Progress Files Chronicle Polk Town Activities and Hail Damage
Ninety farm rigs and twenty six gas buggies counted on Main Street as farmers shopped Saturday bargains. Hail destroyed about sixty percent of the small grain near Gresham Sunday evening. Local social events include weddings engagement notices and Fourth of July celebrations across nearby towns.
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Main St
Gresham
Progress
Main Street
Polk School
Stromsburg
Marie Lindburg
Mildred Smith
Olga Jenner
Hazelle Samuelson
Garriet Cypher
Mae Anderson
Ruth Myers
Leona Sedan
Hazelle Sedan
Glen Fruide
Nathan Sundberg
Marshall Tewell Larson
Thoren
Frank Adelson
Polk Nebraska Notices and Obituary Pricing
The Polk Progress lists publisher details and postal status and advertises obituary poetry per line. Card of Thanks priced at 10 cents per line with minimum charge one dollar. Subscription rates shown: six months two dollars fifty cents, three months one dollar fifty cents, Nebraska and elsewhere.
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Polk
Nebraska
Social notes from Polk as visitors and relocations fill weekend
Sunday visitors include Mr and Mrs W P Miller Orlie Miller family Mrs Claus Peterson and others at Petersons. Dinner guests at Frank Fossbergs with A C Jones Nelson Hed bloom Scott and daughter Helen. Wrights and Bush families reunited after 27 years. Dr J B Williams leaves Polk for Army plant at Wahoo July 1. Nyberg Stranberg kin picnic at city park for Rev Lindquist. Sandells welcome baby boy June 20 at Lutheran hospital York. Andersons from Chicago visiting relatives. Bailey family to High Iowa. Blanche Peterson with mother in Polk. Dorothy Whitacre travels to Wheaton IL for summer school. Ehn Shenk Carlson families visit. Los Angeles visitors ten days. Clara Lind of Elk River to York for two weeks. Funeral for Ames Lind at Polk Baptist Church. Kingston family from Denver visiting, then Grand Island and Carl Schimelfenig. Continued on page 3.
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J B. Williams
Polk
Army
Wahoo
E. H. Lindquist
Kingston
Calif
Nyberg
Stranberg
City Park
Wallace Sandell
C. A. Carlson
George Reed
Wm. Garling
Clara Lind
Elk River
Minn
York
Ames Lind
Polk Baptist Church
Elwood Anderson
R. M. Bailey
Swede Plain Cemetery
Earl Kingston
Denver
John Wochner
Hillis Sterner
Harry Guidinger
Grand Island
Carl Schimelfenig
Local families share Sunday visits and Fathers Day events
The community notes visits across several homes including Janky Cramer and Stroms burg families. Numerous guests from Bellevue North Platte Aurora and Wentworth St Dakota joined in family dinners barbecues and a Shrine Circus outing in Grand Island. Fathers Day gatherings highlighted by Van Housen Glasser Hanquist and Harless families.
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By Alvena Lind
A. L. Beberg
Sam Jones
Wfe
Clarks
Wiliam Garling
Lillian Reed
Immanuel Lutheran Church
P. T Larson
al Larson
T. A. James of
Lincoln
R. J. Cox
Henry Wolters
Creighton
Henry Mahnken
Wolters
Mahnken
Columbus
Shelby
Central City
A. O Monson
Pure Food
Buckley Park
Mothers Club
Platte
Mesdames Carter
Griffin
Bodine
Pollock
Edna Tenney
Neva Hill
Boulder
Cole
Estes Park
M. Carter
van Cleve Suitorium
Alva
Emmett Alton
Marjory
J A. Sedan
W R. Grimes
Ogden
Utah
W. O Swedenburg
Ross Goethe
Rystrom
Harry Dahlgren
Hastings
Rolland Dahlin
Elmer Hanquist
Co. E
F. O. Dahlberg
Minneapolis
Swedish Evangelical Free Church of America
Alice Benjamin
J. C. McClure
C. B. Mullen
Keith
Theatre Osceola
Walt Disney
Legion Club Polk
Membre Nebraska Association
I Nengaber Association
W P. Miller
Orlie Miller
Claus Peterson
Esther Hixson
Ben Peterson
Frank Fossberg
A. C. Jones
Albert Nelson
J L. Hedbloom
Joseph Scott
Helen
Madera
George, Wm
Charles Wright
George Bush
Scott
Wright Boys
Bush
Ted Janky
Emory Cramer
Larry Cramer
Susan
Fred Dornburgh
Boys
Lyle Dornburgh
Randy
Ricky
Virgil Bayne
North Platte
Joe Ehn
Chauncey Gustafson
Oscar Olson
Wentworth St. Dakota
Clinton Bahenski
Bellevue
Walter Fisher
Ralph Fisher
Tammy Fisher
Gilbert Glad
Aurora
Gordon Glad
Deerfield
Illinois
Lloyd van Housen
Dennis van Housen
Neal van Housen
Roy Glasser
Ron Adams
Lauren
Terry van Housen
Gary Sagehorn
Dolan Hahn
Darwin Hahn
Sara
Osceola
Hannah Hahn
Doyle
Roger Hanquist
Harold Johnson
Reuben Hanquist
Amy
Todd
Dick Harless
Shrine Circus
P. Waker
Abbots Park
Policy Today
Hartford Insurance Company Insurance Company of North America
St. Paul Fire & Marine
Cimarron Insurance Company
Fireman’s Fund Commercial Standard American Casualty
American Empire
Citizens State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Polk, Nebraska
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