Polk's oldest lady marks 87th birthday in 1950
Nellie Peterson, a Swedish immigrant who settled near Stark then Polk over 70 years ago, celebrates her 87th birthday. She remains active with knitting, singing Swedish songs, and hosting coffee parties, while her family spans Enoch Ben Leonard Dr Arthur Esther Morgan Julia Jones.
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Polk
Sweden
United States
iBear
Stark
Claus Peterson
Swedish Baptist Church
Hordville
Peterson
Enoch
Ben. Leonard
Marquette
Arthur
Greely
Colorado
Esther Morgan
Oklahoma City
Christmas Program at Swede Home Church
The Swede Plain Church held its annual Christmas program before a crowded audience on Friday evening. Mrs Walter Stohl directed the preschool and primary segment, followed by a pageant The Sign of Peace featuring the choir with soloist Mrs Russel Fjell and participants Jimmie Adelson Verland Widga Donald Widga Bruce Walker Mickey Fjell Gary Fjell Karen Shostrom Mary Louise Samuelson Marie Lavelle Marilyn Lind JoAnn Lind. Mrs Lennis Lind served as director.
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Swede Plain Church
Walter Stohl
Russel Fjell
Jimmie Adelson
Verland
Donald Widga
Bruce Walker
Mickey
Gary Fjell
Karen Shostrom
Mary Louise Samuelson
Marie Lavelle
Marilyn Lind
JoAnn Lind
Lennis Lind
Christmas Dinner Gatherings In Polk And Nearby Areas
Polk residents hosted and visited relatives during the Christmas season. Edwin Glad and Gilbert welcomed a group including Wilmer Rodine Roland Rodine and others from Polk and Columbus. Miss Lillie Lind from Sioux Falls visited Ames Lind and Emma Anderson. Winnie Lind joined from Omaha. Sunday dinners featured Upton and Adelson families with relatives from Fullerton Clarks Silver Creek and Polk.
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Wilmer Rodine
Roland Rodine
Dianne
Fred Stellars
Gordon Glad
Lillie Johnson
Polk
Eugene Jones
Columbus
Murion Johnson
Sutton
Ed‘win Glad
Gilbert
Lillie Lind
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Ames Lind
Frank Adelson
Roy Nelson
Jean
Max Nelson
Clarks
Ted Wyman
Silver Creek
Willard Adelson
Jimmie
Kindergarten First Grade Open Christmas Packages At Polk
Polk School news notes a kindergarten and first grade program with a dialogue A Cross Acrostic a Santa themed recitation Voice Of Santa Claus songs and a farewell by Joyce Stewart. Mothers and visitors attended the event and enjoyed performances by students Alvin Weber Linda Johnson Charles Cramer and others.
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Santa Claus
Alvin Weber
Ape the Red-nosed Reindeer
Linda
Johnson
Santa
Charles Cramer
Joyce Stewart
Carols Of Christmas Presented At H. S.
The second annual Carols Of Christmas concert at H. S. opened Tuesday at 8 15 with three scenes. A street scene featured Toy Land and church shoppers. A candlelit table held sixteen formal singers in madrigal style. The final church scene opened with Ave Maria and ended with Silent Night as the choir performed a global carol program. Under Miss Leota Sneed the event drew praise. Polka Band, Madrigal Singers, Girls Glee Club and Mixed Chorus led the performances.
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Toyland Store
Girls Glee Club
Madonna
Leota Sneed
Maribelle Lyle
Sheralee Hill
Shirley Gordon
Patricia Jones
Marilyn Johnson
Leora Meyer
Polk Cagers Prep for Benedict Showdown After Holiday Break
Polk High basketball eyes January 5 clash with Benedict after a 3-1 start. Coach Phil lips plans one final practice before New Year’s Day as the team trims turkey fatigue. Gaylen Holmes leads scoring with 76 points through four games while six players have varsity time.
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Polk High
Benedict
Phil‘lips
Polk
Polk High Club
Jack Lavelle
Doyle Sundberg
Jim Sundberg
Don Forss
Ernie Gleim
John Nyberg
Roger Hanquist
Brainard
Cubs
Polk Cagers
Gaylen Holmes
Walden McNaught
John Holmes
Jack Myers
Mac Gleim
Dennis Light
Christmas Eve and Day Gatherings Around Lavelle and Fossberg Homes
Christmas guests filled several Nebraska homes including Mr and Mrs Bill Lavelle with Elmer Garner and family and Mrs Ida Newton. At Floyd Lyle’s place families from Phillips York Thedford Loup City and York joined Mrs Lizzie Hickman and F A Hickman overnight. Frank Fossberg hosted Adams Upton Sandell and Gordon Fossberg families from Hastings Fullerton Polk Scotia. Wayne Ramsey hosted in Bradshaw with visits from Mark Ramsey Woodson Kansas and Bill Reading family.
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Philip Sack
Crete
Nels Pearson
O Fy" Alfred
Doris Anderson
Rock Island, Clinois
Elmer Anderson
Wayne Ramsey
Seward
Charles Brumback
Will Couch
Robert
Verna Stark
Wm. Dayton
York
Harold Allen
Oakdale
Charles Lytle
Allen
Glen Green
Verne Eklund
Clarence Munn
Central City
Henry Horstman
Inlaw
Art Rowe
Valentine
Howard Rowe
Kearney
Bill Rowe
H. L. Wallbrandt
Denver
Delmar Larkin
E. A. Wallbrandt
Eugene
Oregon
Methodist Youth Group
Glen Hill
Rev. Walker
Bill Lavelle
Elmer Garner
Merle Lavelle
Ida Newton
Floyd Lyle
Frank Peard
Phillips
Freda Gustin
F. A. Hickman
Thedford
Joe Hickman
Loup City
Max Hickman
Tom Williams
Lizzie Hickman
F A Hickman
Frank Fossberg
John Adams
Hastings
Donald Upton
Fullerton
Wallace Sandell
Polk
Gordon Fossberg
Scotia
Daughers
Glenn Hill Home Wins Polk Decoration Contest
Floyd Lyle Polk Commercial Club president crowned winners of the annual home decoration contest on Saturday. Glenn Hill’s residence earned first prize for a life size caroler and large Glory To God display. Second prize went to Ernest Flodmah with Christmas scenes and greenery. Third prize awarded to Leo Wurtz with two lit trees and Santa face window. Judges from out of town attended. Prizes totaled 15, 10 and 5 dollars.
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Glenn Hill
Floyd Lyle
Polk Commercial Club
God
Ernest Flodmah
Leo Wurtz H
Mr. Lyle
Royal Neighbors Christmas Meeting at Fardville
Mrs Robert Nelsons and Mrs Jake Harding hosted the December Royal Neighbors gathering in Fardville with a white gift exchange. New officers for 1951 were named including Oracle Clover Jones Vice Oracle Hazel Nelson Recorder Mabel Samuelson Receiver Ruth Benson Marshall Madaline Johnson Past Oracle Edna Jones Inner Sentinel Anna Eisler Outer Sentinel Mary Jane Harding installing officer Emma Nelson and lunch followed.
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Robert Nelsons
Jake Harding
Royal Neighbors
Fardville
Hew
Oracle
Clover Jones
Hazel Nelson
Mabel Samuelson
Ruth’ Benson
Marshall
Madaline Johnson
Edna Jones
Inner Sentinel
Anna Eisler
Outer Sentinel
Mary Jane Harding
Emma Nelson
Immanuel Lutheran Church News This Christmas Season
North Blue area church notes reveal worship times and New Year services at Immanuel Lutheran. Members welcomed include Wallace Jung and several women receiving confirmation. Families shared Christmas Eve dinners and gatherings across the congregation. Acknowledge servicemen Roger Long and Don Miller serving on ships near Korea. prayers requested for safety.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
Willard Meerkatz
Robert Baack
Raymond Ortegren
Wass
Marjorie Ortegren
Ernest ‘Simmons
Otto Wilsnnsen
Henry Ortegren
C. W. Long
Alton Driewer
Ervin Light
Mary Light
Dick Sagehorn
Elmer Wilshusen
Jerry Klute and Allen
Hampton
Emma Zierott
M. L. Johnson
Doyle Gustafson
Dean Wiemer
Lincoln
Rudolf Gustafson
Elwyn Johnson
Carl Blase
Gilbert Roehrs
Bud Person
James
Emil Wilshusen
Annette
Kenneth
Delores Schulze
St. Paul
Minnesota
Henry Schulze
Otto Wilshusen
Phillips
Lenard Feeken
Crete
Norman Wilshusen
Schuyler
Charles, LeMoyne Want
Osmond
Elaine Heyney
Deshler
St. Paul, Minn
Carl Waak
Christmas Program At Methodist Church Impresses Many
About 50 children performed in the Sun day School Christmas program at the Methodist Church drawing a large audience. The event featured songs recitations and a pageant prepared by local wives society members. 100 sacks of candy were distributed at the close.
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Marvin Fredrickson
Kenneth Stewart
Emory Cramer
Paul Strand
Lloyd Stromberg
Christmas Concert at Methodist Church
The Methodist Church hosted a large audience for a Christmas program by a 28 member choir under Albert Sundberg with Carlyn Strand and Sheralee Hill on organ. Soloists included Bernard Land Floyd Merchant Doris Baker and others. The program featured organ and piano duets and closed with Hallelujah Chorus.
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Albert Sundberg
Carlyn Strand
Sheralee Hill
Bernard Land
Floyd Merchant
Doris Baker
Kenneth Bedient
Dorothy Dahlin
Ruth Kroger
Donna Gell
Lucille Johnson
Sondra
Rev. Walker
Christmas Pageant Shines At Baptist Church
Last Wednesday evening the Baptist Church hosted a Sunday School Christmas program. The primary department recited and sang before a pageant titled The Meaning of Christmas. Rev Elwood Anderson, Mrs Elwood Anderson, Ralph Tewell, and Dorothy Whitacre provided musical background as the committee led by Dorothy Whitacre Imogene Hanquist Reatha Creech and Mrs Donald Hanquist oversaw the event.
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the Baptist Church
Dorothy Whitacre
Imogene Hanquist
Reatha Creech
Donald Hanquist
Elwood Anderson
Ralph Tewell
For eign Legion at The Pork Theatre New Year Eve Show
Spend your evening at The Pork Theatre on New Year’s Eve Abbott and Cos tello headline The For eign Legion. Show begins at 10 o clock p m.
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Abbott and Costello
The
Foreign Legion
Polk Theatre
Pork Theatre
the Foreign Legion
Annual church meeting and social events wrap year
Down Arborville notices report December 31 church meeting with morning service fellowship dinner and afternoon business session. Carolers visited homes, the Butternut Coffee Club collected 850 labels, and hospital folders were sent to Omaha. Numerous family gatherings and visits across York Chapman Bradshaw and McCool are listed with holiday rest and travel.
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Polk
Harry Guidinger
Butternut Coffee Club
Guidinger
Grace V. Barber
Childrens Memorial Hospital of
Omaha
John Wochner
Harvey Wochner
Minnie Wochner
York
Florida
Service man notes and holiday visits at Davis and Newton homes
Pvt. Eugene Lavell of the Heavy Mortar Co RA 17287499 196th Inf RCT Camp Carson Colo is mentioned. The article lists multiple holiday visits including Mr and Mrs Kenneth Davis and sons of Huskerville with his parents, and guests from Oak Nebr, Lincoln, Omaha, Haswell Colorado and other relatives.
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Eugene Lavell
Inf
RCT
Camp Carson, Colo
Kenneth Davis
Huskerville
Frank Davis
Davis
Elmer Allen
Emily
Oak
Nebr
G. M. Hill
Gerald Brownfield
Lincoln
Howe
Mr. Brownfield
Hennie Seymour
Bill Priest
Omaha
John Preston
John Adelson
Ray Werner
Margaret Newton
Darwin Newton
Haswell
Colorado
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Dean Lindburg
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Larry Cramer
Royal Neighbors Christmas Meeting
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Methodist Church
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Calvin Gertsch
Imperial
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Frank Russel
Vanush
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Charles Todaro
New York City
Edgar Ziegelbein
Lloyd Nordstedt
Maurice Lindburg
Jas. Lindburg
Lloyd Hahn
E. W. Hahn
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H. Bush
Ollie Johnson
Charles Lytle, Jr
Polk Methodist Church
Leslie Adelson
Dave Ekdahl
Max Sunderland
Chicago
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Betty Ang
Hulda Stach
M. L Johnson
Ernest Timmons
Marjorie
Martin Baack
Millie
Erwin Blase
David
Roger Gustafson
Norman Reetz
Reetz
Janice Wilshusen
Walther League
Pastor Long
Janice
Clarence Roehrs
Ernest Salchow
Louise Wurtz
John Rau
Will Blase
Wm. Meyer
Garland
John Suler
Erwin Schulze
Methodist
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Arborville Way
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Charles Burgess
Fred W. Bedient
Dale Perkins
Bradshaw
Art Emken
John McMurrin
Chapman
Maurice Flick
Les Curren
John Wessel
Fred Bedient
Louis Stark
Aurora
Ewald Klingsporn
Klingssporn
Lloyd von Hausen
Chauncey Gustafson
Leon Stunkle
Elaine Klingsporn
Charles Norquest
Norquest
McCool
Polk County
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