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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1973
Page
4
The week swung from 8 below zero to a 51 degree high as the January Thaw arrived. Progress thermometers rose through the day with readings of 36 to 51 degrees, melting snow into puddles and ending in a cheerful, calm, sunlit finish.
Mr and Mrs Wm Naslund of Stromsburg were lunch guests Tuesday evening of Mr and Mrs Elmer Naslund. Mr and Mrs Don Hanquist and Mr and Mrs Dale Lindburg and gins were coffee guests in the Dean Lindburg home after church services Sunday evening.
Over 500 farmers in Polk County have a conservation plan on their farm. The Soil Conservation Service can help you develop a plan, using aerial soil, water, and plant resource inventories as a blueprint for protecting and improving productive soil and water resources. For more information contact the Soil Conservation Service office.
Mr and Mrs Joe Ehn visited Mrs Josie Samuelson at the Good Samaritan Center in Osceola on Thursday. Mrs Ben Peterson and her son Jerry Giles of Crestview Massachusetts and Mrs Beulah Gustafson of Hastings were Saturday evening guests in the Dwight Burney home.
Three observers Lee Morris Swede Lind and the Progress editor expanded their 1973 bird list between 3 and 5 30 pm sighting species such as red breasted nuthatch Townsend solitare and cedar waxwings along the Platte river area They noted a pigeon hawk a flock of geese likely Canada geese and earlier waterfowl including green headed mallard They also logged cardinal mourning dove and pending Lapland Longspur identification bringing the 1973 tally to 30 species in line with the 304 species Nebraska Ornithologists Union list.
Mr and Mrs Irving Wize and family spent Christmas vacation at Loveland Colorado with Mrs Wize's parents and brothers then visited Estes Park and Julesburg to see Irving's sister. Elwood Sandell and Walter Nelson hosted after church coffee. Gustafson and Sundberg families attended a Wednesday luncheon at Arlo Stevens home. Reuben Gustafson visited Aurora. Mrs Burney visited Mrs Ivan Johnson. Wayne Ramsey and Henry Reeb dined with Louie Blase.
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