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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1949
Page
5
Mr. Herbert Kennedy of Cedar Rapids Iowa called on Mr and Mrs Chas Peterson Monday and Tuesday. Jim Craven of Crete was a supper guest of Kenneth Bedient at the H J Bedient home Sunday evening.
A long list of visits and gatherings fills Arborville social notes. Mrs Roy Glasser Jr and Mrs Stanley Peterson visited in Omaha at Clarkson Hospital and with Alpha and Gerda Peterson in Plattsmouth. Numerous families from Marquette Lincoln Rockford and Osceola share Sunday dinners and hospital visits. A St Vincent Church picnic is set for Osceola Fairgrounds July 31 with chicken ham dinner and games.
Rev Edick A Anderson leads worship at 11 00 Morning Worship and 10 00 Bible School at Hardville Baptist Church All are welcome to attend and share in these services.
Local church notices list service times for First Baptist Paul Lemke and Immanuel Lutheran C W Long plus Free Methodist Charles Snyder. Activities include Sunday School at 10 and worship at 10:30, with evening services and midweek prayer meetings noted.
sunday services listed for Polk and Swede Plain Methodist Churches with morning worship 10 a m and church schools at 11 a m at each site. Arborville Congregational Church notes pastor Rev Earle F Laton and staff. summer sermon series by Rev Eaton from Arborville pulpit with August topics including Transfiguration and Canticle of the Cynic.
Milford Free Church lists Sunday services at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. gospel service at Polk County Camp with Platte Valley Baptists. Wednesday program features The King’s Men of Chicago and Rev. A J Thorwall. Friday FCYF banquet at Kenney. All welcome.
Hordville Methodist invites worship at 10 A M with a 11 A M service and no union service. Neighbors and visitors including Mrs Harold Green and Mrs Sadie Clark are mentioned visiting in nearby homes. Local families and travelers from Polk Loup City Sterling Abilene Stromsburg and York are noted in visits and greetings. Murray Glen born July 23 at Stromsburg hospital to Mr and Mrs Morris Lindburg Jr is named.
Mrs Ross Goethe and baby visit grandparents in Grand Island while Mr and Mrs P W Aker and Miss Nell Aker join Sunday dinner at Harvard. The Adelson birthday party brings together Wil lard Adelson Jimmie and guests. Other gatherings include Johnson Swede Home Sundberg Stromsburg Forss and more with various relatives in Stromsburg Grand Island and Polk.
Mrs. W E Johnson returned home from Stromsburg hospital last Monday and is much improved. Mrs. Ida Green and childrest of Central City visited Sunday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Will Green. Shirley Stevens visited Harriett Bush Saturday. Mr and Mrs Ross Goethe and baby of Grand Island and Mr and Mrs Van Bush visited Central City Sunday. Mrs Van Bush Harriett and Mrs Ross Goethe and baby of Grand Island were business visitors in York Tuesday.
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