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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1937
Page
4
The Polk Progress is described with editor publisher Howard W. Herbes and stamped as second class mail matter at Polk Nebraska Post Office on March 21, 1907 under an act of Congress dated March 2, 1879.
Residents and visitors populate the Polk area with notes on travel, family visits, and local events. Names include Streeter of Red Falls, Mewton family, Meerkatz of Hampton, Shafer Alfred Brown Hill Stoeger Cairo, Nelsons of Audubon, Mundt, Colby Arad, Robertson of Grand Island, Van Hoosen, Riverside outings, Calmar Jones, Lincoln vacation, Bert Sedan Benedict, Emmet Alton, Walter Johnson Arborville, Widga family Grand Island, Piper to Big Springs, Chrys ler trade, Cox Olson sale of Viking Mall, Johnsons to Spalding, Gustafson York, Braithwait Grand Island, Kunkel Rising City, Falk Stromsburg, Carnine Topeka, oil drilling near Polk. The column notes ongoing oil drilling and optimistic hopes for a flowing well.
July 13, 1922 list of local visits includes J S C Green and wife from Central City to see daughter Helen, Dan Carter and wife from York, Pauline Rystrom visiting sister Mrs Ray Lewis in Lincoln, and many others traveling to Lincoln, York, Stromsburg, Hordville, Osceola, and Shelby. Scales weigh-ins at Sack Lumber Yard. Dr D H Westfall and L C Wallin visit Aurora. Oregon trip for Mrs H T Bloom. multiple visits to family homes and work assignments across Polk County communities.
Mrs. Carl Steelquist and Miss Jacqueline Lindberg visited York Friday afternoon. Mrs. Earl Clark of Omaha and Will Welch of Fort Collins Colo visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Stevens Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stark visited relatives at York Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Al Johnson and two sons of Omaha and Miss Bernice Shostrom and Al Boostrom of Stromsburg spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Hjalmar Shostrom. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Anderson and Doris visited Tuesday evening with the Shostroms.
The City reports social visits and family news, including Texas Tech honors for Phyllis Alfred and several local residents’ weekend activities. A formal notice invites sealed bids for concrete pavement on the Stromsburg Shelby projects Nos 29 and 143 F with wage rules, bonding, and bid conditions, to be opened August 12, 1937 in Lincoln Nebraska.
The Nebraska Department of Roads and Irrigation invites bids for Stromsburg Shelby Projects Nos 29 and 143 F to surface 8.9 miles with sand gravel and incidental work. Plans are at Osceola County Clerk and Lincoln DOT. Bidder must submit a two hundred dollar certified check. State Engineer A C Tilley announces. Mrs. Helen Johnson of South Dakota visits in Henry Johnson home.
Mr and Mrs Rudolph Nyberg and family and Mr and Mrs Ed Nyberg visited at the home of Mr and Mrs Emil Stranberg at Hardville Friday evening. Mr and Mrs Walter Widga and family of near Stromsburg visited Sunday evening in the home of Mr and Mrs George Anderson. Mr and Mrs Willard Adelson and son, Mr and Mrs Harold Johnson and family, Mr and Mrs Raymond Johnson and family, and Mr and Mrs Adolph Forss and family were Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr and Mrs John Johnson near Swede Home. Mr and Mrs Reynold Klute of Hampton and Mr and Mrs Will Miller visited Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Karl Detloft.
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