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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
8
A call for donations to support the county Welcome Home Celebration for soldiers. The notice urges citizens to contribute any amount, notes busy police and reporters, and mentions a weather soak for corn fields. It references a motor trip and a special edition traveling through western Nebraska and Wyoming, departing August 4.
The people of Rol County plan a Welcome Home celebration on August 15 to honor soldiers and sailors who wore khaki during the war. Organizers urge veterans to don their uniforms for the event, aiming to show appreciation while ensuring the day's success.
In Ord Nebraska the speaker cites Townley and Mills to condemn the Nonpartisan League as unpatriotic and aligned with Hun sympathizers. He accuses the group of sowing distrust in the government and urges communities to reject its supposed lies and plans.
The Polk band joined the Chicago strikers last night but eleven members did not take their usual place on the band stand. The eleven and the rest left the public gaze as tensions rose. Band excused this time and hopes for a patch up next week amid cold weather affecting morale.
Annia Christie Rydson Miller, born October 22, 1840 in Sweden, died July 24, 1919 at her daughter’s home in Polk Nebraska aged 78 years. She survived by five children and twenty seven grandchildren. funeral July 27 at Polk Baptist Church with burial in Swede Baptist Cemetery.
The Woman's Missionary Society and World Wide Guild of the Baptist church hosted a dinner in the church parlors for Mrs A H Nickell wife of the pastor. The Nickells plus two children plan to move to Louisville Kentucky in early September for advanced study. Seventy five covers, three courses, decorations of sweet spice baskets, Ellen Bay read, Mrs Golden Garretson sang, and verse sheets bound as a keepsake were given. Parting gifts included pearls from WWG and a cut glass vase from the missionary society presented by society presidents.
Alex Lind returns from a California trip while Mrs R H Keaton and a baby visit Omaha relatives. Miss Gladys Benter from Burke SD visits Mrs H W Wilcox. Polk County Fair set for August 25 26 27 28. John Dahlgren land of 240 acres sells at York for 52000. Wm Brice buys 80 acres for 16450 with Fred Dahlgren W N Frickey and Ed Seedle purchasing the rest for 3
Town briefs reveal sales and rumors including a Ford touring car sale via C C Eckles, possible tire shop sale to J E McDaniel, Chautauqua tickets selling fast, and a Shetland pony colt for Joshua Cox. A bank service invitation, missionary plans from Norfolk to Chana, and multiple visits home from Michigan, North Dakota, and Colorado among residents.
We extend our thanks to kind friends and neighbors who assisted during our mother’s illness and death. Grateful for flowers and for singers and all who helped us in bereavement. Families named include Rydson Richardson Nelson Fossberg Jones Miller Kubista Falk.
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