Polk County News Highlights Local Events and Occurrences
Polk and Stromsburg clash set for Friday football. Bert Darrow’s buggy mishap ends with rescued horse and lantern aid. A two week Army nurse furlough visits Polk. Halloween plans shift to church and parade. Population data show 1940 figures and local social notes.
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Bert Darrow
Polk
Stromsburg
C. O. Eckles
Lincoln
Miss Ford
Clifford Cohagen
Hof Ostberg
Community Dinner Guests and Social Visits List Local Families
Local residents report varied social visits including Bruce Cowgill and family of Silver Creek with others from Geneva and Lincoln visiting Emma Horstman. Several couples hosted dinners and coffee gatherings with Sundbergs, Shenk family, Sundberg relatives, Saylor family, and Shostroms in Central City, Osceola, and surrounding areas. Mary Lou Sandell and Martha Creech attended a teachers convention in Kearney. Douglas Sundberg visited from Lincoln. additional visits occurred with Leach, Sundberg, and Ang households.
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Bruce Cowgill
Silver Creek
Kincher
Alvin Rizer
Geneva
Oscar Sundberg
Emma Horstman
W. H. Foster
Corvallis
Ore
Guy Shenk
Claude Shenk
Albert Sundberg
Calmar Johnson
Harvey Sunberg
Raymond Sundberg
Charles Stromberg
Lincoln
Sunberg
Emma Johnson
Oscar Sunberg
Ed Saylor
Central City
Carmen Sandell
Elwood Sandell
Lloyd Lind
Mabel Shostrom
Robert Sho
Mary Lou
Martha Creech
Kearney
Ray Sundberg
Charles
Douglas Sundberg
University of Nebraska
Harvey Sundberg
C. R. Leach
Darrell Shostrom
Osceola
R. E. Shostrom
Allan Barney
Bradshaw
Eva Young
Caldwell
Idaho
Stanford Ang
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Lady Friend
Ed Larson
Clarence Peterson
Oxford’s
Princess Peggy
Hazel Nelson
Army Nurse Corps
Fort Bowie
Texas
T. J. Nelson
Miss Nelson
Mike Williams
USMC
Ted Alfred
Crete
W. J. Newton
Garrah
Denver
George Otte
Charles Lytle
Jerold Ruzicka
Geryl Lindburg
Pocatella
Churches of Polk
Otto Wilshusen
Frank Bolton
Clifford Cramer
Harold Miller
Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows
Beatrice
F. Davis
Wayne Creech
Ivan Johnson
Pioneer Village
Minden
Will Wurtz
Stromsburg Hospital
Elwood Anderson
Gothenburg
Charles Wright
Nina Larson
Adolph Allison
Ronald Sherman
Ashland
Virgil Kisler
Haith Motor CO
Dodge
Dodge Trucks
Dart Sales & Service
Dodge and Dart
Wegner & Clausen Monument CO
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Carl’s
Carl and
Frances
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Citizens State Bank
General Banking
FDIC
State Bank
Polk, Nebraska
the Polk Progress
Norris W. Alfred
Congress
Tailan A
Vebsrablm Wess Association
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Nebraska
State Farm
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Bloomington, Hae
Pat
Cliff Hudnall
Florida
York, Nebr
Farah Fee
Farmers Coop Grain Ass’n
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