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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1969
Page
6
A reminiscence recalls Polk’s early meat packing near a village, referencing the smell of putrescent flesh from a small shed slaughterhouse. Dave Carlson is noted as Polk’s butcher, set against a backdrop of historical shifts in meat handling before refrigeration.
A Trinity church reception honored Mr and Mrs Robert Stohl with about 35 LCW members and families attending. Bingo, an original poem read by Mrs Wayne Ramsey, a short talk by Max Jones, and a presented gift marked the event. Special guests included Mr and Mrs Calvin Crow and Nathan of York and Mrs Doyle Klingsporn. Bertha Brazda served coffee.
Polk News items report the Park View Birthday Club gathering at Verna Fredrickson's residence on Friday March 7 with eleven members and four visitors. Sophia Klingsporn served as co hostess. Guests included Harold Anderson and family with the LaMoyne Darnell household in Omaha. Stanford Ang visited Grant Johnson and family in Stromsburg last week.
A fragmentary statement questions Orrin's possible link to a slaughterhouse. The speaker offers no determination and ends with a farewell.
Mr and Mrs Winton Wright of Benedict visited Don Hudson. Mr and Mrs H J Bagby of Aurora dined with Ivan Johnson. Cora Gravensgaard and Frances Isaman of Aurora dined with Ivan Johnson. Lyle Johnson visited with Russell Johnson and Colleen of Stromsburg. Gene Wood and Tami will accompany Neal Sandell to Phoenix Arizona Wednesday. Mrs Wood will visit her mother Mrs Troy Murray. Ollie Johnson visited Fred Johnson and Freda Newman at Good Samaritan Home in Osceola. Harold Lawhead and boys of Wichita Kansas visited Richard Johnson and called on Jon Anna Eisler and Henry Werth. GC Marvin Fredricksson attended Grand opening in Omaha with Hopkins Minnesota office notables.
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