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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Nov 07, 1929

Page

6

Press spread enlightenment in Nebraska club talk

Frank L. Martin of the University of Missouri warned Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs at Norfolk that newspapers must rest on public service and facts. He defended crime coverage as deterrent, warned against propaganda, and praised modern journalism while urging continued trust in the press.

Norfolk Frank L. Martin University of Missouri School of Journalism of Today Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs Martin

Dedication of New Clay Center School Opens With Governor Speech

A $100,000 Clay Center school building was dedicated with an evening program featuring Governor Arthur Weaver after a daytime radio address on KMMJ and an open house for the public to tour the new facility in use since mid September. Richardson County land activity peaks as four farms sell for $88,000 cash with prices up to $225 per acre.

Clay Center Arthur Weaver Richardson County Falls City H. L. Lawrence August Meinser Edwin Friedly Verdon Graham Jones Owen Evans

Hastings Advances in Core Drilling with Special Tools

Special drilling tools will be placed in service at Hastings to resume core drilling tests for oil potential. Drilling halted by unusually hard limestone at 130 feet after hardness first appeared at 77 feet. New tools are prepared and work resumes after replacing failing equipment.

Hastings

New Alfalfa Seed Plant Opens in Crawford

Under the Northwest Nebraska Seed association, a new alfalfa seed warehouse and modern cleaning and grading machinery were completed at Crawford. The group, from Dawes and Sioux counties, handled seven to eight carloads of seed last year. Rex T. Coffee of Harrison serves as president and Sam Ewinbank of Crawford as vice president.

Crawford Chadron Northwest Nebraska Seed Association Crawford Northwest Nebraska Alfalfa Seed Association Dawes Sioux Counties Rex T. Coffee Harrison Sam Ewinbank

Nebraska officials stock Lake Minatare with 20000 trout

State game department and Walton League members released twenty thousand three inch trout into Lake Minatare from the nursing pond another measure aims to boost local youthwork funds as the Kearney Boy Scout drive nears its goal with about fourteen hundred dollars pledged. A Beaver Crossing robbery yielded a safe and radio set lost but later recovered. Midland College held homecoming with games pep rally play banquet and football vs Nebraska Central and Grand Island. Gravel work on highways 99 Endicott to Beatrice Tailbury proceeds with new bridges and grading. Frost in north Nebraska marked by a 25 degree rise with potential tie to a 36 year record if not for earlier frost. Nebraska farmers and stockmen grossed an estimated 459970000 in 1929 per chamber estimates based on federal data. Elmcreek Irrigation awarded to C W Boyse of Omaha for an 18 mile ditch serving 20000 acres in Dawson and Buffalo counties. State holding ponds at the fairgrounds hold 20000 bass and 10000 perch for distribution. Alliance fall festival to include Sioux war dance and parade sponsored by Alliance chamber. Red Cloud irrigation supporters push to study using Republican river floodwaters with a public meeting planned.

Alliance hospital to add wing becoming region's largest west of Grand Island

St Joseph hospital at Alliance plans a new wing costing about 150000 to expand capacity. The existing structure, added four years ago for 200000, will be supplemented by further developments to serve more patients. Also in Nebraska, a North Platte dispatch notes Commerce department approval for a North Platte broadcasting station to be built west of the city limits by Herbert Spencer of Lincoln. Ben Johnson and associates plan a 100000 silver fox farm between Scottsbluff and Gering on A N Mathers land, with 14 tons of equipment and two buildings under way and fifty pairs of foxes to stock the farm, one of the state’s largest.

St. Joseph Hospital Alliance Alliance Institution Nebraska Hospital Grand Island Washington Dispatch North Platte Commerce Department Herbert Spencer Lincoln Federal Radio Ben Johnson Scottsbluff Scottsbluff and Gering A. N. Mathers Nebraska

World Peace Through Christ's Kingdom Lesson

Lesson text discusses Messiah's coming kingdom as the path to global peace. It cites Isa 2 and Isa 11 visions, Acts 17, and John 4 to argue that true unity comes through Jesus Christ, with the church as the unifier of nations.

TOPC LOPIC Intermisdiatio TORIC Ropc Jesus Christ Messiah Israel

Cheerful Heart Gol Delights in Honest Service

A fragment notes a cheerful heart delights in service and a parent rejoices to see pleasant duty performed. The quotation attributes ideas to Owen Feltham in Resolves, reflecting moral counsel on virtue and duty.

Gol Owen Feljtham

Bible praised as enduring symbol of language and power

A quotation from T. B. Macaulay extols the English Bible as a timeless exemplar of beauty and power, suggesting it would suffice to reveal the language's fullest range even if all else perished.

T. B. Macaulay

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NEW Clay Center School State Game Department Lzank Walton League Minatare Nursing Pond Boy Scout Fund Kearney Fort Kearney Jones Drug Beaver Crossing Rowland Midland College Midland Nebraska Central Odell Goldenrod Beatrice Tailbury Endicott J. M. Gillan Omaha Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee A. I. Anderson Elmcreek Irrigation Company C. W. Boyse Omaha Overton Odessa Dawson and Buffalo County Fairgrounds Lake Erickson Lake Pine Ridge Reservation Alliance Chamber of Commerce Red Cloud Republican River Ad Club Samuel G. Porter OUR Comic Secrtion W.N. U Store Rcness Finney FORCE Darling Brat Tadpole Georgie O As New School B.pitzwater D.D Dean Moody Fible Institute of Chicago Western Newspaner Union Paul Mars’ Hill God Man Heaven Earth Union of Nations Christian Church The
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