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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1947
Page
4
A lengthy column notes thanks for flowers cards and support during illness to Herman G Brauer and lists many local residents and families who shared in Thanksgiving dinners visits and hospitality across Stromsburg Osceola and nearby towns. Church WSCS meets and numerous social visits and meals are recorded amid holiday greetings and farm loan ads.
A local church bulletin lists service times for Sunday including 10 am church school 11 am worship and 1 30 pm evening service with a December sermon. It notes Monday choir rehearsal Wednesday prayer meeting at the Nelson home Thursday missionary meeting and a tea for mothers on Saturday at the church. Advent topics span December through January with December 7 Advent Communion and January 11 The Light That Shineth In Darkness.
Tuesday evening featured birthday anniversaries and a Thanksgiving lunch hosted by Mr and Mrs Walter Gerkenmeyer and family in Seward. Visits included Dorothy Peterson from Stromburg and the Kisler family from Central City, with hospitality at the Lindholm home for Junior Class play guests and extended kin from Nickerson Aurora Swede Home and other towns.
Mrs. Cleo Cramer relays that her parents were in a Sheridan Wyoming accident Tuesday while visiting with relatives. All involved escaped serious injuries, though shaken and bruised. A large gathering at the Ernest Flodman home near Stromsburg included the Lind, Flodman, Stohl, and Fredrickson families among others.
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