Local Polk Notes Include Donations and Community Updates
Margaret Lott reports Harold Schultz donates cafe receipts to the Red Cross for food relief. Sundberg hardware marks 40 years in Polk with notices of family moves, births, marriages, and deaths including Mrs. August Steelquist’s recent passing. Community mentions include hospital trips, theatre changes, and area marriages and anniversaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Schultz
Red Cross
Sundberg
Harware
August Steelquist
Steelquist
Carl
Wm. Kroger
Hattie Lindquist
Schultz Cafe
Milton Anderson
Darente
Martha Meerkatz
John Meerkatz
Lawrence Hoffman
Hoffman
Bradshaw
Obituaries and Local Notices From Polk Nebraskas Polk Progress
Obituary for Mrs Linnie O. Erickson aged 83 notes her passing at home of her daughter Lydia Peterson on Jan 16. Also reported are a two car accident near Osceola injuring Mr and Mrs Whitacre, a baby named Duane Lavern Bodine born Jan 16, and several hospital stays and surgeries involving local residents including Edith Steelquist, Beulah Gustafson, Roger Gustafson, Patricia Stufft, and Dale Carlson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Blast
Martin Baack
Omaha
Clarance
Bryant
Fairmont, Creamery Co
Gee Bee Foods
Polk
Ellis White
Near Bradshaw
S. Muffley
Chris Wahl
White
Hazel Peterson
Clyde Stevens
Kearney
A. C. Delwarte
Denver
Enid Myers
Grand Island College
H.G. Whitacre
Osceola
Timms
Whitacre
Linnie O. Erickson
Hamilton
Merrick Co
Lydia Peterson
Roland Bodine
Stromsburg Hospital
Duane LaVern
Albert Sundberg
Methodist Hospital
Dennis Jacobsen
Marquette
Veteran’s Hospital
Lincoln
Jacobson
Virgil Kisler
Edith
Carl) Steelquist
Lincoln General Hospital
Beulah Gustafson
Roger’ Gustafson
Bryan Memorial Hospital
Roger Gustafson
Elsie ‘Stevens
Patricia Ann Stufft
James Stufft
Dale Allen Carlson
Glen L. Carlson
Hord
Mysterious Financial Snippet Ties Names to Figures
Fragmentary OCR shows names Dennis L Johnson Harold L Carlson and others with a large numeric figure around 1 601 000 suggesting a financial item or balance. The text is incomplete, offering no clear event or outcome beyond potential director or trust references.
Tea at the Governor’s Mansion for Mrs Burney
Mrs Dwight Burney attends a Tea at the Governor's Mansion on Thursday afternoon. She has just been elected historian of the Ladies Legislative League. The Lincoln Community Playhouse will provide the afternoon entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight Burney
Governor’s Mansion
Osceola Hospital Visits and Local Social Roundup
The Polk News notes multiple hospital visits including Wren Sherwood and Ruth Branting at Osceola and Parkview hospitals. Reuben Swanson and family host and visit Branting homes in York. Dwight Burney entertains guests after a pancake supper. Leonard Anderson family joins friends after a Polk-Marquette basketball game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben
Swanson
Wren Sherwood
Osceola Hospital
Ruth Branting
Parkview
Vergil Bush
James Brazda, Sr
Lincoln
Dennis Cherymah van Housen
St. Elizabe Hospital
Reuben’ Swanson
Marvin Branting
Mervin Branting
York
Dwight Burney
Wallace Sandell
Huldan Sagehorn
Leonard Anderson
Larry Cooyer
Polk-Marquette
Oil Spills and Water Policy Reflections From an Era
The article recalls Nashawena Island oil spill remnants from World War II and 1960s recollections, questions cleanup thoroughness, and links spills to ongoing oil dependence. It critiques tanker safety, double hulls, and Liberian-flag ships, while criticizing Nebraska water bills LB55 and LB149 and urging stricter groundwater management and reduced usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashawera
Massachusetts
U. S
Nashawena
California
Liberia
United States
John de Scamp
Lincoln Journal
DeScamp
Loran Schmit
Maurice Kremer
Public Works Committee
Constitutional Revision,and Recreation Committee
Aurora
Kremer
Dallas
Texas
High Plains Study Council
Nebraska
Kansas
Schmit
Donald Dworak
Columbus
Also Mentioned on This Page
Margaret Lott
Carl Juergensen
Morris Johnson
The
Free Mission Church
Paul Carlson
Clifford George Jack
C. A. Jack
Wilhemina Shane Jack
Pearl
Margaret Olmsted
Shermat
Oscar
W. E. Green
Delbert Paul Angle
San Diego
Calif
W. F. Angle
Cherokee
Arnold Neuhaus
Clarkson
Main Street
N. E. McNaught
Neuhaus
Mabel Dornburg
Henry Shostrom
Stromsburg
Shostrom
Willard Lindburg
Frank W. Berggren
Norns
W. Alfred
Rich Bicker
Berggren
Paul Strand
Citizens State Bank of Polk
U. S. Treasury
U.S
Wees B
Aence
WWET
Dennis L.’ Johnson
K. le Stewart
Dorig M. Stewart
Harold L.carlson
Lus
Eer Smadt
Teegeness
Cecce
Polk News
Shaw’s Repair & Service
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