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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1947
Page
5
A flood of visitors and social events fills Polk and surrounding towns. Families such as Greens, Warnicks, and Sundbergs host and travel between Osceola Stromsburg and Lexington while relatives attend birthdays, anniversaries, and church events. The record lists numerous calls on homes from Lincoln to Grand Island, with baby news and a fishing trip highlighted.
A collection of classified requests and notices including a Jeep for sale by Kenneth Strong in Stromsburg with phone contact 13, a modern five room house in Polk with John H. Stohs agent, piano lessons by Margaretta Miller in Polk, painting jobs at the High School through the School Board, a government grain bin for sale priced at 300 dollars, a Rawleighs sales job in Hamilton County, Holcomb’s York Hatchery poultry health services with supplies and a York phone contact.
Farmer's Store commander R B Lytle and family return to Portsmouth Virginia after a two week visit. Many local residents host and attend gatherings including dinners at the homes of the Wurtzs and the Jones families. The Polk WCTU holds an institute in the Methodist Church with Rev Bates, Miss Miller, Miss Whitacre, and Mr Falk contributing. Rodger Werner visits Lincoln with cousin Don Werner.
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