Polk Progress Highlights Electric Dreams and Local Happenings
Polk records a mix of civic plans and community notes. The new progress editor muses on an electric light plant for Polk, while Leo Wurtz wins a small automobile in a mercantile giveaway. Local banking ad data, school board meetings, funerals, and road conditions mix with weather and social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Leo Wurtz
New Progress
J. W. Shockey
Fred
Wheaton
Kansas
J. W. Ramey
York
C. E. Evans
Bradshaw
Bradshaw Telephone Company
Kellogg
Merrick County
Central City
Bank of Polk
Joshua Cox
Raymond L. Cox
Daniel Graves
J. M. Cox
August Carlson
H. D. Skelton
R. L. Cox
Hugo Flodman
Maurice F. Smith
First National Bank
J. W. Wilson
Charles Niermann
C. C. McCune
T. A. Lundburg
Sundberg and Son
Ernstmeyer
Ord
Anna Nierman
Leo
Pp. T. Wurtz
Polk Mercantile
Roy Gibson
Rising City
Elmer Peterson
T. A
Gretchen Pollock
Charles
Ralph Peterson
Martin Jones
Herbert Wurtz
Correspondence on Farming Practices Letters to Professor Olson
Norris Alfred raises concerns about ecological risks of modern farming. He recalls shifting from cooperative soil management to heavy use of anhydrous ammonia, fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. He questions long term soil health from continuous single crop production and asks for future impact beyond immediate yields. To Be Continued
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Olson
Department of Agronomy College of Agriculture
Lincoln
Nebraska
Olson
Burnside
Barry Commoner
Platte
Loup
Poverty Ridge
Nature
College of Agriculture
Extension Service
Secretary of Agriculture
Butz
Polk
Norris Alfred
Pork Community Dinner Guests Highlight Local Social
Mr and Mrs Glen Babcock and Mr and Mrs Dwight Burney were Tuesday dinner guests of Mrs Paul Sagehorn. The Paul Coover home hosted weekend guests Mr and Mrs Max Kroger and family from Kearney. Arthur Linneman of Papillion and Mrs Blanch Nelson joined Sunday supper at Dwight Burney home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice F. Smith
Polk County
Arborville Cucetery
Wm. Fetters
Stromsburg
Fetters
Ruth Larson
Laura Steever
Stromsburg Hospital
Marie Williams
Main Street
Doris McCoy
Polk
Cenith McCoy
Camp Robertson
Arkansas
C. J. McCoy
Richard Widga
F. P. Anderson
York
Ludwig Widga
Theo. Larson
Martha Larson
Gloria
C.W. Nelson
Leonard Orendorff
J. Stroman
Aurora
Paul Stevens
L. E. Blase
Walter Kupke
Glen Babcock
Dwight Burney
Paul Sagehorn
Max Kroger
Kearney
Paul Coover
Arthur Linneman
Papillion
Blanch Nelson
Paul Sageham
Allan Andresen
Omaha
Joe Ehn
Josephine Samuelson
Raymond Sundberg
Wilbur Jones
Central City
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A. W. Shafer
J. L. Stouffer
Oscar Strand
Henry Blase
Goldie Adelson-Johnson
Swede Plain Methodist Church
R F. Shacklock
E. R. Peterson
Swede Plain Cemetery
Arnold Isaacson
Charlie Carlson
Marquette
M. J. Ferguson
California
Emanuel Lindstedt
Donald
Portland
Oregon
Ellen Thoren
Anton Peterson
Citizens State Bank of Polk
U.S. Treasury
United States
Internal Revenue Service
Reese
Ccceereeereetesees
Dennis L. Johnson
EK. L. Stewart Doris M. Stewart
Harold L. Carlson
State of
Clarence Johnson
Elmer
Norfolk
Clarence
Raymond
Stanley Ang
Osceola
Myrtle Lindquist
Vega Ang
Ruth Appleton
Elizabeth Allison
Hazel Stromberg
Marjorie Shostrom
Marguerite Johnson
Verbena Brauer
Goldie Swanson
Hazel Dahlin
Annabelle Branting
Beryl Smith
Iva Stevens
Hazel Rice
Mabel Kealiher
Charles Lindburg
Marvin Ang
H. B. Saunders
Ben Peterson
Kenneth Samuels
Phyllis
George Larson
Harold Hogfoss
E. A. Fletcher
Muriel Davis
Pork Cubs
Genoa
Gaylen Holmes
Kenny Werner
Lloyd Widga
The
Leeenerene
Norris W
Alfred
Nebraska Association
Chitsing
Vern Jones
Baptist Church
Stauffer
Elwood Sandell
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