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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1963
Page
2
Mel Hill and John Myers repurpose a Model T Ford into a wooden saw device with drag or circular configurations. The village theater shows The Little Church Around the Corner free to all moviegoers Saturday. Town notes report mixed injuries and local visits including Kroger and Johnson family updates.
Visiting her mother Mrs Mary Nyberg this week Mr and Mrs Van Bush and family were Wednesday evening guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Jerold Ruzicka and family. Second Lt Carl Bedient of Ft Benning Ga is spending a few days in the home of his parents Mr and Mrs H J Bedient and family. Mr and Mrs Carl Steelquist were Tuesday evening guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Clarence Bodine near Hordville. Polk Commercial Club received Ak-Sar-Ben Good Neighbor Award ten years ago for aiding a community hall project in a theater building. Marvin Fredrickson was elected mayor of Polk for the ninth consecutive term. Rev C W Long will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon for Pork High seniors. Mrs Forrest Sedan of Boise Idaho visits relatives for services of sister Mrs Henry Shostrom. Mrs Vincent Strawberg leaves for Chicago to visit her parents. Mrs O F Alfred attended funeral services for Myra Gillespie at Genoa. Mr Crandall, Central City high school instructor, hired as summer bandmaster.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Ostberg of Rockford Illinois visited Mr and Mrs Rudolph Gustafson. Sunday dinners included Dave Ekdahl’s guests and others from Lincoln Central City and Ord. Bap tist CYF group attended a Platte Valley Conference banquet in Stromsburg with missionary Vernon Anderson speaking to 500 attendees. Lay visits included Mrs Martha Westfall in Grand Island and Mrs Ella Rudy visiting Gary Rudy in Aurora.
The Polk Nebraska Board of Trustees adopts an expense estimate for the year ending April 30 1964 totaling allocations for General Incidental 6000 Street 2000 Library 600 Fire 1000 Park 1500 Social Security 500 Auditorium 800 Sewer 15000 and authorizes publication in the Polk Progress for three weeks. The annual appropriation meeting is set for June 4 1963 at 8 00 p m in the hotel lobby.
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