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Polk County Echoes From Past Decades Snapshot
A digest of local notes: long-time residents depart for Chadron while Polk Mill changes hands to Mr. DeGroat of Central City. Ivy Day honors William Norton at the University of Nebraska as mumps spread through schools and anniversaries mark 20 years for Nels Nyberg.
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Polk County
F. W. Benjamin
Chadron
Nels Nyberg
Polk
University of Nebraska
R. L. Peterson
Chicago
Supt
Philbrick
Warren Strand
Ruby Anderson
E. A. Anderson
Lloyd Krader
R. E. Krader
Clarks
Methodist Parsonage
E. R. Peterson
Anderson
Henry Knerr
Albert Sundberg
N. S. Nyberg
C. E. Sundberg
W.A. Stevens
Robert Strickland
Marian Peterson
Marie Madison
Geneva
Jocelyn James
Everett James
Palmer
Merle Stromberg
Oscar Stromberg
Palmer Methodist Church
Donald E. Mueller
3Rd Marine Div
Iwo Jima
Kathryn M. Huston
Osceola
I. D. Huston
Iva Cramer
Cliff Cramers
Ray Werners
York
Cliff
Huss-Laird Motors
J. C. McClure
T. A. Stevens
Frank E. Ostrander
Donald Nyberg
Omaha
Ray Werner
F. W
Maxine Rowland
Marjory Meline
Reuben
Linda
Minneapolis
Ed Hanson
Hileen
LeRoy
Janice Meline
Byron
Hanson
Hans Meline
Bruce Bedient
Fred Bedient
Central City Hospital
Ralph Fisher
Morris Fisher
Co-Op
Grand Island
Herschel Shenk
Melvin Lincoln
Bradshaw
Wilfred Stephens
Frank Adams
Waco
FHA
Burwell
Velma Adams