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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1961
Page
2
A Polk report notes a local man described as a peeping Tom was caught peering into windows Tuesday evening. The offender, a married rural resident, was warned to stop or face medical intervention for buckshot injuries. Community members discuss the issue amid several social visits and events.
The UNICEF party hosted by Methodist and Trinity Churches collected $37.66 and 43 pounds of clothing for local children on Saturday Oct. 28. Thanks were extended to Fairacres for ice cream and Rainbo bread for balloons. Lunch served to 90 children at the Community Hall.
Nov 10 guests arrived for Mrs Hartwig Flodman’s birthday at the Flodman home. Attendees included Mrs C Marvin Fredrickson Mr and Mrs Charles S F Johnson and Mrs Albert Larson from Tromsburg Rev and Mrs Wm Anderson from Scottsbluff. Guests served a lunch and presented gifts.
Bord served at the high school auditorium Thursday evening drawing 340 attendees. Mrs. Lillian V. Brown, daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Anderson of Polk, died October 30 in Washington DC. Interment followed Cedar Hill cemetery in Ames. Mr and Mrs C V Lind of Lincoln hosted Sunday dinner in Ames. Carolyn Strand to attend York Nebraska music clinic November 15 17. Mr and Mrs Clarence Creech and family in their new east of town home. Pfc Eugene Klingsporn left after a two week furlough. Van Bush Harriet and Margaret Gordon visited York on Saturday. George Downy from Arkansas visited his sister Mrs Glen Green and relatives.
A string of Sunday dinners and visits features James Lindburg, Robert and Mary Sue Lindburg, Floyd Miller, Anna Kisler, Julia Flodman, Walter Stohl, John Stohl, C Marvin Fredrickson, Victor Larsen, Ann O'Shea, Art Adelson, Harold Miller, Walter Hoon, Willard Adelson, Harold Johnson, Swede Home, Karl Dethloff, Minnie Klute, Betty Bartz, Hennie Seymour, Hartwig Flodman, Delbert Query, Earl Flodman, Edd Coover, Arlo Sevens, Tony Badura, and others as families share meals and attend events in York, Ord, Fullerton and nearby communities.
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