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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1912
Page
6
Public notice records Polk Nebraska postoffice March 21 1907 under act of congress March 3 1879 percent McGaffin editor and publisher details appear in damaged OCR snippets
Save 35c on Feb 16 and shop Plessingers for 124 cents a pound steaks. Attend the Friday concert at the O K theatre to boost schools. Carload of Flour Shorts and Bran received at J Tewell's. Carl Williams to hold a public sale on Monday Feb 26 watch for bills. Rosa Fletcher suffered appendicitis this week. A Kingston returns from Seattle to aid his ailing father. Breeders of pure bred horses meet Grand Island Thursday Feb 29 at 2 00 pm with an instructive program.
Announcement that Bay Sisters have purchased the millinery stock and fixtures from Mrs. M. D. Engelke and moved to rooms south of Progress office. They will soon show local ladies a new up to date spring line of millinery goods.
Funeral services will be held in the Hordville M. E. church Friday morning at 11 o'clock for John who died in his bed.
A pocketbook lost between Walter Widga's farm and Polk on Tuesday February 18 contained money a $50 certificate of deposit and a post office register receipt No 141 Liberal reward offered for return to the Progress office.
Miss Mildred Smith led about 30 guests at the Baptist church Sun day school Valentine party on Feb 18. Guests dressed as Indian Cowboy Chauffeur Farmer Hobo Maid Queen of Hearts and more with a two course luncheon served afterward.
The Forum enjoyed good attendance last Friday with an excellent program. The quartet Chas Garret gon Earl McNeal Gredda Shafer and Katherine Bay performed well along with a Gladys Green and Leah Dorsey duet. Ruth Myers read with notable skill and poise. The next meeting is set for February 28 with debate on whether bachelors should be taxed. Membership stands at about fifty, 50 cents for gentlemen and 25 cents for ladies. visitors are welcome.
Feb 16 items report Clara Reitz visiting in the Geo Reed home, Midget Quartette at the U K theatre, Dr Woeppel buying Swanson optical business, Shafer resigning at Burke-Thomas Co store, and various town happenings. Local merchants tout printer's ink ads as Polk progress.
Earl G. Brink, a piano tuner with thirty years of experience, will be in Polk this week to service pianos.
Fred Latham announces he will visit Polk County towns Shelby Osceola Stromsburg and Polk on February 20 21 22 and 23 to buy healthy fat horses and mules. He reports paying up to 230 dollars for top-priced animals in the county last week and invites owners with sound stock to sell.
Cot. W. C. Mixer of St. Louis advertises buying fat horses and mules in Polk county towns on February 20 in Shelby February 21 in Osceola February 22 in Stromsburg. He bought every horse offered in Osceola last Saturday except one and offers top prices. Bring your stock.
The Pink birth month flower theme appears alongside a myth about amethyst turning into a nymph due to Bacchus. Amethysts are widely available in jewelry, offering an inexpensive February birth emblem.
The Polk public schools Primary room presented Lincoln's Day activities including songs and a play Honest Abe by James Hill and Melba Davis, a Lincoln Second Grade exercise, and a flag drill. The page then lists satirical chatter about air, smoking, lawyers, society women, bustles, postal banks, and a mythic Maine find, with a jibing New Yorker pun about a pawned wooden leg.
Floyd Rockwell endorses J T Grandstaff as piano tuner for York and vicinity. Grandstaff is former Kansas City tuner now with Johnson Brothers of York Nebraska. He will tune pianos satisfactorily and report monthly to Swanson's Jewelry Store office.
The Busy Bee uses a double action pump engineered scientifically to provide greater continuous suction than rival machines, enhancing performance and efficiency.
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