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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
5
The notice lists U P time table numbers for passenger trains No 28 East at 6 56 A M No 27 West at 6 42 P M daily except Sunday No 76 East freight at 11 50 A M daily except Saturday No freight West at 11 50 A M day except Sunday All trains carry passengers Office hours from 6 45 A M to 2 00 P M 3 30 P M 7 15
Miss Hazel Dorsey leaves for Seward Nebraska to attend school. Claude Dally journeys to Tamo xa Nebraska to visit grandparents before resuming Wesleyan University studies. F W Woeppel MD and D H Westfall MD are noted in Lincoln and Polk Nebraska respectively. A New Year birthday celebration for Lena Wurtz draws many friends. Deputy Reed from Genoa promotes Modern Woodman with Royal Neighbors hosting next week in Lincoln. Ed Stevens offers hay on track for sale. Sixty four new Progress subscribers since December 1 with 100 more families urged to read the home paper in 1910.
Public auction advertised for January 21 1910 to sell a 160 acre Stromsburg Nebraska farm near the public square with stock machinery hogs cattle horses implements household goods and farm land improvements. Other sales listed include Roy Newvill stock sale January 26 and Albert Stromberg sale around January 20 to move to Dakota and Colorado respectively. The Progress Office offers insurance and plumbing goods including alfalfa meal chop feed and wind mills.
Correspondence lists several students and staff members traveling to Lincoln, York, or nearby towns for education. Edwin Stromsbore, Hazel Dover, Anna Rystrom, Ruth Rystrom, and Anna Johnson head to York or Lincoln for school and music studies. Others, including Hazel Stanton, Robert Post, and Miss Esther Johnson, return to duties at universities or business colleges after visits home.
Sabbath school begins at 10 a.m. each Sunday with preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Regular Wednesday prayer meeting each week led by Pastor J. W. Waits.
All calls answered Night or Day at Steve N's Livery. For Sale a Thoroughbred White Wyandotte cockerel at 75 cents to 1 dollar each. Mrs. John Broehl. Phone O 16. Riley & Aldrich's meat prices by the quarter. Farmers bring in your disc to be sharpened before March 1 and receive 5 pounds of axle grease. Louie Kahler.
An OCR fragment mentions Dont Forget This Piano Contest and advertising lines for STEVEN'S LIVERY offering team or single driver services and automobile rides. It also lists Dr Ludden dentist office and auctioneers with Polk Bank and contacts for Arborville Nebraska with telephone hints. The readable text is scattered and lacks a coherent event.
Victor Anderson visited Osceola on Pulesday while Art Johnson did business in Osceola on Tuesday Irvin Jones arrived Friday from Meadow Grove to visit friends and relatives in Osceola for a week J A Carlson was in Osceola on Tuesday Ray Underhill traveled to Lincoln on Monday for a short visit with his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs A E Thomas
Arborville community pages report a Missionary Society gathering hosted by Mrs. John N. Plessinger with good attendance. Jackson estate farms sold Monday for prices from 100 to 1038 dollars per acre. Chas Gourley sold his residence to S H Rools who plans moving to Polk. A gala oyster supper at John Cockle’s residence drew a full house with the 0 C T Trio of Polk giving a concert at the Hall Friday night. Mrs Cockle and Mrs Osborn were praised for hosting with Miss Tenney at the piano.
The Osceola board of county commissioners spent most of the week settling up with outgoing officials and reviewing claims. New county officers take seats on Tuesday amid severe cold that strains coal supplies. local yards struggle to meet demand. Theatre notes praise The Said Pasha at the auditorium, and the Boston Ideal Opera Company earns local affection. Will Ludden backs to Omaha. Win Van Hoosen and family attend Hile Van Hoogen’s funeral in Central City burial.
The notice explains voting credits for a subscription contest. Renewal to Progress yields 400 votes, each new subscriber 800 votes, old subscribers five years in arrears and advance 5000 votes, new subscribers five years in advance 5000 votes, renewals for a year in arrears and a year in advance 1000 votes, and no votes for amounts under $1. A family member transfer does not create a new subscriber. Each contestant starts with 1000 votes.
The community rally continues with about 65 new names added to the piano contest roster since Dee. lst and renewed support from locals. Current standings list several contestants led by Miss Lillie Forslund and Miss Mildred Cockle, with votes tallied in thousands. first vote count planned for next week and rules to be reprinted only on request.
A short set of clipped items notes that the steinbok is nearly extinct in the Alps with about 300 specimens under protection on Monte Rosa south slope and private herds in two places have paid for preservation efforts. Another brief item quotes a dog and cat boarding house manager lamenting losses of nervous pets after a nearby apartment building project. The Dominion of Canada area is listed as 3,746,000 square miles.
The text notes the River Kist ah spans 600 feet as the world’s longest telegraph wire. It compares camel load capacity to horse, stating camels carry three times more. It also mentions Manhattan Island’s vast 70,000 acres of floor space and various quips about astronomy and travel.
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