Birds of Polk County Basins Spark Summer Watch
A group of observers recounts a day of birding across basins near Polk and Benedict. They spot shorebirds including sandpipers, phalaropes, and swallows, as well as warblers, sparrows, and a first observed cattle egret. They note conservation talks for 7th and 8th graders and varied migration insights.
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Main Street
Jess
Melvin Bender
Baird
Lind
Lee Morris
Roger Gustafson
Polk
Lee
Ation
Ralph Simpson
SCS
Osceola
Sweden
Nebraska
Shiloh
Rosno
Benders
Lincoln
Towhee
Platte River
Lee’s Basin
Benedict
CWC Meeting At Mrs Samuels Home In April
The Country Women's Club met at Mrs Mervin Samuels home on Thursday afternoon April 26, 1973 with 13 members and 5 guests. Ira Glasser presented slides of Arbor Lodge as the program. An all-host lunch was served by the members.
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Country Women’s Club
Mervin Samuels
Ira Glasser
Arbor Lodge
Polk News Items Recap of Local Visits and Events
Mr Glen Babcock attended a friend’s funeral in Falls City on Saturday. Rudolph Gustafson and his wife visited the Stanford Ang home Thursday afternoon. Glen Brazda and daughters from Fullerton and Rover Brazda joined Sunday supper with James Brazda Sr. Richard and Grace Gustafson attended the Dave Person Connie Jensen wedding at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Wilbur Whitacre and his wife visited Mrs A E Swanson in Osceola Hospital last Friday afternoon.
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Rudolph Gustafson
Stanford Ang
Glen Brazda
Fullerton
Rover Brazda
James Brazda
Richard Gustafson
Dave Person
Connie Jensen
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Wilbur Whitacre
A. E. Swanson
Osceola Hospital
Remembering Birds and Habitat Changes in Rural Iowa
The speaker recalls visiting a prairie dog town and noting burrowing ground owls. They remember a once common bird in the area and, with Lee, a bobolink encounter from last year. The draft urges landowners to protect wildlife habitat and avoid removing trees, hedgerows, and ditch basins to keep farms from becoming barren.
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Lee
Polk
Easter visits Across Nebraska families noted
Mary Lou Sandell visited her mother Grace Leach at Covenant Home Monday morning. Numerous relatives from Grand Island Osceola Lincoln Central City and Clarks gathered for Sunday meals and dinners as Easter guests in homes of the Sandell Stevens Jones Oquist Willits Rahrs Stromberg and others. Expressions of kinship marked the holiday with multiple family gatherings across Nebraska communities.
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Mary Lou Sandell
Grace Leach
Covenant Home
Levar Sandell
E. T. Browning
Grand Island
Horace Stevens
Tom and
JoAnn
Martin Jones
Levert Oquist
Harold Nelson
Osceola
Bill Filter
Omaha
Glen Stevens
Lyle Widga
Emma Anderson
Lillie Lind
Alvena Tuind
Dean Donelson
Phylis Donelson
Central City
Wallace Lind
Roland Rodine
Wilmer Rodine
Lillie Johnson
Robert Willits
Bob Rahrs
Lincoln
Archie Johnson
Clarks
Mildred Willits
Rodney Johnson
Lloyd Stromberg
Arlan Stromberg
Sonya
Ted F Foyt
Faithful Workers Club Met For April 25 Meeting
The Faithful Workers Club met at the Hiway Cafe for meeting and lunch on April 25. Eight members and one guest attended. Roll call was taken. The program was a question and answer. The next meeting will be a picnic in Polk Park.
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Faithful Workers Club
Hiway Cafe
Polk Park
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Farmers Coop
Grain Ass
Polk, Nebraska
CWC
Samuels Home
Glen Babcock
Falls City
Purina
U.S.A
Polk Grain Co
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