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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1966
Page
2
A pink and blue shower for Mrs. Willis Patten was held in the Methodist church parlor Tuesday a week ago with about forty in attendance. She opened her gifts and participants enjoyed games. Decorated cakes pink and white ice cream nuts and coffee were served from a decorated table. A WSCS committee organized the event.
Polk residents report a quiet weekend with Mr. and Mrs Chauncey Gustafson hosting guests including Mrs Selma Sundberg and Dean on Sunday. Viola Wythers of Colorado Springs visited Ernie Lott who later joined Minnie and Alice Campbell for a Central City dinner. The gathering honored Mr and Mrs Eschilman of Denver on their 25th wedding anniversary.
Motion by Ingalls and Johnson approved Polk County entering an agreement with The Island Supply Company to buy a used motor grader for Commissioner District No. 1. The board adjourned to November 1, 1966 with signatures of Dale Frizzell and Donald Dahlin.
Connie Hoffman received several gifts at a shower hosted by Miller Hall girls in Lincoln. Games were played and a lunch was served. Attending were Mrs. Martin Hoffman Sr and Jr, Susan, and Polk News Items Springs visitors to Frank Cohagen and Mrs Cohagen, with Mr Ed Druba and Mr Royal Druba of Novato as house guests of Marie Hoffman.
A collection of brief items covers Norbert Tiemann winding up his governor bid in Lincoln and focusing on Omaha, VA reminders for GI bill students, Game Commission shooting seasons and wildlife notes, a fish doctor visit, head plumage rules for pheasants, drilling oil bits and New Centennial Cookbook praise, Wheat Commission on global planting, and the AMA’s cold treatment verdicts.
The Junior Missionary Youth Fellowship of the Methodist church raked leaves at the parsonage and church yards on Saturday afternoon and followed with a weiner roast. Mrs. Emory Cramer visited her father and stepmother in York on Thursday afternoon.
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