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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1941
Page
5
A vintage style list promotes fresh side pork ground beef pork roasts and roasts bacon and luncheon meats with prices per pound and pack weights. Also advertised are oleo lard wieners ham bologna pressed ham and ring bologna at low prices typical of a grocery circular.
George McClure of Omaha visited here Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs J C McClure Selma Hopp left Wednesday for Lamont to visit Mrs Mary Johnson Edna Stankel returned Friday from the University hospital in Omaha much improved in health Mr and Mrs Fred Johnson and Mr and Mrs Elwyn Johnson visited Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs Ollie Johnson and family Also Polk Progress sale offer promotes a year’s subscription to the Omaha World-Herald
Church notices list weekly timings for several congregations led by pastors including Juergensen Bailey Pfoutz Carlson and Smith. Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Swede Plain, Evangelical Free, and Free Methodist churches show service times, Sunday School, BYPU, prayer meetings, choir practices, and upcoming trustee meeting with notices of location and leaders.
Ed Dissmeyer of Spalding shared a Sunday visit at the home of Mr and Mrs John Cohagan. Lester Stark called on his sister Mrs Clarence Cash and her husband at Benedict Sunday afternoon.
Mervin Runquist son of Mrs Grace Runquist travels from Polk to Omaha and then Jefferson Barracks St Louis Mo to begin three years training in the U S Army Air Corps. Numerous local residents visit and host families share social calls and birthday events in Polk area.
Community notices list Lindburg Dairy promotions and a Polk county price perk. Neighbors Isaacson of Omaha and Wurtz guests in Stromsburg and Osceola. Teachers and residents such as Irene Walk and Merle Lavelle with families are named amid a twentieth wedding anniversary at the Steelquist home.
Mr and Mrs W L Lindburg and family visited Vic and Mrs Lawrence Jones in Grand Island. Della Mae Madison, a Grand Island Business College student, spent the weekend with her parents in town. Mr and Mrs W Johnson and Raymond were dinner guests at the Ralph Peterson home. Henry Renquist of Benedict and Axel Renquist’s health is reported poor.
Catalog lists spring dresses priced 12 to 20 dollars. Ready made sheets 95c per set. Stamp’d pillow cases 69c. Men’s dress shirts 95c and work shirts 65c. School hose two pair 33c. Ladies cotton hose 2 for 25c. Part linen toweling 11c per yard. Turkish toweling 23c.
Community residents shared a weekend of visits with relatives and friends. Notable mentions include Mr and Mrs Bill Wright calling on Mr and Mrs Ivan Johnson, Lilie Lind and Lloyd Lind guests in the Amel Lind home, and Raymond Stevens with Leland Widga visiting with Emma Anderson and Vic Shostroms.
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