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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
4
Swede Plain M E Church under Pastor John W Ekwail invites all to weekly services in English with evening worship at 7 and a Sunday morning service at 10. Attendance pledge called Family Sunday with rally night planned and Sunday School rally. Ladies Aid meets October 16.
We thank our friends and neighbors for kindness and the floral offering shown at the death and burial of our infant baby boy.
For particulars call 25 Hordville Phone 49 Mr and Mrs Dorsey E Church Edith Glad was an Osceola visitor and family Saturday.
Raymond Pewell, son of Mr and Mrs Tewell of Julesburg, Colorado, will marry Miss Smelser, formerly of Julesburg, now of Los Angeles. The couple plans to reside in San Francisco after the ceremony. Pewell has worked with Union Oil in Los Angeles for four years and spent his boyhood in Polk, a connection known locally.
W T Rockwell reports an error in the last page sale ad listing eight horses aged five to twelve, one cow and two heifers, with harness omitted from the advertisement.
W T Rockwell notes Cap Clemens, a day clerk at the Yancey hotel in Grand Island, is promoted to chief clerk of the new Yancey hotel in North Platte. Mrs E L Pearson hosted an afternoon at her home for Mrs Arthur Hemmingson of Portland with Mesdames Weatland Bodine Sundberg and Thoren, mother of Mrs Hemmingson, also of Portland. The Progress, a Polk Nebraska weekly, notes publication details and subscription rates. The Goodyear ad mentions special prices.
Wilmer Rodine announces spotted Poland China boars eligible for registry based on best breeding quality and ancestry criteria. Patents or registrations not specified.
Sunday School led by Ellen Larson with Junior B Y P U at 7 15. Morning worship at 2 00, evening worship at 7 30 with a note on time change. The pastor will give a communion meditation at the 1 o'clock service next Sunday followed by the Lord's Supper and new members. Subject: Seeking and Finding with special music morning and evening.
The Polk County Agricultural Association will hold its annual meeting at the Osceola Court House on Wednesday October 9 1929 at 2 o'clock PM. Officers will be elected and committees appointed. Season ticket holders may vote. Matt Sterup is president and Mark Timm serves as secretary.
Elmer R Peterson is listed as minister and Sunday school leader at the M E Church with 10 00 A M morning worship led by A E Sundberg superintendent and 7 15 P M Epworth League. Evening service at 8 00 P M and Bible study and prayer Thursday night invite members to bring Bibles and notebooks. Plans for rally day and official board meeting set for October 8th with church parlors hosting.
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