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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
1
The column records various personal items including social visits, birthdays, church society meetings, and small town happenings. Items mention Mrs. Kahler’s return from Shelby, C. V. Lind’s Ak-Sar-Ben trip, Misses Rosene and Sweders visiting Stromsburg, piano and vocal solos, and a birthday gathering for A. W. Shafer. A dust storm followed by rain affected wheat and pasture conditions and coal prices.
Admission J P Nelson near Beulah builds a new home on a forty acre tract bought from Nels Nelson last spring southwest of Polk and will move in when finished. Earnest Newton seeks a housekeeper after buying a new heating stove this week. An eavesdropper reports a coal order of eleven and a half tons. Hazel Dorsey returns from Seward to stay while Meningitis closes her school. Curtis Ramage shoes advertised. A charitable man jokes his wife gives all his pennies to the children. An orator notes small audiences miss opportunities. A councilman suggests fire apparatus inspection days before fires. Wm Ice suffers a wagon mower accident with chest bruising.
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