Mrs Mervin Shenk Hosts Farewell for Charles Overseas Duty
Polk local notes record a Friday evening gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Mervin Shenk in honor of Charles heading overseas. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Earl Stevens and other local families. John Colby of Palmer, brother of Mrs Chauncey Gustafson, died January 23 with funeral January 26 in Palmer. The Stevens family gave Mrs Mabel Stevens 90th birthday ice cream and cake at Samarian Village on Sunday January 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mervin Shenk
Charles
Earl Stevens
Mervin Samuels
Ollie Johnson
Guy Shenk
Bob Steenbach
Hampton
Margaret Jones
Donette Jones
John Colby
Palmer
Chauncey Gustafson
Mabel Stevens
Samaritan Village
Hospital List of Patients at Annie Jeffrey Memorial
Week of January 25 to February 1 lists patients in Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Hospital. Names span Osceola Stromsburg Polk Shelby Stromsburg York Surprise Silver Creek Hardville and Lincoln return. Deceased Lloyd Hanquist noted. Chauncey Gustafson back home from Lincoln hospital stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Hospital
Anna C. Ballard
Bradshaw
Bertha Schmid
Osceola
Elmer &. Johnson
Terence Svoboda
Calmer Boden
Emma Horstman
Polk
Gertie Anderson
Stromsburg
Josephine Peterson
Milton Burgason
George Hasselbaich
Shelby
Carl M. Wilson
Connie Lux
Joyce Longenecker
Robert Baack
Edna M Anderson
Effie Fernander
Milton Johnson, Jr
Norma Senkbeil
Norman Leach
Mollie Swanson
Roy G. Wagner
Allen Anderson
Dean Buhl
Chauncey Gustafson
Lincoln
Correction lists traffic offenders and game site change
Correction notes Bridget M. Rolen e from Ulysses fined 60 dollars plus 5 dollars costs for night speed 85 mph. Junior High Game moves to Stromsburg February 4 at 7 00 p m due to contract error. Faithful Workers Club meeting January 27 at Delores Miller home with Margaret Brockevelt hostess. dinner and card party planned and funds contributed. Winnifred Lackey led program. Mildred Norquest earned hostess gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget M. Rolene
Ulysses
Polk
Stromsburg
THE
Faithful Workers Club
Faithful Worker’s Club
Delores Miller
Margaret Brockevelt
Esther Parson
Winnifred Lackey
Mildred Norquest
The Bizzy Bee 4 H Club Meeting Notes
The Bizzy Bee 4 H Club met January 30 1971 at Lori Hanquist home. The president led the meeting and the 4 H motto was recited. Secretary read prior minutes. Eight members and two visitors attended. News reporter Josie Kennel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lori Hanquist
Josie Kennel
Swede Plain United Methodist Church Weekly Notices
Swede Plain United Methodist Church services are listed with worship at 9 30 am Sunday February 7 and Sunday School at 10 30 am Mrs Elmer Garner and Mrs Gordon A Carlson hostesses WSCS meeting at 2 00 pm February 10. Larry Burgess inducted in Armed Forces on January 27 1971 sent to Omaha by county draft board son of Forrest and Mrs Burgess Osceola. Selective Service office moved to third floor. Irvin Anderson hosts guests Arlo Stevens and family Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Trucano
Elmer Garner
Gordon A. Carlson
Larry Burgess
Larry Forrest Burgess
Stromburg
Omaha
County Draft Board
Larry
Forrest Burgess
Osceola
Selective Service Office
Polk High School Considers Adult Education Classes
Adults invited to enroll in potential Polk High School courses including Sewing Art Physical Education American Civil Law Welding Modern Math Business Math Bookkeeping Typing and Other. Interested individuals should clip and mail the questionnaire to the Principal Polk Nebraska to indicate first and second course choices and contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk High School
Polk
Nebraska
Polking Around class poem and silent ambitions
A class poem notes promised copies and recalls long vanished ideas. It catalogs special achievements from coin experiments with quicksilver to a perpetual motion plan, plus a VBS bread board shaped like a fat boy. The piece questions conformity and whether one boy’s genius was crushed by teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vacation Bible School
Calvary Low To Hear Peru Missionaries
Pastor and Mrs Fred Wolff Lutheran missionaries will speak at Calvary Lutheran Church Swede Home February 10 1971 at 8 00 pm. They helped organize three Spanish speaking congregations in Peru direct Children's Day Care Center and an OB Clinic serving over 65 children. Pastor Wolff was the fifth to respond to the May 31 1970 homeless crisis. Public invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Wolff
Lutheran Church, of America
Calvary Lutheran Church of
Community Chorus to Begin Practice for Palm Sunday Cantata
The Community Chorus meets Sundays at 2 30 p m in the high school auditorium with Ron Foote Jr directing and Mrs Irving Stauffer at the piano. A cantata by John Peterson Hallelujah For The Cross will mark the Palm Sunday concert as all singers are urged to join. Mr and Mrs Guy Blanchard of Grand Island were luncheon guests in the Irvin Anderson home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Foote, Jr
Irving Stauffer
John Peterson
Guy Blanchard
Grand Island
Irvin Anderson
Noted Student Seeks Who's Who Recognition
A high school pupil plans to pursue a place in Who's Who after receiving the book I Dare You and sending biographical data last week. If declined, a letter will be written explaining the decision and situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
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Farmers Mutual OF Nebr
Leland Harless
Delbert Legband
Benedict
Milligan Farming Service
Milligan
Nebr
Verlie G. Johnston
GMC
Pontiac
E. T. Parminter
Central City Veterinary Clinic
Ore. B.S. Barnett C. KR. Johnson
Central City
Mert’s
Central T.V
Ave
Motorola
Motorola Sales & Service
RCA Admiral
Coronado
Claude Ashbaugh
Bob Baack
S Howe
Moore Lumber Co
Custom Farm Services, Inc
Mattson Ag
Fertilizer & Farm Chemicals
Russell Fjell
Burg Refrigeration
Stromeburg
Victor Anderson CO. Funeral Chapel
Behlen
Hampton Gail Henriksen
Comer Cafe Polk
Robert Carlson
Pall
Home Service Extension Club
Lloyd Hanquist
Ernie Lott
Polk County
Rudolph O. Nyberg
Lee C. Boden
Barbara K. Klein
William C. Snodgrass
Sharon Ann Soukup
Town & Country
Dodds Stromsburg
Hampshire
Armstrong
Mrs
Carleton Anderson
Swede Plain United Methodist Church
Arlo Stevens
Meee
Polking
Ken
Calvary
Peru
Nixon Feed Company
Polk Grain Co
Nixon
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