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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
1
Hampshire mother Wayne Hill reports rapid prolific litter growth with twenty six piglets born in under four months. First litter yielded fourteen pigs and the most recent litter produced twelve pigs last Thursday.
A 1914 Model Ford Roadster offered for 150 dollars with emphasis on a short sale window. Nearby, J. A. Theiss advertises two extra good mules, six and eight years old, available for sale.
A six room house is for sale at $250. Information available from Henry F Reed, phone 731. Henry Graves and Ed Koon were in Polk from York Monday. Shafer Son Jewelers promotes Kodak Bank Plan. Wm Dahle sends a $3.00 money order from Mt Vernon to pay subscription through Oct 1, 1918. An Unscriptural Doctrine argues pacifists must reinterpret the Bible to align with scriptural depictions of soldiers.
Sunday visits by Dr. Westfall his wife and son and by E H Jensen and wife from Stromsburg. L G Aldrich returned from Florida. Benedict Home Talent play scheduled for April 3. Claude Harper and wife guests at Davenport. Woods Bros. secured agency for Elear automobile with ads to follow. Kodak and camera prices listed. Shafer Bon Jewelers promoting reels of films. Baptist choir to perform Easter music with a sacred concert Easter night. Stork reports a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs A G Quillen on March 25 prior. Attorney Ted Malls in town for official business. W B Piper accident under review for possible inquest.
Polk’s school district plans to hire eight additional teachers for the upcoming year to raise standards and match Osceola and Stromsburg. June elections are expected with A. W. Shafer and C. V. Lind likely to win re election without opposition. A Kodak Bank program urges savings. A new mill will be built east of Dr. Peterson’s barn with remodeling planned. promoters are Polk citizens.
Several loads of good cobs offered for sale by Axel E Sidwell contact via phone 232 for details and pricing.
One young thoroughbred polled Durham cow fresh for sale. Seller: Harry Harris. I. A. Plessinger returned home from Idaho Sunday. Jewelers Miss Helen Miller attended a Doane College banquet in Crete Friday. F. J. Tewell family guests of H. C. Graves in York Friday. Alice Tewell extended visit. Evan Miller Chester Harding Katherine Brobst Alice Huffmaster of Benedict visited A. K. Crow home Sunday. Elmer Cash doing carpentry for father-in-law Mr. Stark while Mrs. Stark and child visit her parents. Missionary Pageant hosted by the Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist church with husbands and guests. Participants wore lands-inspired costumes, lights out, cross illuminated. Six ladies choir and Mae McGaffin on organ provided music. Patriotic church decorations and basement refreshments. Edwin Lindburg suffered appendicitis Sunday. F. J. Hahn Lester Stark Merle Zentz Osceola visitors Monday evening.
A sequence of numbers shows varied trading values with modest gains in early and mid session. Investors weighed small gains against dips as prices hovered around the 520.70 to 29.25 range.
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