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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1947
Page
5
A report notes I Miss Fern Myers was a patient at the Stromsburg hospital last Tuesday. The item mentions visitors and family travel including the Ehn and Green families, Lloyd Carlson from Washington DC, and a trip for a Will Johnson party to Denver.
Friday return home after Black Hills trip. Omaha to Washington visit. Benedict, Brady, Hampton, Polk social guests. Wheat relief program named chairman. cereal firm to process wheat. Doris Binford promoted to assistant cashier. A baby boy born in Lincoln. Darlene Light hires in Grafton bank. Carlson adopt newborn girl. welding shop move in Polk. Lincoln and Grand Island visits. various family gatherings and hospital turns.
Central City visitor Mrs Ray Myers. Grant Ramage from Central City visited Polk. Hampton and Shelby guests attended Mrs Carlson’s birthday lunch. Many relatives and friends gathered for meals, visits, and a picnic at Polk park. Wurtz Produce Station and Greens Appliance advertise sales and local notices.
For farmers and others visiting town when The Progress Office is closed, Davis Pharmacy will accept new and renewal Polk Progress subscriptions. If the office is closed, readers may renew at the pharmacy with Frank Davis assisting.
Mr and Mrs Will Newton accompanied his brother Fred to York on Friday where he boarded a train for Kansas City Kansas after a two months stay. Elton Van Ostrand of Benedict visited Polk and called on Mr and Mrs C J McCoy.
Eighty acre unimproved farm located three miles northeast of Polk part of the late Andrew Thowall Estate. Best eighty in the county offered by Mrs Myrtle Flodman Hall Box 18 Mediapolis Iowa.
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