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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1970
Page
6
Polks residents shared visits and travels with relatives and friends across Nebraska. Fetrows, former Polk teachers, visit and one will teach in Moorhead Minnesota next year. Several families hosted dinners showers and birthday celebrations amid summer activities and con ventions in Chadron York and Sutton.
Polk county notices list a stream of visitors and guests from Bruning Stromsburg Marquette Central City and Virgil Bush Walter Fisher and Ervin Blase homes. The piece notes multiple Sunday and Tuesday visits with birthdays celebrated and treats shared.
The Polk County Farm Bureau invites youths to enter a talk meet with age specific topics and durations. Juniors 10 to 13 must present a memorized 3 to 5 minute talk titled I Am The Flag. upper juniors 14 to 17 should speak 5 to 7 minutes on Freedom, A Privilege or a Responsibility. Talent acts follow same age and time rules. Contact the women’s committee or stop at the Polk County Farm Bureau office in Polk for details.
Mrs Donald Iglehart visits her parents in Stanford California. She is accompanied by Kent and Mark and stays at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Glenn Hill.
The Lincoln Star promotes its mail subscription at 39 issues for 2 dollars with access to NYT News Service and local, state, and Nebraska coverage. It highlights sports scores, comics like Dick Tracy and Pogo, columnists Reston and Wicker, cartoons, editorials, and a state women’s page.
Mrs. Emma Horstman spent last week in the Alvin Riser home at Geneva. Rose Schweitzer of Calla way was also a guest in the Riser Edith Benson and Esther Peter son were Sunday afternoon visitors in the Rudolph Gustafson home. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Feidler, Amy and Ann of Norfolk, Wayne and Orlie Hill of York, Mrs. Donald Inglehart, Kent and Mark and Gaylord Stevens were Sunday dinner guests in the Glenn Hill home.
Time for mail delivery on publication date in town or rural route. Rates outside Lancaster County include 6% weeks at $2.00 daily, 3% weeks daily and Sunday at $2.00, a year $15.00, Daily with Sunday $28.00. Order direct or through our office.
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