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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1951
Page
5
Grand Junction residents and visitors fill weeks with family dinners visits and church youth events. Notables include D D Creech and family in Grand Junction and York gatherings, Sundbergs hosting and traveling to Central City and Ord, and multiple relatives attending funerals and hospital events in Lincoln Ashland and Ravenna.
Yordville Baptist Church led by Rev Endick A Anderson holds Bible School at 10:00 and Morning Worship at 11:00. Immanuel Lutheran Church with Pastor C W Long offers Sunday School at 10:00 and Worship at 11:00. Polk Baptist Church lists Bible School at 10:00 Morning Worship at 11:00 and Evening Service at 7:30 with weekly Bible study and choir practice.
Reverend E Earle Eaton ministers the Arborville Congregational Church with Floyd Merchant as chorister and Mrs John Wochner as organist. Sunday school at 10:00 a m and divine worship at 11:30 a m with the sermon When David Fed The Sheep. Youth Sunday observance.
Polk and Swede Plains churches announce worship schedules led by Minister Paul W. Walker. Swede Plains holds morning worship at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. Polk conducts Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m.
Pastor Clifford A. Smith leads services at 1 00 p m with Songs of the Day on KJSK radio The Free Church Youth Fellowship meets at 6 45 p m and a 7 00 p m pre service prayer meeting precedes the 7 30 p m Evening Gospel Hour Weekday Cottage Prayer Meeting is Tuesday at 2 30 p m and Thursday at 7 30 p m Hour of Power Choir practice follows service
Deborah Dona Kay Scheapler was baptized Sunday evening at the family home with sponsors Mrs G W Werth and Ed Dobberstein. Supper guests included the Werth family from Seward, Rev and Mrs Long, the Scheaplers, the Gertschs, the Dobbersteins, and Glen. Visitors included Hannah Hahn and children with Harold Hanquist. other guests were Dale Hanquist. Walter Hoffman visited Estor Lackey on Wednesday evening.
Local social roundup with visits and guests including Mr. and Mrs. Willard Adelson hosting in Stromsburg, obituaries for C. H. Garrison in Moultrie Georgia, and multiple family gatherings and visits among area residents and nearby towns. Rebekah Lodge activity noted with luncheon.
Mrs. Clarence Burgeson and Mrs. Milton Anderson hosted eight friends for Lavonne Anderson’s 14th birthday with a theatre outing and social hour at the Burgeson home. Gifts and a luncheon followed. The Birthday Club of southwest Polk visited Mrs. T. A. Stevens for her birthday. refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fjell hosted Wednesday supper with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Willard Lindburg and Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Holm and daughter, and August Nelson.
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