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December 1954 Polk area news roundup
Polk community notes list deaths weddings and births including the funeral of Charles Lind on December 13 and his passing December 10. Also recorded are weddings Hulda Blase and Fred Laessle, twin births December 14, and local sports scores Polk beat Silver Creek 77 to 46 and Brainard defeated Polk Cubs 49 to 39. Santa visited December 16 and a charity chicken throw event drew crowds.
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Dan Graves
Hulda Blase
Fred Laessle
German Lutheran Church
Viking Theatre
E. A. Jordan
Kansas City
Knights of the Klu Klux Klan
Polk
Elsie Stevens
Pfc
Jerald Stevens
Phillipines
Oscar Jones
Max Jones
Cpl
Dwight Myers
J. B. Myers
Belgium
Dwight
Holland
France
Germany
Santa Claus
Enoch Peterson
Oscar Lind
Salem
Oregon
Burin
Krogers
Sundberg
Lawrence Larson
Ernest Salchow
Carl
Charles Lind
Swede Plain
W. C. Birmingham
Brainard
Polk Cubs
Bill LaVelle
Connie
Dudley Baack
John Ray
James Wilson
Ibadan
Nigeria
Africa
David Wilson
S. Polk
Silver Creek
Julia Larson
Polk Methodist Church
Harold Jensen
Arborville
Julianne Lindstrom
Larry Nyberg
Holdreg
Blanche Fitz
Glenn Hill