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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
10
Public notice invites all with interest in good roads to attend Friday evening at the opera house. Farmers are especially urged to come. The event features moving pictures and a good speaker with no admission charge.
Robi Evans and Dr Westfall collected 1300 dollars in three hours to revive the defunct picture show. The daylight saving law will be repealed and take effect next October. Albert Johnson and family visited relatives eight miles from Polk. Walter of Omaha surveyed Leonard and Park avenues for village plans. J W Tenney sold his store building to the Citizens State Bank for 3000 dollars. Henry Graves of York, former Polk resident, won first prize in a Sioux City gun shoot with 32 straight shots. The Progress began Feb 15 1907 and predicts paving contracts to be let on Sep 15 as the city turns 13. The band concert drew crowds and merchants served shoppers.
The Village Fathers led by Mayor Sundberg with Oscar Strand and Albert Peterson accompanied by Philip Sack and the Progress Editor visited Central City and Aurora Tuesday afternoon to study paving districts. Mayor Tulley and Mayor Quinn of Aurora shared insights on paving as they toured districts with Aurora council members. David City paving will be reviewed by the Hatchers later.
Leonard Avenue property owners petition the Village Fathers to extend the paving district from the Farmers State Bank corner west to the home of W. C. Williams and names many owners and firms including Strand Lumber Co., Larson, Johnson, Lindburg, McGuffin, and Putman.
The Polk post office shows a 17.07 percent rise in first class mail revenue for the year ending December 31, 1918. Consequently the postmaster's salary for the 1919 fiscal year increases from 1300 to 1600 dollars and the office is reassigned to third class.
A playful plea urges motorists to honk their car horns to cheer a local band and boost morale of the musicians, calling on readers to show support with enthusiastic sound.
The Postmaster General unveils a new long distance telephone tariff with station to station rates falling while person to person rates rise slightly. Interstate rates have applied since January and the new classifications take effect at 12:01 AM June 21 nationwide. Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co.
A vintage advert touts affordable stationery as the key to writing better letters. It argues that good stationery makes a better impression than poor paper and encourages procurement to improve correspondence.
At South Omaha on June 18 cattle receipts eased to about 4 500 head with prices slipping 10 to 15 and beef steers off 40 to 60 cents over two days. Hogs fell about 10 cents with around 8 000 head, while lambs and sheep traded lower as a large run moved through the yard.
Chester Lindgren and Misa Anna Mae Anderson united in marriage on June 10 at the bride's parents home in Grand Island. A reception on June 15 honored the couple with about one hundred guests. They plan to reside in Grand Island.
The postwar drive begins this month to support sixty thousand French orphans. Mrs Walters Brewster, wife of the Romanian Consul to Chicago, chairs the Chicago committee and serves as vice president of the National Committee of The Fatherless Children of France, directing the promotion.
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