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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
8
Polk residents greet the 1920 Chautauqua season as over fifty citizens sign a contract for its return. A $600 guarantee was nearly met on opening day, and plans to feature progress columns will note places visited during the Western trip with newspaper boys.
A New York grocer was fined 500 dollars for raising sugar prices and selling at 15 cents a pound. The item sits among a string of brief observations on profiteering, local ads, and socio-political commentary from a small town paper.
The piece extols modern banking as a democratic American practice where rich and poor use the same banks and checks honor equally. It urges consulting a banker before risky investments to avoid losses and warns that bank depositors build credit and self confidence. It notes domestic safety against Bolshevik influence and mentions families traveling in Minnesota and land purchases there.
The Waco Waconian notes Aurora editor Grosvenor, named director of the 1920 district census, warns old maids and marketable widows to report exact ages and prior statuses starting January. He advises adding ten years to figures given a decade ago, anticipating census enumerator inquiries.
Private sale offers a town property with all modern features. For further details contact Mrs T H McGinnis at her home.
E. B. Koon of York visited on business Wednesday. Earle Cockle came from Central City Tuesday and Wednesday. Lester Stark and his wife plan a Denver trip next week seeking a climate to aid Mr. Stark’s heart condition.
Anthrax has appeared in Cedar and Knox counties and spread to Boyd County per state veterinarian reports. Cattle are quarantined with precautions to prevent spread. In Boyd County one man lost 12 head of cattle. Chas Becker buys a Haxtun Colorado grocery, plans move Sept. 1. It is rumored he will take a long term assistant from the community.
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