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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1977
Page
4
Hordville residents from youth to seniors joined cleanup efforts with about 50 townspeople tidying streets and fields. May graduation events, PTA officers, club meetings, and senior activities are outlined along with food at a postwork barbecue and upcoming school and event dates.
Polk News reports Tina Jacobsen of Murdock spent Monday night as a guest of her grandmother Anna Eisler. The item lists numerous local relatives and friends who attended a family gathering in the area.
Osceola visitors and neighbors share meals and family time across Swede Home and nearby towns. Johnsons and Lindgrens hosted gatherings, birthday celebrations noted, and a Mother Daughter Tea attended. Calvary Lutheran Church announces May events and cemetery meeting dates.
Miss Jan Samuelson was honored at a bridal shower Saturday April 30 at the Evangelical Free Church parlors. Guests played games then shared a salad lunch on green and blue decorated tables. Jan will become Rod Roth’s bride on May 21.
Mr and Mrs Steve Morris and Shannon of Central City visited the Benedict Mor ris home on Sunday. Waller Stohl spent the weekend with Pete Samusevich in Plainfield Illinois. Lloyd Stromberg visited Charles Whitney in a Omaha hospital. Roy Garlson of Stromsburg visited Robert and Mrs Shostrom. Russell Shostrom from LaSalle Colorado visited his grandparents on the way to Wichita Kansas. Gary Johnson and Heather from Lincoln and Steve Johnson and family from Columbus joined Sunday visits at the Shostrom and Johnson homes.
Miss Jan Bankson was honored at a bridal shower on Sunday afternoon April 24 at Emanuel Church parlors with thirty eight guests. Bridal games followed and Jan opened her gifts. Decorations and lunch in yellow and green were provided by hosts Sandy DeMers Avis Blase and Karla Blase of Lincoln.
Sunday and weekend social rounds include Mr and Mrs Bob Lindahl visiting Ilof Ostberg in Polk. Frederick P Jones now sergeant stationed in Germany with 18 months to serve. Numerous local families host dinners and attend weddings in Stromsburg Central City Fullerton and Valley Center Kansas.
Social notes form a crowded portrait of weekend visits in Polk area towns. Enoch Peterson and Esther Morgan hosted Walter Nelson and spouse. Horace Stevens and others called on Ron Johnson in Hordville. Ericksons visited Berniece and Myrtle Ehn in Central City after church. Sorensen family guests from Omaha and Grand Island gathered with local relatives, while Chesebro and Jennifer stayed with Roy Glasser Jr. on the road to Michigan. Additional attenders included Gahan of Forest City and Gladys Zea of Mason City for Orlie Miller’s funeral, and visitors from Enid Oklahoma. Capt Douglas Stevens and family journeyed from Manhattan to Osceola area, with Middleton ties and Sundberg relatives nearby.
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