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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
6
The state notes a volunteer firemen rabbit hunt at Kearney yielding 115 jack rabbits and 11 cotton tails with sixteen hunters eight hours. Fremont population reaches 14,888 in a 1920-1929 comparison, while Omaha forms an aviation and airport commission.
Omaha hosts a farewell dinner for Governor McMullen at the Hotel Blackstone with 250 leaders. He hails Nebraska’s wealth and notes the state’s low per capita debt while praising schools and Head’s work on the state house. Attendees include Governor-elect Weaver and prominent officials.
Elmcreek Irrigation committee draws plans for a large irrigation system spanning Overton to Odessa. Backers expect a major project with extensive acreage and a projected ditch cost of about 25 dollars per acre. An irrigation engineer has deemed the plans feasible and practical. Each landowner would contribute half of their total acreage for ditch construction and maintenance.
At Plymouth Local No. 1482 annual meeting officers were elected Carl Teigmeier president J H Becker secretary treasurer and Fred W Schroeder a delegate to the state convention in Omaha in January The group endorsed a one cent extra gas tax for farm to market roads and favored restoring drag roads and graveling the Grain Growers highway in the county.
Virgil Falloon of Falls City sells the Falls City Journal to a newly formed corporation of Atchison newspaper men. Stockholders include Eugene Howe editor of the Atchison Globe and Globe News Amarillo Tex Wilbur C Hawk manager of Atchison and Amarillo papers Leo Nusbaum Jr and N W Todd of the Atchison Globe staff and Falloon.
Nebraska City firm Stevenson Brothers Coal, in business nine years, has been robbed three times in six months. The latest break in yielded little cash, with thieves destroying furnishings and dumping an empty steel cabinet, scattering records and documents.
Lesson outlines the predicted and fulfilled saving work of Jesus Christ. It covers the seed of the woman prophecy, the birth in Bethlehem, Jesus as the seeker of the lost, his lifted crucifixion for atonement, and his shepherding care. It also lists blessings through faith including healing, justification, and example for believers.
A short devotional note stresses daily, definite time with God to strengthen spiritual life and service. The piece warns that neglecting daily devotion leads to weakness and inconsistency in faith.
A fragment quotes Dr. 8. P. Cadman on humanity’s unique ability to contemplate immortality and the so called grand instinct, surviving across countless aeons despite bodily death.
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