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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1948
Page
8
Local notices list dinners visits and greetings from families including the McCoys Samuels Hurd Klingsporn Lemke and many others. Residents welcomed relatives from Lincoln York Omaha Sioux Falls and Washington D C with Christmas meals and homecomings.
Nancy gives away her husband Ted's birthday gift a pair of pants with fifty dollars in the pocket and a load of bottles and magazines to a ragman. The couple tracks the truck to 1346 Clark Street where Tony Rozalle and his son run a shabby house. A mix of Christmas visitors and small-town lives unfolds as they search for the missing wrist watch and reflect on luck and generosity.
Mr and Mrs Art McVeish joined his brother in Spaulding for Christmas then attended a Grand Island reunion. Lincoln guests Mr and Mrs Oscar Bennet stayed with Mr and Mrs Fred Schumann, with Mrs Schumann’s mother Mrs Walrath visiting. Paul Bartrek of Bethlehem Pa stayed with relatives, and Mr Barb eck headed to Chicago for a National Physics Instructor’s Convention. Steep family guests toured Wilbur and Cimats while Petersons Variety Store inventory proceeds were assisted by Rosemary Watoreen.
Christmas guests gathered in the CW Warwick home including Mrs Warwick’s sister Mrs Pearle Baskett of Neligh Nebraska and Norman Warwick while Marjorie Warwick trained as a nurse in Omaha. The Snodgrasses hosted in Omaha and Mr and Mrs Curtier hosted family dinners. Orville Wright and Rodger of Sioux City visited Osceola relatives. A four month old baby boy Mimie Ray was adopted Sunday by Mr and Mrs Lester Anderson. BE Jischamer Say and Jerry departed for Albuquerque after a ten day visit.
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