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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1972
Page
3
The report traces a hot week with brief cool mornings split by a 60 degree start on Tuesday and 50 degrees earlier in the week. From Friday through Monday highs linger in the 80s and 90s with dense heat and increasing afternoon temperatures, while a single quarter inch rain cooled Tuesday morning.
Mr and Mrs Max Peterson of Dayton Ohio and Dr and Mrs C R Peterson of Osceola were Monday and supper guests in the Roger Gustafson home. They visited Dayton together on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Boothby of Holstein Iowa were weekend guests of Mrs Wilda Holmes and Robert, with Mrs Boothby being a niece of Mrs Holmes.
Progress Files reports hospital stay for Nelson in Sterling Colorado and a sequence of social visits, a wedding trip to Washington, a bridal shower, a drowning accident on a farm, 4 H Saddle Club activities, nursing school graduation in Lincoln, a public sale, farewell gathering, wedding anniversary, and relatives visiting Seattle World’s Fair plan. Names include Axberg, Adelson, Adel, Beckman, Jisa, Sandell, Stromberg, Ostrander, Spence, Hahn, Adelson, Felker, Rodine, and local farms and towns.
Mrs Lennis Lind hosted a Saturday coffee guest in Polk. Emma Anderson Lillie Lind welcomed visitors. Edward Johnson Minden called Sunday evening. Burwell Rodeo drew Ernest Brockevelt Virgil Bush Roger Van Housen. Reed Gustafson Rudolph Gustafson hosted guests at Lake Erickson cabin including Harold Anderson Clem Meerkatz Norris Alfred. Josephine Samuelson Grace Harless visited Leland Harless Sunday afternoon.
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