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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
1
The notice catalogs multiple discounts on household goods and fabrics for Saturday March 16. Includes 5c toilet soap, 35c 6 quart tea kettles, 25c glass lamps, 25c milk pails, 75c crystal glass water pitcher sets, and a limited 6 spool offer of J and P Goats thread at 25c from 4 to 5 pm. Evening 8–9 pm marks 10c section items at 8c.
Polk merchants and clerks stayed on the jump Saturday afternoon as a large crowd bought goods. Residents from nearby towns joined the sale with promotions at Weist & Johnson and other shops.
The Polk Progress prints calling cards and wedding notices and lists many local items. It notes residents traveling, sales by Rystrom Co and local auctions, new gas plant at Garretson Swanson, and band planning with a new bass horn amid public support.
A thoroughbred Guernsey suckling bull calf offered by J. D. Frakes with phone contact 3403. arrangements with Beatrice Creamery to buy cream. Also six White Plymouth Rock cockerels offered by A. M. Flodman in Hordville at 100 dollars each if taken promptly.
Those seeking seed corn should buy before April as prices will advance after that date according to R. S. Glasser.
Seed corn for sale with 90 percent viability from tested stock. Unlimited quantity available. Inquire of R. 5. Glasser. Phone 3221. Polk Nebraska.
All parties indebted to Geo A Hoagland are asked to call and verify their accounts before March 20. Geo A Hoagland by J H Dempster, Manager.
I have decided to quit the medicine wagon business and resume painting and paperhanging. Parties desiring work in this line should call Cummings & Anderson, Phone 92. All work guaranteed.
A cash sale advertises a home site in Arborville south of Polk with a beautiful block of land already planted with fruit trees and fenced hog tight. The seller Gro Beardsley invites written inquiries or phone calls for a bargain price.
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