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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
4
Livestock market notes show hog prices 4.20 to 5.35 per 100 pounds with various weight classes. Cattle market active with stock cattle declining about 25 cents from a week ago and fat cattle steady. Local residents visit Lincoln and York events with family gatherings and campus ceremonies noted.
The Polk Progress weekly newspaper lists Howard W. Herbes as editor and publisher. It notes its second class mailing at Polk Nebraska and a 1907 registration date with a yearly subscription of 1.60 dollars.
TWENTY YEARS AGO MAY 27 1920 notes on W A Stevens stock on the Omaha market, Farmers State Bank Bradshaw control sale, Fern Vyers Chapman teaching duties, Polk school and local business activity. Fifteen years ago May 28 1925 sketches include a monster catfish catch, a wedding in Sterling Colorado, births and local jobs. Ten years ago Polk notes June events include postmaster commission, a wedding in Kearney, auto accident near York, a Gwendo lyn Swift and Clarence Lindahl wedding, and community announcements.
Miss Ferne Meyers finished school in Gothenburg and came home Sunday to spend the summer vacation with her mother Mrs Z F Myers. Rev and Mrs Nels Pearson of Axtell and Vr and Mrs John Nelson of Denver were guests Friday in the home of Mr and Mrs O F Alfred.
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