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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
4
Hordville reports grain and hog prices with oats at 30, corn 48, wheat 84, and hogs at 8.25 dollars per hundredweight. Farmers digest price data as markets show modest movement and livestock values edge higher.
Central City social notes report visits by J Refshauge Bina Knutson and families including Nordstroms in Grand Island Osceola and Aurora. Mentions of Mrs S J Bush taking up violin lessons, wedding stationery ads, and local happenings with Rev O A Johnson and Rev N Gibson dining with Bankson family.
East bound No 28 passenger due 6 42 am No 76 freight due 11 20 am West bound No 27 passenger due 6 44 pm No 75 freight due 11 20 pm
The sermon schedule lists Rev N Gisson preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the Swedish Lutheran Church, detailing forenoon and evening services.
The Rev Yost conducts Sunday School at 10 30 a m and preaching service at 8 p m highlighting shared sermons and worship opportunities.
A socially active piece lists a lawn party at Rev. Gibsons home with games and desserts, local business notices including Harry Johnson's Globe Laundry agent role, and a WCTU picnic planned for July 14 near Hordville with speakers Mrs. M. M. Smith and Mrs. Myra Crowzer. It also recounts Osceola Fourth of July celebrations, auto races, a farm accident near Chas Campbell's farm, and a humorous motor mishap involving Frank Mitchell and H G Carpenter, including a wild wheat-field detour and the near crash of a buzz machine.
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