Early Days In Polk County Highlights Over Past and Present
A survey of Polk County notes shows Ivan Moline and Ansel Bodine at a Lincoln Thanksgiving football game. Local business and family moves include C A Quillen remodeling his barber shop front and C V Lind and family relocating to University Place to run a new grocery. Also mentioned are school plans for Helen Lind, a new Mercantile bookkeeper Lawrence Sundberg, and several under twentyone locals traveling abroad. Twenty years ago mentions recount Miss Louise Baack marrying Norman Reetz and other civic youth activities, with a turkey dinner at the Widgas and Widge families honoring discharged soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Moline
Ansel Bodine
Lincoln
A. C. Quillen
Oscar Strand
Florida
C. —. Putman
C. V. Lind
University Place
Helen Lind
Polk
Nellie Nelson
Lawrence Sundberg
Mercantil
James McClure
George Patton
Morris Sealey
Robert Stromberg
Albert Sundberg
I. N. Shenk
Stanley E. Lindquist
Kingsburg
Calif
Germany
Evangelical Free Church
Louise Baack
Martin Baacks
Norman Reetz
Fred Reetz
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Phyllis Cramer
Gloria Peterson
Arthur Bates
Ronald Benson
S. A. Ramp
Fremont
Nebraska
Ray Phillips
Hordville
Phillips
Cenith McCoy
Gladys McCoy
Omaha
C. J. McCoys
Frank Adelsons
Dorothy Johnson
Willard Adelson
Roy Nelson
Clarks
Sherman Jones Family Dinner Event Noted
Hastings family hosted a Sunday dinner for the Sherman Jones adults, recorded as part of a local social note in the community column.
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Sherman Jones
Hastings
Polk County Crop and Weather Report Summary
Rainfall for the week ended Saturday was trace. Surface moisture short. subsoil moisture adequate. Winter wheat in good condition. 95% of corn harvested with 15 percent moisture. Sorghum harvest at 99% with 10 to 15 percent moisture. All other crops 100% harvested. Range and pasture feed hay and forage supplies average. Fall harvest continues with nearly all corn and grain sorghum harvested. Some farmers plowing. Weather cold but favorable. light snow. Cattle on feed higher than last year. feeder cattle demand remains.
Hospital News Roundup of Dismissals and Transfers
A list of discharged and transferred patients from several Nebraska towns including Osceola Stromsburg Genoa Benedict Rising City Gresham and York. Names include Leon Draeger Mrs A T Wilson Mrs Clarence Armagast Allen Lounsbury Mrs Julia Blender Mervin Samuels Arnold Gabel Walter Harbour Mrs Bobbie Ehlers and baby boy William Cuda Roy Harris Mrs John Iske Helen Ziemba Edward Schaf Elmer Allinder Christianna Sarow Martha Shostrom Dean Buhl Stephen Lindquist Nellie Smith Ralph Peterson Charles Nuttelman John Monson and others.
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Leon Draeger
Osceola
A. T. Wilson
Clarence Armagast
Shelby Allen Lounsbury
Stromsburg
Julia Blender
Mervin Samuels
Polk
Arnold Gabel
Shelby Walter Harbour
Bobbie Ehlers
York
William Cuda
Benedict Roy Harris
Rising City
John C. Iske
Helen Ziemba
Genoa
Edward H. Schaf
Elmer Allinder
Osce
Latter’s Guests and Local News Highlight Nebraska Figures
Miss Lavonne Lyle returns to Lincoln to stay with her parents the Lyles until her marriage to Robert Young of Ottawa Kansas. The Wallace Sandells hosted Sunday dinner for several families including the Masons and Melines in honor of Neal on leave after training. Roger Long of Polk among 12 Nebraskans initiated into Phi Epsilon Kappa. Other Sunday visitors included the Prestons of York and the Adels ons of Hastings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavonne Lyle
Lincoln
Floyd Lyles
Robert Young
Ottawa
Kans
Wallace Sandells
Don Upton
John Adams
Hastings
Gordon Fossberg
Philip Melines
Neal
University of Nebraska
Phi Epsilon Kappa
Roger Long
Polk
Hennie Seymour
Johnny Prestons
York
Leslie Adelson
John Adelson
John
California
Myra Cox
Stromsburg
Martha Larson
Gayle Fossberg
Irvin C. Fossbergs
Vernon Kranan
Blue Hill
The
Baptist Church
Central City
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Hospital News
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Atty-in
C. G. Jacks
Ellsworth Carlson
Roy Rice
Raymond Stevens
L. Sandell
Henry Cramer
Arnold Isaacson
Will Miller
Richard Widge
Chicago
Dick Thesing
Art Lowe
Fredrickson Implement Co
Kansas-Nebraska
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