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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1966
Page
3
Forty six customers attended a Purina Hog Meeting on Monday February 28 in Polk at the Community Hall. The Corner Cafe cooks served a ham dinner before presentations on a hog raising program from farrowing to market weight.
Reader shares a childhood memory from Polk Nebraska about greyhounds near the Green place and Ice’s corner. The writer recalls kite flying, a late supper with family, and a dangerous encounter with the greyhounds as dusk fell on a rural road.
Polk County Local Board No. 75 sent Lanny Ang Delbert Klevemann Gary Harless James Headlee and Raymond Gimmerman to Omaha on February 24 for induction into the Armed Forces. Headlee and Zimmerman volunteered. The next call is set for March 24, 1966.
Mrs Horace Stevens visited Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Vance Toline and Cindy at Swede Home. Mrs Oscar Gustafson returned to Aurora last Monday after attending Mrs Irvin Anderson’s birthday party. Mr and Mrs Earl Stevens Mr and Mrs Ester Lackey Larry Hoffman and Miss Burhoop of Waco visited Sunday evening at the Martin Hoffman Sr home.
The narrator recalls an attempt to pass a pack of dogs and fear as they surrounded him. He stops, talks softly, and eventually they allow him to continue toward Uncle Albert's house. He arrives about fifteen minutes after the rest of the family. His mother checks his temperature, noting cold sweat.
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