Polk News Highlights Local Marriages and Visits
Overlands display planned by F O Johnson as he remodels the Dorsey building for a showroom. Ruth Benson and Lloyd Kroger wed at Fridhem Lutheran Church Hordville. Several residents return home from abroad and new staff join Polk schools for 1919 1920 term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. O. Johnson
Ruth Benson
Lloyd Kroger
Charles Newton
Charles Evans
Audubon
Iowa
Polk
A. O. Monson Company
Dorsey
Robert Larson
Stromsburg
C. E. Cohagen
Lincoln Tel. & Tel. Co
Board of Education
Lee B. Tedford
Bernice Julian
Winifred Back
Howard A. Wilcox
Vivian Lee
Pearl Alkire
Lillie Brauer
J. S. Fleming
Henry Stankel
Ernest A. Olson
Swede Plain
Polk Progress Classified Rates and Policies
Obituary Poetry ads and notices priced per line with 10 cents per line Card of Thanks also 10 cents. Advertising per column inch 70 cents. Subscriptions Nebraska five dollars yearly elsewhere six dollars. Six months three dollars three months two dollars. Single copy ten cents. Second class matter at Polk Nebraska under Act of March 8 1879.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Nebraska
Inch
Stone-Walling and Changing Words in Public Discourse
A reflective column critiques the erosion of word meanings amid TV in ads and politics. It contrasts Nixon era rhetoric, the term stone-walling, and Frosts poetry, urging clarity as democracy’s guard. It also notes prompts about trains of thought on walling, schooling, and football playoff trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Robert Frost
House Judiciary Committee
Eugene McCarthy
Frost
Congress
Weekend Visitors From Several Towns
Mr and Mrs Bill Hoffman of Ft Sill Oklahoma spent the weekend here with relatives. Mr and Mrs Glen Wright and Mr and Mrs Ed Connely of Broken Bow visited the Glen Babcock and Misses Donnette and Phyllis Ostberg and Dan Albrough of Lincoln. Recent visitors of Mrs Grace Harless included Pam Harless and Mrs Rosie Wright. Mr and Mrs Rudy Anderson of Marquette were Thursday visitors in Roger Gustafson's home. Reuben Swanson attended the funeral of an uncle Walter Beck at Pierce Chapel Saturday afternoon. Arthur Piine of York was a Wednesday overnight and Thursday guest in Leslie Adelson's home. Myron Norquest and boys were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs Mildred Norquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hoffman
Ft. Sill
Glen Wright
Ed Connely
Broken Bow
Glen Babcock
Donnette
Phyllis Ostberg
Dan Albrough
Lincoln
Grace Harless
Pam Harless
Asie Wright
Con Lind
Rudy Anderson
Marquette
Roger Gustafson
Reuben Swanson
Walter Beck
Pierce Chapel
Arthur Piinee
York
Leslie Adelson
Myron Norquest
Mildred Norquest
Farewell for Dr John Kim at Polk Church
About 65 people attended a farewell dinner for Dr John Kim after four years serving Polk and Marquette churches. He will leave in June to serve Lyons. A short program followed with singing, a talk by Oscar Sundberg, and a poem by Mrs Dwight Burney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kim
Polk
Marquette
Kim
Lyons
Oscar Sundberg
Dwight Burney
Gilbert Lampshire
Mmes
Duane Burney
Vern Samuels
Don Miller
Ed Saylor
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Charles Bodine
Ella Sophia Erickson
Rolland Emer Dahlin
Minneapolis
Robert Shostrom
Helen
Walter Binford
Bill McGuffin
University
Cliff L. Cramer
Charles Smith
Hordville
H. M. Benson
Wm. Kroger
Fridhem Lutheran Church
Paul M. Lindberg
Elizabeth Allison
Mildred Beckman
Gladys
Goldie Swanson
Kearney State College
Floyd Merchant
Rodney Wittemore
Marian Shambaugh
Polk and Vicinity
York College
United Brethren Church
William A. Lindburg
Naomi Alfred
Ilof Ostberg
Omaha
Lawrence Sundberg
Food Center
Charles Peterson
Z. F. Myers
John H. Anderson
G. A. Randall
T. J. Nelson
Duane Nyberg
Rockford
Walter Nyberg
Navy
C. C. Bodine
Arthur Newton
Los Angeles
Delvin Newton
Denver
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Art
Walter Nelson
John Lind
South Polk
Lind
Clarence Larson
Widga
Adelson
Ed Widga
Pvt
Lyle Widga
Ft. Riley
Orlie Adelson
Adeline
Kansas
Shirley Johnson
Eli Johnson
Lee ‘Morris
D. C. Morris
Phoenix
A. C. Aufdenkamp
Immanuel Lutheran Christian Day School
Marlyce Shostrom
Martha Shostrom
Harry W. Christensen
Dale Nyberg
Roger Lone Derald Johnson
Harold Ostrander
Wayne G. Lampshire
Univ. of
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Paul Holmes
Lenore Wissler
Stockton
Holmes
Bruce Johnson
Midland College
Fremont
Eldon Johnson
Linda Johnson
Douglas Stevens
Ruth Kroger
C. M. Hadley
Creighton Medical School
Roger Merchant
Cherry Point
N. C
Rey
William Collett
Hampton
Alvin Smith
Janelle
Martin Smith
Henry Blase
Frank Scheapler
Delta
Walter Stohl
C. Marvin Fredrickson
Gary Stohl
Marlin Junge
Douglas
Wheatridge, Co
Wilda Holmes
Robert
Benedict
Sweet Electric
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Montgomery
Alabama
Wilard Lindburg
Berggren
Viking Center
Gerald Branting
Jeff
Hasting
Claude Stromberg
Lovell Branting
Clarks
John Janecek
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