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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
5
Local Polk County area keeps busy with visits and gatherings as residents arc through Armistice Day bank closures. News includes birthdays births and community events with many families hosting and attending Sunday and weekday visits across Stromsburg York Benedict and Osborne County. Eddie Larson advertises as a licensed auctioneer while various residents travel to Grand Island Lincoln and Fremont for short trips and purchases.
Notice states Marie Myers Williams will operate Marie's Beauty Salon and invites trial. steel frame circular saw sliding table shop for sale by Sundberg & Son. Also: Hordville Baptist church Ladies Aid hosts supper Thursday in church parlors with a 6:30 pm covered dish luncheon. Nearby notes include visits and family time in Omaha and Benedict.
Beaver City guests stay with Frank Davis and Kenneth while hospital visitors call on Mrs Slusser Norquest and a newborn. Numerous families from Stromsburg Ord Hardville Clarks Hampton and Osceola travel to host homes and attend social visits as well as a cattle implement dealer ad seeking a local dealer appears.
The closing committee announces pork stores will close at 10 o clock Friday November 10 in observance of Armistice Day.
A letter expresses sincere gratitude for visits flowers gifts cards and letters during a recent illness. The piece also lists Sunday visits including Mr and Mrs Kenneth Leach and Rev Virgil Leach with Miss Mamie Nobel, plus Miss Gladys Dawes travel plans. It notes Mrs Wesley Stark's recovery from an army appendicitis operation and references dinner guests at the Os car Stromberg and Rachel Schrader home and the Ostberg's trip to North Platte for a funeral service.
Mr and Mrs Luther Rhoades of Benedict and families visited here over the weekend along with Mrs Frank Bolton. C A Carlson and friends from Lincoln were also guests. Axel Flodman from near Hordville visited the Johnsons. Luther League rally drew Ralph Fledman and family to Osceola. Milford Johnson and wife welcomed a nine pound boy at St Francis hospital Grand Island on Friday November 3. Charles Eckles and family of Gresham dined with Oscar Sundberg and family. Clark Snodgrass Osceola and Ira Glasser Osceola families visited T J Nelson to honor Gertude on her birthday. Mrs Donald Anderson Davenport Iowa and her little daughter visited here with grandmother Clause Peterson.
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