Sunday Services and Meetings at Local Churches
The schedule lists Divine Worship at 11 30 am and a sermon on Faith of Our Fathers for Father’s Day at First Baptist Church with Pastor Paul Lemke. Other services include Sunday School at 10 am, Worship at 11 am, Evening Gospel at 8 pm, and a Monday trustee meeting at the Lloyd Lind home. Also noted are sessions for Polk and Swede Plain Methodist Churches with Rev Ray Magnuson as guest speaker and an Intermediate Youth Fellowship Camp next Sunday from 3 to 6 pm, directed by Rev A J Rich of Aurora.
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Ifa
Old Bedient
First Baptist Church
Paul Lemke
Walter Jo Nelson
Lloyd Lind
General Baptist Conference
Muskegon
Michigan
Polk & Swede Plain
Appreciation Note From Hospital Stay Recipient
Leon Johnson thanks friends for cards flowers gifts and fetters during his recent hospital stay and says their kindness will never be forgotten.
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Leon Johnson
Card of Thanks for Fire Help at Home
Neighbors and friends are thanked for helping extinguish a car fire at our home and for the Fire Department’s fine work. Mr and Mrs Arnold Blase and Family express sincere appreciation.
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Arnold Blase
Thanks for Flowers Cards and Letters From W C Steele
A note from W C Steele thanks relatives and friends for flowers cards and letters during a recent hospital stay expressing appreciation for the support received.
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W. C. Steele
Local Church Services Announced in Wordville Area
Wordville Baptist led by Rev Idick A Anderson offers Bible School at 10:00 and Morning Worship at 11:00. Wordville Methodist with Pastor Nels Pearson holds Sunday School at 10:00 and Worship at 11:00. Evangelical Yree Church under Milford E Olson offers 10 p m service after 11 a m Sunday School and 8 p m Gospel Service. Arborville Congregation Charch headed by Rev Earle Eaton lists Floyd Merchant as chorister and Hope Gwendolyn Eaton at the organ.
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Wordville Baptist Church
Idick A. Anderson
Wordville Methodist
Nels Pearson
Arborville Congregation
Charch
Earle Eaton
Floyd Merchant
Hope Gwendolyn Eaton
New Anti Malarial Drug Claims 95 Percent Cure
Prof R C Elderfield of Columbia University reported to the American Chemical Society on a new anti malarial drug named SN 13 274. The drug synthesized in 1945 and used with quinine could provide relief for about 500000 veterans who contracted malaria in the Pacific.
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R. C. Elderfield
Columbia University
American Chemical Society
Pacific
Giant Cross Lighthouse Memorial To Columbus Planned
A five million dollar recumbent cross shaped lighthouse will be built in Ciudad Trujillo to honor Christopher Columbus. Ground breaking occurred on Pan American Day April 14, 1948. The UN and Pan American Union back the project which will house Columbus ashes a museum and a library.
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Christopher Columbus
Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
General Assembly of the
United Nations
Pan -American Union
J L. Gleaves
Scotland
International Brotherhood
Western Hemisphere
Cheops
Gizah
Gray Fox Climber In Nighttime Forest Trails
The gray fox climbs trees when pursued and at night, using lower branches to move between limbs. Its den often lies in brush, logs, or cavities, and it feeds on cottontails and birds, including poultry, making man its chief enemy.
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N R Barer
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Goethe life sketch as German writer and statesman
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born in Frankfurt 1749, later settled in Weimar after study in Leipzig. His broad education spanned law science philosophy and art with prolific output from romance to religion and major works such as Faust. He held political offices including minister of state and formed a pivotal friendship with Schiller.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankfort
Germany
Weimar
Leipzig
Goethe
Schiller
Faust
Fort Bragg Named For Gen Braxton Bragg
Fort Bragg near Fayetteville North Carolina honors Gen Braxton Bragg a veteran of the Seminole Mexican and Civil wars. The installation covers about 128008 acres and 200 square miles hosting the 82nd airborne division training in airborne techniques.
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Fort Bragg
Fayetteville
N. C
82Nd Airborne Division
Braxton Bragg
U. S
82Nd
Pressure on spinal discs causes most backache
The article explains that pressure on the intervertebral discs, not nerves, is the common source of back pain. It notes disc injuries drive many low back pains and can contribute to sciatica, and that discs play a major role in spinal mechanics by preventing bone-on-bone contact between vertebrae.
War department WWII records opened to historians access grows
About 80 percent of official War Department documents on World War II combat operations are available for historians and writers. While war continued most records were secret, but in the last two years many have had secrecy lifted, with exceptions for national security and agreements with other agencies.
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War Department
Agensiea
Governmentc
Know Your Watershed Short Quiz Promotes Conservation
The U S Department of Agriculture urges citizens to assess their watershed using a nine question self quiz from the Forest Service. It asks about grass cover soil health erosion stream pollution and potential threats to town water supplies. A high score signals good watershed condition and a low score signals need for more study and action.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
The
Forest Service
Kilowatt Club Formed To Boost Use Of Current
The Butte Electric Association in Newell SD forms the Kilowatt club to encourage electric use among members. Members read their meters and self bill. higher usage lifts average bills and reduces rates as the club grows. A “dog house department” lists members behind on payments.
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Butte Electric Association
Newell
Lealer
Rural Electric Administration
Protium
Prize for Fossil Finds Spurs Miner Fossil Hunt
Britain buzzes over Prof J B S Haldanes offer of a prize to miners to collect fossils from coal seams. A Manchester Guardian writer recalls a 1851 Neath discovery of a remarkably preserved fossil serpent embedded in a coal vein, praised by geologists for its scales and coil.
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Britain
J. B. S. Haldane
Manchester Guardian
Neath Town Hall
New Coating Material Aids Flower Longevity At Low Cost
A plastic latex coating extends freshness of cut flowers evergreens and ferns with simple dipping or spraying. It dries at room temperature to a clear film under one thousandth of an inch and shows no toxic effect on most plants. Panama canal tolls rise ten to eleven percent by presidential proclamation effective October 1 1948 threatens private merchant vessel resumption and could force some operators to curtail current intercoastal trade.
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Panama Canal
Two Methods to Kill Woodchucks Described
The article outlines two approaches to killing woodchucks: cyano gas and a woodchuck bomb. The woodchuck bomb is described as easier to use and purchasable from county agricultural agents. Cyanogas is noted as deadly poison but simple to handle with step by step usage.
Out of Old Nebraska by James C. Olson
Supt State Historical Society recalls the Lewis and Clark expedition of May 13 1804 how the 40 explorers crossed the Missouri to Omaha then Nebraska enjoying councils with the Otoes and Yankton Sioux at Calumet Bluff and Cedar County detailing the first American exploration of the Nebraska country and its impact on native peoples and U S authority.
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Old
Nebraska
James C. Olson
State Historical Society
St. Louis
Missouri
United States
France
Meriweather Lewis
Willam Clark
West
Columbia
Lewis and Clark
Nemaha
Rule
Richardson County
Clark
Ms Journal
South Dakota
Iowa and Dakota
Calumet Bluff
Cedar County
Yankton
Washington
Farm sale near Polk by Mrs Drinkall and I
Mrs Drinkall and I have decided to sell the former Oscar Larson farm just east of Polk. If interested write or see A V Kielson Stromsburg or Miss Peterson Polk 17 2.
Polk County Chronology: Events from 1923 1928 1933
A compact recap of local items from June era notes. It lists Lyle Wochner resuming meat cutting in Polk city market, weddings Agnes Brown and Richard Sealey, Opal Seymour’s marriage to Oliver Bush, teachers and students at Polk School, deliveries by Bauder & Son, Morton’s Chautauqua tour, a hail storm damaging grain NW of Polk, and a Flag Day reference.
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Lyle Wochner
Opal Seymour
Oliver Bush
Arthur Wurtz
Monson
J N. Norton
Elmwood
George Wickstrom
Kearney
Polk School
Bauder & Son
Raymond Anderson
Henry Pabent
Morton
Indiana
Polk
Agnes Brown
Richard Sealey
Carl Wilshusen
Alice Myers
Ethel Flick
Lincoln
John Seymour
Misses Grayce
Hazel Stevens
Glory
Alumni News and Local Marriages in Polk County
Alumni include 120 members with the 1933 class. Ellen Johnson wed June 1 at the groom’s home. Naomi Lindahl and Otis Anderson wed at Fridhem Lutheran Church, Hordville. Donald Johnson bought a Chevrolet Garage in Loup City. A baby girl born to Martin Lundstrom and wife. Funeral for Albert Dewitt Dover in Polk. Country Women’s Club picnic at Osceola Park. School and travel notes for Grayce Stevens and others.
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Ellen Johnson
Albert Johnson
Hardville
Grayce Stevens
Nebraska Wesleyan
Lincoln
Polk
Ed Cohagan
Corvallis
Oregon
Naom Lindahl
C. E. Lindahd
Otis Anderson
Chicago
Fridhem Lutheran Church
Hordville
Paul M. Lindburg
The
Country Women's Club
Osceola Park
Donald Johnson
Clarence
Loup City
Martin Lundstrom
Gertrude
Marjorie Nelson
Goldie Swanson
Albert Dewitt Dover
Mary Ann and
Dewitt Dover
Illinois City
Ilinois
E. E. Pengelly
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P&g
Rae
Milford E. Olson
Osceola
Central
Cornhusker League
Gray Fox
Brage
Panama
Polk High School
Baptist Church
Taylor’s
Blackbird
Hills Bros
Dad
Farmer's Store
F. M
Westinghouse Hot Plates
Nielson’s
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