Early Polk County news spans farms and families in 40 years past
A Polk County chronicle recalls land sales at public auction with H Sundberg estate transfer to A Sundberg. It notes property moves, weddings, family gatherings, and veterans returning from overseas. Nearby towns and businesses like Genoa and the City Meat Market appear with locals traveling to Omaha for work and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Sundberg
A.e.sundberg
Oscar Strand
L.c.glad
Omaha
Glad
Omaha Building and Loan Assn
George Reed
Polk
Wm. Garling
Lynn Horrocks
Broadwater
A. W. Shafer
Ben Peterson
A.h.samuels
Henry Reed
Edwin Deuker
Reinold Dethloff
Winnie Gabrielson
Des Moines
C. P
Presbyterian Church
Central City
Kathleen Dredge
Roy Ehn
Lloyd Stromberg
J. W. Nelson
Berniece Johnson
Don Miller
W. P. Miller
Orlie
Floyd Miller
Ed and
Thede Larson
Anton Johnson
Leonard Nelson
Norman Wilshusen
Scottsbluff
Liska African Adventure screens in Osceola
Danny Liska takes viewers on a 15 month 40000 mile journey from Norway to Africa. The film shows Lapland reindeer, Czechoslovakia, Sahara camel routes, the Veil of Arabia, Egypt to the Nile and wild Africa with voodoo, tribes, and jungle drums. Tickets are Osceola Lions adults 1 dollar high school students 75 cents grade school 25 cents at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny
Norway
Africa
Lapland
Czechoslovakia
African Sahara
Arabia
Egypt
Arlene
Source
The
Nile
Osceola Lions
Polk Progress Polk Nebraska weekly newspaper listing
The Polk Progress published in Polk County Nebraska by Dick and Kathy Howe. It notes mailing details subscription rates four dollars within Nebraska five dollars outside Nebraska and ten cents for a single copy. It is a member of the Nebraska Press Association and the National Editorial Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathy Howe
Post Office
Polk
Nebraska
Polk and York dairies spotlight district events
A group of 14 meet in Holdrege for the state B class checker tournament won by A. E. Swanson of Polk. In York Polk DHIA Paul Swanson of Stromsburg is elected president for 1965 with secretary-treasurer E. C. Myers of York. his herd records show 12 676 pounds milk and 472 pounds butterfat per cow. A bevy of 4 H members uses DHIA testing as part of projects. Also noted: beef cattle futures and livestock outlook set for the National Livestock Conference in Omaha March 4. University of Nebraska hosts 1965 tractor safety day July 29 near Mead. Polk county sheep producers eye an area meeting in Humphrey March 22 with a noon meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland Bengston
Aurora
Lloyd Krogers
Sgt
Bengtson
France
F. W. Davis
Polk
Omaha
Cliff Brantings
Grand Island Ordnance Plant
Bobby
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Chicago
Ernest Flodman
St. Joseph Hospital
Lloyd Stromberg
Merle
Leonard Stromberg
Paul Gustafson
Robert Stromberg
San Francisco
August Nelson
A. E. Swanson
Holdrege
John Andrews
Tsgt
Don Springer
Tokyo
Japan
Don
Johnston
Northwest Airlines
Neal McCormick
Douglas Innes
Shelby
Florence Ruzicka
Karen Nelson
Daryl Nyberg
Kent Sandell
Bruce Johnson
Carl Salchow
Roger Merchant
Waldon McNaught
Korea
Gary Garey
Paul Swanson
Stromsburg
York-Polk Dairy Herd Improvement Assn
DHIA
York
E. C. Myers
Paul
Polk County
Swanson
Penny Swanson
Beverly Wieseman
Kay Niemeier
York Polk Association
Inerlskdelije
University of Nebraska
University Field Laboratory
Mead
L. W. Hulbert
Humphrey
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Liska
Zambezi
Danny Liska
Nebraska Press Assn
National Editorial Assn
Chant
Ziombe Furniture
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