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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
8
A fragmentary column cites the Lincoln Journal mocking political loyalties amid criticisms of Vilified senators and governors. It notes Gov McKelvie seeking 2600 for travel, while predecessors paid their own costs, and laments public sniping at near statesmen.
Frustrated attendees circle candidates as eight names circulate. Observers note internal pressure to select four men from the pool, signaling tension within the caucus over the path forward in Virginia politics.
Washington March 18 Homer S Cummings chairman of the Democratic national committee announced the appointment of a new executive committee expanded to sixteen members with seven new appointees. The ex officio chairman leads a roster including John Barnett Colorado Charles Boeschenstein Illinois Dr John W Coughlin Massachusetts Isadore V Dockweiler California Robert Ewing Louisiana Carter Glass Virginia Clark Howell Georgia Sordell Hull Tennessee A L Jones New Mexico Frederick B Lynch Minnesota Mack New York W W Marsh Ohio Moore Ohio Mullen Nebraska A Mitchell Palmer Pennsylvania and former Senator Willard Saulsbury Delaware.
Washington announces civil service examinations for presidential postmasters on April 13. Iowa locations include Gladbrook 1500 dollars Mount Vernon 2300 Sanborn 1600 Vil usea 2000. Nebraska Arcadia 1500 Old 2200 Osceola 1800 Stromsburg 1800.
The speaker notes that if the Germans remain under a misbelief about the war's outcome, General Foch is fully capable of correcting them. The remark underscores Allied resolve and leadership in shaping public perception.
The War Savings society in each district will raise the assigned state quota via meetings and personal solicitation. School boards are to assist by taking subscriptions, with county committees auditing pledges and visiting parties that underperform. The campaign emphasizes finishing the job with War Savings Stamps as a safe, taxable investment.
A collage of short items listing garden seeds at Eckles Variety Store and visitors like Mrs Nettie Graves from York. Also notes on auctions, furniture sales, inquiries about oil and gas station rules, Kodak supplies, jewelry, and a WWI soldier’s speech at First Christian church urging Americans to curb Hun sympathizers.
For sale a few fine full blood Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels. Listed by Mrs. S. S. Piper contact via phone 1730.
Advertisements offer wall paper seeds and ad services while notices report spring openings hunts and stock market trips. The Opera House hosts Fight For a Million and Hunter Parker Stock Co performances as the town markets crops and services.
In Polk County Nebraska a petition for probate of the will of Annie Dahlgren deceased and for appointment of J. E. Hoover as executor has been filed. The hearing is set for April 11, 1919 at 10 o'clock A M. Dated March 19, 1919 F. H. Ball County Judge.
Elmer Johnson reports a Buick with a missing crank found near the Progress office. The note requests contact at the Progress office for ownership details.
A box social is planned for Friday night March 28 at the John Howard school house five miles north and a half mile west of Polk. Harry and George Dahler conducted county court business in Osceola Wednesday. organizers are urged to form a Polk baseball team if grounds can be found.
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