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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1912
Page
7
A local essay urges Polk residents to unite in a Polk spirit to map the town’s future. It emphasizes churches schools and baseball as engines of progress and calls for broad civic effort rather than personal gain. The piece notes strong local business leadership and a thriving trading area and mentions upcoming events and local residents.
It reports Mr Lee Steevers and Miss Grace Garr were married before part of the week. J T Sealey and daughter Mrs J J Rodgers left for Palmer Nebraska to be with his daughter Mrs Helvey at her bedside.
W. A. Swanson and Dr. Ludden visited Bradshaw on Tuesday. Garretson and Swanson sold Ike Conger a piano this week. Myrtle Schaepler is the new clerk at Burke-Thomas mercantile. Shannon Shaffer left for York and Crete for a short visit. Bee hive and bee supplies or window screens offered by E. T. Englund phone 94. Mrs A. W. Shaffer and son Shannon will visit Oregon about May 15. J. O. Thomas and Raymond Cox were in Grand Island Tuesday with Oscar Johnson driving. Frank Bennett of Rystrom Implement York was in town Wednesday and called at the Progress office.
Mrs Henry Sundberg travels from Polk on Monday Ed Sandell visits Polk for a few days A daughter born Monday to Mr and Mrs John A Ostrom Minnie Lanham of Stromsburg visits Putman family Ellen Youngquist goes to Polk to visit Mrs Hartwig Floodman Mrs Kate Samuelson and Mrs C W Wallquist travel to Valley for a sister’s illness George Presson and J W Wilson go to Lincoln and Auburn for grandfather’s burial Services held in Lincoln and Auburn Hugo Flodman meets Lutheran Orphan Home board in Stromsburg Floodman, a Polk County resident, visits town and supports the orphan home Let H E Ayres Co write your next insurance policy.
All parties are notified to clean up rubbish tin cans and manure piles from their premises and to remove manure piles before May 10 by order of Village Trustees.
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