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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
8
Social notes list Christmas dinner and holiday visitation in Arborville and surrounding towns. Recipients include Crow dell and Perkins families, extended relatives from Lincoln and York, and visitors from Bradshaw Exeter and Kansas. Local families host friends and travel for holidays across Nebraska.
The Swede Home area notes Christmas gatherings with Omaha visitors including Dr and Mrs Stan Moore and Jason Moore, Paul Moore and Joy Moore, and Mrs Lena Johnson among others. Numerous households host relatives from Milford Denver Lincoln Mesa and Minneapolis during the holiday period.
In a fiery letter to Governor Exon the writer condemns the Georgia hanging incident as ugly and unsettles Carl Curtis. He criticizes organic farming notions and ridicules the horse as a farm symbol while praising the cat's resilience. He calls the newspaper's agricultural emblem a miserable choice.
Mr and Mrs Ray Schnoor and Brad and Denise of Grand Island visited Mr and Mrs Orra Garretson on Wednesday. Calvary Lutheran Church of Swede Home Milan E. Swasko pastor announces January 2 Second Sunday after Christmas 9:45 S S and Adult Class 11:00 Worship January 3 Monday 7:30 Chair January 5 Wednesday 4:30 Confirmation 8:00 LCW Bible Study Leaders meeting.
A compact column notes a toilet repair kit and a humorous aside about lingering Christmas shopping. The author jokes that Christmas ’76 should last until October 15, 1977, adding a light New Year cheer.
Polk Nebraska Evangelical Free Church announces Friday events with a youth progressive supper 6 p.m. and watch night service 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. followed by informal fellowship share time devotional and candlelight communion. Sunday worship 11 a.m. and evening services at 7:30 p.m. Public invited.
Pastor Clifford Lindgren leads Sunday School at 9 45 a m and Communion Service Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 30. LCW members report a pre Christmas dinner hosted by Mrs Alvena Lind with Mr and Mrs Roland Bodine Donna Duane and others from Genoa Central City and nearby families.
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