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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1972
Page
4
Former Hordville resident gains recognition as a published poet while the Hordville Bulldogs extend their win streak. Community notes describe civic club gatherings, church activities, Christmas events and meetings in Holdrege, Aurora, Hampton, and nearby towns, with poetry programs, card nights, and school concerts.
Mrs Gene Bauer and Mrs Don Siering of Sutton were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Oscar Sundberg. Alvin Dahlin attended a family Christmas party at Hallam Neb with Doyle Dahlin and family. M G Lindburg dined with Maurice Lindburg Jr in Stromsburg and visited P W Aker in Osceola hospital. Mrs Walter Stohl spent Monday with her mother Mrs Julia Flodman.
A list shows patients admitted and discharged at Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Hospital for December 4 to 11. Names include Parker Aker Polk Derrell Appleton Stromsburg and many others from Osceola Stromsburg Shelby Ulysses and York. Deceased include Mrs Rufina Heiden Benedict Mrs Mary Garhan Osceola and Albert Schmoker Osceola.
Mr and Mrs Fred Yungdahl and Mrs LeMoyne Anderson returned home after visits in Denver and California with Dora Yungdahl Ross Jones and family in Redwood City and Joe Lagerway in Menlo Park. Heidi Ernst attended St John’s Lutheran Confirmation.
Mrs Hulda Sagehorn and Mrs Clarence Guthrie attended a Zion Lutheran Church Christmas program near Hampton. Roland Bodine hosted a supper for Evangelical Free Church Sunday school teachers and staff. Mrs Richard Johnson attended a Central City school Christmas program hosted by the 4th grade. Her grandson Craig Nyberg is a member of the calls. Punch and cookies followed. Mrs Nettie Carlson and Ellsworth visited Wallace Lind Sunday evening.
The American Legion Auxiliary met in the Legion Hall on December 11 at 8:00 p.m. Louise Logston led the meeting and Carla Mundt and Louise Logston presented a Christmas program. Members provided a lunch for 30 seniors and 15 junior members.
Eighteen members of the kindergarten class and their mothers attended a bridal shower honoring teacher Miss Sue Banks on Friday December 8. Hostesses Mrs Don Widge Mrs Merlin Nyberg Mrs Duane Burney and Mrs Leonard Anderson served decorated cookies mints and coffee in the grade school gym.
Families from Genoa O Neill Ord Beatrice Benedict and Polk gathered at Mrs Ethel Ostrander home to mark her birthday. Mr and Mrs Murray Nelson attended the 40th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Hugo Teichmier at Loup City. Mrs Elwood Sandell visited her mother Mrs Grace Leach in the Covenant Home at Stromsburg.
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