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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1970
Page
5
North Blue Doings lists January birthday celebrations and social visits in Lawrence Hoffman home and surrounding towns. Guests include Hoffman family members, friends from York, Grand Island, Stromsburg, Hampton, and Bradshaw. The piece notes many Sunday dinners and Friday gatherings following basketball games.
A representative arrives at the Redman home with two suitcases of materials for a writing course. The conversation reveals a scheme offering textbooks and magazine subscriptions for seven hundred fifty dollars, exposing the sales pitch and the amateur outcome of the encounter.
Miss Jean Nielsen daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Nielsen of Walthill wed Dennis L Anderson son of Mr and Mrs Reuben Anderson of Polk in St Joseph Catholic Church Walthill. The ceremony Saturday Dec 27 at 2 30 p m drew about 150 guests with a reception at the Legion Hall. Anderson will be stationed at Ft Polk La and Mrs Anderson works at Campbell Manufacturing in Walthill. Polk Legion Club hosts a chicken feed on Feb 14.
Services for Mrs. Mayme R. Sealey 83 of 1930 8S Humboldt St Denver were Wednesday at Mc Conaty's Mortuary. Burial followed at Crown Hill. She died Sunday in Jewish Hospital after a long illness born November 20 1886 in Edinburg Illinois. She married James Ray Sealey in Littleton in April 1930 and had lived in Colorado since. Mr Horace Stevens and JoAnn visited in the Roger Hanquist home Friday evening.
The W S C S of the Polk United Methodist Church met January 7 in the church parlors. Guest speaker Max Kroger Recreational Director of the Boys Training School at Kearney spoke about his work and the school conditions. Corsages were awarded to Mrs. Joe Ehn and Mille Baack. Lunch was provided by several hostesses. Mr and Mrs Paul Strand returned from a two week visit to Minnesota friends.
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