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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
8
A meeting of the Taxpayer AMP chapter in Polk County is scheduled at the courthouse in Osceola at 1:30 PM on Monday January 9. The program will cover tax redirection and ward reform and officers will be elected.
Fair Tuesday run of about 6000 head with uneven but largely steady fat cattle market. Choice steers slow to sell. stockers and feeders scarce. Cornfed steers and yearlings priced from 5.25 to 13.00. cows and heifers in the 4.50 to 7.85 range. feeding steers and calves listed with various per hundred weights.
Hogs averaged 25 to 35 cents lower with about 10 000 head on offer. Light weights were 15 to 25 cents lower, top price at 7 35. Bulk buyers paid 6 90 to 7 25 per hundredweight, with heavy butchers down as much as 50 cents to 65.0 per hundred.
After a slow start fat lambs clear at steady prices with good fed lambs at 885 and natives at 8.60. About 4,500 head received as sheep and feeders stay firm. Choice feeders at 8.50 and fat ewes at 4.25. Fed good to choice lambs 8.50 to 8.85. natives 7.85 to 8.60.
Rev I N Denny says after 20 years nothing compares to Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for headaches. Sufferers report relief for headaches neuralgia toothache backache sciatica rheumatism lumbago neuritis and muscular or periodic pains with strong results. Households keep a package in the medicine cabinet. Drug stores 25c and 1.00.
A Polk County Medical Society piece stresses pneumonia kills Nebraskans at far higher rates than other infectious diseases. It explains pneumococcus germs spread via contact or contaminated items, the need for early treatment, and the role of specific serums and proper care to improve survival.
Sealed bids will be received at the Department of Roads and Irrigation in Lincoln Nebraska on January 19 1939 until 10 00 A M and publicly opened for grading culverts two bridges and incidental work on Federal Aid Projects Nos 143 C 2 1438 E 2 and 143 F 3. Work includes grading 8.7 miles of earth road with extensive excavations culverts concrete and pipe installations and curb and gutter.
The Polk Progress lists quantities for corrugated pipes bridges and culverts with unit lengths and weights. It sets wage rates 55 45 and 35 cents hour and requires 100 percent bond plus a certified check of set totals. Bids may be waived or rejected and plans are at Osceola County Clerk or Lincoln Department of Roads.
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