits and travels wrap around town life and local commerce.
A Grand Island crowd last Friday saw both young and old attend the Barnum and Bailey circus. Attendees included Tom Montgomery, John Nicholson Sr., Walter Carlson, Erick Johnson, Ruth Carlson, and Anna Remy. Charley Larson suffered a foot injury last spring and rediscovered trouble after stepping on a spike recently.
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