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Polk residents recall WWI soldiers and local changes
The Progress Files chronicles Polk news from arrivals of 89th Division members Ted Moline and others in New York to dental plans by Dr. Raymond Peterson. It notes a June wedding Hannah Sundberg and Clarence Bodine, land sales, club spending plans, a new city engineer, and 30s to 40s era school events, sports, and obituaries.
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New York
Polk
Ted Moline
Walter May
Frank Wilcox
Harry Shafer
Elmer Hanquist
D. C
Raymond Peterson
Henry Sundberg
Hannah
Clarence O. Bodine
G. H. Jones
Ed Benson
Shannon Shafer
H. M. McGuffin
Albert E. Sundberg
J. R. Leibee
A. C. Quillen
Ed Johnson
Ashley
Emmet Alton
Emmet
Pennsylvania
W. C. Steel
New City
Geneva
Dr. Leibee
D. N. Mills
Frank Leibee
Walter Johnson
Cherry County
Osceola
Polk High School
Polk Methodist Church
Polk-a-Dot
Midland College of Fremont
Aurora
Buckley Park
Stromsburg
Howard
Adelson Grove
Goldie Swanson
Herbert Olson
Morrell
Maxine Bolton
Frank Bolton
Donald Hanquist
Polk Baptist Church
R. M. Bailey
Mead
Rose Mary Morris
Shirley Johnson
Phoenix
Ariz
Lee Morris
Williams Field
Ralph Harrington
Fort Bliss
Texas
A. G. Glad
Evangelical Free Church
Milfod E. Olson
Swede Plain Cemetery
Raymond Myers
Stark
Walter Eckdahl
Brigham City
Utah
Lloyd-Hanquist
Olof Ostberg
Charles Wyatt
H. Bush
Clarks
Arnon Dover
van Bush
Legion and Butchers
Polk Oil
Bankers
Bud Bolton
Legion
Lee Dittmer
Wally Lind
Butchers
Art Phillips
Z.F. Myers
Brauer
Elwood Anderson
Arborville
Arthur
Ruth Glasser) Twarling
Salem Lutheran Church
R. Conrad
Stromaburg
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of
Goth