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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1970
Page
8
Expressions of gratitude to all who sent cards flowers gifts and visits while in hospital and after returning home. Mr and Mrs Geo Wochner Jeff and Joel extend thanks for well wishes and support.
Swede Home notes a local man recently discharged from the armed forces returning home. Sunday visits included Edna and Ruth Gestrine, Lester Gestrine, and Wilbur Olson. Rob Lindahl anniversary open house at Clarks Methodist. Birthday gatherings hosted by Mrs. Joel Toline with guests from Denver and nearby families. church listing Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Swede Home announces services for August 23 with Sunday School at 10 and worship at 11 followed by a union service at 8.
Polk locals note Wilbur Whitacre and wife traveling to Meriden Iowa on Saturday for the wedding of Lt Paul Johnson and Miss Cheryl Larson. Guests visiting in Paul Stevens home include Dennis Hendricks and many area families from Pocatello Stanford Norfolk Kearney Augusta and Washington visits.
The Polk County W C T U met August 12 1970 at the Lutheran Church in Stromsburg opening with a song and prayers. Ann Jill and Jeanne Ellis sang a vocal trio Daniel and Goliath performed a second trio. Reports from officers were accepted and a lunch followed. Five members were remembered, and a memorial service lit candles for polk Osceola members. A Young Crusaders proposal and other motions were discussed before adjournment.
A writer recalls a harsh critique from a caller who dismisses his work as junk and jokes about his wife’s attire. The moment ends with the caller hanging up and the writer pondering the insult.
The Baptist Mission Circle met in church parlors on Wednesday evening August 12. Mrs. Caryl Glasier led devotional with Ardell Otto as program leader. Topic discussed was What Witnessing Means. Hostesses included Mrs. Carol Nelson, Vivian Funk, Lois Killion and Margaret Shaw.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Train of Seattle Washington and Mrs. Dora McDaniel of Osceola were house guests last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson. Other visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Nelson and family of Arcadia, Alva Dawes of Greeley and Miss Rose Marie McBride of Grand Island. Tuesday afternoon visitors in the Oscar Anderson home were Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Green and Albert Johnson of California and Claus Oberg of Stromsburg.
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