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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
5
A compact catalog of assorted shelf items with marked prices including prunes in syrup 20c per box, oats 8c per large package, crystal white soap 15c, sugar 10 lbs at 53c, spaghettis and cereals, peanut butter quart 20c, baking powders, canned fruits, and numerous advertised goods from a neighborhood store.
The ad lists pork chops or pork steak 18 cents per pound, pork roast 17 cents, bacon squares 12 cents, tenderized picnic hams 18 cents, fresh ground pork 17 cents, ground beef 20 cents, wieners 20 cents, mince ham 17 cents, summer sausage 20 cents, luncheon ham 25 cents, lard two pounds 15 cents, and oleo per pound 13 cents.
Public sale sets 11 00 AM Thursday January 30 location 1 mile south and 1 percent mile west of Shelby 44 percent miles east of Osceola 12 horses 12 cattle 12 hogs feed and seed machinery Terms lunch stand Auctioneers Frank R and Harry Lees Augustin Ingalls and Merrick First National Bank Shelby Clerk Also farm sale notices list Roger Headley North of Polk items including horses cattle and machinery and N MecNaught near Polk with cattle horses hogs tractor and machinery Clerks and banks named
A crowded week featured gatherings at the Anderson and Baack homes with games and a two course lunch. Visitors from Torrington and Central City joined locals for meals, dances, and farewells as many prepare moves or return home after weekends in Arborville York Hebron and Lincoln all appear in the social notes with birthday celebrations hospital stays and a housewarming event at Mrs Frank Fossberg’s home.
Dr. C. R. Peterson announces he will leave Beatrice and close the Polk dental office after January 28. He notes several outstanding accounts and asks those involved to call promptly to settle their balances.
A compact notices page lists service times for The Churches including Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Swede Plain, Hordville Methodist and Evangelical Free and Free Methodist churches. It notes pastors names, Sunday School hours, morning and evening services, choir practices, and midweek prayer meetings with rotating guest speakers and special services.
Mrs Walter Green visited with friends at Central City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs Albert Sundberg were visitors at Lincoln Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Oak Davis and Mra Harvey Shafer and son of Lincoln visited with M. F Smith and Mrs R L Smith on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs C. Marvin Fredrickson spent Sunday afternoon in the home of Mr and Mrs O Predrickson in Stromsburg. Mr and Mrs Ray Rudeen and family of Stromsburg visited Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs Walter Green.
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