Polk area notes move and farm sales in progress
Sam Clifford moves to a Polk area farm while Will Kroger family relocates to town. A public farm sale is planned for Thursday April 4. Eric Forslund named manager of Farmers Grain Association. Various local moves, marriages, anniversaries, and community events are listed with positions, births, and local civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Cliffords
Polk
Will Kroger
BE. S. Lindburg
Eric Forslund
Stromsburg
Farmers Grain Association
John Plessinger
Sam Clifford
Charley Bodine
Oakland
Polk Progress Ad Rates and Post Office Entry Note
Obituary poetry and notices priced per line with a 70 cent minimum, 3 cent per column inch ad rate, subscription rates listed for Nebraska and elsewhere, and single copy price ten cents. The Polk Progress operates as second class matter in Polk Nebraska under the March 8 1879 act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Nebraska
Seeeye
Country Woman's Club Met at Erma Adelson Home
The Country Woman's Club met February 2 at Erma Adelson’s home with 11 members and 3 visitors. Vice president Myrtle Johns Son opened the session. Helen Samuels and Garnet Miller led the program on changing religions. Helen discussed eastern religions and the Jesus People, while Mary Stauffer spoke on witchcraft and evangelicals’ Bible study, Christ’s return, healing, and tongues. A piano solo Amazing Grace by Mary Stauffer and a Malaguena on piano by Mary Jane Samuels followed, with organ music later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Woman’s Club
Erma Adelson
Rate Ee
Myrtle Johns Son
Helen Samuels
Garnet Miller
Mary Stauffer
Helen
USA
Mary
Mary Jane Samuels
Polk News Items Highlight Local Social Visits
Mr and Mrs LaVaughn Adelson attended the Ready-to-Wear Market in Omaha on Sunday. Mrs Reuben Hanquist returned from Lincoln after a week with Dorothy Gleim and family, Dorothy recuperating after surgery at Bryan Memorial Hospital. Mr Bill Wurtz of Clarks was a Thursday coffee guest of Mrs Ruth Aker. Mr Holly Bailey was a Sunday dinner guest in the Reuben Hanquist home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk High
Hope Bailey
Dist
Marcia Stohl
Ione Whitacre
Albert Sundberg
Pleasant Home
I. T. Samuelson
Board of County Commissioners
Oscar Jones
Ralph Shafer
Grand Island
W. A. Wurtz
A. C. Jones
Clara ‘Anderson and
Loneta
Alvertus Laessle
Max Jones
Camp Callan
Calif
F. W. Fossberg
Karl Dethloff
Glen Hill
Hennie Seymour
A. E. Swanson
Lloyd Carlson
High Point
North Carolina
Lloyd
A. O. Folden
Kathleen
Diane
David
Folden
Evangelical Free Church
Polk
Ernnest Nierman
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
York
Shonor
Alex Adelson
LaVaughn Adelson
Richard Sealey, Sr
Denver
Colo
Sealey
John Rodgers
Martha Shostrom
Marlyce Elaine
Harry W. Christensen
Stromsburg
Dean Pfeifer
Scottsbluff
Pfeifer
Virginia
Peterson
Donag
Widga
Milfred Johnson
Brainard
Sandra Hill
Bill McNaught
Allen Ziegelbein
Miss Lucado
Omaha
Reuben Hanquist
Lincoln
Dorothy Gleim
Dorothy
Bryan Memorial Hospital
Bill Wurtz
Clarks
Ruth Aker
Holly Bailey
Whooping cranes and international breeding ties stir debate
Letter writer Charlie discusses three male whooping cranes at the New Orleans zoo and a plan by Will Sternberg and Tulane to determine the sexes in Baltimore. He jokes about Canada USA breeding, Prime Minister Trudeau, Dr Kissinger and a possible exchange of birds to solve the international problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
New Orleans
Canada
Baltimore
Maryland
Rogers 7Forton
Interior
United States
Morton
Trudeau
Charlie
Mr Moore
Kissinger
Saudi Arabia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alvena Lind
Vernal Norine
Lloyd Cole
Warren Strand
Mildred Beckman
Violet Hirsch
Mildred Graves
Gladys Adelson
Clifford Cohagen
Stanley Harless
Muriel Johnson
Victoria Nelson
Polk Merchantile Co
The
Telephone Company
Mason Fisher
York Hospital
Olga Gustafson
Victor Larson
Aurora
Esther Peterson
Robert Fulton ‘Hixon
Kansas City
Harding Creamery Company
Alex Scott
Progress Office
Board of Education
C. R. Peterson
Elmer Hanquist
J. G. Felton
Henry Sandell
Village
Arnold Isaacson
Z. F
Polk County
M. G. Lindburg
Otto Wilshusen
H. R. Lind
A. E. Carlson
Neal Gallant
Fritz
Johnnie Strand
Sodergren
Central City
Ben Berger
Berger
Nina Gestrine
Messrs
Mesdames
John
Mary Alice Ekstrom
Anna Marie Pell
Lorraine Larson
Wahoo
Luther College
Melba Ann
Doris
Louise
Kenneth Wilshusen
Marjory
Dorothy Mundt
Plum City
Wisconsin
Osceola
Will J. Kroger
Polk Methodist Church
A. Johnson
Hardville
Edith Benson
Charles Norquest
Myron Norquest and Sons
Alvin Kisler
Emma Johnson
Delores Carney
Gary Tranmer
Douglas ‘Alan
Vern Lawhead
Conad
Mae Austin
Russell Fjell
Marvin Fredrickson
Fredrickson
Julia Flodman
Walter Stohl
Leilani
Lawrence Lind
Kent Lind
Candice
John Reckner
Gail Giles
Joan Sandell
Eric Otte
Jean Larkin
Peru College
Mr Sand
Northrup King Corn
Mile Seed
Wallace Sandell
Sweet Electric
Clarks, Nebraska
Nebraska Press Association
Country Woman's Club Met
Lennis Lind
Swede Plain Cemetery Association
Clover’s
State Theater
Clover
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