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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
5
Protect your health with Jersey milk from tested cows. Lindburg Dairy promotes its product rich in vitamins. Contact 1521 Polk for more information.
Social notes from Polk County recount visits and dinners at multiple homes honoring birthdays and anniversaries. Guests include the Coovers, the Coo ver family, the Stevens, Flodmans, Forss, Sundbergs, John sons, Graves, Green, Sundberg, Horstman, and many others. District 26 picnic at Buckley Park. Rainfall up to three inches causes lowland flooding and delays in farming activity.
Local market notes show corn at 1.02 per bushel for No. 2 Yellow and No. 2 White, oats price listed, hogs at Omaha top 14.45, chickens and eggs prices, and cream value. Classifieds advertise milk route opportunity with Roberts Dairy Co in Stromsburg. sale notices for a bicycle, car radio aerial, and a 9x15 linoleum bug. Various farm listings include 120 acre farm near Polk, a registered Polled Shorthorn bull, and Wurtz & Son machinery specials. Rawleighs sales opportunity across Hamilton Merrick Polk counties.
A parish hall wedding dance honored Mr and Mrs Francis Urban in Shelby on Tuesday May 29 with music by Karl Misek and orchestra and an admission of 60 cents including tax. In other news Harold Schultz of Grand Island visited Polk with friends and local gatherings included Ladies Home Society meetings and multiple family visits across Omaha Lincoln and Polk.
Mrs Rex Hancock and son stayed with Mr and Mrs Lorrell Branting and family at Central City. Mrs C E Giauque of Brush Colorado visited Mr and Mrs W E Green. Harold Small and family were guests of Mr and Mrs Merle Lavelle. others included Mrs Harry Wilson of Stromsburg and Mr and Mrs Seth Piper in Grand Island on business.
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