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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1974
Page
4
Arborville residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from Vancouver Virginia Lincoln St Paul Grand Island York and central city. Attendees celebrated birthdays memorial days and anniversaries with dinners lunches and hospital calls while others planned summer work and church activities.
Mr and Mrs Paul Hertel of Deerfield and Mr and Mrs Milton Johnson of Colorado Springs arrived last Wednesday to visit their mother Mrs Lillie Johnson and other relatives. The Johnsons returned home Saturday and the Hertels left for home. Mr and Mrs Conrad Lindholm visited at the Good Samaritan Center Sunday evening with Mrs Bessie Green and Mr and Mrs Harry Bodine. Mr and Mrs Duane Newton Barbara and Mike were guests of Mrs Margaret Lott on Memorial Day. Minnie Wright visited Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs John Adams of Hastings called on Gordon Fossberg and Wallace Sandell Sunday. Mark and Paul Wood spent Monday night in the Gordon Fossberg home en route to Los Angeles from St Paul Minn. Mr and Mrs Clarence Guthrie spent Saturday and Sunday in Fremont with his daughter Janet Meyer and friend Ray Hansen.
Memorial Day services were held at Hordville Cemetery with a program on the meaning of Memorial Day led by Pastor and Mrs Robert Carlson. Dorothy Bush was noted for completing studies at Grand Island School of Business and taking a bookkeeper job there. The Baptist Church conducted a Bible School with 37 enrolled under the theme We Praise the Lord, plus a family picnic after services. The Merry Mothers Extension Club met in May to discuss small appliances and September plans including a booth at the county fair. John Veburg was honored for his 85th birthday with friends and family in attendance.
Visitors in the LeRoy Nelson home included Eric Fransen Wallace Johnson and their spouses from Lincoln Chapman Grand Island and Central City. The Fenster Waugh wedding was at St Paul Lutheran Central City May 25. Berggren reunion dinner at Viking Center Stromsburg. Benson wedding at Minden Presbyterian Church. 4 H crochet project meeting at Fridhem Lutheran June 8. Lincoln visitors Lennis Benson and Amy visited the Alb in Benson home.
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