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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1910
Page
4
Local advertising rates listed: locals five cents per line, display ten cents per inch. Resolutions and obituary poetry, and wedding presents have half the regular rate. Card of thanks charged per line. Church and society notices and entertainments with money consideration charged per line. Copy due by Tuesday noon for publication. Ads run until canceled.
Mr and Mrs John Adelson celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary with a Saturday gathering of about 100 neighbors and friends at their Polk area home. The event featured instrumental and vocal music by Polk High School Quartette and a luncheon.
The next Literary program will be held Friday April 7 with patrons invited. Absences due to sickness include Norma Shafer and May Tenney. Eighth graders anticipate next month’s exam. An entertainment by Intermediate Grades is planned and a school room decoration project at the High School is nearly complete with organ and lace curtains on display. A small balance remains in the treasury for a piano this year.
Arborville residents report Mr and Mrs Jas Dorsey visiting Bradshaw on Monday. H McGinnis plans to move south of town to Ira Plessinger farm. John Broher has been confined at home for two weeks with pneumonia. G W Rose and wife of North Platte are the parents of Mrs J N Johnson who attended their son Lennys wedding.
Osceola reports social visits from Rising City and Lincoln brought by Mrs. Burritt and O E Hickey. J W Snider suffers typhoid fever while Arthur Tschauner breaks his arm cranking a car. Fires threaten but are contained. Also noted are Easter returnees from State University, a conservation meeting in Lincoln, and the Blowers funeral in David City.
Stromsburg, T. J. Gately headed to Grand Island Saturday night. Miss Hazel Colson spent Sunday in Central City. Mrs. C. A. Necker from near Hordville visited Saturday. Geo. Burke and grandson Lawrence Burke toured York Monday. Miss Edna Roden of Polk passed through York between trains Monday. Andrew Monson came from Lincoln over Sunday returning Tuesday. Edla Johnburg went to Lincoln last Thursday to stay indefinitely. Mrs. Anton Peterson visited relatives in Stromsburg Saturday. Mrs. T. H. Graves traveled to Sutton Monday to visit a sister reported in. Mrs. Andrew Myrberg and fifth daughter returned from Moundridge, Kansas, Saturday. W. J. Miller and daughter Wilso1 arrived from North Dakota recently and went to Polk Saturday to visit Will Green and Ian D. As Nelson returned to college Monday after being home on a visit. Mrs. SN Hard of Yours down from Osceola Saturday with her daughter Jennie visiting Burritt family over Sunday.
Mr and Mrs C S Wood returned to Arcadia Monday after a visit here. The latter sister Miss Abbie Peterson accompanied them home. Mr and Mrs N Peterson who had been visiting their daughter Mrs Homer Fellows returned to Gresham Monday. Mr and Mrs D Gustafson arrived from Mead Saturday night to visit the latter's parents Mr and Mrs GC A Olson. The former returned on Monday. Mrs Gustafson will remain for a week. Mrs J A Gustafson and daughter Lillie, Mrs Ellen Snadeen and daughter Signe, nephew David Walter, and Mrs A B Nelson and children Nava and Raymond went to Mound Ridge Kansas Monday where the children will be treated.
Swedish Mission Church holds Sunday school at 10 a m and preaching at 11 a m. Young folks meet at 7 p m with preaching at 8 p m. Thursday evening prayer meeting led by Pastor Frank Abrahamson.
Sabbath school starts at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday with preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday worship. A weekly prayer meeting is held Wednesday evening. Pastor J. W. Waits leads the church activities.
The Baptist church outlines Sunday Sabbath School at 10:00, services at 11:00 and 7:30, youth and prayer meetings, with a Ladies Missionary meeting on the second Thursday at 2:30. Pastor F. R. Brown invites all. During Majestic Demonstration Week April 4 to 9 Victor Anderson & Co. offers a Souvenir Ware Set with every Majestic Range sold.
The Omaha Cold Storage and Creamery Station is located one door south of Jenney's store as described in the notice.
Spring wear and home supplies advertised at Darrow Lind’s with services for day or night calls. Also featuring heating plants, pipes, fittings, bath fixtures, and farm supplies from hay to coal. For sale: Short Horn bulls from eight to eighteen months at a York Nebr farm run by Orville Jones.
In Polk County Nebraska the administrator for the estate of Andrew G. Groman deceased has filed a final account and petition for final settlement and discharge. The hearing is set before the county court on April 8 1910 at ten oclock a m. Citizens named in the estate may appear and contest. Dated March 19 1910 Henry H Campbell County Judge SBAL
Neighbors are advised to remit dues and assessments this month at the First National Bank per A C Hammond Clerk. Woodmen nzing called away unexpectedly seven have made out all and left the same with I A Lundberg at the bank for collection.
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