County Farm Bureau Tours Grand Island
A group of 25 Polk County Farm Bureau members and friends rode a Stromsburg Commercial bus to Grand Island on Tuesday. They toured the Federal Weather Bureau office at the airport, the Nebraska Veterans Home, a local bank with IBM procedures, and a mortuary. Each participant received a Bible bookmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk County Farm Bureau
Grand Island
Stromsburg
Henry Galus
Osceola
Federal Weather Bureau
Air Port
Nebraska Veterans Home
B. A. Darrows
Polk
Dan Evans
Terry Youngland
Howard Peterson
Commercial National Bank and Trust Co
Polk Co
IBM
Dwight Burney
H. P. Tewell
Don Hanquist
Walter Berck
Trinity Hosts Mother Daughter Fellowship Tea
CCW members, their daughters, mothers and guests attended a Mother Daughter fellowship at the church on Wednesday evening. Special awards were given to Mrs Carl Carlstrom, Mrs Kenneth Carlstrom, Mrs Robert Baack, Mrs Margaret Jones, Mrs Fred Laessle, Mrs James Brazda and Mrs Al Shockey. Tributes to Mother, sigas and a style show complemented the event with spring pastel table decor and lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CCW
Carl Carlstrom
Kenneth Carlstrom
Robert Baack
Margaret Jones
Fred Laessle
James Brazda
al Shockey
Sigas
Polk Happenings and Mother’s Day Visits
Local residents share visits and gatherings across New Brighton Osceola Stromsburg and Central City. Families including the Shenk Hultgren Ostberg Johnson Whitacre and Flodman groups attend Sunday dinners and Mother's Day greetings across several homes and cafes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Shenk
New Brighton
Min
Carroll Flodman
Kermit Hultgren
Irvin Anderson
Donald Ostberg
Ilos Ostberg
Nona Ostberg
Dale Carlson
Silver Creek
Glen Thomas
Central City
Ralph Johnson
Stromsburg
Birds Attracting Attention In Polk County Basins
A Nebraska basins birding log notes blue wing and green wing teal likely nesting south of Polk along with mallards and shorebirds. May sightings include buff-breasted sandpipers, ruddy turnstone, two black crowned night herons, a blue heron, oriole and warbler species, and various thrush and sparrow flocks observed May 7 through May 12 with reports from Lee Morris and Swede Lind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Polk
Lee Morris
Leonard Renquist
Lee
Tom Harrington
D. C. Morris Farm
Lee's Basin Property
Highway 81
Spooners
Harrington
Nebraskaland Magazine
Leland Bills
Polk Cemetery
Vic Doremus
Also Mentioned on This Page
County Farm Bureau Tours
Best
Nancy Kealther
Farmers Co-op Grain Ass’n
Trinity
K-N
Roper Gas Grill
Arkla
Roper
Kansas
Geor Thange
Ibis
Lind
Progress
George Ditloff
George
Patronize Progress
William Miller
American Legion
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