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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1940
Page
5
A brief card of thanks expresses gratitude for cards, flowers, gifts, and hospital visits received during a recent illness. The note is signed by Ken Neth Willihusdn.
The Ideal Beauty Shop will open Monday with Miss Doris McCoy in charge. She recently returned from Lincoln after attending a beauty culture school, and her advertisement appears on another page.
Sammy Haven and his orchestra perform at Parish Hall Shelby on Sunday November 24 with new oak floor admission 25 and 50 cents.
Dr J B Williams visited Rev and Mrs Hed bloom in Denver last week sending regards to Polk friends. Leo Bsehliman and son of Clarks visited Polk Saturday. The Swede Plain Womens Society met at Mrs C Marvin Fredrickson’s. Mrs Robert Stohl and Mrs Clifford Carlson assisted Honoring Mrs Augusta Person on her birthday. Ed Coover visited with Mervin Samuels and families. Osceola residents underwent medical exams with Dr J B Williams. Willard Lindburg announced his marriage to Pauline Fisher of Scottsbluff on Oct 6 1940. Lindburg works at Dutch Maiden bakery. For quick sale 80 acre improved farm near Polk offered at 45 per acre. same price for a measured improved quarter. Ira Spear traveled to Central City for Thanksgiving with son Kenneth’s family.
Local notices and social updates from Stromsburg district detail Sunday dinners hosted by the Bowers Bowers Oakes and Sundbergs, visits to Grand Island Lincoln and York, club meetings, church events, and holiday preparations. Names and addresses of residents, along with upcoming sales and club gatherings, appear throughout the column.
A comic dialogue features a woman seeking a husband and an aviator. An assessor taxes front feet of property and a taxpayer questions the law. A country restaurant sign warns about tough steak while a family debates marriage timing as a suitor arrives.
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