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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1941
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Edwin Deuker and Joan of Lusk Wyoming visited Thursday at the home of Mr and Mrs Adam Deuker and Emaline. Joan stayed for an indefinite visit. Mrs Oscar Stromberg visited her sister Mrs John George at Gresham Thursday.
A Washington columnist notes opposition to relocating HOLC from Washington to New York as federal decentralization grows. The piece also covers soldier wives' protests, census publications on Nebraska, and new Gravelly Point Airport statistics highlighting its large size, costs, and passenger capacity. It ends with Miss Helen Sargent visiting York.
Public health statistics for 1940 show Britain healthier than 1939 with scarlet fever down from 100000 to 63000, dysentery under 3000, enteric fever rising to 2800 mostly mild paratyphoid, pneumonia slightly up, and cerebrospinal fever increasing from 1200 to over 12000 but mortality reduced from about 60 percent to around 5 percent due to new treatments.
Miami hosts two Galapagos tortoise twins, the first of their kind hatched in America. Born weighing two ounces from eggs resembling billiard balls, they now gain weight daily, eating half their body weight in lettuce. Expected to reach just over two pounds by their first birthday.
George W Denny president and moderator of Town Hall in New York describes behind the curtain scenes of the Town Meeting of the Air. He says audiences gather an hour before broadcast and noisy listeners are weeded out before the mike. He argues that 20 percent control elections and lead the nation, and democracy can work if this leadership is developed.
Ant control under present conditions requires outdoor containers around buildings which endanger children and pets and lose effectiveness when rain dilutes poisons. A new insecticide vault, built into the house foundation with vaults every 17 feet or less, keeps the poison ready and effective, out of sight and reach.
The article explains how magnet ic mines work not by surfacing but by sensing a steel ship nearby. A compass needle on the mine tilts when a ship passes, closes a circuit, and detonates the device on the seabed. Effectively used only in shallow water near shores or in the Thames estuary by German aviators.
Omaha market notes report cattle receipts at 7700 with brisk buying and higher prices for steers yearlings and heifers up to 28 cents above last week while cows and feeders held steady Corndfed steers and yearlings show strong price ranges with good and choice grades dominating hog bids down about 15 cents from Friday and sheep and lambs selling mainly 25 cents higher on the morning run Native lambs and feeder lambs command strong demand with fair to good buyer interest throughout the session The document also includes a court notice in Polk County Nebraska calling for a guardian to sell real estate to cover debts and appointing August 23 1941 as the hearing date.
Miss Doris McCoy spent early last week with Dr and Mrs B J Baker at Utica and later visited her sister Gladys McCoy in Lincoln. Dean Sterner of Fort Ord and Harriet Black of Lincoln joined Tuesday evening at the Hills Sterner home. Mr and Mrs Seth Piper visited Saturday evening with Mr Sterner's sister Mrs Sara Pickerel, who is ill at Bradshaw.
Legal notice from Polk County Nebraska District Court states Fred D Williams guardian of Mary E Knerr seeks court license to sell real estate Lot 13 and 14 Block 18 Original Town of Polk. Petition shows assets insufficient to maintain the incompetent with debts expenses and encumbrance interest. Proceedings note the guardian must obtain authorization to convey described property.
Notice to creditors of the estate of John Norstrom deceased in Polk County Nebraska. A county court hearing will be held November 3 1941 to hear adjust and allow all claims filed against the estate. Creditors must file claims by November 1 1941 or be forever barred. Dated July 7 1941 L M Merrick County Judge.
Public auction to sell real estate described as parts of Section 33 Township 14 North Range 4 West and related parcels. Sale set for August 12 1941 at 2 PM at the south front door of the Osceola Nebraska courthouse. Fifteen percent down, balance upon court confirmation. Mills & Mills Attorneys for plaintiff. August 7. Also notice of a separate mortgage foreclosure against heirs and parties interested in Lillian Shostrom estate with August 18 response deadline. The Federal Land Bank of Omaha seeks a decree and foreclosure on 320 acres in Polk County Nebraska.
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