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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
8
Local ad touts Goodrich casings and tubes as best in class with prices noted. Mentions 30x3 and 30x33 sizes, emphasizes safety and quality over competitors. Includes sales pitch style claims by Frazier Sella Them.
A pie social will be given in Dist 61 by the pupils of Districts 81 and 61 on Saturday May 24 in York county. A play The Schoolma'am will be given after which pies will be sold. Everyone invited. Ladies are asked to bring pies. Mary Kingston Esther McNeely Teachers.
Mrs Larkin mother of Mrs B A Darrow, formerly of Polk now in Greybull Wyoming, died and her funeral is held at the Polk M E church this afternoon. Gar of Black and Rock Salt arrived at A G Lindburgs. Polk Realty Co can help buy or sell a farm. Bank of Polk offers hail insurance. Wanted a girl for housework at once through harvest. Phone 13212. Bob Evans traveled to Lincoln Tuesday afternoon to stock Monson store. Crow's drug store offers graduation presents. Kindling wood for sale. Trustees of Baptist Church available for information. Assessor Pete Shostrom attended a meeting of assessors. Mrs Lillian Brown visited from Lincoln with her parents. Old window screens collected for new screens by Harlan T. Frazier.
A stock and grain farm near Silver Creek Nebraska offers 720 acres with good buildings and spring possession. The property is well divided for farm ground and pasture and is being offered with tight price terms by Wm Lyon of Central City Nebraska.
Fred Lind and E M Burke renew their subscriptions while E H Merriman joins as a new subscriber along with Citizens State Bank. The notice records renewal and new memberships in a local progress roll of honor.
Paris May 21. The German peace delegation is allowed a seven day extension until May 29 to reply in full to the peace terms, an official announcement states.
Senator Hitchcock announces permits allowing the Nebraska 89th division to pause in Omaha and Lincoln on their path to Camp Funston for muster out. The article also notes local events and notices including theatre shows, meetings, sales, and community demonstrations.
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